With less than a week left until election night it's time to start making plans — not what election parties or events you're attending, this is a much, much more important decision— who you're spending the evening with, teevees-wise. The media has been as important this campaign as the candidates — and since McCain is saying they've all
been fooled as to the real state of the race, I can't wait to see the results. I know who I'm watching, I've been so CNN-loyal the whole campaign, the thought of abandoning my Wolf wouldn't happen by a hair of his chinny-chin-chin.
Biden to Florida Reporter: "Are You Joking?" During her interview with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Orlando’s WFTV News anchor Barbara West came right out with some familiar-sounding questions: Is Barack Obama ashamed of his close ties to ACORN? Isn’t Barack Obama kind of just like Karl Marx? The reactions to the interview have been
very strong and mixed.
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God bless 24-hours of news for giving us the "something happened, here's a boatload of people to tell you how to think about it" model of reporting. After all, where would we be without pundits? Thinking for ourselves?
MSNBC Teams Up With Liberal Special Interests For Nov. 4 News MSNBC has launched an exclusive partnership with a variety of left-wing special interest groups to boost their Election Coverage and help viewers experiencing problems at the polls.
Phil Alongi, executive producer of NBC News' Election Coverage in an Oct. 22 press release stated: "Not only will we be able to direct voters who are experiencing problems with a hotline to call, we will also have our team of reporters and producers follow up on the information Election Protection is gathering." Election Protection, the group it will work with, claims to be nonpartisan. None of their listed partner groups, however, lean conservative.
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Rachael Maddow is to Keith Olbermann as Stephen Colbert is to Jon Stewart. And just like Stephen, Rachel's new pseudo-Countdown spinoff is acquiring a fan base potentially
more dedicated than its predecessor's. This weekend's New York Times Magazine caught up with the Stanford and Oxford grad-turned-progressive-MSNBC host, visiting her home in western Massachusetts where she lives with her partner Susan.
