The president likes to take issue with the media here and there. "I just want to make a little commentary about the media here, if you don't mind," M...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media
Beltway reporters have tossed aside the blanket of calm that had descended on them during the previous administration, a blanket of calm that defined their Bush coverage.
Michael Wolff | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media
Barack Obama is already sick and tired of the press. Having maneuvered around and sucked up to the press for two years, he thinks he ought to have earned himself a little distance.
John McQuaid | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media
The media is falling back into old habits perfected during the Clinton scandals of the 90s. The not-so-subliminal message in this coverage: You thought things would be different with Obama. But they're not.
Benjamin Hart | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
A month after the election, there's still an overwhelming sense of novelty when I flip a channel and see Obama at a news conference.
Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago
President-elect Barack Obama gave a little media analysis during his meeting with John McCain Monday in Chicago, Abdon Pallasch reports in the Sun-T...
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media
I received my special election issue of Newsweek yesterday (the November 17 edition), and having read it cover to cover, I have just set it down.
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
McCain couldn't possibly be an elitist and out of touch with most Americans because it doesn't fit the media narrative. He's just not.
Drew Westen | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media
Charges of bias, particularly toward a charismatic candidate like Obama, create confusion among journalists -- as a result, they often overshoot.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
Two new ads from John McCain's campaign — one of which the campaign says will make it on air — show what they call the media's "love affai...
Charles Warner | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
Barack was right to dismiss the Fairness Doctrine issue: it might have been a good idea when it was first imposed in 1949, but it became outmoded and cumberson, in addition to being unconstitutional.
Paul Hogarth | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
The fact that some voters in "Flag City" think that Obama is a Muslim doesn't mean he will lose Ohio -- and it certainly doesn't belong on the front page of the Washington Post.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Back in January, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz examined the relationship between the Obama campaign and the political press and found them to be ...
TNR | Isaac Chotiner | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Two weeks ago, on the night of Barack Obama's big win and narrow loss in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, respectively, I turned my televisio...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media
In its fourth straight live program since returning to air after the writers strike, "Saturday Night Live" is once again shaking up the political race...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
In its fourth straight live program since returning to air after the writers strike, "Saturday Night Live" is once again shaking up the political race...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Life imitating art or just a coincidence? A study of campaign coverage found the media took a sharper look at Barack Obama the week a...
ABC News | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics