On the Swampland blog, Time’s Joe Klein is beating the press for asking "inane" questions that suggest that Barack Obama’s words on the campaign trail might still matter, not to mention tick-tock…
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On Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes" (11/30/08), Lara Logan profiled Army hero Private Monica Brown, an 18-year-old medic who was awarded the Silver Star. Yet as wonderful as Brown's heroics were,…
Note to Chris Matthews: when mocking someone for using a ghostwriter, it's best to avoid doing so on a day when Hillary Clinton is prominently in the news . . . On this evening's Hardball,…
On Sunday’s Chris Matthews Show, host Matthews led the panel in a discussion over whether conservatives would choose to cooperate with the Obama administration in making "historic changes" to…
Author and Hillary Clinton biographer Carl Bernstein said he was hired at CNN for Campaign 2008 to "examine the real lives and records" of the presidential candidates "and their political machines…
Following coverage of a Monday morning news conference in which President-elect Barack Obama announced his national security team, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric observed: "...two initially…
Less than nine months ago, the Obama campaign was slamming Hillary Clinton as utterly unqualified on foreign policy, having had no substantive experience during her husband’s administration and being…
New York Times economics reporter Peter Goodman certainly can't be accused of dry writing. Goodman constantly draws attention to his economics stories (often well-positioned by editors) with sharp…
On CBS’s Sunday Morning, host Charles Osgood teased a story on politician Harvey Milk, who was the first gay man elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977: "The story of a rebel with…
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Reviewing Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, David Leonhardt favorably quotes the…
It’s 2008. More than 80 percent of Americans have cell phones; many others have video game consoles, and the iPod is seemingly ubiquitous.
Yet the news media insist that…
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A multitude of organizations, hundreds of thousands of individuals join together to defend the First Amendment from a reinstatement of the so-called "Fairness" Doctrine
Editor's Note: You too can…
Over the course of two segments and seven minutes, "Good Morning America" co-host Diane Sawyer on Monday completely ignored the party affiliation of a Kansas City mayor embroiled in a lawsuit over…
Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Larry Langford has been arrested.
His party is not mentioned in the story at AL.com.
Langford is Democrat (even Wikipedia took a while before naming…
Everything good that happens is because of Barack Obama. Everything bad is attributable to George Bush or Dick Cheney or Sarah Palin or some other Republican. In keeping with these mainstream media…
File this one under “Deluded Expectations.” During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that the election of Barack…
Gee, wondered liberal radio host Ed Schultz, how come conservative talkers got invited to the White House during the Bush presidency but not us lefties?Here's how Schultz put it in his inimitable…
Completely missing from media reports of the Mumbai attacks are India's strict gun control laws, which virtually disarmed the people at the point of attack, turning them almost inevitably - and…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Could India and Pakistan be inching towards war?
The fallout from a three-day rampage that killed nearly 200 people in Mumbai…
A simple, “Oops, we were wrong – things weren’t as bad as we predicted,” would have sufficed. But that would have meant straying from the message that everything is bad with the American…
Remember how most of the mainstream media used to deride Ronald Reagan to the extent of constantly declaring the "end of the Reagan era?' Well, now the MSM is starting to find "strange new respect…
CNN is warning Americans that already making Barack Obama into one of America's greatest "heroes" may not be a good idea. Despite the fact that Barack Obama has yet to take office, despite that he…
NBC's Dec. 1 Today highlighted an offbeat consequence of the turbulent economy – unhappily married couples forced to stay together because divorcing would be too expensive.
By focusing on…
On Friday, Nov. 28's CBS Evening News, reporter Michelle Miller used the tragic death of a Wal-Mart security guard as the hook to open her story on consumers who are spending less this holiday…
Christmas is coming, which means it's time for Comedy Central to begin besmirching the holiday. This year's first salvo is “A Colbert Christmas,” hosted by the clueless- ultraconservative buffoon…