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  • Media strafe Obama from both sides as he grapples with Syria decision

    Published August 30, 2013

    In the case of Syria, Obama is getting hammered from the right and the left, even though he hasn’t done anything so far.

  • Split Screen: Media torn between Syria strategy and King celebration

    Published August 29, 2013

    An exercise in nostalgia and symbolism hearkening back to 1963 had to compete with a plan to rain Tomahawk cruise missiles on a Middle Eastern country in 2013.

  • Media drawing their own red line on Syria

    Published August 28, 2013

    As the administration weighs air strikes against Syria over its use of chemical weapons, even many liberal publications and commentators are invoking the president’s warning a year ago that such weapons were a line that the Assad regime must not cross.

  • Ben Bradlee’s daughter-in-law reveals (almost) all on Facebook

    Published August 27, 2013

    Ben Bradlee, one of the great men of American journalism, celebrated his 92nd birthday yesterday, and his daughter-in-law paid tribute by posting a photo of them and saying "it is a dream to be part of his family." That, however, is only one of the photos that Pari Bradlee has been putting on Facebook. 

  • Why the media are gorging on Miley Cyrus’ MTV gyrations

    Published August 27, 2013

    It's been amusing to watch all the hyperventilating about Miley Cyrus. What she did at the VMAs was terrible, horrible, gross and downright nauseating, the pundits say. And hey, let's look at it again. 

  • Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh and the politics of blame

    Published August 26, 2013

    President Obama blamed some of his problems on Rush Limbaugh the other day. And that may not be a brilliant strategy.

  • Cruz Control: The making of a media star

    Published August 23, 2013

    The Texas Republican hasn’t even finished his first year in the Senate, and he has become the face of Tea Party conservatism and been inducted into the 2016 speculation sweepstakes. 

  • NSA fallout: A CNN pundit’s war on Glenn Greenwald

    Published August 22, 2013

    CNN's Jeffrey Toobin is a former prosecutor and very smart guy whose judgment is really clouded when it comes to Glenn Greenwald. So clouded, in fact, that he has no problem with the fact that British authorities on Sunday detained Greenwald's partner at Heathrow, interrogated him for nine hours and threatened him with jail. 

  • Can Al-Jazeera make it here?

    Published August 20, 2013

    An early look at the programming suggests that the greater depth promised by the promos may be more of a goal than a reality. 

  • Petraeus mistress secretly followed Tampa socialite

    Published August 20, 2013

    When Jill Kelley told me earlier this year that she was "terrified" after receiving anonymous and threatening emails that turned out to be from David Petraeus' mistress, it was hard not to sympathize with someone who'd been drawn into a scandal not of her making. Now we are learning more about what happened.