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David Zurawik: There is no excuse for the kind of coverage TV has delivered the last two weeks on the sequester. - With high-profile political practitioners taking gigs on news outlets, the public needs a score card to figure out who's playing politics and who's doing real journalism.
- MSNBC has long been as bad as Fox News when it comes to ideological bias. But with the hiring of longtime Team Obama loyalists David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs, it¿s official: MSNBC is worse.
- Since his golf outing with Tiger Woods, President Obama has been battling with the press over access. And things only look to get more contentious this week as we move toward sequester Friday.
- Jeffrey Kent's provocative art challenges anti-gay marriage attitudes in black community
- Jeffrey Kent's provocative art challenges anti-gay marriage attitudes in black community
- Ending a tenure marked by the costly decline of the 'Today' show, the failure of the newsmagazine 'Rock Center' and an erosion of journalistic values, Steve Capus Friday resigned as president of NBC News after almost eight years on the job.
- WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are stepping up their rhetoric on federal employee compensation — positioning the issue as a central bargaining chip in negotiations next month over raising the debt ceiling and paying for government operations.
- Notable Ravens fans react on Twitter to the news that the team will be heading to the Super Bowl.
- Reading some of the nutty coverage of Al Jazeera's purchase of Current TV from Al Gore, I am not sure whether the problem is ideology or ignorance when it comes to the sorry state of media criticism today.
- Talk show host's book argues that society's misguided devotion to meritocracy has caused the failure of our flagship institutions, from banks to baseball.
- Jonah Goldberg says accusations that the GOP is motivated by racism are absurd
- President Obama can no longer duck the issue of gun control and must confront the dangers posed by an over-armed society.
- The performance of some of the biggest media outlets in the country Friday would be laughable if the story they were covering wasn't so horrific and tragic: 20 children slaughtered in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
- Our political system has never been pretty, but it can be effective in the right hands.
- 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.
- Jules Witcover laments that propagandistic punditry has largely replaced sober discussion of the nation's affairs
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- 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.
- ON MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3. That's not a news channel. That's a propaganda machine.
- Cal Thomas says neither candidate's positions were illuminating, but Obama is behaving like a challenger
- Towson native and MSNBC anchor married his longtime partner in a New York ceremony.
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- Thomas Roberts, a news anchor for MSNBC who grew up in Towson, is marrying Patrick D. Abner, his partner of 12 years, at a ceremony in New York City.
- Proposed fracking study reveals Del. Heather Mizeur's anti-business attitude
- Some liberals are willing to throw out the First Amendment for the sake of revenge
- On Sept. 11 and 12, 2008, ABC News aired Charlie Gibson's interviews with vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. They marked the beginning of the end for one of the most woefully unqualified and dangerous candidates ever put forth for the second highest office in the land.
- After drawing national attention for his attempt to muzzle a football player who supported gay rights, a Maryland delegate walked back his position Sunday and said Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo should be allowed to speak out in favor of same-sex marriage.
- WASHINGTON -- Nearly a week after Gov. Martin O'Malley said in a television interview that the country is not better off than it was four years ago, the Maryland Democrat was still explaining his position -- and he made news again Friday by saying his comments were "word-spliced" by the news media.
- The president claims the Republicans are champions of old ideas, but he's pushing the same New Deal solutions to 21st century problems.
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- Forget the broadcast networks of ABC, NBC and CBS. And forget PBS, too, unless you are part of the minority that doesn't have cable or online access.
- A new documentary from the global channel probes race, class, crime, drugs and incarceration
- Paul Ryan being selected as Mitt Romney's GOP running mate was big news late Friday night, and no one on television did a better job of covering it on the fly than MSNBC. I can't believe I typed those words either.
