Election Night Bingo

By Joel Meares   Nov 1, 2010 at 04:42 PM

As my colleague Greg Marx has pointed out in the past, political science can get short shrift in political journalism.... More

Midterms Metaphor Madness

A primer on the cycle’s language of disaster

By Joel Meares   Nov 1, 2010 at 03:17 PM

This week’s elections have headline writers reaching for just the right metaphors to characterize the coming Republican gain. For inspiration,... More

On Spec

A roundup of pre-election guesswork

By Joel Meares   Nov 1, 2010 at 01:40 PM

Among the expected slew of same-same “Expect Big GOP Gains” stories running nationally today, there is a smaller cabal... More

Missing Number in TV vs. Web Ads Story

Los Angeles Times a puzzle piece short

By Joel Meares   Oct 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM

Meg James at the Los Angeles Times has an interesting report today, titled “TV still the favored medium for political... More

Keeping Up With Chuck Todd

“I’m in a business where I’m not allowed to miss right now”

By Joel Meares   Oct 29, 2010 at 06:00 AM

It’s 6:50 a.m. on a drizzling New York morning and Chuck Todd is standing behind a wall on the cluttered... More

Time’s Missed Midterms Opportunity

Cover story rehash is fun, but…

By Joel Meares   Oct 28, 2010 at 04:28 PM

Time’s splashy pre-election cover story is in many ways a doozy. Penned by David Von Drehle, “The Party Crashers”—a... More

On the Road with the Post

The voters finally meet the press

By Joel Meares   Oct 28, 2010 at 01:54 PM

The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker is into day two of an interesting midterm series: Seven States in Seven Days. The... More

Lauer Cops it for “Dimwit” Question in California

Plays cheap with Whitman and Brown

By Joel Meares   Oct 27, 2010 at 01:47 PM

Spectacular bit of political theater yesterday in California, if you like that sorta thing. And a certain big name TV... More

Applebaum’s Stewart Rally Stretch

A weak cry for centrism

By Joel Meares   Oct 27, 2010 at 12:46 PM

Still scratching my head after reading columnist Anne Applebaum’s op-ed in The Washington Post Monday. The piece is essentially an... More

Q & A: War Photographer Moises Saman

“If you do this long enough, you will eventually find yourself in a bad situation”

By Joel Meares   Oct 26, 2010 at 02:31 PM

Freelance photographer Moises Saman’s pictures from Iraq made the cover of The New York Times both days last weekend. Taken... More

A WikiLeaks Question for Journalists from Robert Fisk

Do document dumps put journo jobs in danger?

By Joel Meares   Oct 25, 2010 at 03:37 PM

The Iraq War Logs don’t seem to have hit here as hard as their much smaller predecessor—WikiLeaks fatigue? Friday... More

The Sims: Jon Stewart Rally Edition

By Joel Meares   Oct 25, 2010 at 03:22 PM

Wow. Taiwan’s NMA.tv is at it again, tackling the upcoming Jon Stewart rally in spectacular Sims-like animated fashion. As Mediaite... More

Greenwald Gets It on WikiLeaks Coverage

By Joel Meares   Oct 25, 2010 at 11:18 AM

Salon media critic Glenn Greenwald hammers at a point we mentioned in our first read of the WikiLeaks coverage on... More

Times’s Act Two Profile of Assange

A revealing follow-up to The New Yorker

By Joel Meares   Oct 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM

Raffi Khatchadourian’s profile of Julian Assange for The New Yorker back in June—before the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs dumps—is... More

High Times

By Joel Meares   Oct 22, 2010 at 10:13 AM

Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez had an interesting journalist-as-subject piece in that paper on Wednesday—an enviable assignment for some... More