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Cut on the Bias

Pop quiz, before school gets out for holiday recess: What do Mark Halperin and al-Qaeda have in common? They both think the media covering Campaign ’08...
November 26, 2008

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

They both think the media covering Campaign ’08 were unfairly biased toward Barack Obama.

Seriously.

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.