Economy of Coverage

By Megan Garber   Jul 11, 2008 at 01:31 PM

Considering this "mental recession" we're in, and considering how much we've, apparently, been whining about said recession, I was fairly... More

Mag Revenue Numbers: In Which “Flat Is the New Up”

By Megan Garber   Jul 11, 2008 at 12:56 PM

Yesterday, the Publishers Information Bureau released its report tracking magazine ad sales during the second quarter of 2008. The news... More

On That “Trademark John McCain Wit”

By Megan Garber   Jul 11, 2008 at 08:22 AM

Think Progress (via Matt Yglesias) has a list of some of the more egregious moments of political reporters publicly crushing... More

Fox and the…Hounds?

By Megan Garber   Jul 3, 2008 at 01:03 PM

So the people at Fox & Friends aren't feeling so Fox-&-Friendly, apparently, toward The New York Times. On June 28,... More

Crossing Lines

In a bombed-out Detroit neighborhood, a new blog works to rekindle a community

By Megan Garber   Jul 1, 2008 at 09:00 AM

A few miles east of Detroit’s gleaming new ballpark and glittering new casino hotels, a few miles west of the... More

Carmella Lewis, Media Darling

On Unity Day, the voice of anti-Unity was everywhere

By Megan Garber   Jun 30, 2008 at 04:52 PM

Remember Greg Packer? The highway maintenance worker who rose to media (in)famy a few years ago as the (much-too)-oft-quoted "everyman"... More

Unity, by the Numbers

By Megan Garber   Jun 30, 2008 at 01:08 PM

Per the television transcript database TVEyes.com, and without further comment, below are the number of uses of the word “unity”... More

UNITY-Fest Breaking News Update: The Ken Burns Effect

By Megan Garber   Jun 27, 2008 at 01:35 PM

New Hampshire's own Ken Burns is in the audience, witnessing UNITY first-hand! Ironically--or, perhaps, fittingly--MSNBC's cameras, when focusing on the... More

Barack Obama, “Stevie Wonder Geek”

…and other revelations from the Rolling Stone Q&A

By Megan Garber   Jun 27, 2008 at 01:26 PM

Reading Rolling Stone’s much-hyped interview with Barack Obama, I couldn’t help but think of…Evan Marc Katz. Whom you might know,... More

UNITY-Fest Breaking News Update: The Body-Language Analysis

By Megan Garber   Jun 27, 2008 at 01:22 PM

Per MNSBC's Andrea Mitchell, analyzing the blue-on-blue onstage hug between Obama and Clinton: "This is the new first couple," and,... More

UNITY-Fest Breaking News Update: The Clothing Analysis!

By Megan Garber   Jun 27, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Per a chyron flashing on MSNBC in its currently uninterrupted Unity coverage: "COLOR COORDINATION: OBAMA'S TIE MATCHES CLINTON'S SUIT" The... More

Happy “Unity Day,” Everyone!

By Megan Garber   Jun 27, 2008 at 09:03 AM

Can't you just feel the excitement in the air? Can't you just feel the Winds of Change starting to blow?... More

Annals of Revealing Cable Commentary, Part 4,587

By Megan Garber   Jun 26, 2008 at 09:15 AM

On MSNBC a few moments ago, Monica Novotny announced Barack Obama's participation today in an economic summit at Carnegie Mellon... More

Wars on the Back Burner

By Megan Garber   Jun 23, 2008 at 04:29 PM

It’s no longer news that the Iraq war is, well, no longer news. We’ve heard again and again about—and we... More

Those Russert Replacement Rumors

…and why they’re more than idle chatter

By Megan Garber   Jun 23, 2008 at 12:08 PM

At the conclusion of yesterday’s Meet the Press, temporary moderator Brian Williams made an announcement: Beginning next week, my friend... More