CNN Blogs Afghanistan

By Megan Garber   Dec 2, 2009 at 04:32 PM

Earlier today, Clint called for a more comprehensive media treatment of the United States's new Afghanistan strategy--one, in particular, that... More

The Obama Doctrine?

How helpful are last night’s Obama/Bush comparisons? Not very.

By Megan Garber   Dec 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM

In the flurry of reactions to Obama’s Afghanistan speech, we’re seeing a lot pieces like this: “Echoes of Bush in... More

Chris Matthews: Trolling for Insight

By Megan Garber   Dec 2, 2009 at 09:23 AM

Chris Matthews was in rare Matthewsian form in his coverage of Obama's Afghanistan speech last night. To wit, courtesy of... More

Crouching Tiger…

By Megan Garber   Dec 1, 2009 at 05:39 PM

So one of the more mystifying aspects of the Tiger Woods story has been the fact that so much of... More

When Tiger Updates Cry Wolf

By Megan Garber   Dec 1, 2009 at 04:14 PM

In the aftermath of TigerGate--or HydrantGate or SpurnedSwedeGate or DriverGate or whatever we're calling it--many in the media have been... More

The White House and Politico: Enough to Make You [Sic]

By Megan Garber   Dec 1, 2009 at 12:36 PM

As Greg mentioned last night, Politico—or, you know, “the POLITICO”—has published a particularly Politicobnoxious piece entitled “7 stories Barack Obama... More

Newsweek: Cheney of Fools

Meacham, linkbait, and the real insult of Run Dick Run

By Megan Garber   Nov 30, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Let’s give Jon Meacham the benefit of the doubt. Let’s assume that the editorial in the current issue of Newsweek—that... More

“A Fresh, Ferocious Wave”

By Megan Garber   Nov 30, 2009 at 09:05 AM

It's a rare thing for "discussion about the future of news" and "literary journalism" to co-exist in a single piece.... More

The Washington Post’s Priorities, Dinner-Crasher Edition

By Megan Garber   Nov 30, 2009 at 08:59 AM

Pop quiz! How many Washington Post reporters contributed to this weekend's 1,800-word profile of State Dinner crashers and alleged Heenian... More

Sully-ing the Brand

By Megan Garber   Nov 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM

If you felt, yesterday evening, a faint feeling of emptiness...a vague notion of despair...a more-pronounced-than-usual sense of ennui: it was... More

The Breast Brouhaha, Continued

By Megan Garber   Nov 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM

To piggyback on Greg's note about today's Gail Collins op-ed on the mammogram controversy...I have to say, I found it... More

Future of News Summit

By Megan Garber   Nov 16, 2009 at 12:08 PM

Another day, another future-of-news conference. Today's is sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio, and is taking place now. Right now. Learn... More

Strike a Pose—Rogue (Rogue, Rogue…)

Sarah Palin’s Newsweek cover isn’t sexist. It’s actually kind of empowering.

By Megan Garber   Nov 16, 2009 at 09:50 AM

Move over, third-wave feminism. Second-wave Palinism is upon us. Yep: Sarah Barracuda is back. (Or, to be more accurate: she’s... More

Eco Chamber

By Megan Garber   Nov 16, 2009 at 08:55 AM

Der Spiegel has conducted an interview with Umberto Eco, the novelist, critic, semiotician, philosopher, and all-around Thinker of Things. They... More

Yale Conference: “Journalism & the New Media Ecology”

By Megan Garber   Nov 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Taking place at Yale today and tomorrow is a conference: "Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the... More