The last presidential campaign — specifically the GOP primaries — should have shown how little power media “talk jocks like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity” really have, columnist David Brooks writes in today’s New York Times.
Brooks writes that the talk…
LA Times media critic James Rainey says both Fox News and MSNBC were guilty of prejudging Wednesday’s tax party protests.
Rainey writes:
“You’d expect conservative commentators like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity to be hyping today’s wave of anti-tax “tea parties.” But Fox…
One angry reader this morning challenged our use of “Islamophobia” in a front-page story Monday by religion writer Tim Townsend.
Townsend’s story detailed how 50 mosques and 50 synagogues here and across the nation paired this past weekend to “dedicate themselves…
Jack Shafer’s latest “Press Box” column on Slate.com praises the Drudge Report.
The article, titled “Don’t count Drudge out. His demise is overreported once again,” chronicles Drudge’s “rise and fall” through the years — at least in the eyes of other print…
One of our staffers reports that he’s had three phone calls complaining about our story today on VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill.
“All the callers wanted to know why we didn’t include a mention about the following book she wrote that…
John McCain and Barack Obama not only offer a choice of contrasting policies but also contrasting styles of leadership, writes Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times.
His article appeared in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch on Page A10. “Contrasting leadership styles become more apparent.”
This…
There’s an interesting article on theroot.com by Sam Fulwood III titled “Why Obama can’t get mad.”
Fulwood’s political leanings are clear from the opening words: “I’m sick of folks yapping about how Barack Obama needs to do a war dance on John…
An article in the Christian Science Monitor reports that media truth squads are hard at work trying to gauge the accuracy of the presidential candidates’ campaigns claims.
To show how difficult that challenge is the article notes that:
“A recent Gallup poll…
Sunday’s New York Times featured a lengthy Page One article examining Sarah Palin’s style of governing. The Times’ headlines reflect the premise: “Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes. Governor’s Style of Politics is Highly Personal.”
The Post-Dispatch published a reduced version of…
Yesterday’s Talk of the Day on STLtoday — “Palin and parenting” — asked readers:
Share your opinion on whether it’s sexist to question whether Sarah Palin should be running for national office with five children, including an infant with Down syndrome.…
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