Friday Talking Points [87] -- A Tale Of Two Houses
Simply for acting like a leader this week, Speaker Pelosi wins the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award hands-down.
Simply for acting like a leader this week, Speaker Pelosi wins the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award hands-down.
Doon Baqi | Posted 08.24.2009 | Entertainment
We need to stop listening to "them" and think for ourselves.
Allison Silver | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
Missing from the laudatory "Appreciations" is a sense of Cronkite as a serious journalist who understand that accurately reporting the news was the most important job around.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Democrats have to get over their knee-jerk reaction to being labeled "tax and spenders" by their opposition. If higher taxes for millionaires are the way to pay for healthcare reform, then let everyone know it, and know why.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
What's the motivation for Politico and the Washington Post to help the healthcare industry fight back against Obama's proposals?
Bob Franken | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media
So much of what happens in Washngtonworld is so predictable it's like the old joke about old jokes. They're so familiar someone assigns numbers to them.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.09.2009 | Comedy
The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier on the notion that he's something of a journalist. "I watch cab...
Mary Lyon | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics
Ironically, you've announced your babbling bailout on the eve of Independence Day. The people of Alaska may indeed finally be free of you. Unfortunately, the rest of us are about to become hostages.
Earnest Harris | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media
Even after all these years of doing what it does, the mainstream media still can't decide if it wants to be a source of facts, a go-to place for what's happening, a tabloid, a gossip source, a place to go for all things negative or maybe even something else.
Robert Koehler | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
The problem was not simply gaps or "lack of balance" in the reportage, but the utter lack of a larger context: some hint that military planners are accountable to more than themselves.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
Either show us the Neda video uncensored, or don't show the poster. You can't really have this one both ways. The American public can either handle this image or we can't. Decide, and be consistent.
Pam Spaulding | Posted 07.22.2009 | Media
What I believe hurts our case a bit, from a PR (and strategic) perspective, is that we've seen few LGBT people of color on-air as the movement faces off against the first black President and his administration.
Dave Astor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy
There's the Star Trek solution of changing the time-space continuum, but I'm hesitant to recommend that because of the damage it might do to the Obamas' new White House vegetable garden.
Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
I am deeply concerned that the rules of engagement have been irresponsibly relaxed under the pressure to compete for the scoops, exclusives and gotcha-quotes-of-the-day.
Bob Franken | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media
Sometimes they have all the right ingredients: news stories which combine Twitter's vacuousness, with parochial political pandering (known as a "3-P") and media desperate for news on a slow day.
John McQuaid | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media
I want newspapers and journalism to survive and thrive. And I'm not against charging for some content if it's done right. But even I can see this is crazy.
Dan Froomkin | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
We're hiding much of our newsrooms' value behind a terribly anachronistic format: voiceless, incremental news stories that neither get much traffic nor make our sites compelling destinations.
Beth Borzone | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Lots of people are disappointed with some of Obama's recent decisions but they still love him because he is a person of conviction working within a flawed system.
Celia Alario | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media
I imagine we'll arrive from this rocky road trip with truth, accuracy, journalistic integrity, justice and a more informed and empowered citizenry intact.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.13.2009 | Living
Twenty-something isn't all its cracked up to be and thirty-something is the start of really knowing oneself and hitting one's stride.
Diane Tucker | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media
TIME.com followed several members of the "elite Twitterati" as they attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner in the ballroom of the Washington ...
Keith Blanchard | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media
Why is the media page on the Huffington Post orange? Maybe because we're on permanent Serious Threat alert.
John McQuaid | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media
Obama's ambitions depend on his ability to nudge the news cycle away from the cable network- and Drudge-driven obsession with transient panics and cultural outrages. He's been partially successful so far.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
People are weighing their own impressions of our new president with what the media is telling them to believe. For the most part, they are deciding that the media's take is wrong.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
"I am ashamed at getting my stimulus bill passed so quickly. Republicans, those masters of bipartisanship, offered their sincere efforts to delay this bill for months and, I admit, I ignored them."
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics