Some have said that progressives shouldn't go on shows like Dobbs'. I vehemently disagree. We have to fight for our issues in any venue offered to us, knowing that if we fight effectively we will win the war of ideas.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
Last night, CNN hosted a screening of "Black In America," the four-hour documentary focusing on what it means to be black and living in America today,...
TV Newser | Steve Krakauer | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media
CNN International correspondent Richard Quest returned from rehab approximately two months after he entered in April. We hear Quest returned to the L...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
John McCain appeared on today's CNN American Morning, ostensibly to talk economic policy with John Roberts. Over the course of the discussion, howeve...
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.06.2008 | Home
Obama and the Democrats are beginning again to demonstrate clumsiness in the face of GOP attacks. Obama appears to be admitting to shifting positions on Iraq but he hasn't shifted positions.
Huff TV | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
On the Fourth Of July Arianna appeared on CNN's Situation Room to discuss Secretary Rice's comment on being "proud" of invading Iraq. Watch: CNN W...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media
Last night, Greta van Susteren bared her fangs and took a giant chunk out of Anderson Cooper's neck, calling him out for hypocrisy, accusing him of ex...
William Klein | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media
Is CNN so addicted to the excitement of election night coverage that they are turning their ratings-boosting primary coverage into a nightly drama instead of waiting until November to do it again?
236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
As Politico.com points out, many guests on cable news who are described as "political strategists" are actually nothing of the sort. Apparently, netwo...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.29.2008 | Media
Fox News reclaimed the top spot among cable news channels for the second quarter of 2008, having been beaten by CNN during the first quarter. However...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
James Carville appeared on CNN Friday night to talk with Anderson Cooper about just how behind Obama the Clintons really are. During the discussion Co...
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
NEW YORK -- Fox News is poised to reclaim the title of the most-watched cable news network in the key advertising demographic in the second quarter of...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Hey, everyone! Remember a couple days ago when Mark Soohoo, who is ostensibly part of John McCain's "internet team," ran afoul of blogger Tracy Russo...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment
CNN has released a tribute to George Carlin, specifically his "Seven Words" routine. Ironically, they bleep out the words while discussing how some o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
On CNN's American Morning today, McCain surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer continued last week's attacks on Senator Barack Obama's decision to opt out of pub...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
It's not everyday that Senator John McCain's tendency to switch positions on important issues - even seminal McCain issues like torture - are greeted ...
MSNBC | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media
Monday night's "Verdict" with Dan Abrams featured its nightly takedown of "media hypocrisy, agendas and the perils of live tv" in "Beat the Press." Fi...
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.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
Fox News, in an obvious and crass way, has already established one of its approaches to attacking Obama: It will try to scare people by implying that Obama is "different."
Bella DePaulo | Posted 06.15.2008 | Media
Mainstream media's yawning over the Bush impeachment looks pretty good compared to Tom Foreman's demotion of the news to "our weekly political sideshow."
Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
The media is taking a real beating today from... the media. Below are two reports. The Wall Street Journal reports on the increased scrutiny towards...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home
The Lieberman-inspired move to woo non-Republicans is designed to look like nonpartisanship, but it's really about maximizing the schism that the Clinton campaign created in the Democratic base.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media
Dan Abrams highlights media foibles on a nightly basis in his segment "Beat the Press." The other night was a brilliant piece highlighting Anderson Co...
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.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media
As someone who violated the accepted protocol -- and slipped from the warm embrace of corporate media -- I wasn't sure of my personal place in the Internet Week festivities.
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
***UPDATED BELOW*** During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made...
John McCain made a mistake this evening, which as far as...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
David Sirota | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics