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Portfolio's attempt to paint my film as something it is not by using political titillation and creating divisions where none exist is certainly not the way to steal back relevancy from the blogosphere.
Portfolio's attempt to paint my film as something it is not by using political titillation and creating divisions where none exist is certainly not the way to steal back relevancy from the blogosphere.
Doon Baqi | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media
A woman who got pregnant, gave birth, and got pregnant again is not news, at least not in the way it is presented, and not to all of us.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media
Hey, everyone! Remember how on Election Day, CNN made history by making its anchors talk to shimmery videos of Jessica Yellin and Will.I.Am and they ...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 11.12.2008 | Media
Case-in-point is today's Boston Herald story by Dave Wedge on the custom-made armor-laden presidential limo that is being assembled to protect America's first black president.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media
Rather than reward Biden for being open and honest with voters --for being authentic and unscripted -- the press punished him for weeks on end.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media
If newsrooms tilt so tragically to the left, why don't conservatives try to get jobs in newsrooms?
Mark Nickolas | Posted 10.22.2008 | 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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2008 | Media
I suppose that from the standpoint of quantum mechanics, John McCain is currently in the process of simultaneously winning and losing the presidential election -- but one can discuss probabilities fairly.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
One gets so inured to the silly way of doing business in the media, where the obsessive need to "balance" the scales on any given topic has overwhelme...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
Everyone wants the media to "talk about the issues." But it's rare to see a reporter provide a deep and intricate dive into a particular issue or pol...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media
No one's opened up a new frontier of journalistic atrabiliousness as CBS' News Dean Reynolds, who took to CBS's "From The Road" blog to throw a pity party, celebrating his own diva-ish distemper.
Josh Brusin | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media
Campaign after campaign, year after year, accountability, responsibility, transparency are recited no matter which party is speaking. This year is no ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media
Here's an enjoyable piece of video of Fox News' William La Jeunesse attempting to speak extemporaneously about facts and fact checking and who fact ch...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 10.02.2008 | 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?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2008 | Media
It can be very hard to describe what it is precisely about The Page that makes it such a toxic annoyance to the many inside-the-Beltway types for whom hating The Page is a shibboleth, bespeaking common sense. But today's news offers an example.
Cindy Handler | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Maybe one of Palin's "best friends" said something along the lines of "You know, this straight thing is okay, but I think I'm going to go with being gay, because they have it so great in this country, and everyone's so nice to them!
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media
[Via Gawker/Sullivan] Back in 2004, filmmaker Robert Greenwald released a documentary called Outfoxed, which spent seventy-five minutes diving deeply ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
While the political press continues to play with the bright shiny ball that is Who Is To Blame For Everything That Happened Yesterday, I'm picking up ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media
After this sort of week, one might expect that the negative poll trends that bedeviled Obama in the run out from the RNC would begin to reverse themselves. And, you know what? They have. BUT FORGET ALL THAT.
Erik Ose | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics
Halperin went on AC360 and straight-up bare-knuckled it -- accusing the press of indulging McCain's "crocodile tears," calling the media's unwillingness to hold Palin to account "embarrassing," and dismissing and deflecting the McCain camp's attempt to change the conversation by making a mountain out of Obama's "lipstick on a pig" molehill.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics
If after nine months and hundreds of speeches you are under the impression that McCain is "resistant" to talk about "his time as a P.O.W.," then you are, quite frankly, useless.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics
Sunday morning was business as usual on the networks, with Face The Nation, Meet The Press, and This Week performing their familiar weekly duties agai...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics
ThinkProgress is touting an encouraging study from the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy that indicates that wide swaths of middle-class American...
Jennifer L. Pozner | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
On behalf of Women In Media & News, I'm taking our show on the road tomorrow. Over the next two weeks, San Francisco/Bay Area journalists, bloggers, m...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
I recently wrote an article entitled "Deepak Chopra on Mumbai:...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
DALLAS — Of all the cajoling, snide remarks and...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Ami Horowitz | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media