Talking Points Memo reports that former President George W. Bush has signed on as a motivational speaker.

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An ad on getmotivated.com touts Bush as the “special guest speaker” for the “Get Motivated Business Seminar” Oct. 26 in Fort Worth, Texas.

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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…

Slate.com’s technology columnist, Farhad Manjoo, advises President Barack Obama to stop trying to refute those who warn that the health care bill would create “death panels” — end-of-life tribunals.

Manjoo wrote the book “True Enough,” which he says argues that “modern…

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…

July 22 press conference/New York Times photo

Americans are increasingly tuning out when President Barack Obama goes on television to address them.

“Why has Obama become boring TV?” Felix Gillette of the New York Observer asks in his media column. He notes that…

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 St. Louis Post-Dispatch didn’t report or comment this morning on the reception given President Barack Obama’s at his All-Star game appearance — perhaps because the reporters and columnists covering the event didn’t find it notable or out of the…

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…

Did you save the front page of the Post-Dispatch the day after Barack Obama’s election victory?

Almost a quarter (23 percent) of Americans say they are saving a newspaper with headlines about Barack Obama’s victory, according to a study by the…

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…