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Why Does Obama Get More Positive Coverage?

I’m tempted to just post that headline and let the Comments section fill up by itself. But there’s an actual news peg. The Pew Research Center has done a study of campaign coverage since September, and found that 36% of stories about Obama were positive in tone, 29% negative and 35% mixed. For McCain, it [...]

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Red, Blue—Everyone Loves Crappy VH1 Dating Shows and Benjamin Bratt

Nielsen has released a nifty breakdown of America’s favorite cable-TV shows by political party, as measured by the viewers’ “engagement” with the show, or how much attention they pay to it. It’s so tantalyzing I’m not even going to stop to question whether or how it is possible to measure how hard a person watches [...]

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The Morning After: Fringe Watch Edition

Have a screening and some other business this morning, so I leave you to talk among yourselves. First order of business: Fringe. Didn’t you have Chris Eigeman pegged for a sci-fi villain the moment you saw him in those Whit Stillman movies?