Sad Sign of the Times

By Megan Garber   Apr 25, 2008 at 09:05 AM

After a fewer-than-hoped-for seventy employees of The New York Times accepted buyouts from the paper by this Tuesday's deadline, looks... More

The Whirligig of TIME

By Megan Garber   Apr 24, 2008 at 04:11 PM

The New Republic is feeling a tad photo-plagiarized today. TIME magazine’s new Obama/Clinton cover is, it says, pretty similar to... More

Primary Night Metaphor-o-rama!

MSNBC’s minstrels love analogies as much as they love politics

By Megan Garber   Apr 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM

Six hours is a lot of airtime to fill. Especially when, as was the case for the majority of last... More

Big Bird, Meet the Grouch

Cable flips out over Obama’s “offensive gesture”

By Megan Garber   Apr 22, 2008 at 04:07 PM

Mr. Obama, we know things are getting rough out there on the campaign trail. We know campaigning can take its... More

Dancing with the Stars: The Trade Summit Edition

When Bush and NAFTA dance together, the president leads

By Megan Garber   Apr 22, 2008 at 03:08 PM

I’m here, with political reporters, in New Orleans—where, for the past two days, President Bush has been in summit meetings... More

The Papal Visit: By the Numbers

Counting the coverage of Benedict XVI’s U.S. trip

By Megan Garber   Apr 21, 2008 at 04:31 PM

60,000 rough number of people who came to see Pope Benedict XVI celebrate Mass at New York’s Yankee Stadium on... More

Kicker Mailbag: “The questions asked by Stephanopoulos and Gibson matter to voters”

By Megan Garber   Apr 18, 2008 at 02:43 PM

In response to our Kicker post about Jon Stewart's satirical analysis of the ABC debate—and to our general frustration with... More

Jon Stewart weighs in on the ABC debate

By Megan Garber   Apr 18, 2008 at 10:19 AM

Leave it to Jon Stewart to condense Fight Night's frustrations into a neat little nutshell. After airing the debate-specific-but-Daily Show-obligatory... More

19,742

By Megan Garber   Apr 18, 2008 at 08:32 AM

That's the number of comments posted to ABC News's Web site in response to the outlet's article about Wednesday night's... More

Rock the Vote (Don’t Rock the Vote, Baby…)

Debate dissonance in Philly

By Megan Garber   Apr 17, 2008 at 02:53 PM

Talk about mixed messages. Last night's debate, as ABC News informed us again and again, was the last meeting of... More

It’s a Bittersweet Symphony…

PA voters: to be (bitter) or not to be (bitter)

By Megan Garber   Apr 14, 2008 at 04:56 PM

Ah, BitterGate. Everything you're not supposed to talk about at parties—religion! class! "liberal elitism"! the Second Amendment!—all rolled into one... More

Matt Taibbi Isn’t Sexist

He dislikes everyone, equally

By Megan Garber   Apr 11, 2008 at 02:48 PM

For the record, Matt Taibbi's no misogynist. Or, well, even if he is, he's sexist on top of being ageist... More

Airing…Dirty Laundry?

By Megan Garber   Apr 11, 2008 at 12:55 PM

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has published the index of talk radio's content for the week of March 31... More

In Which Bill Clinton Won’t Let Sleeping Dogs…Well, You Know

Bill, Bill, Bill. Shh…

By Megan Garber   Apr 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM

Message to Bill Clinton: Zip it. Well, that's Hillary's message to her husband, anyway; ours is more along the lines... More

The Rather Suit: What Was Dismissed

…and what remains

By Megan Garber   Apr 10, 2008 at 05:18 PM

As has been reported here and elsewhere, Justice Ira Gammerman—the judge hearing Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS—today issued a motion... More