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Bongino: Sun's left-wing views are making print media irrelevant

We welcome the media's interest in American Sign Language interpreters. They bridge the linguistic divide between the hearing world and the deaf world. And in doing so, they perform a valuable service. But if the media approach American Sign Language as entertaining performance art, they are perpetuating a fallacy. And if the media believe that interviewing celebrity sign language interpreters obviates the need to communicate with deaf individuals, then this new trend is not just surprising;

Fox News has a new punching bag this week: Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings.

Thousands of Marylanders who had trouble signing up for health coverage on the state's glitch-riddled exchange last year instead vented their frustrations in the site's online feedback forms.

Baltimore is going to have a new all-news radio station. Or part of one, anyway. WNEW-FM (99.1), a CBS-owned Washington-oriented station, is repositioning itself as a Maryland station focused on Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington as of 5 a.m. Monday, according to Steve Swenson, senior vice president and market manager for CBS Radio in Washington.

How many attacks on the First Amendment is President Obama going to be allowed before he's universally denounced as a worse enemy of the press than Richard Nixon?

A Baltimore transportation official asked the agency's director if he'd been able to "tap into" email records of an employee suspected of leaking information to The Baltimore Sun about the city's troubled speed camera program, according to records obtained under the Public Information Act.

Last week, former Fox News host Glenn Beck returned for a guest appearance with Megyn Kelly and created a bit of a buzz saying he wished he'd have been more positive and less divisive during his days on the cable channel.

A group trying to draft Ben Carson to run for president in 2016 has bought seven billboards in the Baltimore region aimed partly at voters but also at the Hopkins neurosurgeon himself.

If you hate the extreme polarization of American life today, with more and more people talking to and living alongside only people who share their world view, blame Roger Ailes, president of Fox News.

Inspired by a leadership class, Severna Park's Jon Korin set about forming a bicycle advocacy group in Anne Arundel County about a year ago. He hoped to marshal bicyclists to lobby for more bike lanes and raise awareness of bike laws.

Last month, I described 2013 as the year I lost faith in one of the few bastions of TV journalism in which I still believed: "60 Minutes."

Dan Bongino launched his first campaign for office on a laptop computer in his dining room. His wife, alone at his side, was the only other person he was sure would vote for him.

The nation's top Catholic bishops will convene this week in Baltimore to choose a new leader, a decision that will help set the course for an American church striving to build its appeal while grappling with stances on immigration and contraception coverage.

Ben Carson, the Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon turned conservative pundit, will join the staff of Fox News, the network announced today.

A $400 million gambling complex that will house a "world-class" casino is rising along Baltimore's Russell Street — land that until last year was barred from construction because of the high risk of flooding.

Cooked-up and dumbed-down TV cartoon of a debate between Gov. Martin O'Malley and his Texas counterpart Rick Perry on CNN's "Crossfire"

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.

Pfc. Bradley Manning's leak of a massive trove of classified information was against the law, no matter his motivations, but it did not amount to aiding the enemy.

This week, there was good comedy, all of the dialogue that you would expect, and each of the main stories were given enough room to breathe.

George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin at 10 p.m. Saturday, and it was a network news operation, ABC, not any of the all-news cable channels, that had the best initial coverage.

Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson has joined The Washington Times as a weekly opinion columnist, about a week after retiring from his post at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Our national security system's lack of checks and balances assures the abuse of power — unless a few brave souls step forward

Former Washington Post media critic and Daily Beast Washington bureau chief Howie Kurtz is joining Fox News.

The Obama White House has been trying to de-legitimize Fox News almost from the day it took office. Remember the media blitz of 2009 launched by then White House Communications Director Anita Dunn?

The Justice Department's secret review of Associated Press telephone records gives advocates for federal employees one more reason to doubt the Obama administration's full commitment to protecting whistle-blowers, particularly those in national security agencies.

In gathering two months of Associated Press phone records, federal prosecutors have run roughshod over First Amendment

Just as media helped solve Boston bombing, more attention must be paid to the Benghazi investigation

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.

Jonah Goldberg writes that it's little wonder the mainstream media has been reluctant to cover the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell.

In stepping down last week as a speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine commencement, Dr. Ben Carson again took on the role of media/culture critic and martyr to "political correctness."

In a letter sent to the Johns Hopkins Medical community Friday afternoon, Faculty Dean and CEO Dr. Paul Rothman labeled Dr. Ben Carson's comments on gay marriage "hurtful" and "offensive."

Dr. Benjamin Carson, the famed Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, apologized Friday for his "choice of words" and use of examples in discussing gay marriage on Fox News earlier in the week.

Anthony Lewis may be most familiar for his decades of work at the New York Times. But his book, "Gideon's Trumpet," was one of the first -- and best -- examples of literary journalism, which has flourished in the half-century that has followed its publication.

Jonah Goldberg writes that libertarians and conservatives have many more similarities than differences.

A task force studying Baltimore's troubled speed camera program will urge the city to increase oversight of the process, change the way camera sites are chosen and create a new speed camera website containing maps and other information for the public.

Conservative ownership of some news organizations doesn't prevent a pervasive left-wing leaning

Vice President Joe Biden's press secretary apologized to a Capital News Service reporter and the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism on Wednesday after a press office staffer demanded the reporter delete photos taken at an event in Rockville.

Liberals dominate the media even though they're in a minority of the electorate

Liberals dominate the media even though they're in a minority of the electorate

David Zurawik: There is no excuse for the kind of coverage TV has delivered the last two weeks on the sequester.