Michelle Cottle eviscerates the New York Times‘ section of conspicuous consumption, while Newsweek ponders whether “our Katie” is going to abandon her down-home roots when she takes over the evening news.

Bloggers – and at least one newspaper columnist – are taking Seymour Hersh’s alarming new article about a potential U.S. strike against Iran very seriously.

A questioner’s shot at Bush during a town hall event was hardly the catastrophe for the president today’s news accounts might lead you to believe.

The press is shifting the way it portrays John McCain. Is it McCain himself who is changing, or just the media’s attitude toward him?

Members of the press are making a lot of assumptions about reporter Jill Carroll and her captivity without much in the way of evidence.

Relying on oversimplification and groupthink, reporters in Israel and the United States are failing to understand the implications of the election taking place in Israel.

While critics slam the press for failing to report the good news in Iraq, it looks like there’ll be less of it to report anyway — not that anyone is paying attention.

The debate over the quality of reporting from Iraq has gained new currency this week, but as usual, critics ignore the realities on the ground for reporters in the crosshairs.

The White House is subtly implying that violence in Iraq is a figment of the media’s imagination.

The former celebrity journalist talks about her new book on the world of obituaries – both the journalists who write them and the readers who love them.