While I don’t really talk about politics on this blog I have always been a close follower. Having my undergraduate degree in history with a minor in political science I geek out over the political process and how things work. One of the negative bi-products of this is that more and more I find mys...

Press secretaries tend to be like broken clocks: They're always going to say the same thing, and every once in a while, it happens to be the right thing. Case in point: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, who early last week accused the D.C.-based media of being out of touch with the concerns ...

In your fiery Friday media column: The Post has a bad cover day, Chuck Todd is mad as hell and can't take it any more, a reporter makes the grave mistake of believing the internet, and more! A late-breaking plane crash leads to an unfortunate juxtaposition of covers for the New York Post. They fixed...

"You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? ..." Well, we took a bite out of the Obama Prime Time Presser last evening , but it is such a juicy apple, we're coming back for seconds today. This is supposed to be the era of "Change" and "Change you can believe in", yet, in the White ...

Matt Lauer invited on two Senate supporters and no opponents of the Barack Obama's stimulus bill, on Monday's "Today" show and asked pro-stimulus bill questions to his guests, even chiding those who opposed it, when he asked Republican Senator Susan Collins about two of her GOP colleagues...

After years of agitation over what they saw as President George W. Bush's self-righteous moral certitude, journalists on Thursday night embraced President Barack Obama's vilification of those working for Wall Street firms who got a bonus last year. “Shameful,� NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Willi...

Once again I'm going to live-blog the daily press briefing. I'll be focused on the reporters' questions, not so much Gibbs's answers. I also caution this is a rough transcript and may contain errors. I hope to render as accurate a depiction as possible of the questions asked and who's asking them. A...

On the evening of Monday, January 19th, the publisher David Bradley , stood in the opulent living room of his Georgian mansion off of Embassy Row in Washington D.C., across the road from the Naval Observatory, and spoke of existential angst. "All of us have those middle of the night sentiments ...

Chuck Todd & Sheldon Gawiser have a new book out and it is pretty good.  MSNBC has an extended excerpt from the book The 2008 election got started early, before the first candidate, Tom Vilsack, officially announced in November 2006. The campaign began in 1999, when word first leaked that t...

Prompted by the CBO's forecast of a $1.2 trillion annual federal budget deficit, the NBC Nightly News on Wednesday commiserated with the challenge ahead for the incoming President. “On our broadcast tonight, facing facts,� Brian Williams teased, “President-elect Obama confronts the hard realit...