Better late than never.

The American media have been slow to expose John McCain's devious campaign tactics, and some of his outright lies, but at least they've finally started to do that.

For some reason, though, they allow McCain to get away with his attempts to justify the...

I'm going to break a self imposed rule, the one that says always allow breaking news to settle before deciding what it actually means.

Allow me to predict that, within the next week or so, Sarah Palin will withdraw from the Republican ticket.

She will become the new...

To watch and read the media coverage this week of the democratic race for the White House, one would conclude that the results of the Oregon and Kentucky primaries were the big news.

However, there was another event that said more about where things stand than the vote counting...

This is not really a case, as some have suggested, of throwing good money after bad.

Hillary Clinton's decision to dump another $6.4 million into her lifeless campaign actually makes an odd and devious kind of sense. Because for her the end game is no longer November, it's 2012....

It's not like I'm a fan of the guy.

My personal opinion of William Kristol, the latest addition to the New York Times' op-ed roster, is along the lines of what the leftie media-watch blogosphere has been saying about his hiring.

Kristol has a lot to answer...

I have a favor to ask of some of you Hillary Clinton supporters, particularly the females among you. And you are legion.

For once, I'd just like to hear one of you say something along these lines:

"Yes, I know Hillary was wrong to vote for the Iraq war....

I'm writing a post script on Jon Stewart's ongoing relationship with Senator John McCain because the first piece I wrote provoked such a strong reaction.

I've written five pieces for the Huffington Post and the most comments any of them had drawn was just over one hundred. This...

First, some personal context: I'm a fan of Jon Stewart.

His show was a welcome breath of tart air, at a time when American broadcast media was still toadying up to the Bush administration over the tragedy unleashed on the people of Iraq.

The Daily Show struck a...

At least Judith Miller had the decency to wait a while before making it official, and going public with her relationship with the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank.

To me, this most recent chapter of the Miller story has the tawdry feel of one of those celebrity break-ups...

If 24 hour news didn't already have a bad name, MSNBC would have given it one this week.

In the space of less than one news cycle, the network displayed some of what is so wrong with the 24 hour news genre.

Not only did MSNBC subject viewers...

News that Geoff Morrell, a former ABC News correspondent, has moved to the Pentagon to become an official spokesman there, comes as no surprise to those of us who spent time at ABC.

First of all, to set the record straight: news reports described Morrell as a former ABC...

At what stage does Sean McManus, president of CBS News, start carrying the can for the Katie Couric mess?

The critics are happy to snipe at Couric, but she's not the one who decided to spend $16 million of a shrinking annual news budget on a morning news host...

When NBC rolled the tapes and burned the images of Seung Hui Cho into millions of our memory banks, my mind went back to 1999 and media coverage of Columbine.

We tend to forget that in the pre-9/11 era, the epidemic of school shootings was the...

The Washington Post used to be a great American newspaper, the only one to ever bring down a corrupt president. It did that through the tenacity, intelligence and courage of its reporting.

This past weekend, the newspaper published an editorial marking the fourth anniversary of the start of...