Scott Brown is at a crossroads. Does the new Massachusetts senator follow the celebrity path blazed by Sarah Palin, or adopt the lower-key political model favored by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Al Franken when they were Senate newbies? As he starts his first week of senatorial votes and other ...
President Obama will join CBS News anchor Katie Couric for an interview during the network's pre-game programming for the Super Bowl on Sunday, USA Today reports. Sean McManus, the president of CBS, said the interview will air about 4:30 p.m. Eastern time, two hours before the kickoff of Super Bowl ...
On Wednesday night's edition of "The O'Reilly Factor," late-night comic Jon Stewart sat down for a rare interview on the network he makes a business out of criticizing: Fox News Channel. Stewart and O'Reilly debated Obama's first year in office and quarreled good-naturedly over Stewart's attacks on ...
Don't you just love how everybody sees things differently? I wondered after hearing that James Cameron's blockbuster "Avatar" has been rewarded for its creative and technical brilliance with nine Oscar nominations -- after receiving heaping doses of a less-obvious "reward" that also puts butts ...
There are many reasons why the particular niche of journalism that goes after corruption and exposes threats to the public has trouble staying funded in the real world. There is not always an appetite in corporate America for exposing unflattering behavior, or a particular hunger among consumers for ...
John Edwards allegedly struck his wife, Elizabeth, around the Christmas holidays, in what the National Enquirer on Wednesday called "a horrific marriage-ending fight." This is the first time physical violence has been alleged in the very public and tawdry unraveling of their 32-year marriage. The ...
Who wasn't heartened by last week's frank dialogue between President Obama and House Republicans? But count me as disheartened by calls for regular such meetings, as outlined by our own David Corn and a broad coalition of the commentariat. They're taking their cue from the British House of Commons' ...
When conservative grassroots organizations gather this week in Nashville under the banner of the National Tea Party Convention, parts of the proceedings, including the keynote by Sarah Palin, will be televised and streamed on the Internet. Organizers said Tuesday that Fox News, CNN, Reuters TV and ...
A single-issue glossy magazine promising "the untold story" of Sarah Palin has hit newsstands and convenience stories around the country, the Washington Post reports. Palin had nothing to do with the creation of the magazine, which boasts 100 pages of photos and purports to tell the former vice ...
It's a week before kickoff, and two television ads already are causing controversy over what's appropriate to show during the Super Bowl: one ad because it will be aired, the other because it won't. CBS rejected a commercial on Friday for gay dating Web site, ManCrunch, saying it didn't meet ...




