lester holt
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The election of Donald Trump has lifted a lot of media boats - from the New York Times to MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow. Add “Saturday Night Live” to that list of media enjoying a big Trump bump. - President Trump's threat to cancel the White House press briefings imperils not only the task of the attending reporters, but also the vested interest of the public as well. The ability of the press to probe answers in a free-flowing exchange is a powerful means to hold Mr. Trump and his administration to account for their words and deeds.
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- Round 1 of the presidential debates clearly goes to Hillary Clinton, says Jules Witcover.
- U.S. voting system has vulnerabilities but the risk of computer hacking is manageable — scaring voters by overstating that risk is just as problematic
- In TV terms, Donald Trump had a pretty bad night. He lost to Hillary Clinton on several levels in their first debate Monday with millions of undecided voters
- Dan ushers in Kentucky Derby weekend with a chat with an old horse racing friend and tips for home bartenders making Triple Crown-themed drinks.
- TV news anchors and talk show hosts have embarrassed themselves so often in covering Donald Trump that I stopped counting.
- It was a tale of two Baltimores Wednesday afternoon and evening, depending on whether you were watching local or national coverage of the city in the wake of a hung jury in the first trial in the Freddie Gray case. Some network and cable journalists described a city on the edge, about to break out in violence — while local TV reporters and anchors repeatedly used the word "peaceful" to accompany overhead helicopter shots of protesters downtown and in the Penn North neighborhood.
- Sure, there was no shortage of clowns like Geraldo Rivera. But that's not the whole media.
