I Want My MTV

By Katia Bachko   Sep 5, 2008 at 12:30 AM

Back in February, the MTV news team spoke with Sarah Palin about her thoughts about the Republican primary contest way... More

What’s On Your Head?

By Katia Bachko   Sep 4, 2008 at 11:54 PM

What the folks at PBS gain in quality of coverage, they lose in stylish headgear. Poor Judy Woodruff has been... More

Give the People What They Want

What we didn’t learn about Sarah Palin last night

By Katia Bachko   Sep 4, 2008 at 05:12 PM

If the current New York Times most e-mailed articles list is any indicator, people are clamoring to learn more about... More

Tracy Flick, Round Two

By Katia Bachko   Sep 4, 2008 at 12:39 AM

Remember when Slate made that video, Hillary's Inner Tracy Flick? Well, it seems that the Flick-ering torch has been passed... More

Pinched for Time

By Katia Bachko   Sep 3, 2008 at 09:44 PM

Because of hurricane Gustav, or perhaps because of an intentional compressed schedule, the RNC broadcast schedule has very few breaks... More

Riders on the Storm

By Katia Bachko   Sep 3, 2008 at 01:16 PM

As Gustav roared through the Gulf Coast, the networks trotted out their best and brightest correspondents to bring dispatches from... More

What About the Dems?

By Katia Bachko   Sep 3, 2008 at 12:49 AM

Today, the Internet has been abuzz with the saga of Campbell Brown's interview with McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, and the... More

The Graham Crack Didn’t Work

By Katia Bachko   Sep 3, 2008 at 12:23 AM

While addressing the RNC, Joe Lieberman attempted to inject some levity into his speech by referring to his travels with... More

Like What?

By Katia Bachko   Sep 2, 2008 at 07:10 PM

While describing the formation of several weather systems in the Caribbean and the threat they pose to the southern states,... More

The Fashion Watch Never Stops

By Katia Bachko   Sep 2, 2008 at 04:17 PM

Lest they be accused of unevenly heaping fashion scrutiny on one political party over another, the media are on it... More

What We Know When We Don’t Know Much

Palin’s favorite meal is moose burgers.

By Katia Bachko   Aug 29, 2008 at 05:23 PM

With the media struggling to learn about new GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell offers this now much-recycled... More

Everyone Starts Somewhere

By Katia Bachko   Aug 29, 2008 at 02:38 PM

This just in: Jill Burke at KTUU, the NBC affiliate in Anchorage, confirmed that GOP VP Sarah Palin was a... More

What’s In a Name?

Some analysts wonder why Obama didn’t mention Martin Luther King Jr. by name

By Katia Bachko   Aug 29, 2008 at 12:20 AM

Tavis Smiley asked his two favorite contributors, Princeton professor Cornel West and Bennett College president Julianne Malveaux to weigh in... More

Shortest News Cycle Ever

By Katia Bachko   Aug 28, 2008 at 11:52 PM

This just in: CNN has already moved on to speculating about McCain's VP choice, the GOP convention, and the Gustav... More

Leaked!

By Katia Bachko   Aug 28, 2008 at 09:32 PM

The text of Obama's speech is everywhere, and everyone's got their hands in it. "America, we are better than these... More