You might not be thrilled by the election of Barack Obama, but look on the bright side: it's made life a lot easier for Maya Angelou when she hangs out with her European friends. Asked by Andrea…
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November 7th, 2008 1:51 PM | Mark Finkelstein
November 7th, 2008 7:36 AM | Tim Graham
ABC's Steve Osunsami wasn't the only black reporter to get emotional and swoon over an Obama victory on Election Night. Ron Allen of NBC and Byron Pitts of CBS also let their pro-Obama feelings…
November 6th, 2008 4:47 PM | P.J. Gladnick
CNN has a wonderful new toy that they seem to love playing around with. It's called a "hologram." I put "hologram" in quotes because according to an annoyed Don Reisinger of CNET News, it's not…
November 6th, 2008 4:41 PM | Tim Graham
Just after MSNBC declared an Obama victory in the 11pm hour Eastern time on Tuesday night, the liberal network's tributes to the history (and the defeat of prejudice and the "right wing") flowed…
November 6th, 2008 3:54 PM | Brent Baker
Catching up with Newsweek's Howard Fineman on Wednesday's Countdown, he came across as a parody of an in-the-tank for Barack Obama journalist as he gauzily proclaimed: “Obama's changing everything as…
November 6th, 2008 3:20 PM | Ken Shepherd
Appearing on MSNBC shortly after 1 p.m. EST with anchor Andrea Mitchell, The Atlantic's Ron Brownstein rebuked House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) for drawing a legitimate criticism of…
November 6th, 2008 11:23 AM | Noel Sheppard
Did you know that the Republican Party is totally white and is stuck in TV Land shows like "Leave it to Beaver," "Father Knows Best," and "Howdy Doody?"
So said film director Spike Lee…
November 5th, 2008 5:49 PM | Scott Whitlock
"Good Morning America" foreign correspondent Jim Sciutto rhapsodized about international reaction to Barack Obama's victory on Wednesday and described the president-elect as "the winner who's…
November 5th, 2008 2:52 PM | Tim Graham
Now that America's demonstrated it's not as hopelessly racist as many minorities (and minority journalists) assumed, should we expect more optimism from the media? Not from NBC anchor Brian…
November 5th, 2008 4:03 AM | Brent Baker
At about 2:50 AM EST Wednesday morning, MSNBC went live to NBC News reporter Dawna Friesen in London for world reaction to Barack Obama's election and she triumphantly declared: “It's not an…
November 5th, 2008 12:05 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Sure, there was the little matter of a presidential race to be settled. But tuning into MSNBC this evening, there was also the suspense of seeing whether another spat would break out between…
November 4th, 2008 5:37 PM | Mark Finkelstein
It's taken them awhile, but good to see that MSNBC has now seamlessly integrated its own promotional advertising with that of the Obama campaign.An MSNBC promo that just aired, touting the network…
November 4th, 2008 3:05 PM | Rich Noyes
On his syndicated Chris Matthews Show on Sunday, the conspicuously pro-Obama MSNBC host announced how he expected that “election night is going to be emotional for all of us....Particularly if it…
November 4th, 2008 1:56 PM | P.J. Gladnick
It looks like "conservative" radio talk show host Michael Smerconish has finally reaped his reward for supporting Barack Obama. Brian Maloney of the Radio Equalizer beautifully skewers the…
November 4th, 2008 12:38 PM | Paul Detrick
An Obama victory could boost conservative talk show hosts according to CNBC's "Squawk Box" this election day. The show was more skeptical over the future of left-wing talk. Always with the…
November 4th, 2008 12:05 PM | Paul Detrick
An Obama victory could boost conservative talk show hosts according to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on election day. The show was more skeptical over the future of left-wing talk.
“Who is…
November 3rd, 2008 5:54 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and "News Live" on Sunday and Monday repeatedly played clips from Sen. John McCain's appearance on the November 1 edition of "Saturday Night Live" for a combined total of 11…
November 3rd, 2008 12:04 PM | NB Staff
Appearing on the Election Day eve edition of "Fox & Friends," MRC's Brent Bozell reacted to the how the media, starting with the San Francisco Chronicle, hit the proverbial snooze button with…
November 3rd, 2008 11:34 AM | Paul Detrick
Wall Street is definitely watching all those polls the networks keep touting.
CNBC's Erin Burnett told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Wall Street was predicting that Sen. Barack Obama…
November 2nd, 2008 9:50 AM | Noel Sheppard
"Saturday Night Live" absolutely skewered MSNBC's Keith Olbermann last night accurately depicting the "Countdown" host as a pompous, dishonest buffoon who regularly takes things completely out of…
November 1st, 2008 11:51 AM | Rich Noyes
Yes, the media are rooting for Barack Obama. Two studies out in the past couple of days show that it’s not just conservatives who see a strong tilt by journalists in favor of the Democrats: A…
October 31st, 2008 11:42 PM | Tom Blumer
Busybody Keith Olbermann couldn't wait to see how Saturday Night Live was going to portray him. So, says Politico.com's Michael Calderone, he apparently breached the show's (I thought) tight…
October 31st, 2008 9:22 PM | Brent Baker
Just as he did in two earlier interviews with Barack Obama when he held up magazine covers and asked Obama to glow in the moment, in an excerpt from this week's session with Obama aired on Friday's…
October 31st, 2008 4:49 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, New York Times columnist Frank Rich charged that it looks "morally bad" and "idiotic" that Republicans have not elected a black candidate to federal office…
October 31st, 2008 2:15 PM | Jack Coleman
By the second half of Rachel Maddow's interview with Barack Obama last night on MSNBC, the question Maddow kept avoiding became conspicious.
Surely the earnest MSNBC cable host would ask…