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A Jeff Zucker hire, the former ABC correspondent will premiere his weekday afternoon show Monday

President Obama has demonstrated that he, not the military and not the State Department, decides when the U.S. becomes involved in armed conflicts abroad.

Cal Thomas says more women in power is a good thing but questions whether they are more able than men to get things done.

From #SaveBigBird and #womeninbinders, to #Lauerfail and #DrunkDianeSawyer, it seems like we are awash in stories with hashtags these days -- stories about the 140-character wonders of Twitter and their impact on media and politics.

When CNN and NBC News called the election for Barack Obama Tuesday, viewers were offered as clear a snapshot as I have seen of the difference between a news gathering operation like CNN and an propaganda machine like MSNBC.

The partisan media madness started early Tuesday on the "Fox & Friends" morning show with host Steve Doocy somehow turning a report on midnight voting in Dixville Notch, N.H., into an attack on President Barack Obama for his handling of the September attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Neighborhood news from West Friendship columnist Lisa Peklo

"Good Morning America"co-host George Stephanopoulos used the adjective "staggering" to describe the response to his on-air partner Robin Roberts' announcement this week that she has a blood disease and needs a bone marrow transplant.

Facebook to allow organ donation status, an idea that came from a Hopkins doctor

Everything you need to know about what's going on 11/14-11/20

Another anchorwoman's departure leads to questions about TV news, but most agree it comes down to money

The departure last week of Marianne Banister from WBAL-TV after 15 years of co-anchoring a team that always finished first or second in its time period raised big questions about the changing face of television news in Baltimore.

The New York hotel maid who says she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former chief of the International Monetory Fund, has broken her silence in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts that will air Monday on "Good Morning America."

Conventional wisdom says US journalism has higher standards than that of the Brits. But what about sites like TMZ and the major networks paying for interviews through the dodge of licensing fees? Will we pull back in wake of News of the World scandal?

The TV press is doing a conscientious and aggressive job of covering the economic story, without getting routinely played by the political spin doctors trying to use the nation's misery for their team's gain. The news operations doing the best work are CNN, CBS and ABC.