The Convention As Seen From The Couch
As I watched the speeches and the various events unfold throughout the day on C-Span, I could enjoy the event free of the inane anchor comments that endlessly fill the airwaves.
August 30, 2008
As I watched the speeches and the various events unfold throughout the day on C-Span, I could enjoy the event free of the inane anchor comments that endlessly fill the airwaves.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.28.2008 | Media
Several Arab networks dispatched their best anchors to Denver to beam a sliver of American politics to more than 300 million viewers in the region.
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 08.27.2008 | Media
Hillary Rodham Clinton's address at the Democratic convention attracted almost 26 million viewers Tuesday night, according to Nielsen Media Research. ...
William Klein | Posted 08.27.2008 | Media
The networks' convention coverage can be so mind-numbingly tedious that viewers are concocting their own strategies for staying awake.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media
So this is what political journalism has come to -- evidence-free, unaccountable, redfaced, shouted, demagogic cocksure mindreading.
Ari Emanuel | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media
I was watching MSNBC and CNN -- but it felt like ESPN. I could not believe the convention coverage: they were analyzing things as if it were college sports.
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media
At least 21 million television viewers watched the Democratic convention Monday night, when Michelle Obama spoke about her husband and her family, acc...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media
I spent the morning at the CNN Grill on the DNC convention center grounds, and had the opportunity to chat with anchor Anderson Cooper, he of silver h...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media
....and I get to take credit for it! I cajoled him into signing up over breakfast at the CNN Grille — well, breakfasts, both of them mine (at th...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media
The press has portrayed Clinton's planned convention address, as well as the fact that her name is being placed into nomination, as an unprecedented, heavy-handed power grab. It's not.
Beverly Davis | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home
Stay tuned! Rest assured there's more "election coverage" coming at you from one of the many "best political teams" on television. My advice: Switch to C-Span.
Diane Tucker | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home
CNN's Anderson Cooper told television viewers at 9 PM, "The first two hours went by without anyone delivering a focused message." He has a flair for understatement.
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 08.25.2008 | Media
When Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination on Thursday before a capacity audience of 70,000 at Invesco Field in Denver, an aerial camera will ho...
Posted 08.25.2008 | Chicago
Fox News took out a full page ad in Monday's Chicago Tribune to jab rival CNN over its plans to shutter its Chicago bureau. Playing off of the iconic...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 08.24.2008 | Media
The Fox News Channel has taken out an ad in Monday's Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and trade publication Multichannel News highlighting recent...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 08.23.2008 | Media
CNN just ran a bio of Joe Biden (Obama's VP pick, have you heard?), and it included his chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the con...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 08.23.2008 | Media
Okay this is VERY funny: Our sister-site, 23/6, pulled together a montage of CNN trying desperately to report something — anything! — new ...
Larry Gellman | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics
When it comes to Barack Obama, the news media does its job with a vengeance. When Obama goes to Germany and draws a crowd of 200,000 they ask if he's ...
236.com | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
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Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 08.21.2008 | Media
Independent photojournalists, NGO workers and citizens are part of this important movement to take back the news from those who focus on profits.
Chicago Tribune | Phil Rosenthal | Posted 08.21.2008 | Media
What CNN is calling expansion will mean reducing the number of staffers assigned to its bureau in Chicago by 25 percent, to nine from a dozen. Instea...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media
How did a sure-fire follow-up hit turn into such a trouble-plagued production? And why isn't Fox News' Swift Boat formula working?
Tom D'Antoni | Posted 08.19.2008 | Media
We know what Fox News' function is in the universe...the Republican Party line. We know that CNN is still hopelessly stuck in the Crossfire concept o...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.18.2008 | Media
Variety's William Tripplet reports that CNN has teamed up with hit band Daughtry to promote its new "League of First Time Voters," which premieres Mon...
Linda Bergthold | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics
The honor system, are you kidding me? I think it is pretty clear at this point McCain did indeed know the questions in advance at the Faith Forum.
Who is Sarah Palin? Here's a quick rundown of her resumé: she's the former...
Barack Obama Campaign Spokesman Bill Burton responds to John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor...
Watch Obama's speech. Scroll down for report of convention and full text...
I think we will look back at today as the day when...
My favorite part of Hillary Clinton's speech last night was when she admonished her followers not to...
None of my pro-Hillary female friends are falling for this obvious GOP pander....
Photographs Of Sarah Palin, John McCain's Vice President In the December 2007 issue of Vogue: For...
In an unusually heated attack on a veteran political reporter by a cable news...
LOS ANGELES — David Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's "Californication,"...
Grist reports that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin strongly opposes the Alaskan gas tax, threw money at...
Now that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has chosen his running mate, it's time for him...
Craig Newmark (you may have heard of his list) is blogging at the Democratic...
WASHINGTON — General Motors Corp. said Friday it was recalling 944,000 vehicles because of...
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Paul Peete | Posted 08.28.2008 | Home