For more than a month, the American Gulf Coast has been threatened by a gigantic oil spill, caused by the April 21 explosion of a British Petroleum deepwater rig. Yet unlike five years ago —…
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May 26th, 2010 4:16 PM | Rich Noyes, Kyle Drennen
May 25th, 2010 11:59 AM | Scott Whitlock
MSNBC's Chuck Todd on Tuesday attacked new standards being adopted for history textbooks in Texas as "odd" and mocked that the state would now be teaching "education by Wikipedia." Evan Smith of…
May 25th, 2010 10:46 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
Today show co-anchor and Dateline correspondent Ann Curry delivered a commencement address to students at Wheaton College in Massachusetts over the weekend and attempted to honor that institution'…
May 25th, 2010 9:07 AM | Mark Finkelstein
UPDATE: Later in today's show, a clip [displayed after the jump] was played of an interview from months ago in which Scarborough unequivocally put it to Sestak that he had been offered the Secretary…
May 24th, 2010 5:05 PM | Noel Sheppard
Bill O'Reilly on Monday offered an obviously satirical solution to the Gulf oil spill that has generated some ire from the usual suspects on the left: "stuff every member of NBC News in that hole…
May 24th, 2010 12:03 PM | Tim Graham
Deep in a Chuck Todd profile by Howard Kurtz in Monday's Washington Post, Todd says blame President Obama, not his staff, for his press aversion:
Despite his newfound prominence, Todd,…
May 21st, 2010 12:00 PM | Tim Graham
On MSNBC's Morning Joe on Friday, CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl sounded positively giddy at the possibility of Democrats exploiting the Rand Paul round of TV interviews. She pushed David Gregory…
May 18th, 2010 6:39 AM | Tim Graham
As the conservatives in the Tea Party movement gained strength, the liberal media often predicted they would cause harm to the Republican Party and drive out all the moderates. Wouldn't the…
May 17th, 2010 6:25 PM | Rich Noyes
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter could find himself out of a job Tuesday night, if his newly-adopted Democratic Party refuses to renominate the 80-year-old incumbent for a sixth term. For the…
May 12th, 2010 9:27 PM | Brent Baker
NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd seemed astonished by how a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll confirmed solid agreement with Arizona's immigration enforcement law – “a whopping 64 percent…
April 20th, 2010 12:17 PM | Lachlan Markay
Update - 12:48 PM | Lachlan Markay: David Brooks weighs in. See his thoughts below.
One of the gripes about online journalism often aired by the Helen Thomases and the Chuck Todds of the…
April 19th, 2010 12:15 AM | Brent Baker
Friday follies. Before the weekend ends, two quotes from journalists worth noting made on Friday night shows:
♦ On MSNBC’s Hardball, NBC’s Chuck Todd forwarded the notion that if Florida…
April 16th, 2010 3:23 PM | NB Staff
On Thursday evening our good friend Mark Levin cited and read from the latest Media Research Center special report, "TV's Tea Party Travesty: How ABC, CBS and NBC Have Dismissed and Disparaged the…
April 15th, 2010 12:27 PM | Scott Whitlock
MSNBC's Savannah Guthrie on Thursday conducted a sycophantic interview with Michelle Obama, urging the First Lady to complain about the "uglier side" of the health care debate. The Daily Rundown…
April 13th, 2010 7:49 AM | Rich Noyes
The Tea Party movement launched one year ago, in response to the unprecedented expansion of government by President Barack Obama and congressional liberals, a massive increase in spending that…
April 8th, 2010 12:32 PM | Scott Whitlock
The network morning shows on Thursday trumpeted Barack Obama's nuclear weapons treaty with Russia as "historic" and "landmark," with only Good Morning America allowing that the reduction plan…
April 4th, 2010 8:09 PM | Noel Sheppard
It's been more than nine months since President Obama has held a prime time press conference, and you would think those that cover him would be outraged by it.
Well, think again, for that's…
April 3rd, 2010 11:15 AM | Noel Sheppard
CRITICAL UPDATES AT END OF POST including Matthews saying "Bush regime" in 2002.
Chris Matthews on Friday referred to conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh as a walrus underwater.
…March 23rd, 2010 7:42 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Appearing on Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC analyst Howard Fineman – also of Newsweek – dismissed Republican promises of working to repeal ObamaCare, suggesting that because it would be nearly…
March 22nd, 2010 11:16 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
NBC's Meredith Vieira opened Monday's Today show declaring, "Good morning. It passed. Congress approves historic legislation to reform health care" and then a few seconds later noted, "Democrats…
March 17th, 2010 2:31 AM | Brent Baker
By a 12 point margin, those asked, in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey, called “Barack Obama’s health care plan” a “bad idea” (48 percent) over a “good idea” (36 percent.) Yet, NBC…
March 16th, 2010 5:54 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Last night it was the Republican Party that was caught in the crosshairs of Chris Matthews, which he accused of being too "narrow." Well on Tuesday's Hardball, the MSNBC host turned his sights on…
March 15th, 2010 10:25 AM | Rich Noyes
The end of Congress’s long debate over ObamaCare could be near, as the President pushes for a final vote this week before his Asia trip, and House Democrats want a resolution before next week’s…
March 7th, 2010 11:58 AM | Lachlan Markay
Old Media's fatal conceit is the belief that it's not news unless it's reported by a major newspaper, magazine, or television station. Reports from new and alternative media, in Old Media's eyes, are…
March 4th, 2010 7:36 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday’s The View on ABC, during a discussion of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s standup comedy routine from Tuesday night’s Tonight Show on NBC, The View co-host Joy Behar…