Phyllis Bennis, 11.08.2009
Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
Susan Rice, known for her powerful support for accountability regarding war crimes in Darfur, regardless of potential political consequences, had of course reversed herself when the issue was accountability for Gaza.
Maegan Carberry, 11.04.2009
Online at maegancarberry.com, co-host of Wilshire & Washington
The Obama administration, despite its hipster Flickr feed and weekly YouTube address, has presented a television-driven strategy, ceding a great deal of its street cred with the president's digital Millennial generation base.
Greg Mitchell, 11.03.2009
Author, "Why Obama Won"
Barack Obama ended up beating John McCain rather easily one year ago, but Stephen Colbert didn't stay in the race for the White House or Obama could have really been in trouble (for a minute or two, anyway).
Tom Matlack, 10.28.2009
Co-founder of The Good Men Project
The Shocking Barack bloggers wanted to deliver their scooters to the President at the White House. Only one problem: apparently he wasn't expecting company.
Bill Lichtenstein, 10.19.2009
President, Lichtenstein Creative Media
One has to wonder just what the editors at NPR will say if they are asked, "Is it OK to post a link to last night's Jon Stewart rant or to Frank Rich's recent editorial on my Facebook page?"
Cenk Uygur, 10.20.2009
Host of The Young Turks
If Fox News rises up to the challenge of confessing their real identity and real purpose, then -- and only then -- should Obama take on that conservative voice in an interview on their air.
Paula Gordon, 10.18.2009
Producer and host: The Paula Gordon Show
When the U.S. Senate finally stopped Joseph McCarthy’s violent, devastating attacks on American values, 22 Senators SUPPORTED McCarthy. Th...
Marc Singer, 10.12.2009
Marc Singer writes TV, comedy, and webisodes including Newswitness News.
The point is we gotta stop constantly judging other people's sex lives. Unless they produce an amateur sex tape. Then it's fair game. Until then leave Letterman alone!
Beverly Wettenstein, 10.15.2009
New York City-based journalist, national public speaker, media critic and women’s historian
The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.
David Quigg, 10.09.2009
Ex-Reporter, Avid Photographer, and Blogger at davidquigg.com
Afghanistan represents the opportunity for Obama to serve the American people brilliantly and, along the way, demonstrate that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chris Prevatt, 10.05.2009
Publisher of TheLiberalOC.com, an Orange County, CA based liberal political blog.
But it is one hell of a leap to compare Obama's participation in Chicago's Olympic bid to his health care reform efforts.
Roderick Spencer, 10.01.2009
Screenwriter, producer, comedian, teacher and social activist
It strikes me as downright surreal that Stewart and Colbert, and not the 'real' anchorpersons, seem to be the people on TV who actively adhere to concepts like fairness, primary sources and facts.
Lisa Napoli, 09.25.2009
Author of "Three Good Things"
I'm glad I didn't go see the Dalai Lama today. I'm going to give the ticket to a friend, and he can tell me about the experience.
Eric Alterman, 09.24.2009
Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
In this brave new world of anything goes journalism, many in the media have taken up a recent scandal, and the videos it produced, as incontrovertible evidence of ACORN corruption.
Ken Levine, 09.21.2009
Emmy-Winning Writer/Director/Producer, MLB Announcer
It was painfully obvious that the producers of this year's Emmys had one goal only -- reverse the ratings trend and not lose again to the Weather Channel.
Marty Kaplan, 09.24.2009
Director, Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School
I don't know which is more dispiriting: the New York Times' failure to call Betsy McCaughey a liar, or Barack Obama's failure to call Chuck Grassley a liar.
Terry Krepel, 09.20.2009
ConWebWatch.com founder and editor, Media Matters senior editor
But just because WND has found a new way to smear Obama doesn't mean it has abandoned the old ones. Its writers have continued to repeatedly liken Obama to Nazis.
Mike McCready, 09.20.2009
CEO Platinum Blue / Music Xray
If you grew up during the cold war like I did, you probably remember being told how lucky we were to not live in the Soviet Union because their media misled the population. I'm just sayin'...
Michael B. Laskoff, 09.15.2009
"...content against obedience..." ––W.S.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert pass themselves off as comedians, but they are really the most influential satirists of the day: they inform and illuminate through ridicule.
Joe Cirincione, 08.30.2009
President of Ploughshares Fund
John Bolton told Jon Stewart he wanted America to be the only nation with nuclear weapons. Stewart is the comedian, but this policy is the joke.
Frida Berrigan, 08.28.2009
Senior Program Associate at The New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative
Obama's efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons have also drawn harsh criticism from a chorus of nuclear war theorists intent on scaring the public into opposing the president's disarmament agenda.