AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
NewsBusters
'NewsBusters' Website Turns Five Today
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyNewsBusters, the media 'watchdog' website created to document and expose liberal bias in the media, turns five today. When the conservative Media Research Center (MRC) launched the site in 2005, this sort of collaboration between a blog and a traditional think tank was not common. 40,000 posts later, Technorati now ranks NewsBusters at the #8 spot for top political blogs. As part of their birthday celebration, NB asked readers to help rank some of their best posts. So far, NB has released posts on the Top 5 News Stories Broken or Advanced by NewsBusters, The Top 5 Media Flubs Caught by ...
Playboy, Tommy Christopher, and the Lessons of Traditional Journalistic Values
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyNo one was more surprised than I was to read last week that I had supposedly bowed to corporate pressure and fired blogger Tommy Christopher for standing up against a particularly misogynistic and vile Playboy.com piece. But my first reaction – to assume that no one could possibly believe such a far-fetched story, wrong on every count – was mistaken. The number of press inquiries I got? Zero. Number of inquiries our parent company, AOL, fielded? Also zero. But though nobody asked, I'll tell you anyway, because this episode illustrates why we feel so passionately about the ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
- Romney Challenged on How Much Class Size Matters
- George Will Calls Donald Trump a "Bloviating Ignoramus" on "This Week'
- Panetta Calls Pakistan Doctor's Treason Sentence 'Disturbing'
- Leon Panetta on Possible Iran Strike: We Have Plans for Everything
- Panetta Dismisses Romney's Afghanistan Criticism
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics