Media outlets preyed upon people's emotions this week in its reporting of President Barack Obama's decision to overturn the Bush Administration ban on federally-funded embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research is a hot topic among pro-life advocates because it involves the destructi...

NBC and ABC on Tuesday night marked President Barack Obama's first 50 days -- not by pointing out all his unfilled executive positions, failed nominations or the long wait for the stimulus spending in the “stimulus� bill -- but by heralding his “whirlwind� of action and “whirling dervish o...

Perhaps signaling media impatience with the Obama administration's economic policy, Tuesday's "Good Morning America" featured a challenging look at the performance of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who the show had previously described as "wonky." Reporter Jake Tapper observed ...

Rush Limbaugh: "Jake Tapper is the one guy that's outside of the butt boy bubble in the White House press room." Sucks for you, Jake! Keep trying. [Media Matters]...

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...

Jake Tapper notices that Obama’s nominee for US Trade Representative, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, worked as a state and local lobbyist in Dallas; Tapper notes that he’s at least the fifth lobbyist picked for a significant position in the Obama Administration (and that’s before we...

Today in the magical land of Twitteronia: Jimmy Fallon schmoozed the Twitter-loving press, Ana Marie Cox cried because of Jake Tapper, and a tuna-melt experiment went badly awry. Late Night host Jimmy Fallon uttered Twitter gibberish Quad City Times columnist Melissa Coulter succumbed to caffeine. S...

Is ABC's Jake Tapper the White House press corps' next David Gregory or journalism's anti-Chris Matthews? Such questions were raised Tuesday in an interesting column about Tapper by the Daily Beast's Rachel Sklar. Unlike virtually all the Obama-loving media, Tapper during last year's presidential ca...

All of a sudden a Democrat is in the White House, and Jake Tapper decides to ask tough questions. He wasn’t so interested before. I should point out that I’m okay with the Obama administration being asked tough questions - they’re grownups and that’s why we voted them in - bu...

Live-blogging the press briefing. Was scheduled to start at 2:30, it's now 2:38. Watching on Fox News Channel. May also through up some Tweets @KenShepherd The archive of official White House press briefings can be found here. 14:45: Still waiting for Gibbs to come out. Fox News has gone to split-sc...