There hasn't been this much excitement in The Washington Post newsroom since Brad Pitt dropped by. Barack Obama, here for a meeting today with Post...
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
On Tuesday, as Wall Street was reeling and the humongous AIG bailout was being assembled, Drudge ran a picture of Barbra Streisand. By calling attent...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.15.2009 | Media
On this weekend's edition of Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz led off the show with a panel discussion on the Blagojevich scandal. Kurtz billed his pane...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 01.15.2009 | Media
In 2008, the financial media was saddled with an enormous task: explaining the unexplainable. The subprime mortgage mess, which began life as a seemin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media
Back in September, then Presidential hopeful Barack Obama had a "secret meeting" with Fox News executives in an effort to hash out "concern[s] about t...
Media Matters | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
In an October 27 article, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz reported that Fox News Channel "now expresses regret for booking [Andy] Martin" --...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2008 | Media
No one's opened up a new frontier of journalistic atrabiliousness as CBS' News Dean Reynolds, who took to CBS's "From The Road" blog to throw a pity party, celebrating his own diva-ish distemper.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media
It's not just conservatives like Bill Kristol, Peggy Noonan and David Brooks who have lowered the bar so far that even a grasshopper could not limbo under it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media
Earlier this week, we learned that the McCain campaign had barred New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from traveling on their plane, stranding her a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
Frankly, I don't know what the point of having a press is if they cannot cut through the fog of conversation to offer a sincere assessment of Sarah Palin's acumen.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
There is some buzz stirring among the politically obsessed that CBS News is sitting on embarrassing segments from its interview with Gov. Sarah Palin ...
John K. Wilson | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home
When seriously evaluated, the data arguing that Obama gets "awfully good media coverage" is just wrong -- wrong for one month by at least a factor of ten. So why do analysts keep citing this data?
Nancy Snow | Posted 09.09.2008 | Media
I can't be the only one who Tivoed the Opening Ceremony and channel surfed between Fox News Channel and CNN as the talking heads and tabloid reporters waxed hours about Edwards' turpitude.
Steve Young | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media
On Sunday's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz on CNN, Kurtz and his panel all agreed that former Bush Press Secretary, Scott McClellan's revelation ...
New York Times | Jacques Steinberg | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media
When Howard Kurtz invited Kimberly Dozier, the CBS journalist wounded in Iraq, onto his program, "Reliable Sources," on CNN on Sunday, he was not a di...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media
The near-complete blackout on the Pentagon propaganda story, self-imposed by the culpable news organizations, is a despicable abdication of their role as a constitutionally protected check on our government. Read More Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate How is it that the 28 percent of the population that continues to support George W. Bush no matter how many bodies pile up in Iraq, how many jobs disappear overseas, or how high gas prices get, continues to dominate our politics? Read More Watch Arianna On: Good Morning America, 20/20, Charlie Rose, Real Time, The Situation Room, AC 360, CNN's Election Center, and MobLogic TV
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
The aftermath of the story, for the Times, has been one of scant follow-up, lost scoops, and poor comparison when set alongside similar journalistic efforts.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.26.2008 | Media
We're chiming with coverage of Wednesday's Radio and Television Correspondent's Dinner in D.C. — check out our exclusive interview with featured...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
On this morning's Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz took up the issues raised in an article on the Politico over a week ago, titled, "Story behind the st...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
Jim Cramer became a feast for late night comedy after he called Bear Stearns "fine" a week before its spectacular collapse. Cramer appeared on CNN's ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 08.14.2008 | Media
Howard Kurtz had fun this weekend with his fellow newsies on "Reliable Sources" over the ubiquitous Eliot Spitzer sex scandal (and we already noted ho...
Radar | Charles Kaiser | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Howard Kurtz is the self-styled prince of American media reporters, a writing, blogging, book-writing machine who has covered the press for the Washin...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
This morning on CNN's Reliable Sources, Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz interviewed Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC's Countdown. Kurtz tried to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Until any other candidate gets Kurtz, Halperin, and Fineman to inveigh on their behalf against the media's unfairness, we're just going to have to say, yes, indeed, it is not a level playing field.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Why is it that when Jennifer Love Hewitt complains of unwanted attention she asked for it, but when CNN's Carol Costello complains of the same thing it's "offensive"?
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 02.16.2009 | Media