Rent Is Too Damn High: The Website

By Joel Meares   Oct 21, 2010 at 04:34 PM

The world met Jimmy McMillan Monday night at the New York gubernatorial debate—he of the simple message and the complex... More

NPR’s Williams Mistake

By Joel Meares   Oct 21, 2010 at 01:12 PM

In the kind of gut-reaction age in which Octavia Nasr and Rick Sanchez were given the boot for speaking... More

A Laurel for Dusting off Fiorina’s Skeletons

Los Angeles Times and others’ good work

By Joel Meares   Oct 21, 2010 at 11:00 AM

California’s press may be shrinking, but it has done some great work this election cycle, adroitly guiding voters through a... More

Big Politico Piece Misses Key Ingredient

Again (and again, and again), it’s the economy

By Joel Meares   Oct 20, 2010 at 02:56 PM

Politico’s big lead story today on Barack Obama’s struggle to win the white working-class vote is an interesting read with... More

Hasta la Vista, Arnie

Three Sacramento journalists reflect on the Golden State governor

By Joel Meares   Oct 20, 2010 at 02:05 PM

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s term ends in January 2011. As the national and local press fixates on who will replace... More

Michelle and Barack: Out of Fashion

By Joel Meares   Oct 19, 2010 at 10:07 AM

You know president Obama’s approval numbers are in a bad way when the fashion press turns on him. Trade mag... More

WaPo’s backward memo on Twitter

By Joel Meares   Oct 18, 2010 at 10:47 AM

TBD reported Friday that WaPo managing editor Raju Narisetti sent out a memo last week calling on users of the... More

The Editor, the Candidate, and the Cuffs

Joe Miller’s extreme “no comment”

By Joel Meares   Oct 18, 2010 at 10:22 AM

First, Sharron “earned media” Angle refused to do any interviews in which she could not hawk her website—a tactic that... More

Q&A: Outgoing Harper’s Washington Editor Ken Silverstein

“I never really felt comfortable as part of the blogosphere.”

By Joel Meares   Oct 15, 2010 at 07:38 AM

Ken Silverstein left his post as Washington editor of Harper's late last month after four-and-a-half years, and he left with... More

Q&A: Jeopardy-Winning Reporter Kara Spak

By Joel Meares   Oct 14, 2010 at 12:21 PM

Forget Pulitzers. Late last month Chicago Sun-Times reporter Kara Spak nabbed a rarer prize: she won $85,401 on Jeopardy. Spak... More

A Defense of Jonathan Capehart

Jarrett criticism is a distraction

By Joel Meares   Oct 14, 2010 at 11:55 AM

White House aide Valerie Jarrett copped some serious flak yesterday about her use of the term “lifestyle choice” in reference... More

Times Obama Mash-Up

Early magazine piece plays on old themes

By Joel Meares   Oct 13, 2010 at 05:57 PM

The New York Times today continued the rather odd practice of dumping its big weekend magazine story online on a... More

Two Papers, Two Candidates, Two Styles

LAT and NYT on Whitman and Fiorina

By Joel Meares   Oct 11, 2010 at 11:35 AM

A Los Angeles Times story today on the different political strategies of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina will sound familiar... More

Not Watching Sacramento

The shrinking statehouse press corps

By Joel Meares   Oct 6, 2010 at 01:50 PM

When Kimberly Kindy joined the Orange County Register’s Sacramento bureau twelve years ago, she had an itch to do some... More

Obama/Clinton 2012?

The Woodward rumor and the Post’s smart pushback

By Joel Meares   Oct 6, 2010 at 12:00 PM

Note to political reporters and pundits: a rumor is a rumor, even if it’s Bob Woodward spreading it. The rumor... More