Yet the story remains woefully under-covered by the mainstream media, where most outlets (New York Times, Wash Post, Newswweek, Time, etc.) have shied away from tackling the touchy topic as a straight news story.

Journalists ought to be reporting the story and asking Palin to give detailed, unambiguous answers, since...

Four years ago to the month, right-wing bloggers were basking in the glow of their CBS Memogate caper. Fast-forward to the autumn of 2008, and the same bloggers are almost unrecognizable in terms of their shrinking clout.

Right-wing bloggers have been reduced to playing small ball. And even then,...

Blinded by its obsession with the presidential campaign (an obsession that has too often revolved around tactics and trivia), the press this summer all but ignored the unfolding financial collapse. At a time when the public announced, week after week, that it was starved for more economic reporting and that...

Instead of recoiling from the media fact-checking, the Republicans have adopted a post-press approach and simply don't care what the press does or says about their honesty. More to the point, the candidates don't think it will matter on Election Day.

They may be right. And that's the media's...

Fifteen thousand journalists in Denver and they couldn't even report what actually happened there. Instead, they invented a storyline of their liking. And (surprise!) it was one that demeaned Democrats.

The concocted narrative simply reflected what some journalists wanted to see happen, which then made it slightly plausible, and therefore...

Another analysis gem from the Associated Press. We'll just highlight one of the more idiotic portions. It's where the AP's Jennifer Loven struggles mightily to keep afloat her divisive, the-Clinton's-stole-the-convention theme. How did she know it was true? Well, because Hillary had the key speaking role Tuesday night. As...

The press has portrayed Clinton's planned convention address, as well as the fact that her name is being placed into nomination, as an unprecedented, heavy-handed power grab.

It's not.

In years past, Democratic candidates who won lots of primaries and accumulated hundreds of delegates (Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, Jerry...

In terms of affecting the race, in terms of gumming up the works for the Obama campaign, The Obama Nation, has so far been a bust. What happened? How did a sure-fire follow-up hit turn into such a trouble-plagued production? And why isn't Fox News' Swift Boat formula working?

Simple....

Fox News has been taken down several notches, and the demotions can be traced back to the blogger-led debate boycott from 2007 and the repercussions it set off.

I have no definitive proof that the blue-ribbon Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the televised forums, bypassed Fox News in terms...

When McCain gets regularly portrayed in the press as a serial liar the way Al Gore was in 2000, then he can complain about getting bad press.

When McCain is portrayed as an angry lunatic the way Howard Dean was in 2003, then he can complain. When McCain's war...

The New York Times' reporter recently claimed to have felt the sting of the Obama campaign after it publicly critiqued one of his stories. Nagourney "flipped out" and felt like the Obama camp treated him like a "political opponent."

Oh brother. Republican politicians, and Republican candidates, have been attacking...

The revelation that as an AP reporter Fournier privately urged Karl Rove to "keep up the fight," came as no surprise to anyone who has read his recent campaign work. Fournier has routinely been caustic and dismissive of Democratic contenders, while avoiding raising any doubts about Sen. John McCain. In...

The Beltway press corps has become so borderline dysfunctional that even the simplest tasks, such as selecting which stories to cover -- such as using common sense -- now escape most of the major players at the mainstream news organizations.

Two events in recent days reaffirmed that sad conclusion,...

The Times writer who profiled Limbaugh is pretty much a Dittohead, a Limbaugh devotee. So of course there was no reason to fear a "hit job." The whole notion was literally laughable.

Out of the 7,700-plus words Zev Chafets wrote about Limbaugh, I counted exactly two in the entire piece...

Is the Times actually suggesting that the media did their due diligence during the dog days of August 2004 and quickly highlighted the holes in the Swift Boat allegations?

That the press unmasked the Swift Boat accusers and dirty tricksters and held them accountable? That Beltway journalists stepped forward...

Hopeful sparks were visible from the campaign trail last week that suggested there is growing support for the idea of pushing the press off the stage and letting voters get on with the important business of picking the next president. For years, the press played a central and welcome role...

Now that McClellan's come clean in his book about the nature of the timid Beltway press pack, I'll confess my own secret: Scott McClellan was a ghostwriter for my 2006 book, Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush.

No, really.

He was indefatigable in his Lapdog research,...

This year, the press has treated Kennedy as a singularly powerful figure in the Democratic Party and a commanding spokesman for the American left. Unfortunately, that hasn't always been the case.

Just a few years ago, when Republicans were riding high on Iraq war fever and Democrats were seen...

Why is TV's newest talking head being held up as a paragon of political analysis at the very moment the Republican president he helped mold is in complete free fall?

President Bush's current second-term debacle exceeds any other White House calamity in modern times. Yet Karl Rove, the "brains" behind...

John McCain's all-around maverick-ness is being elevated by the media into an iconic brand status, right alongside Ford and Nike. The media, which admire the corporatization of campaigns, are hugely impressed by the development.

Indeed, the term "brand" conjures up an impenetrable, irrevocable image; an entrenched vision that cannot...