Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz profiled ABC White House reporter Jake Tapper on Monday, who has stood out a bit for suggesting his colleagues are too soft: Tapper, who has already clashed publicly with press secretary Robert Gibbs, has been outspoken in his view that many in the media h...

In Monday’s Washington Post, media reporter Howard Kurtz raised a question few in the media have asked in all the cooing over Michelle Obama’s cover story in Vogue magazine. Isn’t it relevant to know that the writer, Andre Leon Talley, was also a host of an $1,000-a-head Obama fundraiser starr...

Imagine you'd left the planet some time just before the election and just returned. You'd find that suddenly someone's sounded a Press Emergency! First, it was Sarkozy calling his people to rally 'round the failing press -- aux barricades, mes freres. Now, though, it's serious. Time Magazine certifi...

"For now, though, the White House is cranking up the volume, staging Obama's first presidential news conference [Monday night] -- in prime time." How long does it take people to get something through their skulls? The Prez is black. I've been used to it since months before it happened. (And it seeme...

Howard Kurtz discussed Dick Armey's disgusting comments toward Joan Walsh and made this observations via CNN. BLOOM: You have got to be kidding me? That is one of the more sexist remarks I've heard, and I've been debating people on the air for a long time. I mean, do men really all think that women ...

“The View� moderator Whoopi Goldberg is apparently still unaware that the Constitution explicitly forbids slavery. Appearing on the December 21 edition of “Reliable Sources� (video here), host Howard Kurtz played a clip of Whoopi Goldberg questioning John McCain, that is he were to appoint s...

This blog has frequently looked at the succession of White House spokespersons over its three+ year run. A persistent theme centered on how the public faces of this administration -- Fleischer, McClellan, Snow and Perino -- have sold their souls to blindly advance the political POVs of their bosses....

Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's useless media critic whose column is the actual physical manifestation of "conventional wisdom," is upset. About Obama! Specifically, about the fact that every newspaper and magazine and TV network has decided that Obama worship is the proper coverage strategy at ...

The election is over, but quite clearly the Palin Derangement Syndrome suffered by many in the mainstream media isn't.  This morning's CNN Reliable Sources was typical.  Joining host Howard Kurtz to discuss Sarah Palin were Beth Fouhy, an Associated Press political reporter, Baltimore Sun TV criti...

Sarah Palin is fighting back against the "jerks." Cooking moose chili and slicing sandwiches for Matt Lauer and Greta Van Susteren, chatting up Larry King and Wolf Blitzer, the Alaska governor is denying, deflecting and denouncing the worst her unnamed critics have thrown at her. She has called them...