The Press

Who Is Pressing The Pressmen?

Emily Bracken | Posted 04.29.2009 | Comedy


Emily Bracken

Humorists and comedians are a curious bunch. Quixotic by nature, they want so desperately to live in a world of decency, fairness and goodness, and in Stewart's case, in a world where the media grew some cajones.

TIME's Mark Halperin: 'Extreme Pro-Obama Media Bias A Disgusting Failure'

Politico | ALEXANDER BURNS | Posted 12.23.2008 | Media


Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at t...

Poll: Over Half Of Americans Don't Trust The Press

Thinkprogress.org | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


A new Harris Interactive poll finds that over half of Americans -- 54 percent -- say they tend not to trust the press, "with only 30 percent tending t...

Sam Stein

Ex-NYC Mayor Dinkins Breaks Silence On Giuliani

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The collapse of Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign in Florida may have been perceived as a sudden if not spectacular political phenomenon. But the ...

McCain Knocks Media "Vultures": "The Aging, Senile Side Of The Press Corps"

Washington Post | Juliet Eilperin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Arizona Sen. John McCain must be feeling a little punchy on the campaign trail nowadays, because he was happy to tweak one of his campaign's most valu...

Spinning the Press for Obama

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

At the final Obama rally of the day, in southside Des Moines, David Axelrod lifts phrases from the stump speech Barack Obama has given not five minutes before to answer press questions.