NBC White House political director Chuck Todd appeared on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" on Monday to dismiss Rush Limbaugh as "looking backward" and deride the radio industry as a "dying medium." Todd (…
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March 2nd, 2009 9:36 AM | Scott Whitlock
February 23rd, 2009 10:06 PM | Brent Baker
ABC, CBS and NBC reporters over the past two days have relayed how the Obama administration proposes to cut the annual federal deficit from $1.3 trillion to $533 billion in four years by cutting…
February 17th, 2009 2:22 PM | Tom Blumer
The Wall Street Journal's editorialists noted something last week ("Obama's Press List"; HT to Warner Todd Huston at NewsBusters) about the extemporaneous speech-impaired President Obama's February…
February 12th, 2009 8:38 PM | Brent Baker
ABC, CBS and NBC centered their Thursday night stories, on Senator Judd Gregg's decision to withdraw as Commerce Secretary-nominee, around his disagreement with the Obama administration's “stimulus”…
February 11th, 2009 2:09 PM | Ken Shepherd
Waiting for the press conference to start. I may also tweet some over at Twitter.
I'll be particularly looking for any questions on Wall Street's reaction to Geithner's plan (382-point drop…
February 9th, 2009 10:26 PM | Brent Baker
Some quick takes on the very brief presidential press conference wrap-ups on ABC, CBS and NBC before each returned to entertainment shows a bit after 9 PM EST: - ABC anchor Charles Gibson lauded how…
February 9th, 2009 11:52 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
Matt Lauer invited on two Senate supporters and no opponents of Barack Obama's stimulus bill, on Monday's "Today" show and asked pro-stimulus bill questions to his guests, even chiding those who…
February 5th, 2009 2:16 PM | Ken Shepherd
Update: The highlight thus far is the testy exchange between Gibbs and Tapper. Checking the tape again it appears he did answer Tapper's second question, albeit tersely muttering the response,…
February 5th, 2009 2:03 AM | Brent Baker
NBC anchor Brian Williams, apparently still bristling over former President George W. Bush's failure to admit mistakes (at least in media interviews), twice in 24 hours felt it newsworthy to contrast…
February 2nd, 2009 1:53 PM | Ken Shepherd
Update (14:33): News conference just ended. Gibbs faced numerous questions on Tom Daschle, including one from each major broadcast network's correspondents. [audio excerpt available here]
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January 30th, 2009 9:25 AM | Brent Baker
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…
January 27th, 2009 3:54 PM | Ken Shepherd
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…
January 26th, 2009 1:44 PM | Ken Shepherd
Update/Closing thoughts (14:34): Hearst columnist Helen Thomas continues to make a cartoon of herself in her using her perch to parrot ultra-left-wing talking points. Her question today was on…
January 26th, 2009 8:14 AM | Tim Graham
Bill Steigerwald of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has the first interview with author and former CBS News reporter Bernard Goldberg about his brand new book. You'll love the title: "A Slobbering…
January 23rd, 2009 1:20 PM | Ken Shepherd
Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs is conducting his second-ever press conference right now. Below you'll find my live-blogging of the questions. I can't promise verbatim rendering of the…
January 19th, 2009 1:59 PM | Tim Graham
NBC News personalities were clear on Sunday’s Meet the Press that Barack Obama needs to bring the fiscal "pain" and sacrifice to the voters with higher taxes. In his interview with incoming chief…
January 7th, 2009 9:23 PM | Brent Baker
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…
January 7th, 2009 4:11 PM | Jeff Poor
The words “economic stimulus” have a certain appeal to them because, after all, who wouldn’t want the economy to be stimulated?
But, as the country is nearing his inauguration on…
January 5th, 2009 8:41 AM | Mark Finkelstein
In its opening half-hour, Good Morning America found time to tell us—twice—that Pres.-elect Obama choked up with emotion as he viewed his packed-up old home. But somehow ABC never got around to…
December 23rd, 2008 4:25 PM | Kyle Drennen
The Tuesday morning shows of NBC, ABC, and CBS all promoted Barack Obama’s celebrity status as hosts and reporters ogled the latest paparazzi photo of Obama in swim trunks while on vacation in…
December 18th, 2008 4:22 PM | Ken Shepherd
Chuck Todd, who once favorably compared Obama chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel to World War II heros Gens. Patton and MacArthur will soon be perched close to Field Marshal Rahm in the West Wing.
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December 14th, 2008 1:32 PM | Noel Sheppard
The media defense of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and corruption in politics continued Sunday morning as new "Meet the Press" host David Gregory, along with his guests, actually…
December 10th, 2008 12:59 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
The three broadcast networks started their evening newscasts on Tuesday with stories on Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's arrest and corruption charges. All of the newscasts mentioned…
December 10th, 2008 8:48 AM | Mark Finkelstein
If Rod Blagojevich were a Republican, what's the over-under on the number of times the network morning shows would have mentioned that fact in their coverage today?But Blago is a Democrat. So how…
December 4th, 2008 12:34 PM | Scott Whitlock
On Thursday's "Morning Joe," after being told that a critique of his on the auto industry bailout sounded very similar to one made by liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, MSNBC political director…