Cable News

One Friday in early April, Dan Senor was on a buffet line with Grover Norquist at a wonky issues conference at Utah's Sundance Resort. It was one of t...

The round-the-clock coverage of Tim Russert's death should remind cable news that the audience is capable of watching stories longer than 30 seconds.

None of the networks turned the sound on for Obama. Viewers were treated to a cavalcade of pundits dissecting the Democrat candidate, but denied the ability to hear him for themselves.

The selection of CNN.com's top, featured stories gives a visitor the impression of browsing a trashy magazine, not one of the self-proclaimed finest news organizations in the country.

They say a picture's worth a thousand words. All we're getting is the thousand words. We get Wolf asking Anderson for his opinion on what Candy said to Richard about Katie's report on Fallujah.

It took one straight week of non-stop political commentary for me to finally realize how cable news had not only driven me crazy, but just how much it was negatively impacting politics as well.

A full 72.25% of cable news last month was dedicated to the 2008 presidential race. That leaves less than 7 hours per day to discuss Iraq, the health care crisis, Tibet, the economy, and everything in between.

Why the harsher focus on stories that might drive down Obama's numbers and less on those that might drive down Hillary's?

The lesson of Jeremiah-gate: without a new kind of mainstream television media, Obama will never cultivate a new kind of politics.

CJR is concerned with Fox's seemingly bottomless supply of good cheer at a time when its professed target audience -- Main Street, aka Middle America -- is worried sick about losing jobs.

When did the Fourth Estate become the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Who hired these media personalities to be the hosts of some nightmarish Democracy Gong Show?

This year's cable news ratings and demographic success is likely to preserve the new "nominating process" for another couple of election cycles.

The presence of a black man and woman as important presidential candidates is forcing these guys to rethink how they talk about politics. And some of them are failing miserably.

David Shuster is obviously bright, completely versed on the facts, up on the news and capable of bringing a centrist, sensible point of view to MSNBC.

Breaking: A cable insider tells TVNewser HOT (the largest cable operator in Israel) took CNN off the air from both their digital and analog platforms ...

It's been happening for a while now but was only just published on Sunday. So who knows? It's entirely possible that OJ's been stealing the ice.