Giffords Analysis Machine In Overdrive

The rhetoric narrative swells

By Joel Meares   Jan 10, 2011 at 10:45 AM

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition. Her alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, is not cooperating with police. The motives... More

Politics Begins at the First Shot

Initial errors aren’t the biggest problems in reporting on congresswoman’s attempted assassination

By Joel Meares   Jan 9, 2011 at 04:14 PM

Mistakes in the first hours Initial reporting on the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona’s Eighth District,... More

The Daley News

What the press is saying about the new COS pick

By Joel Meares   Jan 7, 2011 at 01:31 PM

Yesterday President Obama held a press conference to announce that William Daley—the former commerce secretary who went on to a... More

Goodbye Mr. Gibbs

CJR’s writings on the outgoing press secretary

By Joel Meares   Jan 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM

Press secretary Robert Gibbs announced yesterday that he would be stepping down from his position in February. The timing... More

The $100 Billion Question

Did Times fail to do initial reporting?

By Joel Meares   Jan 5, 2011 at 10:19 AM

On the day the 112th Congress will be sworn in, reaction to a New York Times article revealing the... More

“There is no ‘The Tea Party’”

East and West Coast Times’s different approaches to the movement

By Joel Meares   Jan 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM

Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Mark Meckler was the lead quote-giver in major New York Times and Los... More

Best of 2010: Joel Meares

Meares picks his top stories from 2010

By Joel Meares   Dec 28, 2010 at 01:18 PM

1) The Biggest Fish in Albany The best part of writing this profile of Liz Benjamin—Albany blogger, TV personality, reporter... More

Hawaii Four-Four

Digging deep on the president’s Christmas vacation

By Joel Meares   Dec 23, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Pity the poor political writer who must spend his or her pre-holiday hours eking out a report on the President’s... More

Reapportionment Wars

Outlets weigh in on the Census’s political implications

By Joel Meares   Dec 22, 2010 at 12:16 PM

There goes the decade. That decennial phenomenon “reapportionment” is back in the news with the U.S. Census Bureau releasing the... More

Assange’s Testy Q&A with the BBC

By Joel Meares   Dec 21, 2010 at 12:59 PM

BBC 4 radio host John Humphrys this morning scored the first broadcast interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange since his... More

Ghosts of Christmas Past, Future, and a Parallel Universe

Weird and wacky weigh-ins on Obama’s job so far

By Joel Meares   Dec 20, 2010 at 01:52 PM

As the surprisingly active lame duck session draws to a close and the president’s third year in office draws... More

A Boehner Column to Make You Cry

Evidence-free piece suggests Speaker an alcoholic

By Joel Meares   Dec 16, 2010 at 01:06 PM

A pointy, oversized dart to Politics Daily columnist Matt Lewis’s head-scratchingly bad piece, “John Boehner's Crying: Is He Drinking Too... More

Australian Press Unites For Assange

Letter to PM could prove persuasive

By Joel Meares   Dec 15, 2010 at 01:13 PM

As his lawyer alleges a grand jury in Virginia is working up charges to file against him, Julian Assange has... More

So You Want to be a Journalist

By Joel Meares   Dec 14, 2010 at 03:08 PM

Poor guy, all he wants to do is work for The New York Times. (With thanks to "BrooklynLee" at xtranormal.) More

Health Care Wrap-Up

What the papers are saying about the Virginia decision

By Joel Meares   Dec 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM

Federal judge Henry E. Hudson of Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday that the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most Americans obtain... More