Morning Bell: Responding to Newtown
When confronted with the murder of children, the only reaction is anger, shock, and grief. Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,… Read More
Response to Newtown: Addressing a Complex Issue
Americans of all political and philosophical convictions have grieved over the killing of innocent schoolchildren and adults in Newtown, Connecticut. In responding to this attack,… Read More
Al Gore, Al Jazeera, and the Remaking of Current TV
The sale of Al Gore’s Current TV network to the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network comes as no surprise. These networks may be odd bedfellows, but… Read More
Hunkering Down for the Confirmation Hearings
Yesterday, President Obama pretty much told the world what to expect from the White House for national security and foreign policy for the second term:… Read More
Jail Time for Offensive Facebook Postings?
How many people would be in jail if annoying or offending a person were against the law? The answer: pretty much everyone. If you think… Read More
A New Year’s Resolution for Conservatives
‘Tis the season for hope—though you couldn’t tell from listening to conservatives. Two months after the election, the mood remains grim among many on the… Read More
Media Scandal in the Making: CBS Posts Still More of President’s Benghazi Interview
On Sunday night, a full 54 days after the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, CBS finally posted a critically important segment of the 60 Minutes… Read More
U.S. Fires Its Own Broadcasters in Russia
The treatment inflicted on 41 Russian journalists in Moscow’s Radio Liberty office is nothing less than scandalous, and it threatens to silence American broadcasting into… Read More
VP Debate Moderator Has Close Obama Ties
It’s a pretty big story that Barack Obama attended the wedding of Martha Raddatz, the ABC News senior foreign correspondent picked as the moderator for… Read More
Fact Checking the Fact Checkers on Welfare Reform (VIDEO)
On July 12, the Obama Administration released a policy directive from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declaring that it would no longer… Read More
WATCH LIVE: Stephen K. Bannon, Kate Obenshain on ‘The Conservatives’
To counter the decades-long pursuit of “fairness” fostered by the nation’s left-leaning educators, producers of a new film believe that the educational process should be… Read More
Breitbart Awards to Honor Individuals Carrying the Torch for Freedom
Andrew Breitbart pioneered a new media revolution that transformed journalism and the political landscape. As Americans continue to mourn his tragic passing, we also seek… Read More
Expulsion of American Reporter from China Should Prompt U.S. Action
News yesterday of the expulsion of Melissa Chan, an American reporting for Al-Jazeera in China, brings into stark focus the great disparity between the U.S…. Read More
How Think Tanks Are Reshaping Journalism
Doublethink, the official magazine of America’s Future Foundation, carries my report on the role of nonprofit journalism outfits, specifically those based at think tanks. It’s… Read More
Arab Media (New and Old) Under Attack
As governments in the Middle East struggle to come to grips with the surging demands for freedom of expression among their populations, media across the… Read More
Social Media Benefits Outweigh Risks for Congress
Since the launch of Facebook in 2004, social media use has skyrocketed. Facebook has more than 750 million active users, and sites like Google+, Twitter,… Read More
Media Fails to Report on Castro Regime’s Brutal Oppression
Last week, just outside Cuba’s holiest Catholic shrine, government thugs attacked in plain daylight a group of opposition women — beating them, stoning them and… Read More
Top 10 Reads: July 26, 2011
Catching you up on clips, commentary and news of the day. Sign up for the daily email update from Scribe. What really is poverty? – Ed… Read More
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FOX and the Sharks
Fox News haters are circling in the water so furiously that the sharks are calling their lawyers. The phone-hacking scandal that led to the closing… Read More
Why Isn’t the National Debt a Sexy Story?
Speaking at yesterday’s Bloggers Briefing, conservative filmmaker Stephen Bannon held up a copy of USA Today to demonstrate the challenge of getting Americans to take… Read More
Fla. Reporter Forbidden to Dig for Facts
A Florida TV reporter this weekend quickly learned that a journalist’s job is not to dig for facts and a beach is no place for… Read More
“Did You Feel the Earthquake, Mr. President?” and 10 Questions He Wasn’t Asked
It gets pretty boring to watch conservatives endlessly complain about a fawning press corps, and a biased media. Yes, a majority of the national media… Read More
Live from the Gulf: Obama Team Blocks Media from Oil Spill
Last week, CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported that the federal government was blocking media access to coastal areas around the Gulf, preventing them from taking photos… Read More
Video: Police vs. Press at the White House
Reporters covering a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” protest at the White House today were forced out of Lafayette Square by police. The scene, captured on… Read More
Obama’s Weekend Media Adventure
Sunday’s unprecedented presidential tour of (most of) the network news represents a subtle admission on the part of White House strategists that surely must unnerve… Read More
How the Constitution Makes News
When was the last time a journalist asked a question about federalism in a presidential debate? Answer: 1960. The American news media, much like American… Read More
Morning Bell: Media Watchdog Has No Bark
In the age of Obama, the media formerly known as mainstream can remind one of 19th century British literature. Pride and Prejudice sometimes, of course,… Read More
On the Media
In the news this morning: • rank-and-file Democrats resist President Obama’s attempt to take over health care, • Congress drops “card check” provisions–an Obama-backed power… Read More
The Press Revolts Against Obama
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BaEQX7fLZI[/youtube] During yesterday’s White House press briefing, reporters grilled spokesman Robert Gibbs on the growing trend of staged theatrics used by President Obama. Last week,… Read More
Breaking News: Obama’s Own TV Station Goes Easy On Obama
There’s strange and then there’s this. ABC’s Jake Tapper writes: It’s perfectly fine, of course, for the White House to put out its own version… Read More
