By Don Irvine. Chuck Todd, the chief White House correspondent for NBC News, told Morning Joe that President Obama’s promise that people would be able to keep their health insurance under the Affordable Care Act was predicated on insurance [...]

    By Jaime Ortega. The U.S. media has not been transparent about how they report important national and international stories. Interest and government backup,  tend to block the news morality many networks ‘try’ to represent [...]

By Ann Dillard.    When I was in college, we were taught that it was of upmost importance to report something with NO bias. It was a journalist’s job to give NO opinion and certainly not to allow personal opinion to flow through a [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. Don’t miss: a lovely piece of journalism history in today’s NYTimes, above coverage of an earlier heat wave — in 1852. Today’s piece captures the novel sense that New Yorkers were feeling that summer heat [...]

                                                     By Ann Dillard. Nothing! But a three ring circus.. Can anyone recall the days when a President would come on and make an announcement, then [...]

By Don Irvine.   The Atlanta Journal-Constitution received an email yesterday that said there would be a media blackout for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s appearance at the National Association of Convenience Stores convention [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. Here is an excerpt from a recent interview in New York magazine with Justice Antonin Scalia, in which he discusses his news consumption habits with interviewer Jennifer Senior. What’s your media diet? Where [...]

  By Don Irvine. Al Jazeera America, which had hoped to challenge the major cable news networks, is falling on its face, based on last week’s ratings, in which some shows didn’t record a single viewer in the key 25-54 demographic. The [...]

  By Cristopher B. Daly Among the unfortunate effects of shutting down the U.S. government is the impact on the “non-essential” workers who run the National Archives, the presidential libraries, the Library of Congress, and other repositories [...]

By Don Irvine. The Washington Post, which on Sunday criticized both parties for the impending government shutdown, had a change of heart. By Wednesday they decided that the Republicans were solely to blame for closing most of the federal government [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly. History keeps happening. Now, a U.S. appeals court has ruled that the activity of hitting “Like” on a Facebook is a form of expression that deserves free-speech protections under the First Amendment. An earlier [...]

  By Don Irvine.   Pulitzer Prize winning writer Seymour Hersh lashed out at the U.S. media in an interview with The Guardian, calling them “pathetic” and accusing them of not standing up to Obama. It’s pathetic, they are more [...]

  By Christopher B. Daly   And, if so, for whose benefit? Those were some of the issues swirling in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington as lawyers argued over a case that could have far-reaching impacts on the future of Internet [...]

By Don Irvine. Chris Matthews, who thinks Republican efforts to enact Voter ID laws are aimed at voter suppression and constitute a poll tax, picked up on that theme again on Wednesday when he discussed the Texas Voter ID law with Wendy [...]

By Ann Dillard.   It is clear to anyone with a brain to think, eyes to see, and ears to hear that most of the media has become corrupted. It has also become an extension of the Obama government’s liberal and progressive agenda which [...]

By Douglas Valentine.     As soon as Kevin Drum at Mother Jones absolved the CIA of spewing poison gas as a provocation, many on the Liberal Left cautiously threw their weight behind Obama and the thrill of waging a punitive war [...]

    By Don Irvine. Fox News announced yesterday that longtime anchor Shepard Smith would vacate his 7 p.m. slot as part of the primetime reshuffling of programs that will feature Megyn Kelly, when she returns from maternity leave. Kelly [...]