On today's Wilshire & Washington, we ask the question: Who's on top, the MSM or Digital Media? Who's leading the discussion, why, and is it a good thing? To help us navigate this tricky landscape, we've got New York Times reporter Brian Stelter with us; Stelter

About this time last year Democratic strategists were patting each other on the back and congratulating each other on masterminding the enduring rise of The Progressive Majority built on the backs of bloggers and digital media as a messaging and fundraising machine. Republicans were supposedly leaps and bounds behind at...

If anything can be said about the week in media, it was that Americans put their priorities where their mouths are: gabbing on and on about the frivolous alongside the deeply serious. Today we explore how the issue of the Afghanistan war was forced to share screen, air, digital and...

Attention all liberals who imagined that the country was going through some new progressive revolution after the last election: wake up and smell the Blue Dogs! These conservative Democrats (in name, if not deed) have House-broken the House of Representatives (get it? hilarious) by forcing mad-hat liberals like Speaker Nancy...

Welcome to Meaningless Election Day 2009, the day the media will read far too much into the portentous local elections around the country. What will the storylines be? The Rise of the Republicans? Comeuppance for Obama? The Country under Conservative control? Despite all this fascinating stuff to deal with, we...

Now that it's been a week or two, how's the Obama administration's freeze out of Fox News going? It's gangbusters for Fox, as the network has used the odd White House strategy of identifying the news organization as "partisan" as a rallying cry for its viewers and supporters. Did...

Just because the issue hasn't been in the public eye for the last couple of months, that doesn't mean that the Patriot Act and FISA and illegal wiretapping aren't still cause for concern to a lot of people on both sides of the aisle. Today, Jon Pincus, CEO of...

Today, we talk the politics of culture (or is it cultural politics?), starting off with our president. How much should Obama be seen and heard as he runs the country? After Bush kept to himself most of the time, we've got a president who hits all these talk shows on...

It's "awkward public outbursts by public figures" week! Woo-hoo! We can start with Michael Moore, who always has had a penchant for public stunts and the embarrassment of his foes, and his new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, is no exception. (Watch the trailer here.) Ted gives us...

In today's Wilshire & Washington, we talk Government 2.0 with special guest Dr. Mark Drapeau, an Associate Research Fellow at the National Defense University and Co-Chair of the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase and the Gov 2.0 Expo in May 2010. The Gov 2.0 Summit (#gov20s), currently being held...

In today's show, we continue on our Twitter kick. Last week, we had David All, a conservative new media strategist, on to discuss how conservatives are winning the Twitter war and why it's essential that they do. Today, we've got Jim Gilliam, co-founder of Brave New Films and...

With Ted away, the Tweeters -- @maegancarberry and @tetesagehen -- come out to play... Maegan and Teresa devote pretty much the entire show to Twitter, and have David All (@davidall), whom Wired magazine once called "an unusual animal" and is a conservative new media adviser, along for...

On today's "Wilshire & Washington," we are joined by Rick Klein (@thenote), senior political reporter at ABC News and author of "The Note," a political blog and tipsheet published every weekday at ABCNews.com. The main topic of the day, without fail, is health care, and how President Obama...

Is health care a generational issue? We see a lot of older people in power and at these town halls, pushing the debate, but why aren't the young people showing up? Maegan has a great essay today on the generational battle in politics and its role of health care,...

With Netroots Nation coming up next week, we have joining us DailyKos General Manager Will Rockafellow for today's Wilshire & Washington. We talk the future of the netroots and, now that President Obama has been in office for six months, how tactics will change online. The Republicans are...

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad media world, and we're just players, right? We don't even have Walter Cronkite to tell us how it is anymore. The latest to the fray is Mediaite.com, and on today's Wilshire & Washington, we have Rachel Sklar, the Editor-at-Large for Mediaite and...

A serious question for all those watching the Sonia Sotomayor hearings: Nobody, especially Sotomayor, is really going to say anything new or dramatic, so can we skip it? No? D'oh! A wise Latina might let us, but we all know how the Republicans feel about them.

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In today's Wilshire & Washington, we can't help but weigh in on the Sarah Palin epic disaster movie. It's a fantastic train wreck of a story, and we can't look away. What is Palin's future hold? She used to want to be a journalist, so maybe she'll start her own...

On today's Wilshire & Washington, we have a very special guest: Adam Kokesh, a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and a veteran of the Iraq War. He's also running for Congress in New Mexico. At only 27, he has an understanding of the war in Iraq better...

It's been a crazy week, and it's only Wednesday! Since their election on Friday, Iranians have been burning up the Twittersphere, drumming up support abroad and organizing protests internally. Why has Twitter suddenly gone political? Finally appreciating the service, Ted exposes his luddite roots, and Teresa helpfully explains why Twitter...