All the News That's Fit to Print
By reporting the facts, we can, as a society, stop what is really causing young inner city girls to believe that their economic worth extends no further than child assistance checks.
By reporting the facts, we can, as a society, stop what is really causing young inner city girls to believe that their economic worth extends no further than child assistance checks.
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Obama is fighting back only because Republicans have so far spent his entire presidency trying to obstruct his every move.
Diane Tucker | Posted 11.01.2009 | Media
Ronald Reagan governed over high unemployment numbers, and he was covered by a hyper-critical media. Yet today, most TV news outlets are giving President Obama a free pass on equally bleak statistics.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology
It's time for young journalists and, just as important, young technologists to show how news is expanding and being re-defined in a world under Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Brian Palmer | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
It's a commonplace that Social Security is the third rail of politics. For the first black president, however, it's clearly race.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
Urban Worrier is an extraordinary book about an ordinary life as lived in extraordinary times. How I wish voices like Frank Gruber's were the voices of politics and argument we were hearing on cable TV!
Norman Solomon | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
Increasingly, public opinion is not cooperating. While the media establishment and the political establishment appear to belong to the same pro-war affinity group, the public is shifting to the other side of a widening credibility gap.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 08.25.2009 | Entertainment
It's been more than a month since Michael Jackson's demise and still no burial, cremation, resting place, or any manifestation of "closure" for this fallen King of Pop.
Saul Segan | Posted 08.03.2009 | Media
While it was understandable that Jackson's death merited considerable coverage, the disgraceful monopoly of the topic on the television screens and neglect of any other news story were not.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
The Republican National Committee is now fundraising off of ABC News' decision to host an hour-long special on health care reform from the Obama White...
Larry Gellman | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
It was Lenin, after all, who almost 100 years ago stated what has become the mantra of the angry Right and the deluded media nearly a century later: A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media
When I get to the office, I will ride an elevator up to my floor. In the elevator, there will be a television. On the television, there will be news. I actually spend a fair amount of time these days avoiding the news.
AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media
DENVER — A Colorado congressman told bloggers that they and other new media are responsible for the demise of the Rocky Mountain News and other ...
Caryl Rivers | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
Could FDR have succeeded with the New Deal if he had been operating in a 24-hour continuous news cycle? The answer is probably not.
Naazish YarKhan | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media
Whether we get our news from the net, the papers or TV, journalist T. J. Sullivan says if you want facts and hard investigative reporting, it's time to save journalists and news-gathering organizations.
Judy Wieder | Posted 03.01.2009 | Entertainment
As a non-straight woman living in California, currently married to my partner, but living in fear of Prop 8's outcome, it kills me to see married couples slaughtering each other on a weekly basis.
Larry Gellman | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business
Is there any non-Jew in America who was thinking about marrying or doing business with a Jew that is now reconsidering that decision because Bernie Madoff was Jewish?
Libby Mitchell | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living
There is a secret weapon that could be utilized to bring down every news organization in the world. Brilliant in simplicity, relatively easy to make, ...
Norman Solomon | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media
The fog of memory and the spin of media are teaming up to explain that Obama must hew to "the center" if he knows what's good for his presidency.
William Klein | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media
Just off their mostly news-free coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, the major news networks have directed their correspondents to refrain from traditional news and stick to glitz.
Sean Hartofilis | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
Stop polling! Or, at least, stop telling us about the polls. Pundits (where do they all go, by the way, after the election?) should be debating the issues, not predicting the outcome.
Norman Solomon | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media
Recent events should not be allowed to obscure the reality that the news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living
It's hard not to comment on the financial doom surrounding us this week like a darkening tunnel, but I want to point something out that's very positiv...
Larry Gellman | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
It was appropriate that outrage be expressed during those hearings, but the criticism should have been directed from Paulson to the members of Congress.
Larry Gellman | Posted 10.19.2008 | Media
You remember journalists. They were the reporters and analysts who used to make sure that stories were true before they published or went on the air with them.
Michael Jones | Posted 10.26.2009 | Chicago