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?
Craig Silverman | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media
Public Eye died because it operated exactly the way CBS News had originally intended. The organization changed, and suddenly transparency and dialogue were no longer affordable.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
The myth is that the Iowa caucuses are the purest form of American participatory democracy because the process forces presidential candidates to humbl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
The fact that we have reached the zero hour is a great relief, if only because the media is running out of things to say.
Tom Alderman | Posted 01.02.2008 | Media
The problem with buzz words is, the more they're used the more they lose their meaning. In a few years, 'authentic' will be used to describe reality TV.
Ted Johnson | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics
When the three leading Democratic candidates blanket the airwaves with one final push on the local evening newscasts in Iowa on Wednesday night, it'll...
David Sirota | Posted 12.31.2007 | Politics
Power-challenging economic populism is exciting most voters, including most middle class Americans and many Republicans.
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 12.30.2007 | Media
What may seem elementary in the West is still catching on in much of the Arab world. But blogging is definitely becoming the medium of choice.
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!
Caryl Rivers | Posted 12.24.2007 | Media
How soon will we see the DVD, with added features, like the costumes that didn't make the YouTube debate, the worst slip up, best one liners (Joe Biden wins this one) and meanest questions?
David Sirota | Posted 12.23.2007 | Media
My column is proof that progressive populist media voices can succeed and get into the media debate without having an insider, Establishment perspective.
Joseph Romm | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics
Wow, a TV weatherman expressed skepticism. If only the IPCC had been told of this in time, they could have scrapped their entire report.
Timothy Karr | Posted 12.20.2007 | Media
#2. Telcos Spy on Millions of Americans. #4. AT&T and Verizon Censor Free Speech. #8. Bush's Justice Dept. Files Against Net Neutrality.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
Until any other candidate gets Kurtz, Halperin, and Fineman to inveigh on their behalf against the media's unfairness, we're just going to have to say, yes, indeed, it is not a level playing field.
Eric Deggans | Posted 12.20.2007 | Media
Producers seem to be using the strike to reboot the TV industry and slough off practices they've long wanted to eliminate.
Russell Shaw | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media
In most metro areas -- especially the 20 largest metro areas where the relaxed restrictions would apply -- we have lots of diverse voices.
Norman Solomon | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media
I figured it was a safe bet that Glenn Beck's enthusiasm for full disclosure from media would be selective.
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
After weeks of bad news, Hillary Clinton and her strategists hoped that winning the endorsement of Iowa's largest newspaper last weekend might produce...
Joel Simon | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media
The death toll for journalists has not gotten the attention it deserves, partly because the public has become inured to the violence and partly because nearly all those killed in Iraq are Iraqis.
Andrew Slack | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media
The Harry Potter Alliance put out "Rocking Out Against VoldeMedia," which is aimed at building awareness and action against FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's current rush to gut media consolidation rules.
Marie Wilson | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
One of the best received lines in the democratic debate yesterday was one Senator Clinton is using, "No more cowboy diplomacy." It's a phrase The Whi...
Josh Silver | Posted 12.13.2007 | Media
Today in the Congress, senators berated FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about his plans to open the floodgates of media consolidation. And Martin didn't flinch.
George Scribner | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
Although Americans continue to doubt the veracity and intentions of traditional news media, they trust the Internet as a tool to help them make sense of the news.
Josh Silver | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
Potterwatch is building a real-world movement against "Voldemedia" -- the handful of companies that control most of what we see, hear and read every day.
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.
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...
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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...
Leslie Griffith | Posted 01.06.2008 | Media