Mainstream Media

Journalists have to make a living. I understand that. I get paid to interview athletes and write opinion pieces on mixed martial arts and boxing. It is something I love in part because it is not too serious. Occasionally, I write about issues pertaining to the exploitation of athletes and...

"Mommy bloggers."

Yes, as far as the Today Show is concerned, we're a group with quotes. Or air quotes anyway.

We're inscrutable. We have strange and mysterious ways! We're a bunch of ka-RAY-zee wimmins doing this new weird thing, all techy and Gen Y-like.

And, after watching...

Hard-hitting journalism is nearing extinction on television, and the Federal Communications Commission just threw another shovelful of dirt on its grave when it recently ruled that Rupert Murdoch's broadcast of TMZ and Pat Robertson's 700 Club meet the test for "a bona fide newscast." Bona fide newscast? You tell...

The right wing echo chamber (right wing radio and Fox News) is a junkyard dog. It grabs on to an issue, a sound bite, a rumor, sometimes (oh, my) even a fib - anything that might damage the image of an opponent - and doesn't let go until it rips...

The last ten days have been among the most shameful in the history of American journalism.

On April 20th, the New York Times published its expose of the Bush administration's use of Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" to appear on TV to help sell the invasion of Iraq,...

With so much at stake -- Iraq, the economy, global warming -- how is it the presidential campaign descended into a parade of irrelevancies? The media know better. Is there is anyone working for a media organization (new, traditional, left, right) who genuinely believes that Jeremiah Wright's views on HIV,...

If Marshall McLuhan was right when he wrote, "The medium is the message," then the message is clearly the following: We are the stupidest species ever to walk the earth.

What other conclusion can be drawn after two weeks which saw the ABC Presidential Debacle, in which Charles Gibson and...

Chris Matthews manages to encompass absolutely everything right and wrong with modern politics and media news. The MSNBC talk show host can be seen on a nightly basis salivating on screen over every speech, campaign manoeuvre and dirty trick done in the name political discourse.

It is the horse race...

The New York Times publishes an exposé on the hidden ties between media military analysts and the Pentagon that most likely violate federal "covert propaganda" laws.

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) calls for an investigation of the propaganda purveyors, especially those with business ties to the Pentagon.

Espousing feminist viewpoints is so often really not cool -- in fact, feminists even have our own joke about how humorless we are:

JOKE: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
PUNCHLINE: That's not funny.

(And that's the clean punchline.)

Whether they call themselves a...

Last week, it was a mudslinging debate hosted by ABC. This week, it's revelations of pro-war propaganda on nearly every major television news outlet.

The quest for quality journalism and for the truth about the fast sell on the Iraq war just hit a new low. And today,...

Yesterday, the New York Times exposed a secret Pentagon effort to spread favorable views of the war by recruiting and planting military analysts in the nation's news media.

These pundits became fixtures of war coverage on most major network, cable, radio and print news outlets without disclosing their...

"'Citizen Journalist' Broke Obama Story," reads the headline in the Los Angeles Times. The 'citizen' is HuffPo blogger, Mayhill Fowler. The story is the exclusive recording and article about Obama's 'bitter' bite from his speech about small towns - which became as ubiquitous on TV screens as "Law and Order."...