Josh Marshall

Obama Has Off-The-Record Lunch With Journalists At White House

Politico | Posted by Michael Calderone 03:13 PM | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media


The attendees for Friday's lunch were as follows: CNN's David Gergen, Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the...

25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading

Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media


Rachel Sklar

Remember when the web used to be about following links to someone's cool blogspot site? Now it's all about the world of ultra-ultra-niche or the secret gems that the big sites troll daily for their unique takes.

WashTimes and Fox News Now Unleashing Mobs On Private Citizens (Including Kids)

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media


Eric Boehlert

The conservative movement has become a mindless mob, and the right-wing media, more and more often, are sending their overeager foot soldiers out on seek-and-destroy missions involving private citizens.

How Progressive Groupthink Hindered Health Reform

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


RJ Eskow

How could the president get the idea that an individual mandate, especially without a public option, was a "goody" for progressives?

Summer's State of the Union: SCOTUS, Politico & Bruno Bring the Heat

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Nobody, especially Sotomayor, is really going to say anything new or dramatic, so can we skip it? No? D'oh! A wise Latina might let us, but we all know how the Republicans feel about them.

Jason Linkins

Stephen Colbert Demands To Know Why TPM's Josh Marshall Is Not Wearing Bathrobe (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media


Marshall predicted, jokingly, that TPM would eventually "beat [the New York Times] down." In Colbertian terms, the Times is on Marshall's "on notice" board, but not yet on the "dead to me" list.

Think Again: Blogosphere to Mainstream Media: Get Off the Bus (and Walk a Mile in Our Shoes)

Eric Alterman | Posted 06.22.2009 | Media


Eric Alterman

Dowd's accident is yet another sign of how traditional media outlets are increasingly (and to their credit) taking cues from the reporters and commentators that populate the blogosphere.

Jason Linkins

Dowd Returns To Form In Josh Marshall-Free Column

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media


One of the ironic things about Maureen Dowd's last, infamous column is that at first glance, people were struck by the sudden emergence of intelligenc...

Maureen Dowd Is All in Your Head

Michael Wolff | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media


Michael Wolff

Here's the most boring question I've been asked in the last 24 hours: What do you think of Maureen Dowd's plagiarism? Here's the most boring question I'm regularly asked: What do you think of Maureen Dowd?

Josh Marshall: "I Appreciated" Maureen Dowd's Quick Correction

TPM | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media


Whatever the mechanics of how it happened, I never thought it was intentional. Dowd and the Times quickly corrected it, which I appreciated....

Say It Ain't So, MoDo

John McQuaid | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media


John McQuaid

Assuming Dowd's explanation is true, and she's soliciting input from friends and cutting and pasting it into columns, that's worse in some ways than cribbing from published work.

What Maureen Dowd is Trying to Tell Us

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media


Allison Kilkenny

I see this latest scandal as a cry for help from Dowd. She's trying to tell us, and her bosses at The New York Times, something very important.

Once Again, Real Journalism From Comedy Central (VIDEO)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media


Mark Nickolas

Leave it to Comedy Central -- this time Stephen Colbert -- to do the traditional media's job in exposing the fanatical charlatans like Glenn Beck.

Sam Stein

Dems Fear Bush Will Tie Obama's Hands On TARP

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics


There is increasingly anxiety among members of Congress and fiscal watchdogs over the handling of the Troubled Asset Relief Program by the Bush admini...

Gumbo Granny Blogs From the Bayou for Obama

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.26.2008 | Home


Georgianne Nienaber

What you hear again and again here in South Louisiana is that no one has the TIME to work on campaigning. Most families are still recovering from thre...

Sam Stein

Noonan, York, Toobin And Others Take Aim At McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics


With 22 days left before the voters hit the polls, conservative pundits and media commentators are scratching their heads over the lack of direction -...

Reading The Pictures: The Likes We Haven't Seen Since Terri Schiavo

Michael Shaw | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-09-04-shaw1.jpg As uncomfortable and inappropriate as it feels, the drama surrounding the Palin family -- especially on the visual plane -- has become very much a political issue.

Does Josh Marshall Believe In New Media?

Bart Motes | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media


Bart Motes

In a typically astute post about the McCain camp's crocodile tears over Sarah Palin's post-facto media vetting, Josh Marshall observes that for all th...

Karl Rove Channels Maureen Dowd

John McQuaid | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics


John McQuaid

Say what you will about the chattering classes' inane regard for the alleged genius of Karl Rove -- it's obvious now he was a disaster for the nation and for not one but two political parties.

Karl Rove's Awkward Moment As TPM Founder Is Honored

Washington Post | Mary Ann Akers | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics


Former White House chief strategist Karl Rove wasn't clapping when Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo was given the "Blogger of the Year" award (in ...

Marcus, Marshall and Three-Fer Luckovich Win Opinion Awards from The Week

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media


Tomorrow night, The Week magazine, in association with the Aspen Institute, will host its fifth annual Opinion Awards in D.C. for an assemblage of typ...

Talking Points Memo Blogger Josh Marshall Named A GQ Man Of The Year

GQ | Sean Flynn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


The resignation of Alberto Gonzales was one of the brighter moments of the past seven years, a fleeting reprieve for the rule of law and democracy and...