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• My Challenge to Emily and Mickey: Bag a Philanderer and Then Get Back to Me

  Posted Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:56 AM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Here's the thing: I just do not see you chasing anybody into the men's room in the middle of the night, Emily B . Or you either, Mickey . And believe me, I mean this as a compliment. So, if you wouldn't want all-night stakeout duty outside the hotel where Read More...
  Filed under: adultery, affairs, attorney general, Edwards love child, John Edwards, journalism, media coverage

• But Would You Want the Byline?

  Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:07 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  OK, Rachael , so how about the selfish reason most of us wouldn't want to be that particular messenger? Unless I trip over a presidential candidate in the Bois de Boulogne some night - unlikely, as I live in Maryland - I am just not that eager to write Read More...
  Filed under: adultery, Edwards love child, John Edwards, journalism, media coverage, National Enquirer

• Three Fingers, Maybe

  Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:53 PM By Emily Bazelon
  
  Melinda , I think you are tellling me to go have that drink. Actually, I can think of more than two fingers' worth of women journalists who are pro-life, or who I think are, but I'll stipulate that they are relatively few. So what does that prove? That Read More...
  Filed under: journalism

• The Last Thing Newspapers Need ...

  Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 11:15 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  I don't know how this escaped my notice, unless maybe it's because I never read anything newspaper ombudsmen (or ombudswomen) have to say, and not only because they are so boring. (With the business model failing, the industry in apparent freefall, staffs Read More...
  Filed under: Hillary Clinton, journalism, media coverage

• Smartphones, Dumb Stories

  Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:49 PM By Noreen Malone
  
  Why is the New York Times still flummoxed by the idea that women might embrace technology? The paper's Technology section today ran a "trend" story marveling at how women are expected to buy the new iPhone in record numbers (sample quote: "'Companies Read More...
  Filed under: culture, journalism, media coverage, technology

• May I Never Hear the Phrase "Democratic Primary" Again

  Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 3:28 PM By E.J. Graff
  
  Following up on Anne A. and Melinda H.'s posts earlier in the week: Let me confess here that I have entirely stopped reading primary coverage. Wake me when it's over. I am more than a little outraged (OK, so I'm cranky today) that so much of each day's Read More...
  Filed under: journalism, news media, primary fatigue

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