Sarah Palin posed in gym shorts for a photo taken for Runner’s World magazine — and months later it shows up as the cover of Newsweek, for a story about Palin and politics.
The whole incident is being called unethical, sexist…
The Daily Beast’s Cheat Sheet directs us to this news item in the Washington Post’s political blog The Fix: Anita Dunn, the White House’s point person in the “war” with Fox News, is quitting.
Here’s the Cheat Sheet synopsis:
OutFoxed?
White House Communications…
Even the deep pockets of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon couldn’t keep the newspaper industry’s woes from squeezing the Unification Church-subsidized Washington Times, the Washington Post reports.
The Post reports that Times president and publisher Thomas P. McDevitt, chief financial officer…
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank writes that Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma is finding himself alone among Republicans on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in his position on global warming.
Milbank — in an opinion column headlined “A senator in…
Charles Krauthammer, op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, is among many who are criticizing the White House for trying to exclude Fox News from a press pool interview.
In a column today titled “Fox wars. The ‘post-partisan’ president makes an enemies…
Karl Rove on Sunday likened the White House’s feud with Fox News network to former President Richard M. Nixon’s battles with the media.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Rove said:
“This is a White House engaging in its own version of the media…
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…
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…
Kim Jong Il and Bill Clinton. AP photo from KRT video.
Mission accomplished: Former President Bill Clinton went to North Korea Monday to secure the release of two jailed American journalists and this morning they returned to California.
But there are many…
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