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- CNN announced Thursday morning that Jeff Zucker is its new president worldwide.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mitt Romney recently continued an American tradition of presidential candidates promising to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, yet nothing ever happens.
- 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.
- Citing an internal memo, Politico and other media outlets reported that John King's nightly show on CNN has been cancelled.
- Finally, someone in the TV news business told Donald Trump he's ridiculous. Now, if they would just stop giving him airtime.
- Alan Gross, the Maryland man who is serving 15 years in a Cuban prison after taking communications equipment into the communist nation, is asking authorities there to let him return to the United States.
- Jules Witcover: Republicans complain about politicizing of fight against al-Qaida
- What sets "Game Change" part is how it has radically shortened the distance between real-life events and their Hollywood depiction. As the producers deftly blend actual news footage and dramatic recreations, "Game Change" vaporizes the lines of fact and fiction as you watch.
- And the Baltimore-made docudrama is likely to stir real political debate
- Former speaker tries to bully moderator, and gets shown up in showdown
- 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.
- And so it is that I will come to TV tonight hoping to see one of the few anchors who has the stature and the credibility to call out Gingrich on his phony game of pounding the press by telling moderators how "stupid" (one of his favorite words) or "wrong" (another) their questions are take this compromised candidate on.
- Combination of Al-Jazeera on laptop, CNN on TV, Twitter plug us into currents of history
- I hate the unprecedented extent to which Fox News has involved itself in Republican politics, but the channel presented a first-class, rousing and illuminating debate among GOP candidates Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty Thursday night.
- Men from Pikesville, Owings Mills and Canton forming a local alumni club of Alpha Epsilon Pi international Jewish fraternity.
- Gloria Borger gets Sen. McConnell on the record, but are others at CNN cheerleading?
- 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.
- The TV press is doing a conscientious and aggressive job of covering the economic story, without getting routinely played by the political spin doctors trying to use the nation's misery for their team's gain. The news operations doing the best work are CNN, CBS and ABC.
- As one media reporter who was genuinely concerned about the turn CNN seemed to be taking last year when it hired Eliot Spitzer, I am not going to try and hide how impressed and pleased I am with the lineup the cable news network announced today.
- In the end, Glenn Beck's last hour on Fox News Thursday after 2 and 1/2 years of considerable controversy, was rather quiet, banal and kind of pathetic.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jon Stewart, Anthony Weiner, penis, Weinergate, soul singer, R&B