Fox News Cut Out From Questions At Obama's First Press Conference
President-Elect Barack Obama held his first press conference yesterday, one that focused mainly on the current economic crisis. One detail that flew ...
President-Elect Barack Obama held his first press conference yesterday, one that focused mainly on the current economic crisis. One detail that flew ...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
CHICAGO — Democrat Barack Obama got annoyed with the media Friday as he tried to walk down a Chicago street with his 7-year-old daughter, Sasha,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe sent a memo to reporters early Friday morning, acknowledging the tightness of the presidential race and committin...
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics
McCain couldn't possibly be an elitist and out of touch with most Americans because it doesn't fit the media narrative. He's just not.
LA Times | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week. Barack Obama, they said, was getting a free ride from those insuffera...
TNR | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office. The ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media
Yesterday I posted an item called "Obama's Revenge: New Yorker Reporter Banned From Press Plane For Overseas Trip." It was based on this excerpt from ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media
Whatever one thinks of the New Yorker cover, a robust press can't operate under threat of reprisal for unwelcome items.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics
Krugman predicte that "within three months of taking office, no, less than three months" the media would be out to get Obama, as much as they had at the high point of anti-Bill Clinton bashing.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics
NEW YORK — TV One, the cable network aimed at African-American viewers, will cover Barack Obama's nominating convention but is ignoring John McC...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics
ST. LOUIS — Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking S...
Paul Hogarth | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
The fact that some voters in "Flag City" think that Obama is a Muslim doesn't mean he will lose Ohio -- and it certainly doesn't belong on the front page of the Washington Post.
Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
In an online chat last week, Washington Post reporter Jonathan Weisman said of Obama: He really did not become immersed in black American culture u...
New York Times | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Senator Barack Obama is drawing up plans for extensive advertising and voter-turnout drives across the nation, hoping to capitalize on his expected fu...
TNR | Isaac Chotiner | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Two weeks ago, on the night of Barack Obama's big win and narrow loss in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, respectively, I turned my televisio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
Senator Robert Menendez, a key surrogate for Hillary Clinton, said on Thursday that it was time for the media to move on from the scandal and conflict...
Robert Silvers | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home
Obama must take back his campaign with a serious discussion about serious issues. He should talk about nothing else until the media cries "uncle" and is forced to start writing about substance.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home
In the last few days, the weary and distracted candidate Obama has been more forceful and passionate. Confronting his displeasure with Rev. Wright seems to have lit a fire under the Barack ass.
NYT's The Caucus | Katherine Seelye | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
If Senator Hillary Clinton wins today in Ohio and Texas, will analysts look back and point to the Feb. 23 edition of "Saturday Night Live" as a cruci...
AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
DALLAS — The founder of a prestigious institute on media and politics added his voice Saturday to the chorus of complaint over perceived press b...
Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama came to the press part of the plane for the first time since the airing of the now infamous "Saturday Night Live" last weekend featuring ...
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
When reporters filed onto Barack Obama's press plane after his acrimonious debate with Hillary Rodham Clinton last week, one thing was noticeably miss...
NY Times | MARK LEIBOVICH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has become the open and accessible candidate -- sharing beers with reporters, taking endless questions from voters at c...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 12.09.2008 | Media