Obama's visit to the White House Press Corps yesterday was going according to plan, for about three minutes, until a Politico reporter suddenly did some journalism. From there, total buzzkill.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
Robert Gibbs' first briefing as White House press secretary offered almost as much insight into the media as the newly installed administration. Wel...
Washington Post | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
The new White House web site is expected to display many cool things once it's fully operational (which, currently, it is not). But pool reports -- t...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 02.22.2009 | Media
Come on, Chuck. What a tone-deaf way to start your White House stint -- just awful and hopefully not a sign of things to come.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media
The Obama White House is planning on putting the presidential pool reports online, leaving me to wonder how the web will possibly cope with having something so indefatigably sexy on it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.16.2009 | Media
Dana Perino celebrated the end of her tenure by treating the assembled White House Press Corps to her comedic stylings, as presented in the form of a ...
Libby Mitchell | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
My young niece and nephew are becoming liars. They don't do it mean spiritedly, most of the time they are just trying to make a story better, or win a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media
If you count yourself among the many aggrieved fans of Chuck Todd who've wept over him not getting the Meet The Press job, take heart! Todd will be r...
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
Hey, keep your shoes on! Just because Obama's in office, that doesn't mean journalism is going to be okay! Is the media business model still collapsin...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
There are not enough shoes in the world to express adequately the outrages the world has endured from the Bush administration over the past eight years.
Mediabistro | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media
via Mediabistro: Our thanks to our sister blog FishbowlDC for this. Helen Thomas has sat in the White House Press Corp for seven presidents. Preside...
Jay Rosen | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home
McClellan as White House spokesman lacked experience, talent, charm, agility, depth. But Bush and Cheney saw these defects as an advantage. They actually wanted the executive branch to become more opaque, and he was the perfect man for the job.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
Jeff Gannon, the pretend White House correspondent with a pretend name whose chief contribution to American politics was finding a point of intersecti...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
Tony Snow has begun his new gig at CNN, and ancient declaimer of non-sequitirs Larry King's heart is so a-flutter that you'd think CNN had just hired a lissome blond, 50 years his junior.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
Earlier today, Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto made a startling admission, suggesting that, at some point in the past, the White House regarded the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
Years after missions were declared to have been accomplished in Iraq, it's still difficult to get a straight answer out of the Bush administration as ...
Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
When White House press secretary Dana Perino appeared on "The Daily Show" last week, host Jon Stewart asked how she got the day off: "Did they not nee...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
To the surprise of nobody, the New York Times this morning reported that, as it turns out, four White House officials - Harriet Miers, John Bellinger,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
"Western" feminist organizations are frequently criticized for keeping mum on the issue of women's rights in Islamic countries. "How hypocritical of ...
Seema Kalia | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
"My Favorite Mistake" is a new biweekly series in which writer Seema Kalia interviews various luminaries about the one mistake that taught them the mo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
While White House Press Secretary Dana Perino may lack the showstopping musical theatre skills of her doppelganger, Kristin Chenoweth, she nevertheles...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
In an interview with Bill O'Reilly last night, former White House press secretary Tony Snow said that his future career plans may include writing a bo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media