President Obama's press conference on Thursday was filled with news, and cable news networks naturally covered every bit of what he said about the IRS...

What is most troubling, though not surprising, is how many in the major media have legitimized these crass and partisan Republican attacks and the manner they are being carried out in hearings that are organized so unfairly they resemble the proceedings of a one-party Republican state

"You know who's the all-time champion here? Jake Tapper. His Twitter stream is a crazy mix of scoops and sports scores and good reads from the competition, with the occasional picture of a lost dog (Twitter's version of service journalism?)."

Why are we not surprised? On Monday, Media Matters released a study which showed that, just like Sunday talk shows, and newspapers, and basically a...

Jon Stewart took CNN to task on Wednesday for its coverage of the Jodi Arias trial. The network has gone all in on the salacious court case, but St...

CNN may have had a strong ratings month during April, but some of its new experiments are still struggling in the ratings. It's no secret that CNN ...

CNN's ratings woes have long been cushioned by a steady stream of cash. But, according to a new report in the Washington Post, even that money is in s...

The cable news industry was hit with another month of tough ratings news. Every network saw its ratings drop from 2012, a politics-heavy election ...

Daytime programming means everything to the defense of Fox News. Ever since the network's founding in 1996, critics have bashed it as a biased and ten...

"The face of the new CNN" debuted with rocky ratings during his first week. "The Lead," the new show anchored by Jake Tapper, premiered with huge e...

Several commentators have recently noticed that, for all of the turnover in cable news these days, one thing is constant: the faces being shuffled aro...

MSNBC is far more reliant on opinion coverage than any of its cable news rivals, a new study found. The Pew Research Center's annual "State of the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Years of newsroom cutbacks have had a demonstrable impact on the quality of digital, newspaper and television news and in how consum...

WASHINGTON -- Plenty of labor activists were dismayed by the announcement this week that primetime MSNBC host Ed Schultz was destined for a less desir...

MSNBC's Chris Hayes is taking over the network's 8 PM weekday slot, the New York Times reported Thursday. Hayes is replacing Ed Schultz, who will b...

The majority of MSNBC's prime time hosts either ignored Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan or dismissed it as a partisan stunt. Paul, the Repub...

Another day, another piece of CNN gossip. For those not hanging on every twist and turn in the network's reinvention, a quick recap: the "old" conv...

The big question for the future is: Will younger voters remain Democrats as they grow older or, when they become fogies, will they also become Republicans?

There was good news and bad news for Fox News in the February cable news ratings. The good news? Fox News once again had the top 13 programs — mu...

Is Joy Behar headed to CNN? Page Six reported on Saturday that the "View" and Current TV host was spotted meeting with CNN chief Jeff Zucker recent...

Soledad O'Brien may have just lost her job as CNN's morning show host, and she will no longer have a daily presence on the network. But, in an intervi...

There's nothing wrong with covering things people are interested in. Who are we to tell them they shouldn't be? The problem isn't with what TV news covers, it's with what it doesn't cover. Or doesn't cover nearly enough.

It seems to me that Jeff Zucker is going to have a hard time bringing CNN back to its glory days. After all, Inauguration Day comes only once every four years.