December 20, 2015 Cuomo's Confession: The media’s spanking debate gets personal after NFL star sidelined Under a bright media spotlight, the kind of whipping that inflicts bodily injury is getting harder to defend.
December 20, 2015 Airstrikes Aftermath: A more serious media covering a war president From the moment that U.S. airstrikes began against the Islamic State in Syria, the tone of the media coverage changed.Â
December 20, 2015 Politico gives Lois Lerner a platform, accepts deal that she won’t discuss IRS scandal The website did a credible job within the parameters it faced, but the result was highly frustrating.
December 20, 2015 News Flash: The New York Times discovers that America loves large posteriors The paper of record has discovered the posterior and deemed it fit to print.Â
December 20, 2015 Media out of control on NFL? Nope, it's about time I believe that this wave of aggressive reporting on football and violence is way overdue, as is the broader discussion of a crime that, as we’re learning, has traumatized many women who never make the headlines
December 20, 2015 Have Democrats won the culture war? Uh, not so fast There is no question that demographic shifts in America have transformed the political landscape, but other social issues are definitely working against the Dems.Â
December 20, 2015 Media’s anti-war contingent challenges Obama, downplaying ISIS threat As the Obama administration gears up for war against ISIS, some media voices--a minority, to be sure--are raising objections and invoking the specter of Iraq.
December 20, 2015 Hillary’s Strange Limbo: Why the media mob devoured the Iowa steak fry By going to Iowa for Tom Harkin’s 39th and final steak fry, Hillary Clinton knew that a planeload of pundits would head to the Hawkeye State and cover the event as the kickoff of her presidential campaign.
December 20, 2015 Ray Rice Revulsion: How the media have let abusive athletes get away with it Why is the national press only now focusing on these other cases as they search for sidebar stories during the furor over Rice punching Janay in an elevator?
December 20, 2015 Why Obama’s assault on ISIS probably won’t save the Democrats this fall The best-scenario for Obama is that a climate of being at war (though John Kerry refuses to use that word) creates a rally-round-the-president effect.