On today’s media roundtable we survey the best and worst of the fourth estate. Rebecca Traister of Salon debunks Maureen Dowd’s claim that she’s been “twisting gender stereotypes around for 24 years” and skewers the NYT for its too little and too late comment from Public Editor Clark Hoyt on sexism and the media’s coverage of Hillary Clinton.

And what about coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Do we know what’s going on? CBS’s Chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan told The Daily Show that if she were to watch the news here in the United States she’d blow her brains out because it would drive her nuts. The Times picked up the story on how network coverage of the wars is shrinking and buried it in today’s business section. Our panel picks up on the NYTimes handling of the FISA story.

Norman Solomon asks do we need more war coverage, if it’s the kind of coverage we’ve been getting? Find out here why we’re better off reading the British press and what’s going on at consortium news.

It wouldn’t have been a week of news without discussion of the presidential campaign. Chris Rabb, chief evangelist at Afro-Netizen, takes stock of Jay Mandle’s article on Obama and the small donor fallacy. If you look at the numbers the wealthy donors and not the average American are filling Obama’s campaign coffers. And Michelle Obama gets decapitated. Now that she’s a presumptive first lady the media are focusing on clothes, cookies, and the like. Leave the job and politics at home. Traister explains why we’re about to see a lot more of this kind of coverage.