Foreign Policy, Undigested

Analysis eludes The New York Times as it reviews the candidates’ world views

By Katia Bachko   Oct 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM

The New York Times’s “If Elected...” series seems to promise insight into what a candidate might actually do if sworn... More

“You Stepped in it, Buddy”

By Katia Bachko   Oct 24, 2008 at 10:25 AM

Newsweek Jonathan Alter was on the Colbert Report last night promoting his new book. Some funny exchanges ensued. ALTER: Remember... More

Lose Both Ways

By Katia Bachko   Oct 23, 2008 at 03:30 PM

However the election goes in two weeks, we're likely to see less of Sarah Palin, whether she's sitting in the... More

Making the Grade

The Times-Picayune gets it right when evaluating the candidates’ education policies

By Katia Bachko   Oct 23, 2008 at 02:08 PM

Just yesterday, I called for papers to fill their pages with substantive, local-minded stories about how campaign rhetoric will translate... More

Fun With Demographics

By Katia Bachko   Oct 22, 2008 at 03:15 PM

The witty folks at McSweeney's turn their eye for satire to this year's election with "Extended Trailer for American Demographic:... More

To-Do List

What reporters could do in the days before the election

By Katia Bachko   Oct 22, 2008 at 02:25 PM

There are thirteen days until the presidential election, and, as Liz mentioned earlier, the media seems to be stuck in... More

How the Other Half Dies

By Katia Bachko   Oct 22, 2008 at 12:12 PM

Did The New York Times intentionally construct a brilliant juxtaposition of wealth and poverty on its front page this morning?... More

$tunned into $ilence

Why isn’t the media asking more questions about Obama’s fundraising success?

By Katia Bachko   Oct 21, 2008 at 04:49 PM

So far, 2008 seems to be the year of the big, round numbers: the $700 billion bailout, the $10 trillion... More

Double Negative

All attack ads aren’t created equal

By Katia Bachko   Oct 17, 2008 at 01:16 PM

Both the Obama and McCain campaigns, their coffers flush with cash, have been taking their messages to the airwaves, and... More

Lessons Learned

By Katia Bachko   Oct 17, 2008 at 12:15 PM

How can you tell that a campaign concept has made it into the public consciousness? It's a joke on SNL:... More

Small Business Sense

The New York Times takes a stab at the small biz tax question

By Katia Bachko   Oct 16, 2008 at 01:38 PM

After all the plumbing business, I was heartened to see this passage in the Times today: So will Americans who... More

Circular Logic

Let’s lose the pie chart scorecards, CNN

By Katia Bachko   Oct 16, 2008 at 12:36 PM

In addition to the squiggly lines that I so detest, CNN’s debate broadcast featured another useless feature: the pie-chart score... More

Rooting Up ACORN

NPR’s take on the suddenly infamous organization

By Katia Bachko   Oct 15, 2008 at 02:29 PM

Ever since the McCain campaign called for an investigation into voter registration fraud perpetrated by the nonprofit organization ACORN, many... More

Chapter 7: Road Trip

In which newspapers go looking for that rare species, the elusive voteris Americanus

By Katia Bachko   Oct 15, 2008 at 09:49 AM

Similar to the Grand Tour tradition of the Victorian age, modern newspapers observe a perennial election-time rite in which an... More

Down With the Dial

Let’s abolish the debate night dial-meter, okay?

By Katia Bachko   Oct 15, 2008 at 08:58 AM

Cue the infomercial: Wanna to know what real people are thinking, but can’t bother to ask actual questions? Have no... More