The Conference Board, which has tracked Americans mood swings since 1967, released figures showing that consumer confidence has reached an all time low. Sobering, but in light of the latest media coverage, hardly surprising news.
Kate Sheppard | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
The EPA proposes new regulations for injecting carbon into the ground.
Doon Baqi | Posted 07.13.2008 | Media
For all of you journalists who claim to be in the know -- Remember the film Karate Kid?
Mark Joseph | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
Please NBC, let Brokaw resume his status as elder statesmen and reminder to us all of a generation of newsmen who seemed to think that they were better and smarter than their viewers.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media
The new numbers are out from Nielsen Online and now there can be no doubt: The Huffington Post is currently the fastest growing major news site in the U.S.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 06.18.2008 | Life
Why is it that Canadians have such an evolved take on sexuality and are so much less taboo driven and abstinence promoting?
BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 06.16.2008 | 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.
NewsTrust | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home
media attention is starting to focus on McCain's divergence from his image as a reformer. Our top-rated mainstream media piece, McCain Campaign Calls; A Nonprofit Steps In by the Washington Post's Robert O'Harrow Jr., looks at how McCain's top veteran affairs advisor also serves on the board of directors for Citizens Against Government Waste
Carol Maric | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
If Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton can be relegated to the ranks of "Autism" these days, then The New World does seem perilously close to being upside down--as I have always suspected.
Carol Maric | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
I Object! Or is that Subject? This was my first reaction to the common linguistic objectification of sentient beings which has become pervasive in America.
Andrew Arentowicz | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
I am worried about our future. I would normally be minding my own business, but I'm afraid not enough people understand what's happening in the world today.
Joe Lauria | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media
ABC's market research apparently showed that keeping questions to the level of flag pins and what your pastor thinks would draw and keep an audience tuned in. Hence, the worst debate ever.
John K. Wilson | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home
Obama's bounce in the polls this week is more than a mere candidate "surge." It's a repudiation of the nattering nabob media which imagined clumsy wording could send his campaign into a glorious tailspin.
Leslie Griffith | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media
Your local news has the money to buy a helicopter and install expensive high definition, but not the money to hire experienced investigative reporters to help protect your community?
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home
But Hillary Clinton not only engages in earmarking, but she voted against a proposed bill to make earmarks public and has refused to make her earmarks public.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.24.2008 | Media
When asked by CNN's John Roberts why, if he advocated superdelegates voting with their constituents, was he backing Obama, Richardson claimed Roberts was getting "technical."
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.21.2008 | Media
This is almost like an exhalation, a tension break: about two former opponents who always liked each other now coming together out of a common hope and dream.
Ann Medlock | Posted 03.06.2008 | Media
I love this language you and I read, write and speak. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.
Lauren Kirchner | Posted 01.23.2008 | Media
The audience is invited to text in their votes predicting who will drool the most on any given day: Chris Matthews, or...no, nevermind, it's definitely going be Chris Matthews.
DailyKos | Keith Olbermann | Posted 01.14.2008 | Media
[This is legit -- kos] Yeah, it's me. Hi. Sure has taken me long enough. But, as you may know, I am the shy, retiring type: Hesitant t...
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Here we go again. Oil prices tumbling "in the steepest four...
According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
Steve Wasik | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green