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11.03.2009 10:43 am

Numbers show increasingly partisan media audiences

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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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09.08.2009 10:22 am

President Bush stood for freedom, security, Laura Bush tells CNN

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Laura Bush/CNN International photo

Laura Bush/CNN International photo

President George W. Bush will be remembered as someone who stood for freedom and security, former first lady Laura Bush told CNN International in an interview in Paris.

CNN International released the transcripts of the interview conducted by CNN’s…

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08.21.2009 11:19 am

Is this the right time for Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard vacation?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Is there ever a good time for a president to vacation? The press is reporting there’s no shortage of opinions about President Barack Obama’s vacation next week in Martha’s Vineyard.

Some question the timing. Reuters’ Patricia Zengerle writes:

Some critics have questioned…

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05.01.2009 5:35 pm

“Mission Accomplished” speech got positive coverage at first

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A 6th Anniversary Look Back at Media Coverage of ‘Mission Accomplished’” is the title of an article on the web site of Editor & Publisher, the media industry journal.

The retrospective is by E&P editor Greg Mitchell, who last year wrote a…

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02.23.2009 2:58 pm

Editorial cartoonists describe challenge of depicting Obama

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Editorial cartoonists are bending over backwards a lot these days, as they try to satirize the nation’s first black president,” Associated Press National Writer Jesse Washington wrote in a weekend story.

Washington noted the tightrope editorial cartoonists are having to walk in…

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02.09.2009 9:48 pm

Obama is reviewing ban on photos of flag-draped coffins

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In response to a question at his news conference Monday evening, President Barack Obama says he’s  reviewing a policy that bans the media from photographing flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers.

The ban stirred media controversy in April 2004, when a…

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