The media are constantly on the lookout for the odd moment that might capture some revealing truth about a candidate — and, ideally, create a feeding frenzy that consumes the campaign. ... The problem is, such issues are almost always essentially trivial, having little to do with substantive issues or how a candidate might actually behave once in office. Read more
‘Because of tradition, inertia and command of the largest, most diverse audiences, the mainstream media still drive the campaign bus with the same old road map.’ Read more
A focus on smaller stories ‘too often fails to connect the proverbial dots and avoids too much digging into or interpreting the larger picture.’ Read more
‘In a marketplace where content and quality once drove consumer decisions, the newspaper now competes visually in a design-savvy, 24-hour free-information age.’ Read more
An observer of press coverage of cases involving Arab bloggers and government pressure notices some troubling trends in whether and how stories are told. Read more