Parker/Spitzer: Countdown to Divorce

By Joel Meares   Oct 5, 2010 at 10:46 AM

Confession: I probably should have been glued to CNN last night for the debut of the channel's new rom-com talking-heads... More

Not the Nightly News

New York’s cable news piece shows cable’s given up on news

By Joel Meares   Oct 4, 2010 at 03:13 PM

There seems to be an uptick in big-magazine-takes-on-the-cable-TV-phenom stories lately, and Gabriel Sherman’s New York piece today, “Chasing Fox,” is... More

Whitman’s Nanny-gate, Day Two

California’s papers take on a new media frenzy

By Joel Meares   Sep 30, 2010 at 11:47 AM

Big new media players owned the Meg Whitman housekeeper scandal that exploded on the West Coast yesterday, “rocking” and “shaking”... More

Anderson Cooper’s Latest Adventure: Daytime

By Joel Meares   Sep 30, 2010 at 11:17 AM

Media Decoder’s Brian Stelter is reporting that Roger Sterling Anderson Cooper will host a light-hearted daytime talk show starting next... More

Silverstein’s Farewell Note

By Joel Meares   Sep 29, 2010 at 05:22 PM

Harper’s Ken Silverstein wrote a final post on his Washington Babylon blog today—he’s leaving his position as the magazine’s Washington... More

The Lawrence O’Donnell Twilight Zone

By Joel Meares   Sep 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM

In what might be one of the strangest cable interviews of this year (okay, perhaps just this week), Levi Johnston... More

Red Alert At The Guardian

By Joel Meares   Sep 28, 2010 at 12:00 PM

The Guardian has been a leader in creating informative, dynamic, and useful online interactives—their timeline of IED attacks in Afghanistan... More

Like a Rolling Stone…

Jann Wenner asks the president about that McChrystal profile

By Joel Meares   Sep 28, 2010 at 11:46 AM

The magazine that got General McChrystal fired comes at us next month with another Obama cover, this one bearing a... More

Unmet Promises in Times Front Page Story

Putting readers to work on negative ads

By Joel Meares   Sep 27, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Last Friday we sang the praises of the Times magazine’s story on the Connecticut Senate race; today, alas, a... More

Guardian Quashes Alien Ambassador Story

By Joel Meares   Sep 27, 2010 at 11:36 AM

What a difference an e-mail makes. The world got a little overexcited this weekend when it was reported that the... More

To Read This Weekend

The Times’s Matt Bai’s Excellent Connecticut Piece

By Joel Meares   Sep 24, 2010 at 03:40 PM

One of the problems with an election cycle like the current one, in which so many local races are fascinating... More

Journalism in Jeopardy

By Joel Meares   Sep 24, 2010 at 12:08 PM

Last night’s Jeopardy has some journalists buzzing today: along with two of the more usual suspects we see on the... More

Toronto Sun: Sorry About That Nazi Thing

By Joel Meares   Sep 23, 2010 at 04:52 PM

As apologies go, this was a doozy. The Toronto Sun published a retraction and apology last Saturday after its columnist... More

What To Do with the “Pledge to America”?

“Front it!” says the media

By Joel Meares   Sep 23, 2010 at 12:33 PM

Today’s morning papers were full of reports on the “Pledge to America,” the long-awaited sequel to 1994’s Congress-winning smash, the... More

Q&A: This Week Host Christiane Amanpour

The move to Sunday morning, her critics, and reporting in a new age

By Joel Meares   Sep 23, 2010 at 11:00 AM

Christiane Amanpour has been sitting at the newly refurbished This Week desk for nearly two months now. While some reviewers... More