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Cable TV Should Be Ashamed

Rusty Russell | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Msnbc, John McCain, Cnn, Sarah Palin, News Cycle, Cable News, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, David Letterman, Earmarks, Alaska, Cable News Channels, Cable Tv, Home News
Rusty Russell

Cable TV fails to do its job: report on and analyze the candidates' policies. It's like they think we only care about lipstick. Viewers are left completely unaware of dozens of serious issues that dramatically impact enormous swaths of the population.

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Liveblogging The Republican Convention - Day Four

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Republican Convention, Chris Matthews, Fox News Channel, Politics News
Bob Cesca

If an undecided voter responded strongly to the yelling from Mitt, Rudy and Palin, and then watched McCain, they were probably disappointed and let-down by McCain.

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Liveblogging The Republican Convention - Day Three

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, Rudy Giuliani, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Chris Matthews, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Republican Convention, John McCain, Fox News Channel, Politics News
Bob Cesca

What I still want to know is why Governor Palin is more qualified than Olympia Snowe or Christine Todd Whitman or Kay Bailey Hutchison. The McCain campaign hasn't answered that question.

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Issues You Won't Hear on Cable News

Charles Warner | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, The Fairness Doctrine, Cable News, Wolf Blitzer, Media News
Charles Warner

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...

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Play TV Talking Heads Rope-A-Dope Poker

William Klein | Posted 09.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, Cnbc, Cnn, Obama, Political Satire, Cable News, Mika Brzezinski, Wolf Blitzer, Media Bias, Campbell Brown, Dnc, Convention Coverage, Media News
William Klein

The networks' convention coverage can be so mind-numbingly tedious that viewers are concocting their own strategies for staying awake.

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Networks Court Younger Viewers, MSNBC Reigns In 18-34

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

Read More: MSNBC Young Viewers, Msnbc, Cable News Young Viewers, Cable News, Media News

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 ...

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Corrupting Habit

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Meet the Press, Cnn, The Sellin of the President, Hardball, James Carville, Cable News, Paul Begala, Brack Obama, Network TV, The Candidate, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

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.

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Black in America on CNN: Are We There Yet?

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Civil Rights, Pbs, Public Schools, New Orleans, Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Healthy Living, Education, Inner City Obama, Race, Barck Obama, AIDS Washington D.C., Cnn, Race Relations, Poverty and Health, Cable News, Media News
Raymond Leon Roker

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.

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VP Stakes: Cable News' Industrial-Strength Guessing Game

Men's Vogue | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Vice President, Grover Norquist, Dan Senor, Cable News, Media 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...

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A Cable News Abomination During the Gore/Obama Rally

Dan Brown | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Dan Abrams, Alan Colmes, Al Gore, Msnbc, Cnn, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Hannity & Colmes, Cable News, Barack Obama, Detroit, Media News
Dan Brown

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.

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What's Up With the Featured "News" on CNN.com?

Dan Brown | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Iran, John McCain, Pakistan, Cnn, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Chrysler Building, News Outlet, Cable News, cnn.com, Abu Dhabi Investment Council, Barack Obama, Baghad, Media News
Dan Brown

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.

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Watch: Clinton, Obama Make The Rounds On Morning TV

InsideCable | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fred Thompson, 2008 Elections, Obama Clinton 2008, Hilarry Clinton Polls, Obama 2008, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2008, Barack Obama Polls, 2008 Election, 2008 Race for the White House, Nevada, Morning TV, Clinton 2008, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama 2008, Obama Clinton, Mitt Romney, Obama Good Morning America, South Carolina, Clinton Super Tuesday, 2008 Campaign, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Cable News, Barack Obama Good Morning America, 2008 Presidential Campaign, John McCain, Politics News

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...

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Largest Israeli Cable Provider Drops CNN, Replaces With Fox News

MediaBistro | Chris | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Cable News, Fox News, Israel, Cn, Media News

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 ...

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