While the Tube Star Gently Weeps

By Megan Garber   Oct 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Glenn Beck is known for many things, but the media star's most iconic characteristic is probably the melodramatic weeping he... More

“Chicago Is Out? Chicago Is Out?”

By Megan Garber   Oct 2, 2009 at 12:09 PM

Yowza. Watch as CNN's Tony Harris, Dispassionate Information Purveyor, gets the news that Chicago has not only not won the... More

Headline of the Day

By Megan Garber   Oct 2, 2009 at 10:46 AM

Without further comment: "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Yo-Yo Ma" More

WaPo to Partner with Bloomberg for Global News Service

By Megan Garber   Oct 2, 2009 at 10:19 AM

Hot on the heels of news that CBS News and GlobalPost will be pairing up to cover the world beyond... More

America’s Next Great Pundit: A Close Reading

By Megan Garber   Sep 29, 2009 at 03:31 PM

The Washington Post Pundit Contest: A Close Reading [I NEED SOME KIND OF BRIEF INTRO HERE…] America’s Next Great Pundit... More

“Get off Their Asses and Get Back to Talking to Real People”

By Megan Garber   Sep 29, 2009 at 11:29 AM

Over at The Huffington Post, Jason Linkins turns in a fantastic Q&A with Dale Maharidge, the Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and... More

Talese: “The Magazine Piece Is Not a Work of Art Anymore”

By Megan Garber   Sep 29, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Leave it to Gay Talese to find a new angle on an old story. In a video for the Big... More

“So, Keep Your Guns, and Buy More Guns…”

By Megan Garber   Sep 28, 2009 at 05:06 PM

Think Progress's Lee Fang offers a disturbing cautionary tale: a distillation of the frayed edges of the ridiculous rhetoric that... More

Poll Lancing

By Megan Garber   Sep 28, 2009 at 04:39 PM

So you may have heard, today, about the existence of troubling poll previously making its way around Facebook--one that asked,... More

The Washington Post, Angsty Teenager

The paper really, really wants to go to prom with you

By Megan Garber   Sep 28, 2009 at 02:34 PM

Reading the text of The Washington Post’s new guidelines for its staff’s use of Facebook, Twitter, and the like, I... More

Two-Ply Puns

By Megan Garber   Sep 28, 2009 at 09:06 AM

See if you can find the many puns embedded in the following Washington Post headline, on environmentalists' challenge to toilet... More

William Safire, 1929-2009

By Megan Garber   Sep 27, 2009 at 02:41 PM

Today brings sad news: William Safire has passed away at 79, of pancreatic cancer. Currently leading the Web site of... More

The Prophet Motive

Glenn Beck in an age of anxiety

By Megan Garber   Sep 25, 2009 at 06:11 PM

Here is one rule I’ve discovered as a consumer of media-celebrity coverage: if you know what a celebrity's tongue looks... More

Starr Testimony to the JEC

By Megan Garber   Sep 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Yesterday, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, under the chairmanship of Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), held a hearing about the future... More

Of Headlines and (Oven) Feet

By Megan Garber   Sep 24, 2009 at 02:00 PM

So, strictly speaking, the following is not the best of headlines. It's unclear; it's rather absurd; and, ultimately, it begs... More