The above headline isn’t even half of it. After the attacks were known to all, James Carville told assembled Washington reporters at a hotel conference room breakfast where Carville and Democratice pollster Stanley Greenberg spoke(photo is from the May 20, 2004 Christian Science Monitor) to &#...

Two polls on President Barack Obama’s popularity reach conclusions that could hardly be more different. A New York Times/CBS News poll says that Obama is “benefiting from remarkably high levels of optimism and confidence among Americans about his leadership.” But a Gallup poll repo...

Well, isn’t THIS interesting. In a December post (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I reviewed ABC’s online “The Faces of Political Scandal” slideshow, which featured mini-profiles of 14 politicians in recent years who have been tainted by scandal and/or crime. At the time, I no...

Newsweek Magazine, referred to frequently by yours truly as “Newsweak,” is deliberately shrinking its circulation base by half, in effect giving up on its formerly mass audience, and going through a top-to-bottom redesign. As is the case with its fellow declining competitor Time, it neve...

Have you ever wondered how the geniuses who report business news know why the stock market opens or closes up or down on any given day — especially when they venture into political explanations? I received this e-mail from CNN just after the markets opened: Gosh, those e-mail drafters at CNN a...

On January 25, as noted by yours truly, (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Jonathan Martin at Politico.com reported that President Obama “is moving to create perhaps the most powerful staff in modern history – a sort of West Wing on steroids that places no less than a half-dozen of his top init...

The Associated Press’s record of running interference for Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner continues mostly unabated. My chronicle of AP’s largely weak coverage, most of which has been previously detailed here at BizzyBlog, is at the end of this post. No AP report I have seen ...

Running rings around Ohio’s media in the solid reporting department, including prompt and proper political party identification, here is a portion of the Catholic News Agency’s Wednesday evening report on the arrest of Eric McFadden (bolds after title are mine): Democratic Catholic leade...

Yesterday, details discovered about Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner’s tax situation moved it to well past the level of an “honest mistake.” You wouldn’t know it from the Associated Press’s Julie Hirschfeld Davis, who, as I noted yesterday (at NewsBusters; at...

In a post last night, I criticized the Associated Press for glossing over the 15 years of personal and domestic self-employment tax filing and payment problems of Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary (pictured at right in an AP photo). It turns out that Brett Blackle...