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Published: 02/7/10

Candy Crowley: Incoming Queen of Sunday Morning Talk

By  Bonnie Erbé

This weekend, veteran CNN reporter Candy Crowley takes on a high-profile role in the often rough-and-tumble world of Sunday morning talk shows. As the new host of CNN's "State of the Union," Crowley will be the only female anchor in that time slot, and the first since Cokie Roberts stepped down as ...

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Published: 02/6/10

Scenes from the Tea Party: A Reporter's Notebook in Nashville

By  Mary C. Curtis

The Birther Movement Lives Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative Website WorldNetDaily, opened his speech at the Tea Party convention in Nashville with jokes and questions about President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship. To loud approval from the crowd, Farah said his dream is that if Obama seeks ...

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Published: 02/6/10

Obama Braves Snow, Talks Politics, as Monster Storm Paralyzes DC

By  Tom Diemer

President Obama ventured out of the White House on Saturday, but he was among a mere handful of Washingtonians willing to brave blizzardy conditions, as a record snow storm paralyzed the nation's capital and left tens of thousands without power. Even the president of the United States had to defer ...

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Published: 02/4/10

President Obama: Channeling His Inner Agnew

By  Peter Wehner

According to Politico, President Obama's back is against the wall, so he's "getting in touch with his inner [Spiro] Agnew, hitting the neo-nattering nabobs of cable and the Net." "If we could just -- excuse the press -- turn off the cameras," he told Democratic senators at their annual retreat. ...

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Published: 02/2/10

Parts of Tea Party Convention to be Televised

By  Christopher Weber

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 ...

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Published: 02/1/10

The Super Bowl as Culture-War Battleground

By  Jeffrey Weiss

So here's American culture in 2010: A controversy about whether TV ads shown during the Super Bowl are "fair." Is that an argument that anybody really wants to start? The ads in question are about abortion -- starring just-former college football star Tim Tebow -- and gay dating -- for a company ...

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Published: 01/28/10

James Grady and Bonnie Goldstein's PD Investigations

By  Melinda Henneberger

With the publication of today's main story by Adam Zagorin and Michael Smallberg, Politics Daily is launching its new investigative reporting unit. Our investigative coverage, dedicated to the fundamental belief that readers need to know what's going on beneath the crush of daily events, adds ...

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Published: 01/27/10

Few Americans Believe News Media Did a Good Job Reporting on Obama's First Year

By  Bruce Drake

Only 34 percent of Americans give the news media excellent or good marks for serving as a "watchdog of government" during the first year of the Obama administration, according to a Gallup poll conducted Jan. 20-12. Thirty-seven percent say the media did a fair job and 27 percent gave it a "poor" ...

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Published: 01/27/10

Madoff, Health Policy and AIG: Disclosing Possible Conflicts of Interest Is Always the Best Policy

By  Joann M. Weiner

Secrecy, or more charitably, failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest, never goes out of style, as shown in three very different situations that have arisen in the past year. One case involves a newspaper's failure to fully disclose a writer's family ties to Bernard Madoff in an opinion ...

Published: 01/23/10

Sarah 'Just the Facts, Ma'am' Palin, Hardworking Journo

By  Mia Navarro

Sarah Palin, who just joined Fox News as a regular commentator, says she wants to "put that journalism degree to work."Hmm. Exactly what does a journalism degree mean in the case of a politician whose often harsh views of her opponents and of controversial subjects are widely known? (Not to mention ...

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