Who would have thought that John McCain would finish his political life as a cry baby whining about the unfair media? Who would have thought that a yo...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media
The end of a media affair with a politician shouldn't be a time of mourning, anger, and despair. It is a time that should be celebrated because it means the media has regained its senses.
Bob Cesca | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics
The reality is that positive coverage of any Democrat is limited and temporary for fear of networks and newspapers either being accused of liberal bias or being tossed out of the very serious barbeque loop.
Robert Koehler | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
The moral perspective of the New Yorker cover was buried at the bottom of the table of contents on page two -- fiendishly understated, you might say.
Morgan Warners | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media
I don't see McCain backing out of all the insinuations that old age is to blame for his geographic confusion, but it's the media's job to make him try...
Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
This didn't sound like the Saudi King I had come to expect from Western media. I can't remember hearing either Bush or Carter speaking like this or, for that matter, any Israeli Prime Minister including Rabin.
Jan Herman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
Here two excerpts, from the Times and Journal. Both show McCain for what he really is -- a pandering gasbag. But one story does it better than the other. You be the judge.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
An article from Fortune Magazine, entitled "Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all," captures the Democratic candidate walking back his previously stated p...
Mike LaMonica | Posted 06.17.2008 | Entertainment
As a lifelong oilman, I've been disappointed by the way Hollywood has portrayed my industry. So when I was approached about the development of Black Gold, my initial response was a profound "no."
Michael Schwartz | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Collateral Damage, a new book by Laila al-Arian, an independent journalist and Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and former Middle East Bu...
Josh Silver | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media
The O'Reilly ambush is typical cable news entertainment-posing-as- journalism whose purpose is to sell eyeballs to advertisers, not to inform citizens or better society.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home
None of us knows what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton spoke about Thursday night, but there is a feeling in the air that perhaps ignorance, arrogance, and cheap put-downs will cease to amuse -- cease to raise ratings.
Dennis Perrin | Posted 06.03.2008 | Media
Under the American corporate system, the chief task of the propaganda wing, amusingly called "journalism," is to sell whatever the elites are pushing and marginalize anyone who openly dissents.
Joan Garry | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
The New York Times today reinforces every stereotype about the candidates by picking three specific photos, each of which affirm what we hear sixty billion times a week from the best political team in the Milky Way.
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media
The most famous and infamous TV pundits aren't reserving their 'looks are everything' moments to talk of Hillary's cleavage or wrinkles. There are no limits. We are all fair game.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media
Pundits missed the two best kept secrets about Appalachia: it is far from homogeneous and has been a burning ground of change for the past 250 years.
Jonathan Schwarz | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media
It's not news that much of the corporate Washington press corps feels a burning love for John McCain. But it's enjoyable to see the lengths to which they'll go for their political cuddlebunny.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media
My reaction to Rush Limbaugh's comment that he mistook Mayor Villaraigosa as a "shoeshine guy" is not based on partisanship. It is based on my being tired of the media's Latino rules.
RJ Eskow | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media
We know that the right-wing learned how to spin and manipulate the news using outlets like Drudge and Fox. And rather than fight this system, Clinton campaign advisers like Sid Blumenthal decided to exploit it for their own ends.
Ari Melber | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
McCain's refusal to comment on the secret military analyst program is unsurprising, given his staunch support for every major aspect of the President's Iraq policy.
Linda Hansen | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home
McCain admits he wooed firebrand Texas Pastor John Hagee. Yet it's Obama who's weathering the religious-rhetoric storm. Maybe that's because Republicans are expected to dabble in God-fearing hate.
Evan Eisenberg | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Based on the AP's almost-final vote count (which hasn't budged since Wednesday afternoon), Clinton has blasted her rival out of the water with a triple-digit margin of victory: 9.31%.
Josh Silver | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media
In the ensuing days of the revelations of pro-war propaganda on our major TV news outlets, these same outlets are either dismissing the damning revelations or pretending they never happened.
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media
CNN reporter Richard Quest told police who stopped him last week that he had some meth in his pocket. And guess what? He did have some meth in his pocket.
Josh Silver | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media
That Government-sanctioned propaganda has been allowed to continue undisclosed for years is an indictment of both this White House and a docile American media.
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Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.26.2008 | Home