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,…
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February 5th, 2009 2:16 PM | Ken Shepherd
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…
November 24th, 2008 3:29 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Update 11-25 8:20 AM: Morning Joe Makes SNL References -- see discussion at foot.
Call it "The Wild 'n Crazy Guy–Billionaire Style." Maria Bartiromo's interview of Saudi Prince Alwaleed,…
November 24th, 2008 7:18 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Transcript from press conference of Pres. Barack Obama, Feb. 12th, 2011: CNSNEWS.COM: Mr. President, when you first took office you promised to create 2.5 million jobs by January, 2011. But…
November 23rd, 2008 3:21 PM | Noel Sheppard
Though given a perfect opportunity to do so, Tom Brokaw on Sunday chose not to discuss the similarities between Franklin D. Roosevelt's refusal to work with President Herbert Hoover on solving the…
November 23rd, 2008 10:25 AM | NB Staff
It's week 12, and Joe's gotcha covered below the fold:
Pigskins and Politics: Week 12Joe ConchaThe economy can't be good when the NFL now says they'll be discounting…
November 10th, 2008 9:23 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Whoops. It's turning into quite the morning for gaffes on the NBC/MSNBC family of networks. As noted here, during the Today opening, Meredith Vieira stumbled onto the sensitive subject of Matt…
November 6th, 2008 6:26 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Sounding like a voice-over on a movie trailer for an upcoming action blockbuster starring Barack Obama, Chris Matthews greeted viewers, on Thursday's "Hardball," with this exclamation: "The…
November 6th, 2008 1:07 PM | Tim Graham
NBC political analyst Chuck Todd offered the Quote of the Day in the first few minutes of Today on Thursday, comparing incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to the legendary American…