by Bill Scher | May 2, 2008 | Blog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
by Bill Scher | May 2, 2008 | Blog
After Time Magazine's Swampland blog slapped fellow journalists on the wrist for understating the "radical" nature of Sen. John McCain's health care plan, Trudy Lieberman at the Columbia Journalism Review is also struck at McCain's "radical" plan. Furthermore, she...
by Robert Borosage | May 1, 2008 | Blog
Oil companies report record profits. Gas is headed towards $4 a gallon. A caravan of more than 100 truckers rallied in Washington Monday to protest diesel fuel prices already over that mark. Across the country, Americans are getting pinched by rising fuel and food...
by Bill Scher | Apr 30, 2008 | Blog
On Monday, Bernie Horn warned us that Sen. John McCain's health care plan is a "radical scheme." Yesterday, Roger Hickey set up a test for the media: "The reality is, McCain’s proposals would greatly increase the number of uninsured Americans, while also doing nothing...
by Bill Scher | Apr 30, 2008 | Blog
Since you probably didn't find much substantive analysis of McCain's health care plan in the traditional media, bloggers have taken up the task. And it isn't pretty. Obsidian Wings: It's easy to make health policy when you don't allow little things like facts to...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 29, 2008 | Blog
Jeremiah Wright is everywhere this week -- and the media doesn't quite know what to make of it. Mostly, they're stuck so hard in the election horse-race narrative that they only question they can think to ask is: Does having Wright out there hurt Obama, or help him?...
