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As the funding controversy swirled around Susan G. Komen for the Cure this week, much of the criticism was directed not at the group's president, but at Karen Handel, a Maryland native who serves as a senior policy adviser.

Sometimes, the game of life gets in the way of the game.

With a caucus vote so close that the cable channels had to wait until all the votes were actually counted to declare a winner, Iowa was no place to be Tuesday night for media amateurs and ideologues.

The media are letting us down in the run-up to the 2012 elections

Toure's fourth book, "Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness" raises questions about racial identity

Case likely to go to jury Monday

Judge dismisses obstruction of justice charge against Republican campaign manager

Media has failed to properly report ethical lapses of Pentagon experts

This year, I gave up reporting cable news ratings every month.

Columnist Cal Thomas says African-American leaders are making racial appeals for President Obama that belie his promise of a post-racial nation.

Combination of Al-Jazeera on laptop, CNN on TV, Twitter plug us into currents of history

I doubt this modest request will be heard over the fevered roar for the scalp of Texas Gov. Rick Perry that the media has been sounding since he announced his candidacy for president.

I have to admit I am troubled by the admission from David Bohrman, the longtime chief of CNN's political coverage, who acknowledged his liberal beliefs in an interview with Howie Kurtz on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday.

If you weren't watching MSNBC Tuesday night, you missed not only a great night of American politics, but also a glimpse of the forces that will shape the big war of 2012 that's heating up.

I praise the cable channel and its host for going out to the Midwest and covering this bellwether political and economic vote today.

A Baltimore-area computer programmer is at the center of satirical website that encourages the public to offer a 'slow clap' for Congress for finally ending the debt ceiling debacle.

Gloria Borger gets Sen. McConnell on the record, but are others at CNN cheerleading?

The history of West Virginia's coal mine wars has been largely expunged from textbooks and purged from the memories of the state's citizens, but it came to life during the inaugural run of Doug Estepp's Coal Country Tour.

And at this crucial moment when we need the down-the-middle, keen analysis that CNN usually provides, what does the cable channel give us instead? Piers Morgan. I can't remember the last time I was as angry as I was last night when CNN decided it was going to stick with Mr. America's Got Talent following the words of the leaders of two branches of government who sounded like they were never going to compromise for all the president's phony use of the word Monday night.

MSNBC is built on a lie, and it's one that the cable channel is never going to be able escape as long as sticks to its leftist ideological guns.

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?

Mark Halperin, editor-at-large of Time magazine and senior political analyst for MSNBC, said on live TV Thursday morning that he thought President Barack Obama had been acting like a "dick."

Jessica Yellin, one of the stars of CNN's outstanding 2008 political coverage, was named chief White House correspondent Tuesday. She replaces Ed Henry, who left to cover the president for Fox News after seven years on the CNN beat.

After four nights of watching Keith Olbermann, there are two things I can say with some certainty.

I have to give Keith Olbermann and Current TV their due: For 58 minutes Monday night, they delivered an impressive premiere on the new "Countdown" show. Strong production values, reasonable discussions and no ugly over-the-top slanderous attacks on anyone.

The Monday premiere of "Countdown" on Current TV drew 179,000 viewers in the key A25-54 demo, according to figures released by the network.

CNN was the place to be on cable TV Wednesday night if you wanted context and perspective on President Barack Obama's prime-time address on how and when American troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan.