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On Sunday, I wrote that maybe it was time to for the press to collectively push back harder against the White House, After today's ugly briefing, there is no maybe about it.

We have more media outlets than ever, yet we're still getting most of our presidential election information from cable TV and ideologically super-charged performers like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News.

Media have been playing a larger and larger role in presidential politics, but this was the year that the

Donald Trump poisoned America with the help of the GOP, the media and the Democratic Party, says Robert Reich.

Yesterday, I wrote about the higher, ritualistic purpose some of the more responsible cable channels news played on election night as earth-shaking results were

The closing of a news outlet that puts hundreds of people out of work is always a sad story to report. But in the case of Al Jazeera America, which announced Wednesday that it would shut down operations by April 30, the implications for the entire TV news industry, its audiences and democracy are even more depressing.

Cable news channel Al Jazeera America is going off the air April 30, employees of the Qatar-based media company were told Wednesday.

The problem with CNN's big story approach in Baltimore is that when you don't have a big story, you have to pretend that you do.

It loooks like Kevin Spacey can't get enough of the Oval Office.

I am not looking to make a big deal out of this, but I thought at least one mainstream media critic ought to point out that CNN plans to air what it's calling a "documentary" about George H.W. Bush Sunday night in two hours of prime time, starting at 9.

It was almost like old times last week watching CNN¿s wall-to-wall coverage of the Veterans Affairs scandal story.

Documentaries were supposed to be a dying genre -- and living proof that we were becoming dumber as a nation.

After decades of writing about television and media, this is the year that I have lost journalistic faith in two TV news institutions in which I have long believed: 60 Minutes and CNN.

Towson University alum Brian Stelter is leaving his job as media reporter at the New York Times to be senior media correspondent and host of "Reliable Sources" at CNN.

I have been writing a lot about Al Jazeera since the Qatar-based news operation bought Al Gore's wreck of a channel in January to gain access to some 50 million U.S. homes.

Enter Al Jazeera with deep pockets and an old-school, hard-news strategy

Cable news was mostly bad news in Day One of the Trayvon Martin trial.

After spending 15 hours Friday locked on coverage of the manhunt in Boston, here are my picks for the highs, lows and deeper media stories of this remarkable day and night.

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

CNN and Soledad O'Brien Thursday announced a new deal that will take her out of the morning weekday anchor chair and make her an independent producer of documentaries for the channel.

But the big story that seemed to mostly sail under the radar was the embattled channel's hour-long, full-right-wing, all-out, let's-give-a-big-big-hug coronation later in the evening of Dr. Benjamin Carson, the famous neurosurgeon at Baltimore's Johns Hospital, who made headlines for what he had to say Feb. 7 at the National Prayer Breakfast.

The hiring of Cain, which was reported Friday, feels like an act of desperation, a move made in reaction to sinking ratings rather than one done as part of a larger vision.

Talk about hitting the floor running, Jeff Zucker looks to have arrived at CNN this month in a flat-out sprint.

Chris Cuomo is leaving ABC to join CNN where he will have a "major role in a new CNN morning show," the cable channel announced Tuesday.

Remember all the big, high-sounding media talk right after the massacre at Sandy Hook about how maybe now we will have a "national dialogue" about guns?

Last week, on the eve of Jeff Zucker's appointment as president worldwide for CNN, I wrote about his potential to be a wise and winning choice for a very tough and important job.

Of all the major executive, talent and programming moves that CNN has made in the last few years, the expected announcement of Jeff Zucker as the president of CNN Worldwide looks like one of the best.

CNN announced Thursday morning that Jeff Zucker is its new president worldwide.

Tough battle ahead for Katie Couric's new show with Ellen, Judge Judy, Ricki Lake and WJZ news all head to head.