"Like a prosecutor bearing down on a decidedly uncomfortable witness, Stewart argued that the cable TV financial network--and by extension much of the business press--had given the public a false sense of financial security."
That was how CBS' Jeff Greenfield reviewed Thursday night's face-off (here,
Posted November 2, 2008 | 15:07:26 (EST)
At the end of the primary season, John McCain complained that the mainstream media were not giving him a fair shake compared with Barack Obama. How times have changed! This fall, the Republican Presidential ticket has attracted almost twice as much nightly news coverage as its Democratic rivals.
Chalk that...
Posted July 8, 2008 | 13:09:28 (EST)
The Iraq War has been virtually purged from the agenda of the mainstream media. It has been like turning off a light switch. A Tyndall Report analysis of the most mainstream of the MSM -- the half-hour evening newscasts of the broadcast television networks --shows that the conflict...
Posted June 14, 2008 | 19:30:23 (EST)
So much airtime on so many Sunday mornings has made Tim Russert's weekend job as moderator of Meet the Press the most memorable and recognizable part of his legacy. Yet anchor Brian Williams would always introduce Russert whenever he would appear on NBC Nightly News by using his full title:...
Posted May 5, 2008 | 21:16:19 (EST)
April was indeed the cruelest month for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
If he turns out to win the Democratic presidential nomination, the explanation "media darling" from the early months of the primary season will turn out to be inoperative. Obamania was epitomized back then by the famous comment by Hardball's...
Posted April 18, 2008 | 21:02:04 (EST)
When the decisions of a network news division are Topic A on the campaign trail, drawing the fire not only of leading candidate Barack Obama but of more than 15,000 critical messages online, they should qualify as the major focus of the networks' nightly newscasts next night. Obama dubbed the...
Posted April 10, 2008 | 19:05:16 (EST)
Rebecca Dana at The Wall Street Journal broke the news overnight that CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric is "likely" to leave the network before her contract expires in 2011, possibly as soon as January of 2009.
Couric has certainly failed to live up to...
6 Comments | Posted April 1, 2008 | 14:52:55 (EST)
For Campaign 2008, a new genre of political reporting has been invented. The old model for campaign coverage, the insider-savvy Horse Race style, has been sidelined. Welcome to Reality Gameshow journalism.
Stop thinking of this election as a race to the wire to be won by the candidate with the...
Posted March 16, 2009 | 19:22:03 (EST)