Connie Chung On MSNBC Infighting: "Grow Up!"
Since the early days of CNN's "Crossfire," cable news has relied on strong personalities to keep drama high and viewers tuned in throughout the day, w...
August 29, 2008
Since the early days of CNN's "Crossfire," cable news has relied on strong personalities to keep drama high and viewers tuned in throughout the day, w...
Mariangela Anzalone | Posted 08.28.2008 | Home
Mike Murphy made the assertion that Senator and President Clinton were going to quietly vote for McCain. I rolled my eyes at the screen. How much does he get paid to spit out a GOP attack ad?
Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2008 | Media
***UPDATE: Round 4 and more*** Round 3 of MSNBC infighting came Tuesday night during coverage anchored by Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann. After J...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics
Because today is Catharsis Day at the convention, we figured we better do like Aristotle says in the Poetics and hit you with a double dose of pity an...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media
***WATCH ROUND 2: SCARBOROUGH V. SHUSTER*** Monday night during MSNBC's convention coverage, Joe Scarborough was describing the surge John McCain has ...
Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home
During the taping of the show, I tried to show empathy. I thought about some of the Clinton supporters I've met. I know that, like me, they've been waiting their whole lives for this kind of change.
Edward Rotchford | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home
The "Hardball" crew took the bait, ending its show Monday with an interview of representatives of Clintons4McCain.com, an organization that a mere 15 minutes on the Web can tell you stinks to high heaven.
Michael Melcher | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics
It's convention time. Woo-hoo! At last we have some relief from gazing at those shame-spiral-inducing perfect Olympic bodies and from those many, man...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.25.2008 | Media
Tom Brokaw said Sunday at a panel in Denver that MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann have "gone too far" in their campaign reporting. At t...
Norman MacAfee | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics
Broken record here. The more I think about it, the more Al Gore seems the only really interesting choice for Barack Obama's vice presidential choice. ...
Mike Birbiglia | Posted 08.11.2008 | Media
I'd like to clarify that it was a plastic bottle and it was empty, but it was still a bottle and it allows me to say the phrase, "Chris Matthews threw a bottle at me."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
Last night, Chris Matthews appeared on the Tonight Show, where he made an emotional appeal to American voters to remain racially open-minded at the po...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
John McCain may be using it as fodder for his latest campaign ad, but Chris Matthews isn't backing down from his "thrill up my leg" comment. Monday n...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 06.29.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Phil Griffin, the NBC News executive who oversees MSNBC, is a coiled mass of energy who needs little provocation to do battle. Now he...
Mark Joseph | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
Please NBC, let Brokaw resume his status as elder statesmen and reminder to us all of a generation of newsmen who seemed to think that they were better and smarter than their viewers.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
Here is a fact of life: If you are having a conversation with someone about Obama and Osama, there is a very good chance that someone will slip up somewhere. But honestly, it's really no big deal.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
Today on MSNBC's "Hardball," which aired live at 5pm, Chris Matthews was joined by Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd for a discussion about Charlie Black...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.22.2008 | Politics
Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan drew praise on this morning's Chris Matthews Show for having called the nomination races for John McCain and Barack Obama e...
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Wolf Blitzer wondered publicly on Thursday when in the world Bill Clinton would bury his hard feelings, his sense of being misunderstood, unappreciated, and abused and endorse Obama.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
Keith Olbermann preempted Page Six's attack on Thursday's "Countdown" by previewing the gossip column's report, which ran Friday morning, that both he...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
Brian Williams will be filling the "Meet the Press" moderator's chair this Sunday, and no permanent decisions have been made regarding a new moderator...
Scott Swenson | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
If Chris Matthews and the mainstream media want to add something productive to the reproductive rights debate, they should move off the 70's polarization created by the far-right.
Martin Nolan | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media
For more than 30 years, my friendship with Tim was rooted in a shared Irish heritage and similar education, with minimal emphasis on self-expression and more on what Tom Brokaw calls "accountability."
Dan Treul | Posted 06.15.2008 | Home
There is something culturally sick about defining such a critical election along racial lines alone. This election should not be a referendum on black and white. It should be a referendum on the Bush years.
Dave Winer | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media
We haven't yet heard any speculation, so we thought we might as well raise the question and run down some possibilities.
DENVER — Hillary Rodham Clinton summoned the millions of voters who supported her...
From the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz: DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Jon Stewart ripped the cable news...
Because today is Catharsis Day at the convention, we figured we better do like Aristotle says in...
In what might be his most controversial attack ad in a campaign dominated by...
My favorite part of Hillary Clinton's speech last night was when she admonished her followers not to...
Hillary Clinton's job, we were told, was to unite her supporters behind Barack Obama.
***UPDATE: Round 4 and more*** Round 3 of MSNBC infighting...
Reporters have frequently commented on the degeneration of John McCain's "Straight Talk Express"...
LOS ANGELES — Dave Freeman, co-author of "100 Things to Do Before You Die,"...
Katie Couric stopped by the Oasis today to film a segment, but took...
The call came a few days ago. A magazine story on...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Citigroup Inc. isn't just eliminating jobs to slash costs --...
WASHINGTON — More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global...
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Wall Street Journal | Rebecca Dana | Posted 08.28.2008 | Media