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 Sunday Pundits 
 Dissect Biden Pick

Biden dominates Sunday talk shows

Aug 24, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The newly announced Obama/Biden ticket predictably dominated the talk shows today. Politico gives the run-down:
  • Obama VP adviser Caroline Kennedy told Meet the Press she hoped Joe Biden would prove to be as sage a pick as her father's choice of LBJ.
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned Biden's
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Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Biden • Rudy Giuliani • Fox News • vice president • Obama 2008 • NBC News • Meet the Press • Barack Obama supporters • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • ABC News

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Maddow Helps MSNBC Make Left Turn

Network hopes new anchor will translate into ratings, ad revenue

Aug 22, 08 8:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rachel Maddow's promotion to prime-time at MSNBC more clearly draws the partisan lines among the cable networks, writes Brian Stelter of the New York Times: MSNBC on the left, Fox on the right, and CNN claiming middle ground. Now the big question: Will the Maddow move translate into more ads?... More »

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cable TV • MSNBC • NBC Universal • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • CNN • TV advertising • television news • network news • Rachel Maddow • Bill Maher Grid

Bill Sad Over Hillary's Loss: Obama Adviser

Edwards' affair drowns out talk of Russia on Sunday shows

Aug 10, 08 6:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The buzz on John Edwards' love affair drowned out talk of Russia's conflict with Georgia on today's morning talk shows, Politico reports. On Fox News Sunday, an Obama campaign topdog said Bill Clinton is still reeling from his wife's primary loss, and Karl Rove claimed on Face the Nation... More »

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Barack Obama • Karl Rove • Henry Paulson • Democratic National Convention • campaign adviser • Fox News • talk show • Meet the Press • campaign issues • Face the Nation

ANALYSIS

Cable Dominates News by Blowing Up Stories

But print reporters dig up the stories that play on TV

Aug 2, 08 7:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twenty-four-hour cable networks set the news agenda by turning stories "from brushfire to raging conflagration," Paul Farhi writes in the American Journalism Review. Particularly during presidential campaigns, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC pull stories from newspapers and web sites and make them hot by running them day and... More »

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New York Times • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • MSNBC • news • journalism • Fox News • CNN • print journalism • television news • network news

Analysis

 Does al-Qaeda
 Do the Fist-Bump? 

Forget fist-jabbing, it's hugs that give terrorists away

Jul 16, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Terrorists aren’t big on fist-jabbing or bumping—they’re all about kissing and hugging, writes Juliet Lapidos for Slate in the aftermath of the New Yorker's depiction of knuckle-knocking Obamas, a move referred to by Fox News as a “terrorist fist-jab.” Al-Qaeda members, she writes, are... More »

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Barack Obama • New Yorker magazine • Fox News • Osama bin Laden • IRA • FARC • al-Qaeda

analysis

Obama to Take Diplomatic
Ace to Israel

Choice signals Democrat would take active role in Mideast

Jul 16, 08 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a move that should put voters at ease who are skeptical of his stance on Israel and Iran, Barack Obama has added Dennis Ross to his Middle East entourage, Massimo Calabresi writes in Time. The well-known diplomat was lead Israeli-Palestinian negotiator under Clinton and the first Bush, and his... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • Fox News • George HW Bush • diplomat • Arab Israeli conflict • Dennis Ross

 Hume to Leave Fox Anchor Role 

But he plans to stay on part-time as a senior political analyst

Jul 15, 08 9:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fox News' Brit Hume plans to step down from his role as anchor of the daily Special Report and as Washington managing editor at the end of the year, the Washington Post reports. Hume is near a deal to stay on Fox part-time as a senior political analyst, sources say,... More »

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retirement • Fox News • Roger Ailes • anchor • punditry • Brit Hume

Snow Was 'the Best': Cheney

Sunday shows also tackle VP rumors, economics, and the mortgage meltdown

Jul 13, 08 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Snow, economic policy, veepstakes, and the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae crisis sparked conversation on the Sunday talk show circuit today. Time sums them up:
  • Fox News Sunday paid homage to late newscaster and press secretary Tony Snow; Dick Cheney called him "the best" he's known.
  • Arnold Shwarzenegger
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Barack Obama • John McCain • Tony Snow • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Fox News • Meet the Press • Sunday Morning

Appreciation

Tony Snow Was Good at His Job

Press secretary won over a hostile press corps with wit, knowledge

Jul 12, 08 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - When Tony Snow took over as press secretary 2 years ago, the White House press corps wanted blood. Snow’s predecessors, the hostile Ari Fleischer and misinformed Scott McClellan, had left a bad taste in their mouths. But then came Snow, a breath of fresh air who won over the... More »

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Bush administration • Tony Snow • White House • obituary • Fox News • press secretary

obituary

 Tony Snow Dies of Cancer at 53 

Jul 12, 08 6:47 AM CDT
(AP) - Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a year and a half stint as President Bush's press secretary, has died of colon cancer, Fox News reported today. Snow was 53 years old.  Snow, who served as the... More »

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Bush administration • Tony Snow • colon cancer • Fox News • press secretary

HRC to FNC: Howard Wolfson Joins Fox News

Hillary adviser will counter Rove with regular commentary

Jul 8, 08 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Howard Wolfson, a top strategist for HIllary Clinton's campaign and one of her most visible television surrogates, has found a new employer, and it's not Barack Obama. Wolfson will become a contributor to the Fox News Channel, appearing on multiple programs. His move to Fox echoes a general feeling among... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Karl Rove • Fox News • Talking Heads • Democratic Party • News Corp • Howard Wolfson • punditry

ANALYSIS

 Fox Unleashes
 Attack Dogs
 on Other Media 

Station's PR team jumps at criticism 'like a political campaign'

Jul 7, 08 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Fox News public relations machine makes no bones about skewering those it perceives as foes, writes David Carr in the New York Times. “At Fox News, media relations is a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them,... More »

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cable TV • journalism • Fox News • public relations • David Carr • News Corp • reporting

ANALYSIS

Sexism? Media Disagree With Clinton Backers

Hillary's supporters cry foul, but news world pleads innocence

Jun 13, 08 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Now that Hillary Clinton has suspended her presidential campaign, her most ardent supporters are hitting out at television news, proposing boycotts and setting up websites in response to allegedly sexist coverage. But as the New York Times reports, many in the media see little evidence of sexism. Rather, they accuse... More »

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Hillary Clinton • media criticism • cable TV • MSNBC • sexism • Fox News • television news

OPINION

 Fox Looks Clueless with
 'Obama's Baby Mama' Quip

Network sparks outrage with poorly judged use of slang

Jun 13, 08 6:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fox is catching flak for calling Michelle Obama "Obama's baby mama" and it deserves all it gets, Noelle Hancock writes on New York's news blog. The network, which has conceded that a producer "exercised poor judgment" by posting the graphic, has made itself look "sexist, racist, and... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • Fox News • Michelle Malkin • gaffe

 Pundits Blast
  McCain's
 'Pathetic' Speech 

Also, the lime-green background didn't go over well

Jun 4, 08 12:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - McCain’s pre-buttal to Obama’s clinching speech last night didn’t go down well on either side of the press corps aisle. A sampling of the negative reactions, via Huffington Post:
  • Obamacan Andrew Sullivan laughs off Mac’s joust at Dem divisions, and says his “opening gambit
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Barack Obama • John McCain • Fox News • speech • presidential election

Fox News Guest Jokes About Killing Obama

'Many of us are making mistakes,' journalist says in apologizing

May 26, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Fox News analyst yesterday laughingly suggested on the air that Barack Obama be "knocked off." Commenting on Hillary Clinton's recent remarks about RFK's assassination, Liz Trotta referred to "what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama—well, both, if we... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Fox News • assassination • Obama 2008 • Robert F. Kennedy • Liz Trotta

O'Reilly Blasts
at GE Coming From Upstairs

Fox-NBC vendetta brings execs' bile into your living room

May 19, 08 11:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill O’Reilly’s campaign against General Electric—the Fox News host has called CEO Jeffrey Immelt a “despicable human being” for doing business with Iran—is part of a feud with NBC that extends far up corporate ladders, the Washington Post reports. Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes apparently... More »

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NBC • Bill O'Reilly • MSNBC • General Electric • Fox News • Keith Olbermann • Roger Ailes • Jeffrey Immelt

O'Reilly Interview: Clinton Glad Obama 'Finally' Spoke

She also gets in a subtle shot at Obama over his former pastor

Apr 30, 08 6:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - In her first interview with longtime critic Bill O’Reilly, Hillary Clinton called Jeremiah Wright's comments “offensive,” “outrageous,” “off base” and “far out," ABC News reports. She also got a dig in at Barack Obama by saying she's glad he "finally" clarified... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • Jeremiah Wright

Clinton Preparing For
O'Reilly Factor Debut

Interview to air tomorrow and Thursday comes ahead of NC, Ind. primaries

Apr 29, 08 12:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton will sit down for the first time with Bill O’Reilly tomorrow, the Los Angeles Times reports. After months of a virtual Democratic boycott of Fox News, and days after Barack Obama sat down with Chris Wallace, the former first lady will face the network’s most famous... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • Chris Wallace

Obama Relents, Will Appear
on Fox News

After 2 years, candidate agrees to do Wallace's right-wing talk show

Apr 25, 08 7:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama will appear on "Fox News Sunday" this weekend, ending a two-year disagreement between the candidate and the right-wing channel. Obama had promised to appear on the program in 2006, but his campaign has repeatedly cited scheduling conflicts to avoid an appearance. Fox News is crediting its "... More »

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Barack Obama • cable TV • Fox News • television news • Chris Wallace

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