Dr. Barack and Mr. Obama

By Megan Garber   Jun 20, 2008 at 03:57 PM

David Brooks has an important column in today's New York Times. Important, in the sense that it establishes a meme... More

Happy Happy! Joy Joy?

By Megan Garber   Jun 20, 2008 at 02:37 PM

Yay! Did you hear?! Today is the happiest day of the year!! The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting (h/t: Gawker)... More

About That Michello-O Hardball Ad…

or, We’ll Become Silhouettes

By Megan Garber   Jun 20, 2008 at 10:30 AM

The HuffPost is reporting (h/t: Michael Calderone) that MSNBC has pulled, after only two airings, an ad for the Hardball... More

U-N-I-T-Y

By Megan Garber   Jun 20, 2008 at 09:40 AM

On Friday, apparently, a week from today, the waters will part, the heavens will stir, and the light of Democratic... More

MSNBC: Killing Us Softly with Their Thong

By Megan Garber   Jun 19, 2008 at 04:49 PM

On today’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, Willie Geist ran, as he normally does, a segment called “News You Can’t Use”:... More

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantyhose

The press promised a lot when it came to Michelle Obama’s “reintroduction.” It failed to deliver.

By Megan Garber   Jun 19, 2008 at 03:29 PM

She hates pantyhose! She loves her girls! She shops at Target…and pronounces it Tar-get, not Tar-jay! She loved Sex and... More

Obama’s Rumor Patrol

Why isn’t the press doing this job?

By Megan Garber   Jun 13, 2008 at 02:20 PM

Barack Obama—Barack Hussein Obama—is Muslim! Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya, not the U.S.—so, per the Constitution, he is... More

Turning Point: Education

Can the press force education onto the campaign agenda?

By Megan Garber   Jun 13, 2008 at 09:00 AM

This is part seven of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election’s general campaign. Links to the... More

Obama’s Sense of Rumor

By Megan Garber   Jun 6, 2008 at 12:15 PM

To what extent is reporting on an unsubstantiated rumor simply spreading that rumor? There have been, recently, insinuations circulating around... More

What a Hoot(ers): The Daily Show Takes on Sexism

By Megan Garber   Jun 6, 2008 at 09:15 AM

With the apparent end, this Saturday, of Hillary Clinton's bid for the presidency, the "was the media treatment of Clinton... More

Scandal! Oh, Nevermind

As the general election dawns, a few fewer -Gates, please!

By Megan Garber   Jun 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM

This is Part One of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election's general campaign. See the accompanying... More

History!

Let’s celebrate today’s first draft

By Megan Garber   Jun 4, 2008 at 02:48 PM

Whatever your political inclinations, last night was historic. Barack Obama’s win in Montana meant that an African-American had won the... More

Booze Judgment

The Times parses Clinton’s Beer Factor

By Megan Garber   May 30, 2008 at 03:33 PM

We currently find ourselves in, to put it mildly, a lull in the 2008 campaign's primary season. The delegate tallies... More

NYC’s Deadly Crane Collapse

By Megan Garber   May 30, 2008 at 11:50 AM

Just after 8 a.m. today, a crane doing construction work at a high-rise building on the corner of 91st Street... More

Poor “Elite”

By Megan Garber   May 30, 2008 at 08:50 AM

"Pity the poor word 'elite,' which simply means 'the best' as an adjective and 'the best of a group' as... More