NEW YORK — John McCain supporters who believe they haven't gotten a fair shake from the media during the Republican's candidacy against Barack O...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
If there's one thing about this presidential cycle that so excites me so much is just how much more irrelevant the traditional media has become.
Brian Ross | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home
People vote far more on symbolism than fact. As the last few weeks have brought into critical focus, if you put disinformation out there as if it had credibility, it will be treated by the public as if it were real.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
Despite Bush's condescension, Reagan-Bush won in 1984, and despite being smacked-down, Bush-Quayle won in 1988. So...what exactly is the media's point?
Brian Ross | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home
Given that Bush has grounded the ship of state on an iceberg turned loose by global warming, the failure to hold Palin up to the same standards as any other vice presidential candidate would be an act of gross irresponsibility.
Thom Hartmann | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media
America loves its elites -- we love our sports stars, our movie stars, our rock stars and even our political stars.
George Spyros | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
The fate of our country is in the hands of Tina Fey Yesterday I was faced with the choice of whether or not to post to TreeHugger a clip from Gina ...
Ari Melber | Posted 10.10.2008 | Media
Campaign journalists don't need to cover two sides to every lie; especially an outlandish gender card trick like this one.
David Sirota | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics
What's amazing to me after coming back from vacation is how obviously insular and silly this supposed "national" election conversation really is.
Ellis Weiner | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics
GOP Spokesperson: "The American people are perfectly capable of making up their minds based on lies. That's what you liberal media refuse to recognize."
Josh Silver | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media
In the absence of a legitimate argument, and in the presence of half-truths and outright lies, McCain operatives are fiercely attacking news outlets that ask tough questions and dig up the truth.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
What is particularly noteworthy is where the media bias lies: it's a clear willingness to give John McCain (R) the benefit of the doubt, but not Barack Obama (D).
Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
It's painful to watch these fools -- they don't know how a five-point popular vote victory almost always translates when it comes to the only metric that matters -- the Electoral College. (Hint: landslide).
Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
With all the breathlessness over the minute movements in the irrelevant national polls, the one thing no one seems to be noticing is that the electoral map is still trending very poorly for McCain.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg | Posted 08.09.2008 | Home
We have had a long tradition of coming together as a nation to memorialize our fallen heroes--the men and women whose lives were lost on the battlefie...
Bob Franken | Posted 08.06.2008 | Media
As someone who has consistently tried to be a skunk at every candidate's picnic, I have agonized watching colleagues' adoring coverage of Obama and his non-stop photo-ops.
Lisa Witter | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Is anyone else as appalled as I am at how quickly we have gone back to thinking of women in the oldest of stereotypes -- as only wives and mothers?
BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
There is discussion now taking place between mostly white editors and producers in newsrooms on how to identify Senator Barack Obama now that he is the Democratic nominee.
Ellen Feldman | Posted 06.21.2008 | Media
Now that Hillary has finally conceded, the argument about sexism in news coverage begins, and the good news is that this time it isn't too late to do something about it.
CNN Political Ticker | Posted 06.08.2008 | Media
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean had tough words for the media on Saturday, saying that the presidential race had been plagued by "b...
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.31.2008 | 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.
Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Rev. Jeremiah Wright's appearance at the National Press Club last week definitely pushed him back into the spotlight. Last week he "generated more new...
Lara Cohen | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media
At Us Weekly we know that every celebrity breakup has two sides -- yet the news media failed to apply that same basic due diligence to the Wright story.
Andrew Foster Altschul | Posted 08.15.2008 | Media
What the news media is selling is dangerous: Wright, Obama and Clinton, Iraq and health insurance and Hannah Montana all get stirred into the same idiotic, phony pot.
NY Times | Elizabeth Edwards | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
For the last month, news media attention was focused on Pennsylvania and its Democratic primary. Given the gargantuan effort, what did we learn? Well...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media