The Fourth Estate, Incorporated

DNC reporters rub elbows with corporate cash

By Jane Kim   Aug 26, 2008 at 09:48 AM

Saturday night’s Elitch Gardens “Media Welcoming Party” at the outset of the Democratic National Convention looked to be a grand... More

Poaching and Politics

By Jane Kim   Aug 25, 2008 at 11:20 PM

Conservative commentator and CNN contributor Amy Holmes's thoughts on the DNC's first night: Sen. Ted Kennedy drew attention away from... More

Another Very Useful Forum

By Jane Kim   Aug 22, 2008 at 05:13 PM

“What’s your best idea to cut gun deaths?” The New York Times's Freakonomics blog asks today. The responses are well... More

Starving the Metaphor

By Jane Kim   Aug 22, 2008 at 04:16 PM

Judith Warner says we should leave Elizabeth Edwards alone. She’s the exception to the rule, apparently. “I don’t want to... More

Passing on Kakutani

The NYT books reviewer should have nixed her profile of Jon Stewart

By Jane Kim   Aug 22, 2008 at 11:59 AM

Why, exactly, did Michiko Kakutani write a profile of Jon Stewart in this past Sunday’s New York Times? The infamous... More

The Surrogate Race

By Jane Kim   Aug 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM

A hissing cockroach race! Pictures of McCain and Obama! Taped to roach contenders’ backs! The McCain roach wins! Here’s the... More

Tiptoeing Around That Big Hyped Hope

Mother Jones’s Obama feature falls flat

By Jane Kim   Aug 20, 2008 at 12:23 PM

The current Mother Jones has a slew of writers, historians and thinkers responding to this question: “Is Barack Obama exaggerating... More

Weather Report

By Jane Kim   Aug 19, 2008 at 12:32 PM

Readers of The Atlantic, Harper’s, and the New Yorker are among the most informed when it comes to national news;... More

Warning! Singing Ahead

By Jane Kim   Aug 19, 2008 at 11:32 AM

And if the press had decided to write a musical of the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter saga, would it have involved... More

Skeptical Reporting 101

By Jane Kim   Aug 18, 2008 at 03:42 PM

Judging from dispatches following the Bigfoot press conference in Palo Alto this past Friday, reporters weren’t much impressed with the... More

Kentucky Rising

By Jane Kim   Aug 18, 2008 at 01:37 PM

Editor & Publisher notes the results of a recent Nielson report tracking the top 30 newspaper Web sites for the... More

Padding the Paper

By Jane Kim   Aug 15, 2008 at 05:46 PM

Kevin Roderick of LAObserved points out that though the Los Angeles Times boasted about the “1180 pages” that comprised this... More

Sourcing Bigfoot

By Jane Kim   Aug 15, 2008 at 05:09 PM

We probably haven’t found Bigfoot! Or at least, that’s what an AP article has to say about the alleged discovery... More

Dropping the Ball on Illegal Immigration

How the Los Angeles Times skipped out on covering illegal immigration issues this week, and how others couldn’t pick up the slack.

By Jane Kim   Aug 15, 2008 at 03:52 PM

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a proposal to speed the immigration-status interrogations of gang members... More

HuffPo’s Chicago Face

By Jane Kim   Aug 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM

Want to read Chicago native John Cusack’s ramble on sports in the Windy City? Head over to the Huffington Post,... More