Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Chuck Todd Takes a Swipe at Arianna Huffington

Ben Smith: “NBC’s Chuck Todd goes off on Glenn Beck on First Read today, but his real targets are Ailes and Huffington: “Former political consultants-turned-TV execs or former radio DJs, or former California socialites, the folks helping to accelerate the public’s perception of the media off a cliff [are people who] made their livings trying to do other things.”

I certainly understand going after Beck - and more specifically the major outlets (including CNN) who have given him a platform. But lumping Huffington with Beck is way off base. Before he throws more stones, Todd may want to look at his own glass house, i.e. his own network’s culpability during the past decade, from the misogynistic coverage of Hillary Clinton to the fawning over Bush to the love affair with Ann Coulter.

Topics: chuck-todd, huffington, arianna

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Chuck Todd Needs to Read Krugman, Greenwald, Hamsher, Aravosis and Huffington

Apparently, the recent flap over the public option is the “first time” the left has criticized the White House, at least according to Chuck Todd…

Topics: chuck-todd, huffington, white-house, public-option, left, krugman, aravosis, jane-hamsher, glenn-greenwald,

Friday, July 03, 2009

The Key to Huffington Post’s Power

Scanning HuffPo’s front page, I caught a post and a reply that synthesized the power of the site. The blogger is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who published an entry titled Ban Ki Moon in Burma: The Chance for a New Beginning...

Topics: huffington, gordon-brown, burma, ban-ki-moon

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Did White House “Coordinate” with Huffington Post Reporter?

The White House didn’t have to coordinate with HuffPo to know what Nico Pitney was going to ask, since he wrote this the day before the presser: “Tomorrow, President Obama is holding a news conference at the White House and I’ll be attending. If I get called, I want to ask a question that comes directly from an Iranian.”

Topics: huffington, white-house

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A Line is Finally Drawn in the Media’s Ongoing Palin-Bash

It may be of little consolation to the supporters of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin but we can now say there is an uncrossable line in the media’s ongoing Palin-bash: Jokes about her daughters getting “knocked up” at baseball games go too far. Some of us would have drawn the line months ago and for less offensive “jokes,” but at least the media now have a metric against which to judge their skits, sketches, and news segments.

Topics: cnn, palin, huffington, campbell-brown, toobin, letterman

Sunday, June 14, 2009

CNN Pressured Into Greater Iran Coverage

From the NYT: “Cable news normally serves as the front line for breaking news, but the channels largely took the weekend off as Tehran exploded in protests after Iran’s presidential election. The performance of the American cable news, especially CNN, spawned an online protest by thousands on Saturday and Sunday, showing that viewers can try to pressure news organizations about their coverage in real time via the Internet.”

Topics: cnn, iran, huffington, twitter