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WSJ, Where The Women Are (Not)?

Jeff Bercovici explores what he calls the "woman problem" at The Wall Street Journal, which he describes as "if not... More

Everyone’s Huffing The Same Stuff

Confirmed: the people who bring us our campaign news all read the same handful of blogs (HuffPo, Ambinder, TPM, The... More

Vacation For (From?) Obama

Obama this. Obama that. "48% of the public says they have been hearing 'too much' about Obama lately," according to... More

Covering Beijing; Reporters Feel The Heat

Two separate and unequal press centers; ever-changing rules for Who Can Report From/About Tiananmen Square (And Other Landmarks) and When;... More

McCain Likes Not (Knows Not?) What He Does

Today, the New York Times' Maureen Dowd diagnoses John McCain with an advanced case of "boy envy" (Barack Obama being,... More

How Do “Indelible Images” Get That Way?

The Boston Globe has an article today about how the presidential candidates "strive to establish [an] image and make it... More

PEJ Index: Special Snaps For Cable TV!

I know I'm supposed to be focusing on the headline to the PEJ's Campaign Coverage Index (that last week "McCain... More

Obama: “Way Cooler,” Preferred Carpooler

"Young people finding Obama way cooler than McCain," reports the Associated Press, based on a few cool-kid-on-the-street interviews (prompted, it... More

ABC News Will Not Moderate Fall Debates

Well-known news anchors for CBS, NBC and PBS will moderate the four scheduled presidential and vice-presidential debates this fall, per... More

Mission Accomplished For (That Other) Harper’s

CJR writing about MSNBC talking about the New York Post writing about* Harper's Bazaar (and its Tyra Banks-as-Michelle-Obama photo shoot... More

Noah: That Story On Obama’s Eyebrows? Pluck It.

Not only was that "could Obama's skinniness be a liability?" Wall Street Journal article...let's call it...thinly sourced, it also, according... More

ABC News’s Bentonite Story: What Now?

This ABC News-bentonite story that Glenn Greenwald has been all over at Salon raises so many Big Questions For Journalism... More

How “onlinebeerbellygirl” Made the WSJ and NYT!

Remember that "could Obama's skinniness be a liability?" story from Friday's Wall Street Journal? The one about which Megan wrote,... More

“The End of Rakan’s War”

"Would he still be alive if I didn't write about him?" is one of the heartbreaking questions Kevin Cullen, a... More

Honesty In Column-Writing (Brady on Carr)

Did Forbes.com columnist James Brady perhaps just mean to think what he actually wrote? Brady is disappointed with Night of... More

Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican

What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers

Obama as the Green Lantern

Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”

Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands

What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?

Don’t pray for Oklahoma

Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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