1,000 Words…of Crazy

The Times sells McCain short

By Megan Garber   Apr 10, 2008 at 02:43 PM

Checking out The New York Times Web site's newly (and subtly) redesigned Politics section, I noticed, tucked into a column... More

Flame-aganda

By Megan Garber   Apr 9, 2008 at 11:29 AM

Pop quiz! Match the headline to the news outlet that produced it: 1. Security concerns high as Olympic torch arrives... More

The Times: (Grammar) Schooled

By Megan Garber   Apr 8, 2008 at 12:23 PM

Oh, the comma-dy. Here, what has to be one of The New York Times’s best corrections of the of the... More

Grey Lady Green?

By Megan Garber   Apr 8, 2008 at 12:05 PM

Let’s say you’re an illustrious newspaper, and your rival has just won a landslide of Pulitzers (six, to be exact,... More

McCain’s Big Ticket?

Mac has miles to go before he Veeps

By Megan Garber   Apr 7, 2008 at 11:50 AM

On yesterday’s This Week with George Stephanopolous, Republican strategist Dan Senor announced that Condoleezza Rice “has been actively, actually in... More

Oops!

FNC’s chyron an Al-batross

By Megan Garber   Apr 4, 2008 at 02:32 PM

Call it "Dewey Defeats Truman" for the age of twenty-four-hour cable. Amid all the hubbub about who, oh who, the... More

Bubble Trouble

By Megan Garber   Apr 4, 2008 at 02:17 PM

Occasionally, a commentator will make an observation so obvious, yet so in need of being said, that it might fairly... More

Aggregate This! (Part II)

By Megan Garber   Apr 4, 2008 at 02:15 PM

More evidence that Tina Brown is serious about her soon-to-be-launched news aggregation Web site: today we learn that she’s brought... More

Dr. King’s Last Moments

Memphis magazine provides a moving tick-tock

By Megan Garber   Apr 4, 2008 at 01:17 PM

Much of today’s coverage of the fortieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination examines the reverend’s legacy through the telescopic... More

Rejoice, Katie!

Will Couric have her moment of moderation?

By Megan Garber   Apr 3, 2008 at 05:26 PM

Hold onto your stilettos, everyone…Katie Couric could yet have her moment in the debate-moderation sun. Word comes today, via a... More

Rivalry Aside

Will the candidates put politics on the back burner to pay tribute to Dr. King?

By Megan Garber   Apr 3, 2008 at 04:39 PM

Tomorrow marks the fortieth anniversary of the slaying of Martin Luther King, Jr., and presidential candidates will be in Memphis... More

How Many Times Can You Call People “Big Fucking Whores” Before It Gets, You Know, Kinda Uncool?

For Air America’s Randi Rhodes: Three Times!

By Megan Garber   Apr 3, 2008 at 04:14 PM

Take that, Don Imus. It was a year ago tomorrow that the shock jock called the Rutgers women’s basketball team…well,... More

WSJ: Soon to Play ‘Endorsement Mad Libs’?

Under Murdoch, the paper may make its first endorsement since Hoover

By Megan Garber   Apr 3, 2008 at 03:26 PM

The Wall Street Journal hasn’t endorsed a political candidate since the election of 1928 (perhaps out of shame: it endorsed... More

Matthews’s Leg: Still Thrilled?

Barack Obama, media critic!

By Megan Garber   Apr 3, 2008 at 02:15 PM

Perhaps the best line from Barack Obama's Hardball appearance yesterday came after (the notoriously Obamaphilic) Chris Matthews asked the candidate... More

The Best Unintentionally Ironic MSNBC Ad Yet!

The “Vote-zilla” crew strikes again…

By Megan Garber   Apr 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM

This little gem, an ad promoting “Hardball’s College Tour” through Pennsylvania, has been airing on MSNBC this morning: “After three... More