Boehner Monologue Called Out

Reporting on political theater? Acknowledge the theatrical

By Joel Meares   Aug 24, 2010 at 12:07 PM

Seems a lot of people are talking about the speech John Boehner gave today in Ohio—the supposedly candidate-defining oration we... More

Florida, Florida, Florida!

The inside/out take on Florida’s primary

By Joel Meares   Aug 24, 2010 at 08:30 AM

The story on the recount state’s primary even before a single vote has been counted seems to be: we got... More

Post-Election Analysis, Pre-Election

Where to find Arizona’s primary story so far

By Joel Meares   Aug 23, 2010 at 01:12 PM

It’s primary day in the Grand Canyon state tomorrow, and no one’s exactly riveted. All eyes are on a senate... More

An Afghan In-flight Has Lessons to Teach

By Joel Meares   Aug 20, 2010 at 03:21 PM

The Journal’s Michael M. Phillips’s “An Airline Magazine That Makes Travelers Want to Pull the Rip Cord” is an interesting... More

Exterminate! Exterminate!

By Joel Meares   Aug 20, 2010 at 11:44 AM

They’re in your bed! They’re in your cinema chair! They’re chewing on the Brooklyn district attorney! They’re even flitting around... More

Obama Not Muslim, Islam Not Bad

Yesterday’s survey results suggest coverage of Islam could be better

By Joel Meares   Aug 20, 2010 at 07:48 AM

The Pew Research Center Survey Report showing more Americans than ever believe President Obama is a Muslim is disheartening, outraging,... More

A Picture With Your Thousand Words

By Joel Meares   Aug 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM

In a trend we’re not sure we’d like to see extended to our own newsroom, The Orange County Register will... More

Jay Rosen in Oz: Horse-Race Journalism an “International Phenom”

Don’t tell us who’s going to win our vote, help us decide whom to vote for

By Joel Meares   Aug 18, 2010 at 02:29 PM

Last week I wrote about the political differences between Australia and the U.S.; specifically, the perils of drawing any too... More

New York’s Too-Hip Times

By Joel Meares   Aug 17, 2010 at 02:26 PM

Well, the gray lady has successfully shaken off its stodgy rep. A little too successfully it would appear. The Times’s... More

Where Snark Can Do Some Good

A Politico satire eerily like the real thing

By Joel Meares   Aug 17, 2010 at 01:01 PM

Hats off to the very clever Roger Simon, Politico’s chief political columnist. He got me good this morning with this... More

Takeaways from Week One of the Petraeus Press Blitz

Four things we learned from the General this weekend

By Joel Meares   Aug 16, 2010 at 03:16 PM

The latest Petraeus media blitz began Sunday with NBC’s special edition of Meet The Press from Afghanistan. It continued today... More

Statistician Says Obama’s Mosque Comments Not So Risky

Nate Silver praises a Fox News poll

By Joel Meares   Aug 16, 2010 at 12:26 PM

Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight has an interesting take on Obama’s “risky” speech on the proposed community center and mosque near... More

Q & A: New York Times Reporter Michael Powell, Part Two

“As you continue to mature intellectually, you start to become much more comfortable in gray.”

By Joel Meares   Aug 16, 2010 at 11:12 AM

The New York Times’s Michael Powell leapt from the metro pages to the business section this May—a place he never... More

Sloppy Journalism Might Rate a Warning Sticker

By Joel Meares   Aug 13, 2010 at 12:43 PM

Warning: This article is just a highlights reel of a much funnier person’s—U.K. comedian Tom Scott’s—recent blog post. But hey,... More

Q & A: New York Times Reporter Michael Powell

“My tendency is to want to go longer, to zig rather than zag.”

By Joel Meares   Aug 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM

The New York Times’s Michael Powell leapt from the metro pages to the business section this May—a place he never... More