Fifty-seven

By Megan Garber   Aug 18, 2008 at 04:17 PM

That's the number of times the term "cone of silence" has been used in television coverage since Saturday's Saddleback interviews,... More

On Their Merits

The press needs to press the candidates more on “merit pay”

By Megan Garber   Aug 18, 2008 at 12:37 PM

During this weekend’s Pander to Evangelical Voters Forum Pander to Rick Warren Forum Purpose-Driven Forum Saddleback Civil Forum—an event during... More

Love, Exciting and…News?

By Megan Garber   Aug 18, 2008 at 12:02 PM

That Barack Obama is so coy. We've been waiting for months for the Democrats' Intended to reveal his choice of... More

No Mo’ PoMo

Keep critical theory out of campaign coverage

By Megan Garber   Aug 8, 2008 at 12:24 PM

In his Washington Post column yesterday, David Broder wrote of interviewing both presidential candidates: "The first question I asked John... More

Breaking! CJR Has the Next Issue of the Montgomery County Bulletin

Featuring plenty of classic articles “by” Mark Williams

By Megan Garber   Aug 7, 2008 at 03:05 PM

Thanks to Jody Rosen’s piece (“Dude, You Stole My Article”) in Slate yesterday, the Montgomery County Bulletin is getting a... More

David Brooks, Meme-Maker

Is Obama too slippery for his own good?

By Megan Garber   Aug 5, 2008 at 05:22 PM

A few weeks ago, David Brooks tested his meme-making abilities with a column that portrayed Barack Obama as a conflicted... More

The “Race Card” Game: Ginned Up?

By Megan Garber   Aug 1, 2008 at 03:51 PM

Politico's Avi Zenilman makes a great observation: The "race card" dispute between McCain and Obama has baredly shown up on... More

African-American Bloggers Discuss the “Race Card” Story

And many ignore it altogether

By Megan Garber   Aug 1, 2008 at 02:52 PM

As the media have been talking, today, about the "race card" being officially "played" in the presidential campaign, we've heard... More

No, This Isn’t from The Onion

By Megan Garber   Aug 1, 2008 at 12:06 PM

Just wanted to clarify. More

The Daily Show: “We have a GED in news”

By Megan Garber   Aug 1, 2008 at 09:02 AM

Let's start the day with a bit of levity: The Daily Show ribs cable news' slightly self-aggrandizing self-promotional nicknames for... More

Schmidt Me, Baby, One More Time

Obama’s like Britney…(don’t) pass it on!

By Megan Garber   Jul 31, 2008 at 03:21 PM

Well, it’s official: the campaigns have Gone Negative. And in this case, alas, negativity’s harbinger was none other than...Britney Spears.... More

While My Guitar Gently Veeps

Please, could we give the Veepstakes just a little more substance?

By Megan Garber   Jul 30, 2008 at 04:24 PM

Who doesn't love the Veepstakes? Not only is the whole game fun to play—Clue and CandyLand rolled into one!—but it... More

Slow Claps for David Brooks

By Megan Garber   Jul 29, 2008 at 12:11 PM

You know that classic, climactic moment in movies, when someone gives a controversial-yet-rousing speech, and the audience, silent at first,... More

Tonight on The NewsHour: The Changing Look of the Book Review

By Megan Garber   Jul 28, 2008 at 05:31 PM

As Liz reported last week, the LA Times Book Review has become the latest victim of the LA Times's bottom-line-eyed... More

Did Obama Snub the Troops?

Blogs do reporting; MSM does stenography

By Megan Garber   Jul 28, 2008 at 04:55 PM

Did you hear the one about Barack Obama not caring about our troops? About being so obsessed with his image... More