New Washington Bureau Chief Saving The AP Or Destroying It?
Ron Fournier says he regards Sandy Johnson, his predecessor as head of The Associated Press's Washington bureau, as "a mentor." Johnson, though, rega...
Ron Fournier says he regards Sandy Johnson, his predecessor as head of The Associated Press's Washington bureau, as "a mentor." Johnson, though, rega...
Mike Bonifer | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Humanity, of course, is what media jackals like Matt Drudge and Bill O'Reilly feed on. The flaws. And we fall for it. We think it's news. We believe that people the media set up as gods are in fact gods.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
As Sen. Hillary Clinton's potential of securing the presidential nomination went from sure-bet to dog-fight, one of the primary complaints from her ca...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
The New York Times' Marc Liebovich reports that the Clinton camp keeps a list of those who have been loyal and those who have not. The list is report...
Al Giordano | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
The media talking heads will ask aloud why Obama can't "close the deal" (in Clinton's own words) and what is numerically a defeat for Clinton will get spun as a Clinton victory.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media
The bad news about our nutrient-starved, 24-hour media environment is that there will be more news cycles dedicated to destroying Obama -- or at least slowing the momentum of his campaign.
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
A new form of political murder has taken its place -- character assassination. Over the last two decades, the Right has learned how to destroy its enemies without leaving a body.
236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
And now, another poem comprised entirely of headlines from this week's Drudge Report:...
236.com | Posted 02.25.2008 | Media
Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama's campaign is accusing Hillary Clinton's campaign of "shameful offensive fearmongering" after her aides allegedly ...
Marc Cooper | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
The Republican Right is already howling over the bombshell dropped by The New York Times on John McCain, the GOP's all-but-official nominee. But they've got it backwards.
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
It may be too little too late, but Hillary Clinton may have been onto something with her warning to Democrats last night. Only one of us, she said ab...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 02.15.2008 | Media
Over the course of her six years as a New York senator and in the early days of her presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton cultivated an unlike...
Chris Kelly | Posted 01.23.2008 | Media
In 1998, a late night show couldn't just repeat anything some clod said online. It had to come from a legitimate news source. Like Page Six or the purple section of USA Today.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 01.23.2008 | Media
By getting Matthews to apologize, the blogs have already had more impact on how the traditional press covers this presidential campaign than they did during the entire 2004 White House run.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 01.16.2008 | Media
In today's campaign coverage, what journalists think about unfolding events takes precedence over what voters think.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.07.2008 | Media
Drudge's screaming headline this morning has focused on Hillary Clinton's potential early exit from the presidential race, linking to a write-up specu...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media
A wide-open election, an embattled president, scandal-a-plenty: Matt Drudge's eponymous website should be booming. So why is site traffic dragging? co...
USA Today | Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence | Posted 12.21.2007 | Media
"I've never done any favors for anybody -- lobbyist or special interest group -- that's a clear, 24-year record," Republican presidential candidate Jo...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media
I'm almost nostalgic for the days when the press paid too much attention to campaign consultants since at least those dispatches had some substance to them.
Robin Gerber | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics
I'm not suggesting anything a-Biblical. On the contrary, Huckabee and Coulter are Christo-politico soul mates, pure in their shared vision for America.
Sky News | Julian March | Posted 11.26.2007 | Media
The man behind one of the world's most influential news websites says there's everything to play for in the battle to win the trust of TV viewers, new...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics
We are now entering the most dangerous time of the Bush presidency. He has nothing to lose. The world is too perilous, and the technology too lethal to allow Bush and Cheney to remain in office.
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.01.2007 | Media
Perhaps Drudge is finally losing his Jones for the two slick oilmen who -- by his relentless character assassination in 2000 and 2004 -- he helped to get into the White House?
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.23.2007 | Media
Here's a hypothesis: Drudge is pushing Hillary Clinton so she'll win the nomination — and lose the election.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics
The New York Times's Jim Rutenberg takes a pass at those strangest of bedfellows -- Hillary Clinton and Matt Drudge. Unfortunately, he gets the real nature of their relationship wrong.
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Politico | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics