Who needs Wikileaks? At the height of the health care reform debate last fall, Bill Sammon, Fox News’ controversial Washington managing editor, sent a memo directing his network’s journalists not to use the phrase “public option.” Instead, Sammon wrote, Fox’s reporters should use “government option” and similar phrases — wording that a top Republican pollster […]
Well this should be an interesting combination: Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker will co-host a new hour long CNN primetime news program starting in the fall as the nation prepares for the 2010 midterm election, the network announced Wednesday morning. The yet-to-be-named “roundtable discussion” program will […]
Yesterday, Richard Morin of the Washington Post had this little piece entitled “Jon Stewart, Enemy of Democracy?”. The article was a pretty negative attack towards the impact of The Daily Show: This is not funny: Jon Stewart and his hit Comedy Central cable show may be poisoning democracy. Two political scientists found that young people […]