Fox News was the clear choice of election night viewers, nearly doubling its normal prime-time audience, according to Nielsen ratings.

The Los Angeles Times reports on its Top of the Ticket politics blog:

If you followed the suspense of Tuesday’s elections, odds are…

John Harwood, in a New York Times Caucus blog titled “If Fox Is Partisan, It Is Not Alone,” presents evidence that “partisan fragmentation throughout America’s news media and their audiences has grown significantly.”

Harwood — noting that he appears on CNBC and…

Charles Krauthammer, op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, is among many who are criticizing the White House for trying to exclude Fox News from a press pool interview.

In a column today titled “Fox wars. The ‘post-partisan’ president makes an enemies…

Journalist David Corn is advising the White House: Don’t play a game of chicken with Fox News.

Corn, in a blog on politicsdaily.com,  describes himself: “I’m watching this fight as no disinterested observer. For years I was a rare commodity: a liberal…

The White House stepped up its criticism of Fox News over the weekend.  Communications Director Anita Dunn questioned Fox News’ credibility as a news organization, saying it “is more a wing of the Republican Party.”

In an interview Sunday morning with Howard Kurtz on…

The White House is using its online site, whitehouse.gov, to directly challenge Fox News Glenn Beck’s reports about Barack Obama’s effort to help Chicago win the 2016 Olympics.

In a Briefing Room blog post Wednesday titled “Reality Check: Trying to Turn a…

The Olympic Games have long been criticized for being too political. And now comes President Barack Obama’s decision to campaign on behalf of Chicago bid to host the 2016 Games.

Alex Koppelman writes on Salon.com:

President Obama is going to Denmark this week to…

In a comment on the Editors’ Desk blog post about Van Jones, Nonpartisan says:

You guys missed it….clearly. And you issued the same B.S. statement that the NY Times printed after they “missed it” as well. You guys didn’t miss, you…

A number of us at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wish we had a do-over with the Van Jones story. The first story we published about the controversy was on Saturday Sept.  5, a six-paragraph Associated Press report about Jones apologizing…

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…