Last week I wrote a post on why journalists should disclose who they vote for in elections. As you might have guessed from the fact that almost no journalists do disclose who they vote for in elections, mine is still a minority view.
Such a minority view, in fact, that there’s still a debate raging (well, mildly raging) about whether …
My Time magazine piece about Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle and how they relate to the Hillary-era zeitgeist–i.e., what are the standards, and double standards, society sets for powerful women–is up here.
In the piece I briefly mentioned how women like Martha Stewart …
Writing about election coverage, I have disclosed, probably to the point of tediousness, that I voted for Obama. I think it’s a good thing for you to know, but I really do it for me. It’s important to me that I have enough perspective to critique campaign coverage whether it works for my candidate or against him. Having you know more …
The dust has cleared and the winner of last night’s Super Tuesday contest is becoming apparent: Steve Jobs. There may not have been actual Apple software or hardware on display (CNN had election analysts sitting at a bank of what were mostly Dell …
It’s finally Super Tuesday, and the pundits are all abuzz about what the voters will decide to do. You’d expect that. But the pundits are also abuzz about what they will decide to do.
I saw an interesting exchange yesterday on MSNBC, among Dan Abrams, MSNBC political director Chuck Todd, and Newsweek’s Howard Fineman. The three were …
Well, I shouldn’t assume, but this is an English-language blog. Sunday morning at 10, though, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will each make their case on what could be their most important Sunday-gab-show appearance before Super Tuesday—on Univision’s Al Punto. From the network’s release:
Univision’s Sunday morning discussion
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I admittedly have been watching a lot of non-news-related TV for work the past few days. But judging by the post-South Carolina, post-Kennedy-endorsement election coverage, it seems worth asking: is the political media in the midst of a post-Iowa-style Obama swoon again?
Pick up your local newspaper. Read the bylines on the front page (the ones that don’t say “From Wire Service Reports”). One out of four of the names you read are planning on getting the hell out of the newspaper business. This is the finding of a Ball State professor, who did a study finding that newspaper reporters are cynical about …
