The Us Weekly-ization of journalism might just be complete. On TIME magazine’s Web site to check out the candidates’ takes on Afghanistan, I saw this: Love it. And I’m already looking forward to TIME‘s analysis of the Bush/Cheney bromance.

Matt Yglesias, Atlantic reporter and uber-blogger, announced last night—after his news was outed by colleagues—that he’ll be leaving the world of journalism for the nearby-yet-also-worlds-away realm of the think tank. The Center for American Progress, to be precise, where he’ll be working on ThinkProgress and its affiliates. “I think CAP is a great organization, I […]

It’s hard to find the education in McCain’s ed speech coverage

Reporters at San Francisco’s leading Spanish-language TV news station make roughly one quarter less in base pay than their English-language counterparts, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. This despite the fact that KDTV/Univision’s evening newscasts attract more viewers in the 25-54 demographic than every other newscast in the Bay Area save the top-rated KGO-TV. Worse, the […]

The evolution of the ‘terrorist fist jab’

Kudos to the outlets that do it

Beatrice and Benedict. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Looks like another couple may soon be engaging in the classic love story that is They Hated Each Other Before They Loved Each Other. Or, more specifically, that even more classic love story: They Hated Each Other Before They Decided to Tolerate […]

…and other assorted Obama humor

For McCain, another week of Teflon

A modest proposal: enough with the “flip-flop”