Spokespundits: From Campaign Insiders To Talking Heads
Minutes before he was to appear on "Hardball," Todd Harris was handed a wire report quoting John McCain as saying that eliminating America's dependenc...
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I Long for The Good Ol' Days
Kevin Marousek | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home
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Instead of hearing about the substance of the campaigns, we have to sit through countless political analysts and pundits weighing in on trivial remarks
The War Pundits: Sam Power, McJoan, Danner, Mitchell
Ari Melber | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
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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.
The Recession Narrative: Pundits Know Nothing
Margaret Heffernan | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
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No one knows the future because it hasn't happened yet. Sure, you can guess -- everyone can guess. But no one knows. The pundits know no more than you do. Get used to it.
A Detailed Analysis of Obama's Iraq Flip-Flop in Action Figure Form
Lee Camp | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
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Reaching for the Elusive "Real" in "Real Change"
David Sirota | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
My time in professional politics and journalism leads me to think that conceit, ambition, arrogance and greed have been exacerbated by television, the 24 hour news, starf*cker-ism, and the rise of the Internet.
New Study of Talk Show Host Brains Calls for Compassion Not Scorn
Steve Young | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
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While the normal brain is the site of reason and intelligence, the talk show host brain, dependent on bias and fanaticism to filter information, cannot distinguish rumor from fact.
McClellan and His Media Collaborators
Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
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Given how TV networks danced to the White House tune in the first years of W's reign, it's fitting that it took the words of a longtime Bush insider to force their self-examination over Iraq.
Hillary's Popular Vote Notion only 'Popular' with the Punditocracy
Donald Sutherland | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
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Haven't we had enough of Mrs. Clinton's mad antics in her pursuit of the realization of venal personal ambition?
Marshall McLuhan Was Wrong: The Media Is the Mess, Part One (I Think)
Larry Amoros | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
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They say a picture's worth a thousand words. All we're getting is the thousand words. We get Wolf asking Anderson for his opinion on what Candy said to Richard about Katie's report on Fallujah.
The Right Never Dies
Dennis Perrin | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
Now that Obama has the nomination all but locked up, and is drawing Springsteen-sized crowds, liberal pundits are asking the age-old question: Is conservatism dead?
Ban the Pundits
Marvin Kitman | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media
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If there is such a thing as poetic license, why shouldn't pundits be licensed? You need a license before you can drive a car legally. The information highway is equally fraught with dangers.
TV Hosts, What the $#@! Are You Doing?
Jim David | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media
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Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued.
It Ain't Over Until It's Over
Marvin Kitman | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
I know the pundits are saying it's over. As the oracle-in-chief, Tim Russert said after midnight Tuesday night on MSNBC, "We now know who the no...
Karl Rove and the Media-Politico Revolving Door: It Goes Further Back than Stephanopoulos
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
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The New York Times traces the trend as far back as George Stephanopoulos's switch from the Clinton White House to ABC News, but it goes much further back.
Pundits React To North Carolina, Indiana Primaries
Huffington Post | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
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With Senator Obama's double-digit victory in the North Carolina primary, and Senator Clinton eking out a very narrow win in the Indiana primary, the p...
An Open Letter to All $#@%&$! Pundits
Jim David | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media
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I know the reason windows in hotels don't open anymore--so people like me won't leap onto the pavement below after watching more CNN, MSNBC and FOX than any normal person should.
Of Sharks in the Water, Superdelegates, and Hannah Montana's Breasts
Andrew Foster Altschul | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media
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What the news media is selling is dangerous: Wright, Obama and Clinton, Iraq and health insurance and Hannah Montana all get stirred into the same idiotic, phony pot.
New Litmus Test for the Democratic Nominee: Attack John McCain
Moira Whelan | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
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Both the Obama and Clinton camps can use the upcoming primaries to go after John McCain with the kind of fervor they've reserved for each other.
Hillary Wins PA by Triple Digits!
Evan Eisenberg | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
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Based on the AP's almost-final vote count (which hasn't budged since Wednesday afternoon), Clinton has blasted her rival out of the water with a triple-digit margin of victory: 9.31%.
TV's Response to Pentagon Propaganda? Never Happened
Josh Silver | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media
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In the ensuing days of the revelations of pro-war propaganda on our major TV news outlets, these same outlets are either dismissing the damning revelations or pretending they never happened.
The Chickens Have Come Home To Roost: Primary Coverage Drinking Games
Reny Monk | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
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"Clinton's Last Stand" "Obama Can't Close the Deal" "Bitter and Angry" Argh. It's a bad TV drinking game. For me, the hackneyed vocabulary of these politicos drains all meaning from the process!
Mark Halperin & The Real Elitist Problem
Ari Melber | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media
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From the New York Times profile on Halperin today, readers would have no idea about how Halperin leverages The Page -- and Time's credibility -- to stoke gossip, innuendo and even advise politicians on dirty tricks.
Got Bitter?
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics
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Obama merely described a portion of the population that is wooed and wed every single election cycle only to be divorced almost as soon as the voting booths have closed.
The Pundit Class Gets More Diverse
New York Times | Felicia R. Lee | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media
The historic and long-running presidential campaigns of Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have injected issues of race and gende...
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