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October 21st, 2008 3:29 PM | Ken Shepherd
Covering a "sober summit" held in Lake Worth, Florida that "focused on boosting jobs and capping the rising costs of healthcare," Miami Herald's Lesley Clark noted that Sen. Barack Obama was…
October 21st, 2008 12:00 AM | Kristen Fyfe
A unique program centered purely on the generosity of the human spirit and the kindness of strangers received another boost from ABC News. The October 20 broadcast of World News revisited a story…
October 20th, 2008 3:31 PM | Matthew Balan
CNN correspondent Carol Costello’s report on Monday’s American Morning program unquestioningly repeated a claim by Democrats in Michigan that Republicans in the state would disqualify voters…
October 19th, 2008 11:11 PM | Brent Baker
Journalists on TV Sunday heralded the importance and impact of Colin Powell's long-expected endorsement of Barack Obama which he made on Meet the Press. Later in that show, NBC reporter Andrea…
October 18th, 2008 10:54 AM | NB Staff
My oh my oh my what a wonderful Saturday of college football should be ahead of us. If today's schedule doesn't send a thrill up your leg, nothing will:
No. 22 Vanderbilt at No. 10 Georgia. I…October 17th, 2008 12:49 PM | Scott Whitlock
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Friday strongly challenged "Good Morning America" host Diane Sawyer about the media's lack of fairness towards the McCain/Palin presidential ticket. The…
October 15th, 2008 2:05 PM | Kyle Drennen
Wednesday’s CBS Early Show began to declare the presidential race over as co-host Julie Chen touted new CBS News/New York Times poll numbers and proclaimed: "Obama surge. As the candidates head to…
October 8th, 2008 12:07 PM | P.J. Gladnick
You know that old saying about "Don't count your chickens until they hatch?" Well, Slate senior writer, Timothy Noah, decided to discard that advice and gloat over the "inevitable" Barack Obama…
October 7th, 2008 3:39 PM | Justin McCarthy
What may possibly be a peek into why the mainstream media has been less than enthusiastic in investigating Barack Obama’s background and associations, Barbara Walters, on the October 7 "View," …
October 6th, 2008 11:17 PM | Warner Todd Huston
In the latest news from the actions have consequences department, Brian Williams recently told David Letterman that the McCain camp is punishing him by not allowing him to interview Sarah Palin…
October 6th, 2008 7:21 PM | Matthew Balan
On Monday’s The Situation Room, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer interrupted a back-and-forth discussion on the presidential campaign between Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and CNS News editor-in-…
October 6th, 2008 3:41 AM | Brent Baker
A week-and-half before he'll moderate the third and final presidential debate, CBS's Bob Schieffer opened Sunday's Face the Nation by calling a foul on one team as he took sides and denounced Sarah…
October 3rd, 2008 2:34 PM | Justin McCarthy
Despite "Today’s" earlier praise of Sarah Palin’s debate performance, Amy Robach managed to assemble seven "undecided voters" (and reported that five voted for Bush) who did not express high…
October 3rd, 2008 1:41 PM | Rich Noyes
All week leading up to Thursday night’s debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, NBC’s Today show suggested that the Republican vice presidential nominee could be a disaster on stage, pointing out…
October 3rd, 2008 7:51 AM | Brent Baker
Six days after declaring Barack Obama the winner of the first presidential debate, following Thursday's VP debate George Stephanopoulos again decided the liberal Democrat in the debate, this time Joe…
September 30th, 2008 6:31 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On Tuesday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews wondered if Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, "an Ivy League grad" and "genius," was really a good choice to play the role of Sarah Palin in Joe…
September 29th, 2008 12:22 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On Monday's "Today" show, NBC's Andrea Mitchell loved Tina Fey's parodying of Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," so much that she played a clip the "30 Rock" star mocking Palin's inexperience,…
September 26th, 2008 5:17 PM | Ken Shepherd
With less than 40 days until the election and the U.S. going to hell in a handbasket, America needs Howard Fineman now more than ever. That according to, well, Howard Fineman.
Here's how…
September 23rd, 2008 9:52 PM | Brent Baker
The night before CBS's Katie Couric will sit down with Sarah Palin to discuss foreign policy and just under two weeks after ABC's Charles Gibson got three interview sessions over two days with Palin…
September 19th, 2008 8:47 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Don't get me wrong. I don't mean to suggest Mike Barnicle's nearly as deep in the tank for Obama as Chris Matthews, for whom he subbed for on tonight's Hardball. Mike's actually refreshingly down…
September 18th, 2008 1:31 PM | Kyle Drennen
At the top of Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Julie Chen teased an upcoming segment on how the Wall Street financial crisis is affecting the presidential race: "Game-changer, as Wall Street…
September 17th, 2008 9:46 PM | Brent Baker
Two weeks after Sarah Palin's convention speech “reporters are still fact-checking what they hear from her, as our own Savannah Guthrie does for us tonight,” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams…
September 17th, 2008 10:21 AM | P.J. Gladnick
It seems that CNN reporter, Dana Bash, felt safe in reporting on Lou Dobbs Tonight a gratuitous slam against Sarah Palin that she is "carefully scripted." What she apparently didn't count on was…
September 16th, 2008 7:23 AM | Mark Finkelstein
The woman introducing Joe Biden to a Michigan crowd yesterday called Sarah Palin a "bucket of fluff." Biden then told the crowd that Barack Obama is too smart and too well-educated to live in a…