News You Can Eat

By Katia Bachko   Oct 1, 2008 at 03:07 PM

What's that line about the best way to a man's heart being through his stomach? Well, apparently the best way... More

Not What You Think

By Katia Bachko   Oct 1, 2008 at 11:47 AM

Best headline of week award goes to The Brooklyn Paper with Hookers to get BJ’s in a mall. Nice. h/t... More

The Bailout Blame Game

Did “partisan politics” doom the bailout package?

By Katia Bachko   Sep 30, 2008 at 05:04 PM

Yesterday, 205 members of Congress (140 Democrats, 65 Republicans) voted for the banking bailout package, while 228 Congressmen and women... More

Recommended Radio

A WNYC series tackles the issues

By Katia Bachko   Sep 30, 2008 at 12:59 PM

If what ails the current campaign coverage is a dearth of issues-focused coverage, then the cure is The Brian Lehrer... More

Confusion Revealed

Good bailout story by the CS Monitor

By Katia Bachko   Sep 29, 2008 at 03:06 PM

During Friday’s debates, moderator Jim Lehrer pressed the candidates to identifying which of their social programs they would cut, given... More

The Live Bloggers

By Katia Bachko   Sep 26, 2008 at 09:51 PM

This is the scene at CJR HQ. More

Political Pool

By Katia Bachko   Sep 26, 2008 at 09:39 PM

9:40: Stripes versus solids. McCain is wearing a striped tie; Obama's is solid. Who is gonna sink the eight ball? More

Drinking The Night Away

By Katia Bachko   Sep 26, 2008 at 09:11 PM

Drinking games for the debates are nothing new. Here's a review of the various possibilities: San Diego Union-Tribune The Good:... More

So Many Colors

By Katia Bachko   Sep 26, 2008 at 09:06 PM

9:08pm: CNN has an "Audience Reaction" meter on the bottom on the screen. And it's flat-lining the whole time. At... More

Worlds Apart

LAT dons campaign blinders, sees similarities in the candidates’ foreign policy positions

By Katia Bachko   Sep 26, 2008 at 05:03 PM

During a presidential campaign—any presidential campaign—two candidates start out on opposing sides of the political spectrum. They disagree boldly. They... More

Dispatches From Oxford

What it’s like to be the hometown paper in the middle of the debate debacle

By Katia Bachko   Sep 26, 2008 at 02:26 PM

What’s the most common question currently being posed to the staff of the Oxford Eagle, the daily newspaper that serves... More

Classic Blunders

By Katia Bachko   Sep 26, 2008 at 09:00 AM

Summing up a general confusion over what McCain actually means by the words "suspended campaign," last night Rachel Maddow quoted... More

Yes, No, I Don’t Know

By Katia Bachko   Sep 25, 2008 at 03:38 PM

A few weeks ago, former Gallup Poll senior editor David Moore appeared on On The Media to talk about how... More

Whither the Ombudsman?

By Katia Bachko   Sep 25, 2008 at 12:31 PM

Editor and Publisher reports this month that the ranks of ombudsmen are shrinking at newspapers across the country. Since early... More

Schooling Sarah

What to make of Palin’s UN visit

By Katia Bachko   Sep 24, 2008 at 05:25 PM

This week, GOP strategists seem intent on replacing the image of Sarah Palin gazing knowingly onto Russia from her front... More