The Good, the Bad, and the Best

By Jane Kim   Sep 16, 2008 at 04:57 PM

Bitch, the print magazine devoted to feminist analysis and media criticism, is in danger of going under. A memo on... More

A Little Help From Their Friends

Campaign trail reporters should get help covering the financial crisis

By Jane Kim   Sep 16, 2008 at 04:14 PM

As the candidates react to last weekend’s Wall Street meltdown, the political media, it seems, are struggling to pinpoint the... More

The Octo-Press

The multi-pronged media and the importance of the coming debates

By Jane Kim   Sep 15, 2008 at 03:40 PM

The predominance of sound bites in campaign coverage—in attack ads passed around by the press, in the addictive parsing by... More

Serial Viewing

TV critics’ opinions on the Gibson-Palin interview

By Jane Kim   Sep 12, 2008 at 04:55 PM

Yesterday, we questioned whether it was possible for Charles Gibson to do a solid job on the Sarah Palin interview—within... More

A Star Is Boring

The problem with the Sarah Palin-Charlie Gibson sit-down

By Jane Kim   Sep 11, 2008 at 02:32 PM

Tonight, the first part of Charles Gibson’s exclusive interview with Sarah Palin will air on ABC. While some media folk... More

Pricking The Underbelly

Lackluster alt weekly convention coverage, and examples for next time

By Jane Kim   Sep 5, 2008 at 04:42 PM

One thing that was sorely lacking from the past two weeks of convention spotlighting was good alt weekly coverage. Denver’s... More

“Sarah Palin is your new…”

By Jane Kim   Sep 5, 2008 at 11:29 AM

"...Rudy Giuliani in a Dress." You know you're on the other side of the looking glass when a Daily Kos... More

Ground Noise

By Jane Kim   Sep 5, 2008 at 01:28 AM

You know a reporter’s presence in the convention hall is cardinal when proximity to an unprecedented distraction (from—take your pick—delegate,... More

The Green Screen Team

By Jane Kim   Sep 4, 2008 at 11:44 PM

Don't say there weren’t plenty of ambient points tonight for the convention scribes to get harried about tomorrow: -The song... More

The Coloring Wars

When convention analysis cuts too close to color theory

By Jane Kim   Sep 4, 2008 at 10:32 PM

This New Republic entry by Amanda Fortini spends a good amount of time on how starkly (and says the author,... More

Steinem’s Attack Dogs

Feminist icon’s LAT op-ed takes on Palin (and everyone else)

By Jane Kim   Sep 4, 2008 at 04:30 PM

Gloria Steinem takes the ax to Sarah Palin’s woman-in-the-spotlight moment in a Los Angeles Times opinion column today. Countering whatever... More

Live, Sort of

By Jane Kim   Sep 4, 2008 at 11:05 AM

Well, the rigmarole for blogger access continues. So how did Matthew Yglesias, formerly of The Atlantic and now at Think... More

Huckabee’s Hook and Jab

By Jane Kim   Sep 3, 2008 at 09:31 PM

Who needs the media critics when Mike Huckabee will do their work for them? Just now, Huckabee thanked the "elite... More

Gustav vs. the Gazette

A modest local paper stays on top of Gustav

By Jane Kim   Sep 3, 2008 at 02:56 PM

While hotshot network correspondents put on their storm gear to attempt to report the hell out of Hurricane Gustav, the... More

Minus the Commentary

By Jane Kim   Sep 3, 2008 at 01:51 AM

Jennifer Rubin, a blogger for Commentary Magazine, has this to say about covering the conventions live: Covering the Convention live... More