Pop the corks. Light the sparklers. But please. Enough news already about Facebook's IPO. Facebook's public offering is everywhere -- on the web, on the radio, on TV. Does the public really care as much as the press seems to want it to?
Jerry Lanson | Posted 04.02.2012
In the first couple of weeks following the Feb. 26 fatal shooting and Zimmerman's release after claiming self-defense under Florida's so-called "stand your ground" law, few Americans knew anything about it.
The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.30.2012
The University of Texas at Austin's student newspaper, The Daily Texan, apologized Thursday for a controversial cartoon published earlier this week ab...
The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.28.2012
The Daily Texan, a student newspaper at the University of Texas in Austin, pulled a controversial cartoon about the media coverage of the Trayvon Mart...
Judy Miller | Posted 05.01.2012
Americans are the most generous people in the world when they hear about a disaster or a famine, or even about a family in need, but they first have to hear about it in order to help.
Jason Salzman | Posted 04.11.2012
The line between the news and how it's made isn't so clear. In the case of Romney ignoring Denver journalists, the two are one and the same. It's a news story that Romney is ignoring the press in favor of conservative talk-radio hosts.
HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 01.02.2012
Sure, you've got some loyal customers. But how do you get them to spread the word to new ones? And there's no better advertising than free advertis...
Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 11.08.2011
Nobody expects that in 2012 there will be one presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, one from the Republican Party and a third candidate from the Tea Party.
Brian Crosby | Posted 10.15.2011
Crisis in national security? If we follow the lead of NBC and their Education Nation and other media outlets' education coverage it might look like th...
Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 10.02.2011
In the wake of the Oslo explosions and the massacre on Utoyo island, we have learned so much, too much, about the protagonist of the whole tragedy. But what of those who were at the scene unharmed themselves but who helped those who were?
Michael Sigman | Posted 09.10.2011
To state as a fact that a strike was "narrowly averted" has little more meaning than if I told you I narrowly averted missing dinner by consuming a sandwich just two hours before bedtime.
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 08.21.2011
I wish the media would recognize that there are people who have tamed their mental illness and are leading productive lives. That may not sound as sexy as some stories but it is at least as true as the tragedies we read about so often.
Lia Petridis Maiello | Posted 05.31.2011
The fears about a nuclear meltdown in the Fukushima power plant after a tsunami hit Japan last Friday requires an all-embracing, around-the-clock-anal...
Michael Thornton | Posted 05.25.2011
Is the media going to act merely as a megaphone for those who can afford to protest in large numbers, or is it going to acknowledge all Americans and open its eyes to see the elephants in the room?
Arielle Ford | Posted 05.25.2011
Is getting on television your equivalent to hitting a home run when it comes to PR for your book or platform? To many people it is and there is no de...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011
It's painful to watch these fools -- they don't know how a five-point popular vote victory almost always translates when it comes to the only metric that matters -- the Electoral College. (Hint: landslide).
Tori Arthur | Posted 05.25.2011
In the past year, the Tea Party movement has captivated American audiences with its particular brand of spit-fire politics. Protest rallies, (dare I ...
Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011
I was in London last week when news came of the death of the great NBC newsman Edwin Newman. He was that rare thing, a gentleman, although "genteelly rumpled and genially grumpy."
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011
The American public does not know that Haiti is a nation that has long been been a thorn in the side of the American government while Pakistan is a nation which the U.S. already has great influence on.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011
Our free press has been so intimidated by right-wing pressure groups and their media enablers that the job of fact-finding has been replaced by the grotesque practice of "balancing" charges with countercharges.
Neil S. Greenspan | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a tendency for groups that serve or advocate on behalf of those with disabilities to focus on individual success stories, even if rare, to fend off the prejudice and even hostility that sometimes arise in the general public.
David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011
We hear plenty of this president by other means. But we ought to reckon what we have lost if the White House goes on treating the presidential press conference as an outmoded convention.
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.17.2011
I don't doubt that our natural and technological environment can add to our problems, perhaps even traumatize us. I just don't think that such traumas rise to the level of pathologies.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011
Now that CNN has put Lou Dobbs out to pasture, you'd think that The Most Trusted Name in News would make the reporting of facts the hallmark of its brand. Dream on.
newshoggers.com | Posted 05.25.2011
It seems to me that you could make a case for all they said to be applicable to Afghanistan too, though. Yet again we have a multi-factional and viole...
Jerry Lanson | Posted 05.16.2012