There is sanctity to a person's direct prayers to their G-d. If there any truth to the publication Obama's direct and private conversation at the Wailing Wall, it is just wrong.
236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media
The McCain campaign thinks the media is waaay too in love with Barack Obama, and they're whining about it with a bitterness usually found in a church-...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media
It seems to me that this is going to be a tsunami-sized scandal for the Democratic Party and right now the coming typhoon of press coverage is close to breaking.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media
The end of a media affair with a politician shouldn't be a time of mourning, anger, and despair. It is a time that should be celebrated because it means the media has regained its senses.
Lauren Kirchner | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media
Helicopter with Petraeus: Golfcart with Bush Sr :: 200,000 screaming fans in Berlin : eatin' sausage in Ohio
Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
The Nieman Foundation and its Watchdog Project this year established an I.F. Stone Medal for journalistic independence. I'm delighted to announce th...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Everyone seems to assume that if we drill for oil in the US, we will get the oil and won't be dependent on foreign oil anymore. But we won't get anything, Exxon-Mobil will.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media
BERLIN — Team Obama has received a record-breaking 1,300 requests for press credentials from reporters who want to cover his speech here...
Jeremy Haft | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
China is curtailing the hours when press can film in Tiananmen Square, and they'll try to censor the television narrative. But they won't be able to prohibit 24/7 coverage via the Internet of protests as they happen.
Bob Harris | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
Hat tips to ThinkProgress and NewsHounds. ...
Eric Alterman | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment
The news is that the new Batman movie has set a new box office record for a single day. Thing is, those numbers are all pretty much nonsense.
Hugh Hamilton | Posted 07.19.2008 | Entertainment
The two images will dominate the American media this weekend are for once not Obama and McCain, but rather the competing movies at the box office, the images of which dare I say it, can be seen to represent the dichotomy of the American landscape.
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home
Pixar makes a ton of money for Disney. So when the Pixar guys want to do a movie about a rodent with a talent for gourmet cooking, or an affable trash compacting machine in a movie with almost no decipherable words uttered during the first half of the picture, Disney says,"Sounds cool!"
Kevin Marousek | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
Instead of hearing about the substance of the campaigns, we have to sit through countless political analysts and pundits weighing in on trivial remarks
Lucy Bernholz | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
How come the children's learning arm of PBS can figure out sustainable ways to develop media content that not only thrive in their original format but go on to be fabulous in others?
Lester Feder | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home
Doctors can alleviate any concerns about McCain's health. But Americans can rightly wonder whether he truly understands the faltering economy that he will have to steer back to health if he becomes president.
Ari Melber | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
By relying too heavily on government sources from one party, most pre-Iraq war coverage misstated the threat and drastically underplayed opposition to the war among experts, political elites, and the general public.
William Bradley | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
McCain has a problematic new ad for Latino voters. It won't work -- and he was already far behind where Team McCain thought he'd be with Latinos a few months ago.
Media Matters | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
During the 10 a.m. ET hour of the July 16 broadcast of MSNBC Live, host Monica Novotny devoted a segment to discussing Sen. Hillary Clinton's "new loo...
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living
Have you ever been in a stadium filled with eighteen thousand people, where you had the unquestionable certainty that you were by far the oldest perso...
Jennifer L. Pozner | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media
On behalf of Women In Media & News, I'm taking our show on the road tomorrow. Over the next two weeks, San Francisco/Bay Area journalists, bloggers, m...
Elizabeth Ross | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home
How about a good old fashioned grassroots boycott to get our point across to the New Yorker?
Jennifer L. Pozner | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media
This goes out to all my Bay Area friends -- if you've been reading my occasional blog posts about women, media, politics and pop culture here at Huffi...
Eric Deggans | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
If tradition civil rights leaders are stuck on the outside when Obama gets elected president, what does that mean for them and for the struggle to free black folks from oppression?
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home
It's hard to believe that the editorial staff of the New Yorker did not see this straight depiction of Obama and his wife as militant/Muslim terrorists for the Red State red meat that it is. Parroting is not parody.
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
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I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
John McCain said in an interview with Politico on Wednesday "that he was uncertain how many houses he and his...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
There are over 6 billion people of people on the...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Michelle Kraus | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media