It’s a Bittersweet Symphony… April 14, 2008 By Megan Garber PA voters: to be (bitter) or not to be (bitter)
Airing…Dirty Laundry? April 11, 2008 By Megan Garber The Project for Excellence in Journalism has published the index of talk radio’s content for the week of March 31 to April 6, 2008…and it’s a doozy: The data are staggering, especially when compared to the also-skewed (but not quite so egregiously) general-news index for the same week: 1. 2008 Campaign – 32% 2. U.S. […]
In Which Bill Clinton Won’t Let Sleeping Dogs…Well, You Know April 11, 2008 By Megan Garber Bill, Bill, Bill. Shh…
Flame-aganda April 9, 2008 By Megan Garber Pop quiz! Match the headline to the news outlet that produced it: 1. Security concerns high as Olympic torch arrives in San Francisco after chaos in Paris relay 2. San Francisco Protests, Vigil Surround Olympic Torch Relay 3. 3 layers of cops to protect torch 4. Security Tightened As San Francisco Girds for Protests Along […]
The Times: (Grammar) Schooled April 8, 2008 By Megan Garber Oh, the comma-dy. Here, what has to be one of The New York Times’s best corrections of the of the year, courtesy of Andrew Sullivan: An article in some editions on Monday about a New York City Transit employee’s deft use of the semicolon in a public service placard was less deft in its punctuation […]
Grey Lady Green? April 8, 2008 By Megan Garber Let’s say you’re an illustrious newspaper, and your rival has just won a landslide of Pulitzers (six, to be exact, the second most any newspaper has won in a year—ever). Let’s say you’ve also had some (but more modest) Pulitzer success: you’ve rung in at a more-than-respectable two. And let’s say you publish a story […]