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Jim Lehrer

Reaction to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is Another "Teaching Moment"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, President Obama, John Bolton, Ruth Marcus, President Barack Obama, G. Gordon Liddy, Iraq, Militarism, USS Abraham Lincoln, Nobel Peace Prize, Chris Matthews, Dick Cheney, Unilateralism, Jim Lehrer, David Brooks, Newshour, President George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Obama Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Peace, Obama's Nobel Prize, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Are we incapable of recognizing the simple fact that it is much better for America to have a president who is admired and respected in the world than one who is despised and feared?

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Why Fortune Loves Charlie Rose

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: John Doerr, Charlie Rose, Jim Lehrer, Katie Couric, Media Maneuvers, Tom Perkins, Larry Summers, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Fortune, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

A new profile of Charlie Rose is representative of a trend that seems to be growing: the sort of meta-, multi-platform story that has so many odd conflicts and strange connections that it makes you dizzy.

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How Popular Culture Empowers The Joe Wilsons Of This World

John Farr | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Carlos Reygadas, Jim Lehrer, Joe Wilson, Warner Archive Collection, Best Movies on DVD, Pbs Newshour, Mark Shields, Classic Movies, Silent Light, Barack Obama, John Huston, Best Movies by Farr, Warner, Entertainment News
John Farr

Wilson is one of those mediocre, small men who have always occupied the fringes of influence but would never have imagined to insult a sitting President in bygone days.

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O'Reilly, Beck, Olbermann and Maddow: Venomous Snakes?

Charles Warner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Msnbc, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Bill O'Reilly, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Lou Dobbs, C-Span, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Sean Hannity, Jim Lehrer, David Brooks, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, Media News
Charles Warner

No one wants to watch normal, well-adjusted, happy, rational, reasonable people on TV; they're boring -- like C-SPAN or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.

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The Prisoners' Professor

John Lundberg | Posted 07.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Professor, Community, Community Service, Education, Prison, Abolitionists, The Giving Life, Jim Lehrer, Living News
John Lundberg

Richard Shelton's first interest in a prisoner's poetry was born from curiosity rather than charity. In 1970, a convicted murderer named Charles Schm...

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David Letterman Apology Redux: Shame on Dave for Buckling Under to Palin's Lies

Michael Russnow | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Yankees, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Late Night Shows, Monica Lewinsky, Dorothy Mengering, Michael Bloomberg, Pbs, Yankee Stadium, Tony Awards, Bristol Palin, Ram Productions International, Cbs, Alex Rodriguez, Mark Shields, New York City, Sarah Palin, Willow Palin, Satire, The Late Show, Alzheimer's Disease, Jim Lehrer, Political Humor, Michael Russnow, Republican Convention, Election Anxiety, Hillary Clinton, Jim Lehrer Report, David Letterman, Letterman Apology, Media News
Michael Russnow

Will Letterman now start to censor himself with his writers and, worse, when he interacts with his guests? All it takes is another person to mislead the media and public as Palin has shamelessly done.

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PBS' "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" Getting 21st Century Makeover

New York Times | Elizabeth Jensen | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

Read More: The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, Jim Lehrer, Newshour, Pbs, Pbs Newshour, Media News

"The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," public broadcasting's nightly newscast, is getting a makeover, designed to bring it more fully into the digital era, g...

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The Posse is Not Currently Available

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Ratner, Jim Lehrer, Rahm Emanuel, Cia Torture Memos, David Axelrod, Torture, Politics News
Gerald Sindell

So we have a lawless world and the president can do what he wants to do (didn't we just see how that turns out?) and somehow that is standing up for the rule of law.

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Jim Lehrer: Journalism is Still About the Story

Al Eisele | Posted 12.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Gaylord Prize, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, Oklahoma University, Jim Lehrer, Media News
Al Eisele

Jim Lehrer has two words of advice for mainstream journalists who worry that they're headed for extinction in the brave new world of the Internet. The words are "Calm down."

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Post-Election: Call it Decompression

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, Election Day, George W. Bush, Commentary, Keith Olbermann, Sarah Palin, Msnbc, Transition, Jonathan Alter, Katie Couric, Analysis, Newshour, Election 2008 Coverage, TV Networks, John McCain, New Deal, Defining Moment, Pbs, Network News, Joe Biden, Democrats, Brian Williams, Barack Obama, Cnn, Bush Administration, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow, Jim Lehrer, Fox News, Republicans, Bill O'Reilly, Charles Gibson, Wolf Blitzer, 100 Days, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

He did the strangest thing last night: He turned the TV off. There he was, still in the early part of the evening, with another hour or two of pol...

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"Video Your Vote" On PBS And YouTube

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: News Hour, Polls, Precinct, Pbs, Election Day, Video Your Vote, Voting Videos, Election Day Videos, Poll, 2008 Elections, Media, 08, Upload, 2008 Election, Election, Cell Phone, 08 Election, Elections, Irregularities, Video, 2008, Vote, Jim Lehrer, Polling Place, 2008 Presidential Race, Youtube, News, Newshour, Voting, Politics News
Chris Weigant

if you spot (and record on video) something unusual at your polling place, you will have an easy way of uploading it to a place where journalists will have immediate access.

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Winning the Next Presidential Debate

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Debate, Strategy, Jim Lehrer, Pakistan, James Carville, Envrionment, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Paul Begala, Campaign Strategy, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Glenn Hurowitz

Most people think they're in a way higher income bracket than they are.

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Debate #1: The Knockout that Wasn't. What Obama Needs to Do Next Time.

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Gop, Pearl Harbor, John McCain, Presidential Debate, Joe Biden, Democrats, Barack Obama, Jim Lehrer, Iraq War, Financial Crisis, Warren Buffett, Republicans, Wall Street Bailout, Great Depression, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

There was no knockout. And a knockout was what Obama needed. At best, it was a tie. And as the underdog in many ways, Obama needed to do much more than simply hold his own.

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A Hat Tip for Lehrer

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media

Read More: 2008 Elections, Debate, Presidential Debates, Jim Lehrer, 2008 Election, John McCain, Barack Obama, Debate Moderating Jim Lehrer, Media News
Eric Schmeltzer

Let me take a moment to praise the absolutely wonderful job Jim Lehrer did moderating this debate.

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Friday Night Live in Oxford

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gays and Lesbians in the Military, John McCain, Wall Street Crisis, Jim Lehrer, South Ossetia, Presidential Debates, Caucasus, Russia Georgia War, Barack Obama, Oxford Mississippi, Abkhazians, Ethnic Violence, Russia Georgia Conflict, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

Since the primary concern of both candidates in the debate was not to screw up, that was just fine. Just not screwing up, however, doesn't make for a very exciting debate.

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Eye Contact Is Un-American

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Presidential Debates, Jim Lehrer, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Ralph Nader, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

The Democrats needed a firm leader, who arrived outraged on behalf of a country gone to hell. What they got was a gentleman with a fine memory, who largely repeated the same message he's been delivering for half a year.

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What Kissinger Said: "I Do Not Believe That We Can Make Conditions"

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran Nuclear Program, Iran, John McCain, Presidential Debates, Jim Lehrer, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Naiman

Jim Lehrer missed an opportunity last night to help clarify for people watching the debate what is in dispute between Democrats like Barack Obama and ...

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Obama vs. McCain: Gettin' LiveBloggy With It

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media

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ETP liveblogged the debate tonight with Glynnis MacNicol and John Carney. You can find all the good stuff through the link (we blogged it using the n...

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An Open Letter to Jim Lehrer About the First Presidential Debate

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 10.27.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Presidential Debates, Jim Lehrer, Barack Obama, Bailout, 2008 Election, Media News
Joanne Bamberger

Make sure John McCain actually answers those questions. I'm not worried about Obama. I know he will.

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Oxford Debates the Debates

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Obama, Presidential Debates, Jim Lehrer, Oxford, Mississippi, Mccain, Presidential Debate, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

If this debate doesn't go off as scheduled, that will be bad news for Washington, too. The people of Oxford are already mad. They'll be madder.

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Debates 2.0: How the Super Bowl of Politics Could Be 'Must See' TV

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.27.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Presidential Debates, Tom Schieffer, Tom Brokaw, Debates, Jim Lehrer, Barack Obama, Media News
Jesse Kornbluth

The format is mired in the 1960s. It encourages candidates to cram like college kids. But the debates could be mesmerizing, revealing TV.

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Jed Lewison

McCain Aide Claims Credit For Deal, Says "We're Going Into A Debate"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Video, Obama McCain, Jim Lehrer, Mccain Bailout, Mccain Debate, Obama Debate, Barack Obama, Obama Townhall, Debate, Politics News

Shortly before 2pm ET, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said on MSNBC that his boss deserves credit for the bipartisan bailout deal. Bounds then appare...

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Sam Stein

Obama Will Make Debate A Townhall If McCain Doesn't Show

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debate, Obama Townhall, Mccain Bailout, Obama McCain, Jim Lehrer, Obama Debate, Mccain Debate, Barack Obama, Will the Debate Go On, Will the Debate Go On?, Will Mccain Debate, Obama Town Hall Debate, Debate Will Go On, Will the Debates Go On, Obama Debate Town Hall, Politics News

Updated 9/26: Click here for updated videos, photos and analysis from the first presidential debate Click here for all debate-related news at HuffP...

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"Baby Steps" to Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israel, Debates, Jim Lehrer, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Naiman

We are, it seems, suffering from a national "Stockholm Syndrome" when it comes to asking basic questions about the relationship between the United Sta...

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Will Lehrer Ask McCain, Obama About Israeli-Palestinian Peace?

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israeli Settlements, John McCain, Jim Lehrer, Israel, Debates, Barack Obama, Media News
Robert Naiman

The first 2008 presidential debate between Senator Obama and Senator McCain will focus on foreign policy and will occur this coming Friday. Jim Lehrer...

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