Jeez, my cable bill is more and more resembling the national debt. So anything that anyone can do to hold down what we have to pay has to be commended...
Eric Williams | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics
As I look back on the past ten years of the "Still-Unnicknamed Zeroes," I'd like to formally request a little less turbulence in the next decade. Please? No era is devoid of history.
R.J. Fried | Posted 12.23.2009 | Comedy
Though the gathering was an innocent snowball fight, Fox News knew a war protest was amidst. What better way to protest war than by throwing snowballs at people who agree with you.
Rich Robinson | Posted 12.16.2009 | Media
For some this was, as Queen Elizabeth might say, "annus horribilis" -- a horrible year. For the rest of us, it was another lesson in public relations crisis management.
Matt Osborne | Posted 12.10.2009 | Media
Don't tell me that nontroversy doesn't matter. With nearly as many Americans approving of Palin as Obama, nontroversy really, really matters.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
Fox News host Sean Hannity did something many will call shocking, some will call phony and insincere, and I'll call, at the very least, uncharacteristic. He admitted that Jon Stewart was right
Brad Friedman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media
Fox News Channel should be treated not like a news organization, but as one which does little more than promote a specific political agenda.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy
In an exclusive interview, Rupert Murdoch explains that Google is only the beginning of News Corp.'s plans to further isolate themselves. Take a look.
Matt Osborne | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
We've seen this pattern before. A non-sourced, anonymous story enters the right-wing blogosphere and gets picked up by mainstream media, allowing the right to stovepipe their insanity.
Matt Osborne | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
Fox News is all slant, all the time, while MSNBC is absolutely not a liberal mirror-image. The slant is not equal, nor do the two channels offset like penalties in a football game.
Shan Wells | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver
With a few notable exception, broadcast news is a very scary place these days. What Edward R. Murrow would think of the current zeitgeist is unknowable, but we might hazard a guess.
Matt Osborne | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media
I'm calling it "Faux Noise" until it starts acting like a legitimate news organization. The White House is well within its rights to deny access because Roger Ailes is running a fear factory, not a news channel.
Nancy Snow | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media
This is an administration put in office on a campaign pledge of practicality over ideology. In the Fox case, it is treading on ideological terrain. I don't think it's the job of Obama's top staff to use government time to go after Fox.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media
Some Democrats recognize that Obama's making a cardinal blunder in propping up Fox through the backdoor with his attacks. Fox, of course, giddily loves every swipe that he takes at it.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media
Does anyone really believe that ACORN is the top story? Every day? Or is it possible that is Fox's obvious, ham-handed way of attacking the president daily? I can't believe we're having this argument.
Eric E. Burns | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media
The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war against the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media
The White House's war with Fox News, which Jason Linkins has helpfully mapped out here and here, took a new, (and perhaps final?), turn Wednesday nigh...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
If Fox News rises up to the challenge of confessing their real identity and real purpose, then -- and only then -- should Obama take on that conservative voice in an interview on their air.
Karl Frisch | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
For months now, Roger Ailes has been putting the finishing touches on his first monster, Fox News Channel, just as its bride, Fox Business Network, is showing signs of life.
Karl Frisch | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
Perhaps it's the rallies or the fundraising or the demonstrably false attacks that have kept Obama from appearing on Fox. Regardless, the right's gravy train rolls on undeterred, facts be damned.
Timothy Karr | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media
The ultimate irony of Beck, Dobbs and Rush is that they couch in populist rhetoric a message that is anti-populist, designed to protect the swindle at the core of our media system's failure.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
John Stossel is leaving ABC for Fox News Channel. For the uninitiated few, Stossel is a multi-Emmy-winning investigative reporter with an amusing Harry Reems moustache.
Mike Hegedus | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
It's less a sign of genius to hire Imus than it is a sign that the towel has been thrown in on the Fox Business News channel.
Matt Osborne | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Now that a black man holds the office, tinfoil-hat lunatics say children should not learn to respect presidents, nor should presidents encourage them to succeed. It's an incredible hypocrisy.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
Unless Democrats develop a clear and compelling message, they face a very tough time in the 2010 elections.
deadline.com | Posted 01.04.2010 | Los Angeles