Instead of hearing about the substance of the campaigns, we have to sit through countless political analysts and pundits weighing in on trivial remarks
Ari Melber | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
By relying too heavily on government sources from one party, most pre-Iraq war coverage misstated the threat and drastically underplayed opposition to the war among experts, political elites, and the general public.
Margaret Heffernan | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
No one knows the future because it hasn't happened yet. Sure, you can guess -- everyone can guess. But no one knows. The pundits know no more than you do. Get used to it.
Lee Camp | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
David Sirota | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
My time in professional politics and journalism leads me to think that conceit, ambition, arrogance and greed have been exacerbated by television, the 24 hour news, starf*cker-ism, and the rise of the Internet.
Steve Young | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
While the normal brain is the site of reason and intelligence, the talk show host brain, dependent on bias and fanaticism to filter information, cannot distinguish rumor from fact.
Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
Given how TV networks danced to the White House tune in the first years of W's reign, it's fitting that it took the words of a longtime Bush insider to force their self-examination over Iraq.
Donald Sutherland | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Haven't we had enough of Mrs. Clinton's mad antics in her pursuit of the realization of venal personal ambition?
Larry Amoros | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
They say a picture's worth a thousand words. All we're getting is the thousand words. We get Wolf asking Anderson for his opinion on what Candy said to Richard about Katie's report on Fallujah.
Dennis Perrin | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
Now that Obama has the nomination all but locked up, and is drawing Springsteen-sized crowds, liberal pundits are asking the age-old question: Is conservatism dead?
Marvin Kitman | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media
If there is such a thing as poetic license, why shouldn't pundits be licensed? You need a license before you can drive a car legally. The information highway is equally fraught with dangers.
Jim David | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued.
Marvin Kitman | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
I know the pundits are saying it's over. As the oracle-in-chief, Tim Russert said after midnight Tuesday night on MSNBC, "We now know who the no...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
The New York Times traces the trend as far back as George Stephanopoulos's switch from the Clinton White House to ABC News, but it goes much further back.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
With Senator Obama's double-digit victory in the North Carolina primary, and Senator Clinton eking out a very narrow win in the Indiana primary, the p...
Jim David | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media
I know the reason windows in hotels don't open anymore--so people like me won't leap onto the pavement below after watching more CNN, MSNBC and FOX than any normal person should.
Andrew Foster Altschul | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media
What the news media is selling is dangerous: Wright, Obama and Clinton, Iraq and health insurance and Hannah Montana all get stirred into the same idiotic, phony pot.
Moira Whelan | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
Both the Obama and Clinton camps can use the upcoming primaries to go after John McCain with the kind of fervor they've reserved for each other.
Evan Eisenberg | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Based on the AP's almost-final vote count (which hasn't budged since Wednesday afternoon), Clinton has blasted her rival out of the water with a triple-digit margin of victory: 9.31%.
Josh Silver | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media
In the ensuing days of the revelations of pro-war propaganda on our major TV news outlets, these same outlets are either dismissing the damning revelations or pretending they never happened.
Reny Monk | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
"Clinton's Last Stand" "Obama Can't Close the Deal" "Bitter and Angry" Argh. It's a bad TV drinking game. For me, the hackneyed vocabulary of these politicos drains all meaning from the process!
Ari Melber | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media
From the New York Times profile on Halperin today, readers would have no idea about how Halperin leverages The Page -- and Time's credibility -- to stoke gossip, innuendo and even advise politicians on dirty tricks.
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
Obama merely described a portion of the population that is wooed and wed every single election cycle only to be divorced almost as soon as the voting booths have closed.
New York Times | Felicia R. Lee | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media
The historic and long-running presidential campaigns of Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have injected issues of race and gende...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.25.2008 | Media
Brooks is among those who have long argued that they actually got the war right, but Donald Rumsfeld made it wrong.
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Kevin Marousek | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home