Jason Salzman

The name "Tisha Casida" has yet to appear in the Denver Post and other legacy media in Denver, but that didn't stop The New York Times from including Casida in a front page article Wednesday about how:

Paulite candidates for Congress are sprouting up from Florida...

When KBNO radio host Fernando Sergio launched his weekday Spanish-language talk show in 2004, you'd have been completely crazy to predict that the President of the United States would call in for a chat about seven years later.

But now, who's surprised? Well, I was, to be honest,...

Please take a look at the paragraph below, from Dean Singleton's introduction to a speech by President Barack Obama, and tell me if "liberal media bias" leaps out at you.

"He inherited the headwinds of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression," said Singleton, who's a former Chair...

No matter what you thought of Dusty Saunders during his 54 years at the Rocky Mountain News, it's hard not to love him after reading his memoir, which came out late last year.

The book, Heeere's Dusty: Life in the TV and Newspaper World, is perfectly timed to chronicle...

In 9News' story Wednesday about Representative Mike Coffman's statement that "in his heart," Obama is "just not an American," political analyst Floyd Ciruli was paraphrased as saying Coffman's comment is a "blow to his moderate image."

I'm tainted, I know, and possibly unable to fathom the mainstream image...

With kids in my daughter's 12-year old circle of friends addicted to ABC's Modern Family, which features a gay family that's as neurotic and loving as any other family, you wonder why innocent legislation allowing gay couples to form civil unions, not marriages, was defeated in the Colorado Legislature.

Don't...

I can think of a couple reasons why Mitt Romney chose to take questions from local TV reporters and KOA radio hosts yesterday, while blowing off "print" journalists in Denver.

The most obvious explanation is that Romney thinks local TV news and drive-time radio are consumed by the swing voters...

Mitt Romney promised to sit down with real-life reporters (yes, they're still out there) during his visit Wednesday to Colorado, according to a report Tuesday by Fox 31 political correspondent Eli Stokols.

Stokols, you recall, called Romney out for not meeting with real-life Denver reporters last...

We'll be hearing a lot about Medicare this election season, and reporters should study up on some of the expected flashpoints, so they can challenge candidates who try to deceive us.

A case in point is Representative Scott Tipton's appearance on 9News' Your Show Sunday.

"When we're talking about...

In a 20-15 party-line vote last Friday, Democratic State Senators defeated a measure that would have given symbolic support to the so-called "Blunt" amendment, which would allow employers to opt out of offering health-insurance coverage for health services, including contraception, that employers find objectionable on religious or moral...

I have to preface this blog post by telling you I'm a critic of the American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC. I don't like the legislation that the outfit promotes (for example, discouraging registered voters from voting, encouraging people to fire guns at innocent people).

I also...

Last week Denver Post Editorial Page Editor Curtis Hubbard fired back at all those people who've said The Post's commentary pages favor right-leaning points of view over left-leaning ones, or vice versa.

Hubbard presented the results of a bean-counting project conducted during the first quarter of 2012. He categorized editorials...

At the top of the home page of Colorado Hispanic Republicans' website sits this quote by President Ronald Reagan: "Latinos are Republicans. They just don't know it yet."

It's not a quote that I'd slap across the top of my website if I were trying to make friends...

The tea-party radio crowd is mad at Fox 31 reporter Eli Stokols for failing to report what they see as the real story behind Representative Chris Holbert's lone no vote against the state budget bill April 12.

Citing unnamed sources, Stokols reported Friday:

Republicans privately...

If you look at Denver media, you find way more partisan support for Republicans than Democrats.

I'm not talking about "conservative" media figures versus "progressive" ones. I'm talking about media types who urge people to vote Republican.

Here is my list of Denver media figures who are partisan Republicans:

Freeland...

I'm going to name three Colorado political figures, and you tell me how they became embroiled in mini-media frenzies over digitally altered images or websites.

Marc Holtzman

Scott McInnis

Andrew Romanoff

Here are the answers: GOP gubernatorial candidate Marc Holtzman's photo was altered in 2006 to make him look

Should I write another blog about Secretary of State Scott Gessler on the radio?

Probably not, but then I say to myself, if my three readers don't know the kind of stuff smart talk-radio hosts like KHOW's Craig Silverman let Gessler get away with saying, without raising a peep...

Planned Parenthood activists shouldn't have a problem with GOP donor Foster Friess' joke about how the cost of birth control could be dramatically reduced if only women would put aspirin between their legs.

That's what KFKA talk-show host Devon Lentz, who's an executive board member of the Larimer County Republican...

Even if you weren't paying attention, you probably remember back in 2010 when GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes spoke up against then-Mayor John Hickenlooper's bicycle programs, which, along with other policies, was "converting Denver into a United Nations community."

"These aren't just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor," Maes was...

With his usual air of rational certainty, KOA talk-show host Mike Rosen told Secretary of State Scott Gessler Monday that the ASSET bill, which would give undocumented high-school graduates a lower in-state tuition rate for college, is "transparently part of a strategy to court Latino voters."

"Yeah," Gessler...