A new low point in cable news occurred this week with the focus on Sarah Palin's family issues. Even after Barack Obama correctly and firmly said tha...
William Klein | Posted 09.27.2008 | Media
The networks' convention coverage can be so mind-numbingly tedious that viewers are concocting their own strategies for staying awake.
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media
Television networks are assigning reporters to a new beat this election year: people who don't watch the evening news. With polls showing a surge in ...
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media
Since the fall of 1969, media discourse has been dominated by debates about the news as a spin zone. But we think this argument over bias has obscured a far more fundamental reality.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media
For blacks, it is a call to arms, a celebration of ingenuity, from the breakfast table to the church, to the classroom, to the street. For whites, Black in America has to be just as complicated to watch.
Men's Vogue | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
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...
Dan Brown | Posted 06.24.2008 | 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 06.19.2008 | 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.
InsideCable | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
MediaBistro | Chris | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 ...
Charles Warner | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media