And The Talking Heads Run On, Gavel To Gavel
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.
August 30, 2008
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.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.25.2008 | Media
Monday afternoon on MSNBC, a jacket-less Brian Williams sat down with NBC correspondent at-large Luke Russert for a jovial segment touching on what Lu...
MSNBC | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media
MSNBC's political junkie fix "Morning Joe" celebrated one year on the air Friday as they prepared for two weeks off. Despite MSNBC's tagline of "the p...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media
NBC News announced Thursday that Luke Russert, son of late Washington Bureau Chief and moderator of "Meet the Press" Tim Russert, will be joining the ...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media
Mark Whitaker, currently Senior Vice President at NBC News, has been named chief of the network's Washington, D.C. bureau, a spot that has remained va...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
To the Stock Market: enough already.
New York Times | Michael Bicks | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media
After showering, I lay down in bed and started thinking. Though I am a 50-year-old guy with a stressful job and a little too much around the middle, I...
New York Magazine | Jada Yuan | Posted 07.07.2008 | Media
The press was supposed to speak on behalf of the people. The new tradition is that the press speaks on behalf of the government." An example? "Tim Rus...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Via Portfolio comes word of a print-media snafu reminiscent of last January's Parade cover story that was ten days off on the news of Benazir Bhutto's...
DC Examiner | Jeff DuFour and Patrick Gavin | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media
NBC has given its tributes to its fallen anchor and bureau chief Tim Russert. Official Washington has done likewise, as has his hometown of Buffalo, N...
Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
Call it what you want: arrogance, a jinx -- but let's be honest with ourselves -- this thing is over. McCain won't just be defeated, he'll be crushed in a way that redefines the political map for the next 25 years.
Beverly Davis | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
Watching Brokaw manage the Snoozeville format demonstrated how dated the program has become. We need a show that combines web speed with major interviews conducted by someone unafraid to offend.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklarq | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
For Meet the Press, a field trip to Wyoming is great if your show is humming along smoothly, not if you're desperate to reassure your audience that your program is going to stay sharp.
New York Times | Alessandra Stanley | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
There was no distant replay on Sunday's "Meet the Press." Tom Brokaw, the temporary host, did not try to duplicate Tim Russert's trademark custom of ...
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
Scratch the surface of all those glittering tributes for Tim Russert and you might find an undercoating of journalistic insecurity. The NBC analyst w...
Kathy Kastan | Posted 06.29.2008 | Living
No matter what else we do with our careers or lives, if we treat others well, with respect, thoughtfulness, compassion, and sincerity; we will leave behind a legacy.
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.
Marie Wilson | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
It wouldn't be amateur hour with these women at the helm. Voting by readers of this site makes it clear that each of these women should be given the opportunity to trial anchor Meet the Press.
New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
While Russert's Sunday morning television appearances are what most Americans will miss most about the late Washington bureau chief of NBC, it was his...
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
Matthews audibly groaned when he slipped, meaning to say that a tape came out of the Osama HQ just before the election in 2004 had hurt Kerry and helped Bush -- but saying, instead, "Obama."
Charles Warner | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media
Comedians have done the country a great service through the years by uncovering the truth with satire and farce, and no one did it better than George Carlin.
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media
The news appeared on Wikipedia 40 minutes before the NBC report, with all of the verbs in Tim's entry changed from present tense to past. It appeared ...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 06.22.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Veteran news anchor Tom Brokaw has agreed to moderate NBC's "Meet the Press" through the November election to fill the vacancy create...
Peter Sims | Posted 06.21.2008 | Media
One way we can honor Tim Russert's life and impact, while beginning to fill the void he has left, is by reminding America's Trustees of the importance and magnitude of their societal roles.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Watch Obama's speech. Scroll down for report of convention and full text...
Barack Obama Campaign Spokesman Bill Burton responds to John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor...
Who is Sarah Palin? Here's a quick rundown of her resumé: she's the former...
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....
***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 — 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...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Citigroup Inc. isn't just eliminating jobs to slash costs --...
Talk show host Charlie Rose stopped by the Huffington Post...
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Beverly Davis | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home