If Alex Pareene were a cable news executive…
Our favorite media critic tells 92Y which scandals his hypothetical news network would cover VIDEO
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:13 PM UTCMedia Alex Pareene, 92y, 92nd Street Y
Media Criticism
Media Alex Pareene, 92y, 92nd Street Y
Tornado survivor to Wolf Blitzer: Sorry, I’m an atheist. I don’t have to thank the Lord
Wolf Blitzer pushes a tornado survivor to praise the Lord. She tells him she's an atheist, with dignity and respect VIDEO
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:06 PM UTC 320Life Video, Atheism, Oklahoma
It’s Whitewater all over again
Obama's "scandals" are not like Nixon's. They're a fishing expedition to stop his agenda and find something bigger
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:37 PM UTC 68Media Media Criticism, Watergate
Aloof, shifty Obama: Nixon times ten thousand!
Our evil president managed to both mastermind the IRS flap and be such a bad boss that no one told him about it
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:07 PM UTC 44Politics Opening Shot, Barack Obama, IRS
Beltway scandal machine breaks, knows nothing about America
While DC fixates on whether Obama is worse than Nixon, polls show the public likes the president more and more
Monday, May 20, 2013 8:02 PM UTC 177News Benghazi, IRS investigation
Watchdogs: ABC “in danger of losing a lot of credibility” on Benghazi saga
After inaccurate reporting transformed the trajectory of the story, the network doubles down and denies culpability
Monday, May 20, 2013 7:15 PM UTC 22Media ABC, Jon Karl, Benghazi, Media
Three scandals, Beltway style
Sorry, AP phone logs. In DC's game of scandal, you lose to the IRS and Benghazi!
Monday, May 20, 2013 12:40 PM UTC 13Politics Opening Shot, Sunday shows
Peggy Noonan hears a dog whistle
How desperate is GOP? It now fantasizes that Obama’s campaign was a coded order to the IRS to target the Tea Party
Monday, May 20, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 115Media Peggy Noonan, Barack Obama, IRS
Stop comparing everything to “Girls”!
Vampire Weekend, "30 Rock," Sheryl Sandberg, "Spring Breakers" -- everything is just like "Girls." Except it isn't
Friday, May 17, 2013 10:45 PM UTC 27Life Girls, Lena Dunham, Frances Ha
ABC’s Benghazi problem festers
Jonathan Karl said he "obtained" controversial emails. He didn't, his leaks had errors and ABC hasn't fixed it yet
Friday, May 17, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 24Media Benghazi, Jonathan Karl
Kinsley loves austerity because it is “spinach”
The liberal pundit supports a worthless international initiative
Friday, May 17, 2013 12:59 PM UTC 76Media Opening Shot, Michael Kinsley
Two scandals deflated, one persists
ABC's Jonathan Karl fails to defend erroneous Benghazi report, and IG report suggests IRS outrage is overblown
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:33 PM UTC 141Media Benghazi, Associated Press, IRS
Conspiracy theorists flummoxed in face of actual scandals
The Benghazi/IRS/AP trifecta was the moment critics of Obama and the government had been waiting for. Or was it?
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 181Media Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann
Megan McArdle doesn’t understand the Kermit Gosnell case
An oddly misinformed Daily Beast piece gets everything about Pennsylvania's abortion debate backward
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:53 PM UTC 33News Kermit Gosnell, Abortion
Who doctored a White House email?
CNN appears to have undermined a scoop that damaged the White House
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:36 PM UTC 113Media Media Criticism, CNN, ABC news
Stop holding Democrats to a different standard
The recent IRS flap shows an obvious double standard in Washington's reactions to Bush era and Obama era misconduct
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 100Politics Barack Obama, George W. Bush
GOP reprises ’90s scandal playbook
With zero self-awareness, Beltway conservatives and journalists are salivating over a return to Clinton scandals
Monday, May 13, 2013 7:39 PM UTC 121News Editor's Picks, Bill Clinton
Good riddance, Barbara Walters
Veteran newswoman retires to spend more time with her craven obsession with power
Monday, May 13, 2013 2:30 PM UTC 151Media Opening Shot, Barbara Walters
Go away, 2016 presidential obsession!
The media fixate on the presidential race while sequester cuts fester and real questions about Libya go unanswered
Monday, May 13, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 61News 2016 Elections, Hillary Clinton
Return of the anti-Muslim bigots
As the GOP coalition gets frayed, Islamophobia is one of the few things that can unify the party
Friday, May 10, 2013 1:12 PM UTC 200Media Star Wars, Islam, Muslims
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