He-Said She-Said and Death Panels

A Q&A with the Manship School’s Dr. Regina Lawrence

By Joel Meares   May 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM

Almost two years ago, former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin sent out her infamous “death panels” post on Facebook. The... More

A Suspicious Palin Moratorium

By Joel Meares   Jan 21, 2011 at 02:32 PM

So… Dana Milbank at The Washington Post is calling for February to be a Sarah Palin-free month. Not in the... More

Are You Angry about WikiLeaks?

If so, why? If not, why not?

By The Editors   Nov 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM

From Sarah Palin to the Times readers who grilled Bill Keller over that paper’s right to publish information contained in... More

Audit Notes: Palin Holds Forth on QE2, Top 400 Taxes, Too Big to Jail

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 8, 2010 at 05:25 PM

If you, like me, had been eagerly awaiting Sarah Palin's thoughts on Quantitative Easing: Part Deux, the wait is over!... More

Audit Notes: What SF’s Missing, Post on Waters, Palin Prediction

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 8, 2011 at 01:29 AM

SF Weekly's Matt Smith reports on a new project that's well worth watching—one that will investigate the impact of the... More

Death Panels Make a Comeback

And pose some larger questions for the press

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Well, what do you know? The Obama administration has resurrected the topic of death panels—or, as one Pennsylvania man called... More

Degrees of Rejection

‘Refudiate’ may have a use after all

By Merrill Perlman   Nov 22, 2010 at 11:31 AM

The “words of the year” lists are beginning to appear, and we’re generally going to ignore them, since those words... More

Does Roger Ailes Think Sarah Palin Is an Idiot?

By Joel Meares   May 24, 2011 at 03:12 PM

A bit of Palin overload today at CJR, but the former governor of Alaska has popped up in another... More

Meet the Iowa Press

Local reporters in demand at caucus time

By Joel Meares   Feb 10, 2011 at 05:24 PM

A New York political reporter once asked me during an interview: “Who’s that guy who gets his ring kissed... More

Milbank’s Nasty Missive from the Press Secretary

Jay Carney may not be reporters’ best friend

By Joel Meares   Feb 2, 2011 at 11:58 AM

The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, in one of his first columns in a self-imposed Palin-free month—though he has a very... More

Palin’s Speechwriter Undone by Nasty Messages

Source asks for cash

By Joel Meares   May 24, 2011 at 01:58 PM

Daily Caller reporter Jonathan Strong has quite the scoop this morning—a series of direct Tweets from Palin speechwriter and... More

Palin’s Basketball Diaries

By Erika Fry   Sep 15, 2011 at 05:54 PM

Yes, we've been reviewing the media's coverage of social security and health care and the jobs plan, but we've also... More

Parker/Palin

By Joel Meares   Nov 12, 2010 at 02:07 PM

Turns out Parker/Spitzer is still on the air. And, heck, the show is even making news thanks to former governor,... More

Remember When No Meant No

The Bloomberg-denies-running story industry

By Joel Meares   Dec 13, 2010 at 04:57 PM

We get it media: you want New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president. We can’t blame you.... More

Sarah Palin, Media Critic

The former veep candidate (and journalism major) misleads readers on the WSJ with selective quotes

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 8, 2010 at 09:25 PM

Aw, shucks. Sarah Palin is "just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like (her)... More

She’s Just Not That Into You

Mainstream media’s Sarah Palin agony

By Joel Meares   May 31, 2011 at 03:34 PM

You will by now no doubt know that Sarah Palin is once again giving the “mainstream media” the runaround on... More

The Other Rogue

By Justin Peters   Sep 8, 2011 at 05:28 PM

Is Joe McGinniss a jerk? Sarah Palin certainly thinks so: she didn't like it when McGinniss rented the Wasilla house... More