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 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…
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…
Paul Krugman of the New York Times is the nation’s most influential commentator, according to the Atlantic magazine. Rush Limbaugh is second on the Atlantic’s ranking of the Top 50.
An article on the AtlanticWire.com explains:
These are the most influential commentators…
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…
Fox News Channel was “already on pace for its best ratings year even before the health care debate sent viewership jumping during a traditionally slow month for news,” Associated Press Television Writer David Bauder says today.
Fox’s viewership is up…
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…
