Welcome to "Eat the Press". My name is Harry, I'll be your server. Everything's fresh, except the stuff that's been on the site since beta testing, bu...
For those mediaholics too concerned with the British election, the violence in Iraq, or Pat O'Brien's confession to Dr. Phil to notice, one of last w...
I was in an airport hotel room early this week, early in the morning, stumbling about looking for the toothbrush, the toilet, the time, when I clicked...
I have no intention of competing with Mickey Kaus in the Bash CNN Prexy Johnathan Klein Derby. Kaus has lapped the field. But Klein seems to be on a...
Warning: this may start, for a moment, looking like the reciprocal back-scratching common among New York writers and book reviewers. Ignore that. I'...
Here's where it starts getting good--pictures instead of words, just what everybody really wants. And these pictures MOVE. As the Memogate controver...
In fact, here is Mr. Hannity, who is in fact in Pinellas Park, Florida, and in fact he is "reporting" on a decision by the US Supreme Court, letting u...
Little things can have big consequences. Is it coincidence that in the era when it was forbidden at CBS News to describe their output as "shows" (the...
While others take Newsweek to task for its possibly erroneous story on Koran-flushing, I'm pleased as hell to see that fine magazine is engaged in the...
'Smoking gun' memo still draws mostly blanks in MSM More than two weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch's Times of London threw another log on the fire of Ira...
Annals of Fact Checking, cont. Matt Howard is a humorist and co-author/co-conspirator of a satiric blog called "The Swift Report," which poses as a c...
ABC Newsannounced recently that Ted Koppel was leaving "Nightline" at the end of this year, after a more than two-decade run. Since then, there have...
That's Donald Rumsfeld's advice echoing Ari Fleischer in the early, heady post-9/11 days. So, in an overabundance of Rumsfeldian caution, I'm wading ...
You may have read about this a couple of weeks ago--a tape, from a source, aired on my radio program, in which Sean Hannity coaches two nurses about t...
British ex-Laborite and newly re-elected Member of Parliament George Galloway came to Washington this week. His mission: to confront his accusers on ...
The Right's attack on the mainstream press began more than thirty years ago, when the recently-retired Bill Safire put in then-not-yet-disgraced Vice President Spiro Agnew's mouth the words attacking "the nattering nabobs of negativism" in the press (always alliterative, that savvy Safire).
Members of the journo trade, used to seeing advance texts of speeches not yet delivered and polls about behavior not yet engaged in, barely stifle giggles at the bare-chested predictions delivered each week on the McLaghlin shoutfest, yet a big part of the daily news diet is made up of stories about things that haven't yet happened, and sometimes, as on Tuesday, never do.
It's become dramatically apparent since the runup to the Iraq war that what we in the United States know through our media is radically different from...
It seems like a familiar story -- a family reduced to near-hysterics in the long-running campaign to save their daughter, now tearfully denouncing a judge who seems deaf to their pleas, and a country riveted by the spectacle. Except it's happening now, halfway around the world, and the girl in question is languishing not in a hospice but in an Indonesian jail.
CNN is devoting a full week to marking the two-decade reign of Larry King. I hereby declare this Larry King Video Week at ETP. The celebration kicks off with something actually aired, on the night of the death of famed attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. Larry starts up by asking perhaps the sharpest question ever posed on American television....
