Never in our history has the control of the nation's sources of information been more centralized, or more at odds with what the country as a whole believes.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 02.07.2008 | Media
Coverage of food, fashion, furniture and high end housing eats up space. Late-breaking recipes trump stories about poverty.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 02.06.2008 | Media
Despite all the talk about Barack Obama's pull with younger voters, it is surprising how little attention has been paid to his relative lack of appeal with older voters.
Jennifer L. Pozner | Posted 02.05.2008 | Media
The Dems are left with only two contenders to choose from because corporate media rafted a narrative around Edwards as a non-viable also-ran from the get-go.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics
Out of the frozen tundra of Iowa, out of the snowy mountains of Vermont, out of the brightly-lit casinos in the Nevada desert, out of the churches of ...
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
When reporters filed onto Barack Obama's press plane after his acrimonious debate with Hillary Rodham Clinton last week, one thing was noticeably miss...
Bob Franken | Posted 01.16.2008 | Media
Dennis Kucinich, in addition to pulling off a pretty good publicity stunt, was seeking government control of the press. He should damn well know better.
John McQuaid | Posted 01.15.2008 | Media
There's room for more enterprising takes on the Katrina story -- the pre-and post-Katrina problems and struggles have so many more facets than you'll ever see on CNN.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics
I have never seen Senator Clinton lead her fellow Democrats in a successful challenge of President Bush. Never. That's a pretty awful record.
Sherman Yellen | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
Thanks to the Hollywoodization of the news, exemplified in the Obama candidacy, candidates are put on a red carpet to be examined much as film stars on the way to the Oscars.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
Was there a massive click moment with Hillary, as old-guard feminists used to call it, when women collectively thought, "Hey, this isn't fair"?
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics
On the morning after the New Hampshire primary, one strong conclusion can be drawn: the media collectively blew it. This should be seen as downright ...
Leslie Griffith | Posted 01.06.2008 | Media
What makes Fox network and ultimately Rupert Murdoch's exclusion of Ron Paul from Sunday's debate any different from what Putin is doing in Russia?
Los Angeles Times | Mary McNamara | Posted 01.05.2008 | Media
If there was kinetic joy in the camps of Iowa caucus victors Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee last night, it was nothing compared to the hyperbole-burbl...
Leslie Griffith | Posted 01.01.2008 | Media
Please, reporters, help Americans focus on the issues. They are complicated and not conducive to a 30-second soundbite.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 12.26.2007 | Politics
When the Romney people see the Huckabee pheasant-hunting footage, they contact every political reporter they know: Look how fat Huckabee looks in that get-up! Look at those jowls! Look at that goofy unpresidential hat! What a blunder!
Timothy Karr | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
Allowing one company to own broadcast station and a major daily newspaper in the same market is so unpopular that one wonders what really motivates FCC chair Kevin Martin to defy common sense.
David Sirota | Posted 12.11.2007 | Media
Most normal people would react to getting factually crushed on television by sitting back and thinking about how to avoid such egregiously irresponsible behavior in the future.
Jeffrey Scheuer | Posted 12.11.2007 | Media
If we were more interested in issues, elections, and government than TiVo, we would probably get better journalism; and with better journalism, better democracy.
Craig Silverman | Posted 12.10.2007 | Media
One of the surest ways to produce a great correction is to write a scandalous article filled with salacious, untrue allegations.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.09.2007 | Media
If we can't even air each other's commercials, then we're in more trouble than I initially thought.
Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
Few, if any, reporters show up for oversight hearings -- and those who do tend to leave early.
Bob Franken | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
If enough political reporters, pundits and other so-called experts make their calls on the presidential campaign, by chance someone will be correct.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.18.2007 | Media
In the postmodern funhouse that imprisons prestige media, the job isn't to cover events, but rather to reveal their theatricality; the trick isn't to find truth, but to disclose "framing."
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics
Why is Rove rewarded with a prominent mouthpiece for his vitriol by one of the nation's most widely circulated newsweeklies?
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Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.11.2008 | Media