President Barack Obama’s weekend bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito seems to have created another polarizing moment for Americans.
Associated Press photo
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Monday that the bow was “a sign of respect to the emperor,” the Associated…
Sunday’s New York Times Book Review carried Sir Harold Evans‘ review of Alex S. Jones’ book Losing the News. The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy.
The review states:
The most valuable element in journalism is often enough not an episode that occurred today,…
Bill Clinton has arrived in North Korea, the Associated Press is reporting, in a diplomatic mission to win the release of two jailed American Journalists.
The New York Times says the White House has refused to comment on Clinton’s trip. But the…
The networks are feeling pressured by the White House to televise presidential press conferences live, reports media writer Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. Maybe that’s because they are being pressured, Kurtz suggests in a column titled “The Prez, The Press, The…
A USA Today/Gallup Poll shows President Barack Obama with a 55 percent approval rating after six months in office — which would place him 10th of the 12 presidents who have served since World War II.
That sounds bad, USA Today writes,…
The ombudsman — readers’ advocate — for the Washington Post has tackled that question a couple times in recent days. The question also was the focus of a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which…
A caller today chastised us for repeating false stories about the messy Bill Clinton-George W. Bush transition.
A front-page story on presidential transitions in today’s Post-Dispatch says of the Clinton-Bush transition: “The handoff proved somewhat less harmonious weeks later, when the…
