Press

Michael Calderone gets a mostly denial from the New York Post on Sandra Guzman’s claims of bigotry and bias inside the paper. There’s even some pushback on Guzman’s allegation that Charles Hurt, the paper’s D.C. bureau chief, considers it their mission to “destroy Barack Obama.” I don’t see why: Hurt is perhaps the most relentlessly [...]

Here’s a fairly disturbing trend. A Gallup poll released yesterday shows a significant jump in the number of Americans who doubt the seriousness of the global warming threat and who think that the press is over-hyping the issue.
Despite the increased political and rhetorical emphasis on climate change under the new administration, the survey found only [...]

Today was not a good day to be the White House press secretary.
After two of President Obama’s prominent nominees withdrew from consideration because of tax concerns, Robert Gibbs took tough questions from the media at his daily press conference. And he didn’t enjoy a bit of it.
At first, he danced around the questions about the [...]

Further evidence that the sometimes frosty relationship that existed between President-elect Barack Obama and the press covering him during the campaign has thawed considerably emerges in a pool report from Obama’s flight home to Chicago today from the National Governors Association meeting in Philadelphia.

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox comments on the logistics of following the candidates on the campaign trail. Video content included.

A story today in the The Los Angeles Times on a study about biology and politics starts with: “Die-hard liberals and conservatives aren’t made; they’re born. It’s literally in their DNA.”
Intrigued, I called the study’s head researcher, Douglas Oxley of the University of Nebraska, to see if he agreed with this conclusion.

PHILADELPHIA — Now that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is in the national spotlight, speculation about how she will hold up to the intense media scrutiny is rampant. On an otherwise lazy holiday weekend, a slew of revelations about Sen. John McCain’s running mate surfaced, suggesting the McCain campaign’s self-styled intensive vetting process may not have [...]