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…

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,…

Writing on HumanEvents.com, Oliver North takes exception with “the mainstream media’s” news judgment. North writes:

“This week the so-called mainstream media fixated on a Baghdad shoe-throwing contest, more government bailout bucks and the delightful prospect of having Caroline Kennedy appointed to Hillary Clinton’s…

Bill Lambrecht, chief of the Post-Dispatch’s Washington Bureau, writes in this morning’s paper that tonight’s presidential debate “offers John McCain perhaps the last opportunity to revive his lagging candidacy….”

John Dickerson of Slate.com paints tonight’s debate as perhaps McCain’s last stand:

“Wednesday night is…