C-SPAN to Launch Debate Hub!

By Megan Garber   Sep 18, 2008 at 04:48 PM

From the blessedly staid souls who brought you last month's blessedly staid Convention Hubs--online coverage of the DNC and GOP... More

Gore: Good and Plenty

By Megan Garber   Sep 18, 2008 at 03:12 PM

Looks like Al Gore, whose global reach encompasses the Nobel Foundation, hipster television, and, you know, the actual globe, will... More

AP Reports on “Feistier, More Sarcastic Tone”; Not Talking About Itself

By Megan Garber   Sep 18, 2008 at 02:55 PM

It's talking about Obama. More

Notes from the Spin Cycle

Hannity may mock journalism; that doesn’t mean he’s above it

By Megan Garber   Sep 18, 2008 at 02:04 PM

Say what you will about Charlie Gibson's interview of Sarah Palin last week (we certainly did). At least it was... More

The Daily Show Takes on Hollywood-in-Politics

By Megan Garber   Sep 18, 2008 at 08:45 AM

Horrific. And hilarious. More

Martha to Bloggers: “You Have a Big Responsibility, Guys”

By Megan Garber   Sep 17, 2008 at 05:49 PM

Today's episode of Martha Stewart's talk show--due, we can only assume, to some combination of its host's continuing attempts to... More

More Laurel-y Goodness

By Megan Garber   Sep 17, 2008 at 05:15 PM

Earlier today, on Campaign Desk, I posted an assessment of an article by The New York Times's Jeff Zeleny--an article... More

Reporting Rhetoric, Non-Obnoxiously

Or, how to take the “er” out of “strategery”

By Megan Garber   Sep 17, 2008 at 04:52 PM

Reporting about campaign rhetoric can be one of the trickiest balancing acts there is in political journalism. Go too far... More

Courting Decline

By Megan Garber   Sep 17, 2008 at 04:38 PM

Perusing the Times today, I came across this sad little headline: "Supreme Court’s Global Influence Is Waning." Yeah. Not only... More

C-E-(Uh)-O

Focusing on the Fiorina gaffe wastes everyone’s time

By Megan Garber   Sep 17, 2008 at 12:46 PM

Have you heard the one about how Carly Fiorina doesn't think Sarah Palin is qualified to run Hewlett-Packard? Or any... More

Another one…?

By Megan Garber   Sep 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM

The New York Post is reporting that another major paper is in danger of demise. This time, it's the Star-Ledger,... More

Trooper Star

The TrooperGate story isn’t partisan. Let’s stop treating it that way.

By Megan Garber   Sep 17, 2008 at 10:15 AM

Late Monday afternoon, as the country reeled from the news of Wall Street's implosion, a campaign-related announcement inserted itself into... More

Passport to Paradise. Or Something.

By Megan Garber   Sep 17, 2008 at 09:09 AM

Remember Passport-Gate? That tense moment in which the media were fixated on the fact that Barack Obama's—and Hillary Clinton's!—and John... More

It’s All About the O(hio)

By Megan Garber   Sep 16, 2008 at 05:38 PM

In the great state of Ohio, early voting in the presidential election is set to begin on September 30. (No,... More

“HELLO ECONOMY, GOODBYE LIPSTICK”

It’s a hopeful headline. Will it prove accurate?

By Megan Garber   Sep 16, 2008 at 12:36 PM

Every cloud, they say, has a silver lining. And our current cloud--or, more specifically, the massive, murky, and menacing haze... More