Times’s Solid Report on Failed Mortgage Rescue Programs

An economic calamity and its human faces

By Joel Meares   Mar 30, 2011 at 12:29 PM

A must-read A1 story in The New York Times today digs into the multi-level failings of President Obama’s foreclosure rescue... More

Sims: White House Edition

By Joel Meares   Mar 29, 2011 at 02:07 PM

The National Journal has news graphics lovers oooing and ahhing today with an impressive interactive map of the West Wing.... More

Obama Leaves the Pundits Wanting More

Libya speech did little to clear up the unclear

By Joel Meares   Mar 29, 2011 at 01:08 PM

If the president had hoped last night’s speech would quash claims that the purpose and objective of our intervention... More

The Government’s Shutting Down (Maybe)

But what does that mean?

By Joel Meares   Mar 28, 2011 at 02:24 PM

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that the White House and Democrats in Congress have come up with about... More

Governor’s Inbox Puts Deputy Prosecutor Out (Updated)

Walker’s e-mails give Wisconsin watchdog a story

By Joel Meares   Mar 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM

A young Indiana deputy prosecutor has resigned after an interesting journalistic project sprung from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s release of... More

Steve Inskeep Stands Up for NPR

Challenges notion that network is “liberal” in WSJ

By Joel Meares   Mar 24, 2011 at 03:47 PM

The NPR board may have buckled under the pressure of James O’Keefe’s faux scandal, but weeks after the Schillers... More

Four Times Journalists Recall Captivity in Libya

By Joel Meares   Mar 23, 2011 at 10:23 AM

There is much to shock and rattle you in today’s first-hand account from the New York Times journalists captured—and now... More

WaPo and Times Go Softly, Softly with Barbour

Similar profiles tell similar tales

By Joel Meares   Mar 22, 2011 at 02:59 PM

Pity poor Tim Pawlenty. The day after the former Minnesota governor made a shallow splash announcing his presidential exploratory... More

Pawlenty Just Announced: Quick, Say Something

By Joel Meares   Mar 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty yesterday announced that he was forming a presidential exploratory committee, making him the first... More

The Cancer Report

Journalists who wrote on—and through—their disease

By Joel Meares   Mar 22, 2011 at 06:00 AM

Followers of Leroy Sievers’s “My Cancer” blog knew its expected end approached when Sievers published an entry titled “The... More

Juan Williams’ Weak Call to Defund NPR

Ex-employee’s latest attack proves toothless

By Joel Meares   Mar 21, 2011 at 04:43 PM

In a disingenuous column published in The Hill today, onetime NPR news analyst Juan Williams argues that his former employer... More

War Is A Worry, Not Just the Liberal Ones

A look at Ross Douthat’s take on Libya

By Joel Meares   Mar 21, 2011 at 12:36 PM

Two heavy hitters from the left and right are struggling with the weekend’s (aerial) incursion into Libya. Both the Times’s... More

Bill to Defund NPR Passes House Vote

White House needs to come out stronger

By Joel Meares   Mar 17, 2011 at 04:49 PM

It’s been a busy twenty-four hours on the “defund NPR” beat. Yesterday, the House Rules Committee convened an emergency... More

Pew’s Spin Through the Online Midterm News Cycle

Survey shows where we got our 2010 campaign news

By Joel Meares   Mar 17, 2011 at 02:08 PM

Reading through comment streams during last year’s midterms, one often had to ask: Where are people getting their “information”... More

WikiLeaks Cables Used to Dig on Japan Quake

By Joel Meares   Mar 16, 2011 at 04:32 PM

An interesting development on the media front of the Japan quake-tsunami-nuclear disaster: some British newspapers are using WikiLeaks’s U.S.... More