Posts Tagged ‘ The Kicker ’

By Joel Meares Among the many Christiane Amanpour tidbits doing the rounds in the lead-up to her debut on This Week Sunday, we were tickled to learn that as well as the new host, the program will get new theme music. From The Washington Post
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By Lauren Kirchner On Tuesday, a New York Times front page story, “Leaks Add to Pressure on White House Over Strategy,” followed up on reactions to the publication by WikiLeaks of 92,000 classified U.S. military documents pertaining to the...
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By Liz Cox Barrett For anyone, like me, who happens not to right now be watching (and/or Twittering about), President Obama on The View (taped yesterday, broadcasting now), the New York Times' Jackie Calmes has summarized it here. In part: Pre...
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By Lauren Kirchner Walter Shapiro over at Politics Daily considers how quickly the Shirley Sherrod hackjob spread, viruslike, from Breitbart to Fox News to CNN, and declares that we—editors, reporters, bloggers and readers—need to slow the...
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By Clint Hendler McClatchy is offering a very worth reading commentary, adapted from a speech recently given by The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg on what it's like to do journalism from the country's most high profile detention center The sho...
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By Liz Cox Barrett Nancy Franklin On Television in the current New Yorker: Everyone, it seems, is a media hound and a media watchdog and a media attack dog. It’s not just industry insiders who can tell you who’s up and who’s down—anyon...
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By Liz Cox Barrett "People who write about Alvin Greene are going to get clicked on," Ruthven explains to Politico's Jonathan Martin in Martin's piece about Alvin Greene (currently the third most-read story over th...
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By Liz Cox Barrett A "non-traditional news show” is how the White House describes ABC's The View, in explaining to the New York Times's Brian Stelter via email why President Obama will appear on the show later this week (taping Wednesday, ai...
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By Liz Cox Barrett Once you’ve finished reading the 90,000-plus mostly classified Afghanistan-related U.S. military documents brought to you by WikiLeaks, you can read what feels like as many blog posts reacting to the documents and the repo...
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By Clint Hendler Daniel Schorr, the legendary CBS newsman who reinvented himself as an analyst and commentator for CNN and NPR, died this morning in a Washington hospital. The New York Times has a detailed obituary, and NPR, his primary journa...
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