Recomended reading of the media's presidential campaign coverage

Hillary's Pre-Tuesday Coverage Was Far From Super Women's eNews, 02/06/08 By Caryl Rivers
It was a Super-Twofer week, with Super Tuesday following fast on the heels of the Super Bowl. Throughout, Caryl Rivers saw a dazzling display of heroic male myth that helps stoke a media bias against Hillary's right to equal historic billing..

Media Matters' Jamison Foser often does the best-documented and most dead-on analysis of media misdeeds. Here, they compile a damning list of misogynous conversations by and among some of MSNBC's top political guys. A few examples are in this excerpt but, really, do read the whole piece:

Turning a forced apology into a promotional campaign seems like a pretty good sign that MSNBC and Matthews don't "get it" at all.

But it isn't the best sign. Consider what else has happened during MSNBC broadcasts since Matthews' apology.

First, Matthews' MSNBC colleagues leapt to his defense. Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and reporter David Shuster lashed out; Scarborough declaring it "offensive" and "outrageous" that Matthews had to apologize, and Shuster adding "this is absolutely infuriating, to see the way these groups used him for pure political gain is absolutely infuriating." As I noted at the time, Scarborough and Shuster have their own history of questionable comments about women...