Beyond Two Percent

To repeat: we need more—and more extensive—coverage of the Iraq war

By Megan Garber   Dec 23, 2008 at 05:20 PM

In a recent New York Times column, Thomas Friedman laid out the current conventional wisdom about the war in Iraq:... More

God Bless Us, Every Ten

By Megan Garber   Dec 23, 2008 at 04:39 PM

Gotta love the end of the year. A time for celebration, a time for reflection, a time during which, no... More

Caroline, or Change

Remember when “Caroline Kennedy” was “Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg”?

By Megan Garber   Dec 22, 2008 at 04:15 PM

In yesterday's front-page story exploring Caroline Kennedy's name recognition in her bid for New York's vacant Senate seat, The New... More

Han-inanity

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 05:20 PM

More awards! Media Matters has named Sean Hannity its 2008 Misinformer of the Year. Along with the accolade, the organization... More

LAT to Outsource Its National, Foreign Coverage?

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 05:12 PM

Rumors that the LA Times is moving toward outsourcing gained momentum yesterday via an ominous non-denial from editor Russ Stanton:... More

War(ren) of Words

Vitriol over Rick Warren misses the broader point

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 05:11 PM

Back when President-elect Barack Obama was merely presidential candidate Barack Obama, he made, as all politicians do, several promises to... More

In Which Sarah Palin Enters Our Lives Once Again

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 05:08 PM

She's baaaaaack. Or, rather, she will be. Politico is reporting that, because we don't yet know enough about the life... More

Awarded: 2008 P.U.-litzers

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 04:23 PM

FAIR founder Jeff Cohen, along with media columnist Norman Solomon, has announced this year's P.U.-litzer Prizes, recognizing "some of the... More

More Todd: Without the Goatee, “I’d Just Be Another Pasty White Guy”

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 04:12 PM

TVNewser's Gail Shister interviews NBC's newly minted chief White House correspondent on the occasion of his promotion. "It came out... More

Live-Blag-ing the Blago Press Conference

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 03:00 PM

3:05pm: Chris Matthews is co-anchoring, with David Shuster, MSNBC's coverage of the soon-to-start Blagojevich press conference. (Anyone care to bet... More

Breaking: Tamron Hall’s Boyfriend Stranded in Chicago

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 11:22 AM

One rule of good journalistic story-telling: make it personal. Tell the news in a way that makes people feel it... More

Chuckie T: An Elegy

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 10:23 AM

Poor Chuck Todd. The most famous goatee in political reporting--NBC's numbers guru, quite often the (sole) Voice of Reason amid... More

Bringing It to the Cable

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 10:05 AM

Call it hybrid vigor. While their cousins in print suffer the pains of their congenital defects, cable networks--relatively young, and... More

Media Elite Predict What 2009 Will Hold for Media Elite

By Megan Garber   Dec 19, 2008 at 09:32 AM

Folio collects a list of predictions about the magazine industry from magazine industry insiders. Wired's Dylan Sweeney's prediction: "2009 will... More