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

Dept. of Hubris

In response to the moderator-less debate to which Hillary Clinton challenged Barack Obama last week, Fox & Friends aired a segment that mentioned, appropriately, the Lincoln-Douglas debates. In the course of the segment, Clayton Morris joked about asking one of the show’s interns to find videotape of those debates.* “And he looked at me and […]

The Goldberg Variations

Yesterday afternoon, a new writer trotted into The Atlantic’s impressive stable of bloggers: Jeffrey Goldberg rolled out the magazine’s latest eponymous blog. “This is almost certainly a mistake,” The Atlantic’s national correspondent declares by way of introducing his first post, following that up with a detailed—and self-deprecating—list of his reservations about donning the proverbial Blogger’s […]