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…
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NBC’s Ann Curry asked Hillary Clinton a straightforward question and got a straightforward response: Clinton won’t seek the presidency again.
From a transcript of the interview Monday:
Curry: Will you ever run for president again? Yes or no?
Clinton: (LAUGHS) No.
Curry: No?
Clinton: No. No.…
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We generally don’t like to laugh at other’s mistakes — we sure make enough embarrassing errors of our own — but a reader points out a correction in the Los Angeles Times that truly is one for the ages:
For…
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…
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Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean will slide over from the guest’s seat into the anchor’s chair on MSNBC’s “Countdown” show tonight and tomorrow, reports media writer Felix Gillette of the New York Observer.
Gillette writes that MSNBC will be turning…
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s complaint that one television network has been attacking his administration, at least one television critic is calling for other networks to join in.
Baltimore Sun critic David Zurawik, who writes about “the business, culture…
Sarah Palin’s interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show this morning signals that she doesn’t intend to let the David Letterman jokes controversy fade away.
At least that’s the interpretation of Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, who writes today that “this…
Rush Limbaugh’s challenge to MSNBC to ignore him for a month was answered by the cable network’s Keith Olbermann, who said he’d accept the challenge if Limbaugh went a month without talking about himself.
Limbaugh issued his challenge Tuesday on his radio…
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Rush Limbaugh has challenged MSNBC to go a month without mentioning his name.
“It is clear to me that MSNBC is hoping to build its ratings on my back,” he said on his program yesterday. Limbaugh issued this challenge:
Let’s see…
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…
