Air Apparent, Part Two

Live TV and the virtues of restraint

By Megan Garber   Dec 2, 2008 at 12:24 PM

Dan Rather is calm. Dan Rather is collected. Dan Rather is cautious. And he is not—repeat, not—ready to call Ohio... More

Air Apparent

TV news in the post-election world, part one

By Megan Garber   Dec 1, 2008 at 07:30 AM

There are two general assumptions about the media that have become so common it's stopped occurring to us to question... More

Cut on the Bias

By Megan Garber   Nov 26, 2008 at 04:30 PM

Pop quiz, before school gets out for holiday recess: What do Mark Halperin and al-Qaeda have in common? They both... More

Michelle Obama, Mother

Please, can we stop with all the “momification” talk?

By Megan Garber   Nov 26, 2008 at 04:10 PM

A plea: can we please--please, please--all stop talking about the "momification of Michelle Obama"? Can we please stop analyzing and... More

Mag the Dog

By Megan Garber   Nov 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM

Vanity Fair pokes some fun at the magazine industry's Obamania. "Magazines are awash in Barack-emblazoned covers," David Friend writes. "It’s... More

Oh, That’s Rich

By Megan Garber   Nov 26, 2008 at 12:28 PM

CJR alum Kiera Butler, now of Mother Jones, turns in a nice interview with The New York Times's theater-critic-turned-political theater-critic... More

John Roberts Must Tie!

By Megan Garber   Nov 24, 2008 at 11:07 AM

So get ready to be outraged or baffled or otherwise scandalized. Last week, John Roberts, cohost of CNN's American Morning,... More

Traffic Jam

By Megan Garber   Nov 21, 2008 at 05:08 PM

Bucking trends, traffic for The Atlantic, Drudge, and HuffPo is actually up post-election, according to Nate Silver and Alexa. Everyone... More

White House, Gray Lady

By Megan Garber   Nov 21, 2008 at 04:22 PM

New York Times Washington Bureau Chief Dean Baquet has just named the paper's new White House team. It includes, as... More

Kakutani’s a Poet…and, Oh, She Let Us Know It

By Megan Garber   Nov 21, 2008 at 04:16 PM

Michiko Kakutani seems to have taken a page from pal MoDo's playbook. And not, um, a good one. In today's... More

She’s Accepted! Sources Say!

By Megan Garber   Nov 21, 2008 at 03:46 PM

So it seems, my friends, that we have arrived at the final installment of the weeklong dramedy that has been... More

Extra-Censory Perception

By Megan Garber   Nov 21, 2008 at 02:17 PM

Project Censored has released its annual (and forward-looking) list of the "Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009." Among them: #6... More

Copy Editors to the World: Teehee!

By Megan Garber   Nov 21, 2008 at 02:07 PM

So. A brief vocabulary lesson. A dingleberry, for those of you who didn't grow up on a farm, is--and I... More

Politico: “We’ll Do It Live”

By Megan Garber   Nov 21, 2008 at 01:48 PM

Politico's editors and reporters (bloggers included) are dissecting Election '08 at a conference at USC today. Watch it live, here. More

Chicken Soup for the (Campaign Junkie’s) Soul

By Megan Garber   Nov 21, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Hey, politics junkies! Are you going through campaign withdrawal? Do you find yourself, in the quiet moments of the day,... More