VP Stakes: Cable News' Industrial-Strength Guessing Game
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...
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...
Gary Stager | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media
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.
Dan Brown | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media
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.
Dan Brown | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
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.
Larry Amoros | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
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.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media
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.
Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media
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.
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media
Why the harsher focus on stories that might drive down Obama's numbers and less on those that might drive down Hillary's?
Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The lesson of Jeremiah-gate: without a new kind of mainstream television media, Obama will never cultivate a new kind of politics.
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 03.07.2008 | Media
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.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media
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?
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 03.03.2008 | Media
This year's cable news ratings and demographic success is likely to preserve the new "nominating process" for another couple of election cycles.
Eric Deggans | Posted 02.14.2008 | Media
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.
InsideCable | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton made the rounds of the cable news networks this morning. Both appeared on FNC's Fox and Friends and CNN's Am...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.07.2007 | Media
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.
MediaBistro | Chris | Posted 11.01.2007 | Media
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 ...
Bob Cesca | Posted 09.16.2007 | Media
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.
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Men's Vogue | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media