Sam Donaldson

Young Voices in The Future of News -- Connection, Conversation, Community

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology


Jose Antonio Vargas

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.

Sam Donaldson Spars With Liz Cheney Over CIA Torture Investigation (VIDEO)

Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics


Sam Donaldson and Liz Cheney spiritedly debated the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether or not torture occurred during CIA...

Monday's Late Night Round-Up: Miss California, Waterboarding, And Sam Donaldson Being All Crazy (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 05.22.2009 | Comedy


The late night hosts took on the Miss USA pageant last night with Jimmy Fallon saying the GOP found their VP candidate for 2012 and Jay Leno mocking M...

Sam Stein

Sam Donaldson: I Want To Ask Castro, Before He Dies, If He Killed Kennedy (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media


Asked to reflect upon the coming end of Fidel Castro's time and regime in Cuba, longtime ABC newsman Sam Donaldson had one last request: to be beside ...

Caption Contest! Caption This Photo, Vote For Yesterday's Best, See Monday's Winner

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 03.20.2009 | Comedy


Sam Donaldson goofs around with reporters on the red carpet at Ford's Theatre on the bicentennial celebration of Lincoln's birth. Donaldson recently a...

Sam Donaldson To Retire After Four Decades At ABC News

washingtonpost.com | Howard Kurtz | Posted 03.18.2009 | Media


Whatever else he accomplished in his 41 years at ABC News, Sam Donaldson knows he'll be remembered mainly for his bellowing voice. "I guess it'll be ...

Friday Talking Points [58] -- [Expletive Deleted] Blagojevich

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...

Why I Called It for Joe Biden

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics


Joe Cutbirth

The thrill of any debate comes in that one moment - and it almost always comes if you are patient - when one candidate finds a small opening and claims the evening.

Sam Stein

ABC Panel Tears Into McCain: Not Presidential, Age Should Be An Issue

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics


For John McCain, the panel discussion on This Week with George Stephanopoulos could not have been more brutal. Minutes after conservative columnist G...

Sunday Watch: In Which Skepticism Revives (But Not for Everyone)

Todd Gitlin | Posted 10.02.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

In terms of attention seized, McCain-Palin "won the weekend." Whether they won supporters is more doubtful. Judging from the top two Sunday shows, they didn't impress.

Sunday Watch, 8-3-08: In Which David Gergen Collides with the Straight Talk Express and Walks Away from the Wreck

Todd Gitlin | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

Washington fights sound petty even when they are deeply consequential, and neither journalists nor politicians have discovered how to make them sound as dramatic and consequential as they deserve to sound.

Sunday Watch: In Which McCain Is Not Greeted as a Liberator

Todd Gitlin | Posted 08.05.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

It was a delight to see Stephanopoulos nudge McCain to Iraq, getting at what is the most fundamental difference between the two candidates -- the grown-up test of independence from the Bush worldview.

Sam Donaldson: Nothing Could Be Worse For The Press Than Bush Administration

New York Times/TV Decoder | Brian Stelter | Posted 04.23.2008 | Media


LAS VEGAS -- No matter who wins the White House in November, the next administration is likely to be a lot more open to media scrutiny than the curren...

Star Blogger Perez Hilton Discusses His Hillary Clinton Endorsement

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson interviewed Perez Hilton today about his Hillary Clinton endorsement and whether he thinks he played a role in he...

Update: Sam Donaldson Was Not A DC Madam Client

Radar | John Cook | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Rob Capriccioso, a Washington, D.C., blogger and sometime (now former) Radar freelancer, reported this morning that Sam Donaldson's phone number appea...

Sam Donaldson's Digits In DC Madam's Black Book

Radar | Steve Huff | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Once upon a time in D.C. there was a Madam named Debra. The boys under the Dome loved her milkshakes and they formed a line in her yard. Soon a scanda...