Sarah Palin at the Hong Kong airport. AP Photo/Kin Cheung
Yesterday, word came that Sarah Palin had finished her memoir, “Going Rogue,” after four months. The earlier finish moves the release date up from spring to Nov. 17. And last Wednesday,…
A year ago this week, the media had a hand in elevating Barack Obama to the presidency, says author Greg Mitchell, who wrote the book “Why Obama Won.” Mitchell is also editor of the newspaper industry journal Editor & Publisher.
In…
The Columbia Journalism Review — which identifies itself as “both a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms” — has endorsed FactCheck and PolitiFact as good online sites for verifying claims being made during the current debate over health care.
The Editors’…
The Columbia Journalism Review takes note that media critic Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post says the media are free to call Sarah Palin’s “death panel” comment just plain wrong.
Kurtz was asked about the comment Monday during his online Q&A:
Portland, Ore.: Is there a…
Sarah Palin
As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin prepares to leave office Sunday, a new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows her standing with the public is the worst its been since she entered the national limelight.
“A majority of Americans hold an unfavorable view…
The press should be ashamed of how it covered and treated Sarah Palin during and since the campaign, writes Carl M. Cannon, senior Washington correspondent for Politics Daily.
“The true villains in this political morality play may have been the press,”…
USA Today reports that a USA Today/Gallup Poll finds that Sarah Palin’s resignation has boosted her standing as a 2012 presidential candidate among Republicans.
Meanwhile, based on a Rasmussen Reports poll, the Boston Herald’s David Wedge reports that:
Former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney is…
That’s the question of the day being posed by Editor & Publisher, “America’s oldest journal covering the newspaper industry.”
On its site today, E&P asks: “Did Media Help Push Sarah Palin Into Resigning as Governor?”
NEW YORK — Earlier this month we introduced…
Sarah Palin has accepted David Letterman’s apology for his coarse joke — his words — about Palin’s teenage daughter.
Palin issued a statement Tuesday accepting the apology Letterman made Monday night on his Late Night show. From Palin’s statement:
“Of course it’s accepted…
David Letterman apologized on his show Monday evening for the joke he told last week about Sarah Palin’s daughter.
Associated Press television writer Frazier Moore reports:
On Monday’s edition of “Late Show,” Letterman explained that the risque joke thought by some to have…
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