News Orgs Resist Romney Campaign Deciding Press Pool Members
NEW YORK -- News organizations pushed back Wednesday after Mitt Romney's campaign decided the website BuzzFeed should be excluded from a rotating pres...
NEW YORK -- News organizations pushed back Wednesday after Mitt Romney's campaign decided the website BuzzFeed should be excluded from a rotating pres...
The Huffington Post | Ross Luippold | Posted 12.12.2011
The announcement that BuzzFeed hired POLITICO journalist Ben Smith in the new position of editor-in-chief shocked many in the media world. After all, ...
politico.com | 12/12/11 12:56 AM EST | Posted 02.11.2012
After nearly five years of blogging in this space, and seven years of writing a political blog every day, I have a bit of self-referential media news:...
HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 12.04.2011
“I don’t care about immigration – I just don’t,” said Chiqui Cartagena, VP of Corporate Marketing for Univision. The audience giggled. Thre...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
On Tuesday afternoon, Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), was fired after it came to light that he had sh...
Yahoo! News | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.25.2011
With the debate over political rhetoric dominating the post-Tucson media conversation, some journalists have begun pausing before reaching for well-wo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Ben Smith's been digging into whether Newt Gingrich's call -- "There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches...
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
The last days of the Colorado Senate Democratic primary tell us about the Beltway media's perverse priorities -- and about a persistent strategic failure of the progressive movement.
Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011
Are Palin's Facebook "friends" and followers truly a constituency-in-waiting, or more of a passive media audience?
Peter Daou | Posted 05.25.2011
It's important to state for the record, contra Game Change or at least Politico's interpretation of the book, that if anything, Hillary's campaign let her down, not the reverse.
Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011
Republican politicians have been guilty of using immigrants as a wedge issue for so long that they are in real danger of sacrificing their future with Latino, minority, and swing voters.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
This was an exciting moment for new media and citizen engagement. It's a pity so many in the traditional media didn't get it. READ MORE Lobbyists on a Roll: Gutting Reform on Banking, Energy, and Health Care Remember all that change Americans voted for in November? Well, there's been a change in the plans for change. The detour has come courtesy of a familiar nemesis: DC lobbyists. READ MORE New York, New York, It's a Helluva Town... And Gets Its Own Section: Introducing HuffPost New York HuffPost New York brings you the best New York news coverage, plus a collection of bloggers eager to share their takes on everything from local politics to the city's fashion, food, and entertainment. READ MORE
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 05.25.2011
Mike Huckabee was ahead of the pack today in releasing a statement criticizing President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Ben Smith reports on a joint appearance by opposing campaign gurus Steve Schmidt and David Plouffe, who gave the students of the University of Delawar...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011
Independent journalists have tried to shine a spotlight on how groups like the Center for American Progress and MoveOn are now supporting the continuation of wars because their guy is now commander-in-chief.
firedoglake.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Ben Smith has an article on Common Purpose, one of the many groups Rahm Emanuel has set up to coordinate messaging among liberal interest groups. The...
Paul Peete | Posted 05.25.2011
In the comment section of a recent story on the Huffington Post, posters started making up limericks and poetry about the article's subject, Gov. Palin.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week was a perfect example of how the conservative blogosphere's leading lights have been demoted to ridicule, simply because their efforts have become so thoroughly laughable.
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011
Politico's Ben Smith has posted a hot mic clip of Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy trashing the McCain selection of Sarah Palin. I've been having cha...
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain has been tweaking his P.O.W. story, with some variation, for many years. For Democrats, critiquing its overuse is too little, too late.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
James Carville appeared on CNN Friday night to talk with Anderson Cooper about just how behind Obama the Clintons really are. During the discussion Co...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm speaking on a panel titled "Reinventing Political Media." Not surprisingly, few of the media being "reinvented" show up for what sounds like a dousing of Chinese Cultural Revolution-style re-education.
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Late last week, a North Carolina musician named David LaMotte received a survey call from Garin-Hart-Yang, the firm of Clinton pollster Geoff Garin. T...
Talking Points Memo | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011
The Clinton campaign has just confirmed to me that contrary to expectations, she will in fact be taking part in the NBC debate in Ohio on Feb. 26th, a...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
This isn't going to play well in Moscow. Speaking in Hampton this evening, Hillary Rodham Clinton said the president of Russia "doesn't have a soul."...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.02.2012