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It's amazing what you learn about yourself when you start publishing about Turkey's links to terrorist groups.

Booth crews just don't understand sports analytics. They should. Also: A less extreme (and more responsible) interpretation of the administration's climate report.

Booth crews just don't understand sports analytics. They should. Also: A less extreme (and more responsible) interpretation of the administration's climate report.

Let’s be honest: The administration loves having CNN’s White House reporter in the spotlight.

The media exec never denied saying that Trump was good for business.

If you're putting yourself in the shoes of the author, consider the possible audiences he or she was trying to reach.

A case study in how the country creates, disseminates, and consumes information.

With Bloomberg denying, could it be someone within the West Wing?

The president’s general attacks against the press are at the least obnoxious—and at the most untrue. There is no better way to demonstrate the latter point than to place facts above all else.

It has nothing to do with his tweets.

Conservative columnist defended casting Scarlett Johnansson as a trans man.

On the network’s employment of Joy-Ann Reid, Ben Rhodes, and other champions of truth.

Charlie LeDuff anticipated all the problems that Trump’s election made plain to the rest of us—then he fell into the Hole himself.

Top executives average $25 million in compensation in 2017.

Two events over the weekend illuminate the issue of norms and the media in the Trump era.

“Birtherism”—the ugly term for the even uglier charge that Barack Obama was not born in the United States—always suffered from one fatal flaw: a birth announcement that appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser on August 13, 1961, declaring the arrival of young Barack.

In my recent Wall Street Journal essay on the politics of Twitter mobs, I noted that the episode was accompanied by a great deal of sloppy journalism—remarkably lazy journalism. Of all the mostly denunciatory articles about me that appeared in the big-name press (at least four in the New York Times…

After the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, CNN hosted a town hall discussion on Wednesday, February 21, which included politicians, an NRA representative, and several students of the school who posed questions to panel members.

Hours after the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, Zeynep Tufekci spent part of her evening calling out major media that aired video of students trembling while the noise of gunshots ruptured the air. “This is a snuff film,” she said of one such clip, which was embedded atop a New York Times story.…

It’s relatively common for terror organizations to claim credit for atrocities that they actually had no part in. When a casino was targeted for an arson attack on the Philippines last year, for example, ISIS claimed the “credit.” (The word, in fact, should be “blame.”) Yet it later emerged that…

Speaking in Japan a couple of days before the Pyeongchang Olympics began, Vice President Mike Pence delivered a welcome message: “We will not allow North Korean propaganda to hijack the message and imagery of the Olympic Games,” he said. Unfortunately, Pence was not doing double duty as an…

The “Shitty Media Men” list that came into a short-lived existence during the Harvey Weinstein awakening enjoyed a second life of sorts Tuesday and Wednesday, in the form of a viral controversy about its creator and a pending magazine story about the #MeToo movement. The result is that we now know…

While Donald Trump postponed plans to hand out “Fake News Awards” on Monday (we’re kind of hoping one of the grownups in the White House caught wind of the scheme and is working to shut it down completely), that did not stop the Committee to Protect Journalists from its own silly contest, as the…

“I’m not sure a lot of people will come at midnight,” said the sales clerk who picked up the phone at Kramer Books when I called Thursday evening, wondering whether they were bracing for a crowd later that night.

After the Trump administration announced it would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, almost every news report I read contained some version of the phrase “upending decades of U.S. policy.” The night before the announcement, on December 5, the AFP News Agency tweeted: “#BREAKING President…

There’s a specter haunting Donald Trump’s presidency: the specter of powerlessness.

On inauguration eve 1991, in Rhode Island, the departing governor, Edward DiPrete, had a morsel of news for the incoming governor, Bruce Sundlun.

The New York Times published a subtly frightening article over the weekend. The piece is a profile of a 29 year old Ohio man who is perhaps most notable for his very banality. He dines at Panera and Applebee’s. He plays video games and likes Seinfeld. Just married, his wedding registry was at…

Former New Republic editor Peter Beinart has an exquisite, anguished, self-flagellating meditation at the Atlantic’s website Tuesday. Beinart, a white, Yale-educated man, has come to the realization that he benefited from a certain kind of affirmative action in his New Republic days. “White men…

When the series Enterprise went off the air in 2005, the consensus was that the whole Star Trek enterprise (so to speak) was exhausted: The show’s ratings were too low to keep it on the air and the franchise’s two most recent movies were critical stinkers that fared poorly at the box office.

Broadcasting from the heart of California’s San Joaquin Valley, KUFW-FM offers a mix of regional Mexican and ranchera music, the sort popularized by Selena, Los Tigres del Norte, and Vicente Fernández (aka El Rey de la Canción Ranchera). And there are commercials—lots of them—advertising everything…

The late North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-il had thousands of Hollywood movies in his personal collection, furnishing him with what he thought was a deep knowledge of a country he would never see. He was particularly fond, reportedly, of The Godfather—so much so that he ran his country like a Mafioso.…

The late North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-il had thousands of Hollywood movies in his personal collection, furnishing him with what he thought was a deep knowledge of a country he would never see. He was particularly fond, reportedly, of The Godfather—so much so that he ran his country like a Mafioso.…

The New York Times last week broke the story of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s long record of sexual harassment. Actresses including Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd came forward to detail Weinstein’s depredations, and so did former employees of the man who founded one of the most important…

Communism had some good parts, and the New York Times is on it.

Bob Ley is one of ESPN’s all-time great personalities. With Chris Berman (of “back-back-back-back . . . gone!” fame), Ley is one of the last two original SportsCenter anchors still with the company. His longevity isn’t attributable to some Milton Waddams fluke: He is sharp and versatile, having…

Let's cut to the heart of a big problem with Trump's remarks about Charlottesville over the last few days: They were ignorant and inarticulate.

Michael Warren is on vacation this week, and Andrew Egger is filling in for him on White House Watch. Michael will be back in the saddle on July 3.

It was two years ago Friday when Donald Trump descended an escalator inside Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president. Did he drag the country's political conduct with him? "Any debate about civility in politics begins with Trump," New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush tweeted on Thursday.…

So there I am Tuesday morning, wheezing away on my exercise bike, trying to stay alert to telltale signs of the inevitable coronary thrombosis, when, for the first time in many, many years, I switch on the TV to watch Morning Joe.

So there I am Tuesday morning, wheezing away on my exercise bike, trying to stay alert to telltale signs of the inevitable coronary thrombosis, when, for the first time in many, many years, I switch on the TV to watch Morning Joe.

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"First Black Bachelorette shines in debut, but is America ready for interracial love?" When NBC executives tweeted that question last week, what exactly did they expect the answer to be? Were they hoping for some racial unrest to boost their primetime ratings? Have they noticed Kanye West and Kim…

Lionel Shriver is a novelist who is controversial in the literary world for her withering criticism of "cultural appropriation." It's the notion that if you belong to one ethnic, racial, or gender group, you're barred from writing fiction with characters from another group. If you're Asian, for…

Here's (hopefully) the wildest campaign story of 2017: On the eve of Thursday's special congressional election in Montana, Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs asked GOP candidate Greg Gianforte a couple of questions about the CBO score of the House health care bill. Gianforte responded by—I kid you…

The current issue of the New Yorker has an article by staff writer Adam Gopnik, who spent part of his childhood up north, titled, "We Could Have Been Canada: Was the American Revolution such a good idea?" The notion that liberals hate America is an intellectually lazy ad hominem attack indulged by…

Since publishing its debut column by Bret Stephens, the New York Times has been under siege by angry readers posting screenshots on social media of them canceling their subscriptions. It seems like just a few months ago, subscribing to the Times and even buying its newsroom pizza —you know, in…

The news that former national security adviser Susan Rice was responsible for "unmasking" the identities of associates of President Trump in government surveillance reports sent shockwaves through Washington. But almost as newsworthy was the identity of the man who got the scoop: vociferous Trump…

To restore free expression and the unfettered exchange of ideas to censorious college campuses, the nation's liberal thought leaders will have to admit we have a problem on our hands. Events of this week presented some encouraging signs that they're getting closer. While restless campuses erupted…

Three weeks after a coalition of professors publicly defended their right to censor Title IX naysayer and feminist intellectual Laura Kipnis, a Wellesley News editorial has caught viral flak from civil libertarians, conservatives, copy editors, and other sensible sorts for its clumsy defense of…

With President Donald Trump having ordered pinpoint attacks on President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons infrastructure overnight, finally someone is enforcing President Obama's 2013 red line and possibly reversing the course of decades of Western appeasement of the regime of Bashar Assad—and…

Remember how the media vowed, right around President Trump's inauguration, that it was going to be no more Mr. Nice Guy for them? They were going to dive deeply into the innards of his administration with tough-minded shoe-leather investigative reporting that would reveal the Trump White House to…

George Osborne, Britain's longtime Chancellor of the Exchequer until the fall of the Cameron government, seems to have raised some eyebrows recently with his announcement that, beginning in May, he will become editor of the [London] Evening Standard. And keep his seat in the House of Commons.

I'm fascinated by the evolving taxonomy of conservatives in the age of Trump.

I keep hammering this point home, but the media seem obdurately unwilling to come to terms with the fact they have little credibility with the American people, and Trump voters especially. This situation is not helped by the fact they keep blowing stories on President Trump badly and they are…

On September 30, Donald Trump tweeted in his inimitable style, “Anytime you see a story about me or my campaign saying 'sources said,' DO NOT believe it. There are no sources, they are just made up lies!"

In the latest issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, I have a piece on the problems of a media almost totally reliant on anonymous leaks to cover the Trump administration. This is obviously a huge part of the scandal surrounding Michael Flynn's resignation. As I note in the piece, "it's remarkable to…

On September 30, Donald Trump tweeted in his inimitable style, “Anytime you see a story about me or my campaign saying 'sources said,' DO NOT believe it. There are no sources, they are just made up lies!"

Donald Trump was flayed Friday morning for allegedly misreading a New York Times article. Trump tweeted that the "failing" NYT published "fake news" when it wrote that Chinese president Xi Jinping "has not spoken to Mr. Trump since November 14." Yet, as the president pointed out, this isn't true:…

Readers of the Washington Post op-ed page might be forgiven for believing that they're under assault—from adjectives, lots of adjectives. Consider, for example, these opening sentences from the three separate pieces spread across the top of the page this past Monday.

I was at the gym yesterday catching up on the latest Hardcore History podcast—seriously, Dan Carlin is national treasure—and I noticed something. According to the iTunes charts, one of the ten most popular podcasts in the country right now is produced by the Washington Post. It's about Donald…

Now that a Republican is back in the presidency, the "theocracy" machine is cranking up again.

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with associate editor Ethan Epstein on the dangerous game of "gotcha."

Here's the problem in a nutshell: President Trump thinks the media are out to destroy him. The media think they're holding him accountable. Neither Trump nor the media can tell the difference between these two things. In his most recent column, Ross Douthat rightly worries that this dynamic is…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Mark Hemingway on the state of the fourth estate in the first days of the Trump presidency.

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A set of memos alleging disturbing ties between President-elect Donald Trump and Russian officials has set off yet another media firestorm concerning Russia's putative role in the 2016 presidential election. Many people have had copies of the memos for some time, but the documents were published…

"Fake news"! The phrase was such a handy hammer for liberals to pound the heads of conservatives—until conservatives grabbed the hammer and started pounding liberals, pointing out some of the fakery that liberals had fallen for. How dare they? So now the liberal mantra is: We must retire that…

Far be it for me to mock another publication's typos. But this screamer from Thursday's Express, a free daily tabloid put out for the Washington Post for subway commuters, deserves some kind of recognition. Here it is:

It's Christmastime at the Washington Post—and Christmastime at the Washington Post means it's time for another article bashing Christianity, the religion that invented Christmas.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich repeatedly ripped the media for what he said was ongoing unfair coverage of President-elect Donald Trump, calling certain news outlets "propaganda" and some members of the media "idiots."

In this episode of THE WEEKLY STANDARD Confab, Fred Barnes talks with host Eric Felten about what a President Donald Trump can learn from the missteps and miscues of Barack Obama's approach to the presidency. Andrew Ferguson stops in to diagnose what's ailing the corporate media in the age of…

At the Washington Free Beacon, Aaron MacLean writes about the false narratives about the state of the economy and the world under the Obama administration. MacLean suggests the alternative reality presented by Obama and propagated by a compliant media led the country to revolt against it and reject…

Hillary Clinton, speaking at the United States Capitol Thursday to unveil a portrait of outgoing senator Harry Reid, called "fake news" a "danger" to the country.

Did Donald Trump just set the stage for World War III?

The Trump win was supposed to sink the economy. Instead, things—at least so far—seem to be looking up. And so a new media narrative has just been launched: If Donald Trump succeeds, it will be because President Barack Obama gave him such a great push. How else to explain the near simultaneous…

Perhaps he just wants to take David Carr's old media criticism job at the New York Times when his term is up. (Sorry, Jim Rutenberg!) But whatever his motivations, it's become increasingly clear that Barack Obama enjoys nothing so much as playing media critic.

Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, tweeted an op-ed from Republican medical doctors critical of Obamacare with an accompanying message Monday afternoon.

At the second presidential debate, Donald Trump continued to glom onto the line that his lewd 2005 Access Hollywood hot mic comments were "locker room banter." Indeed, soon after the release of the comments, Trump issued a statement declaring, "This was locker room banter," and immediately pivoted…

In an interview with the Nieman Lab this week, New York Times editor Dean Baquet was asked about how the media are struggling to cover Donald Trump. He noted that this is not the first time during the course of a presidential campaign that the media has had hard time combat untruths, except that…

One of the weirder aspects of anti-Trump mania is its sniffy tone. And it's especially weird coming from card-carrying liberal Democrats. For two generations our culture and its institutions have been living under a liberal ascendency. The country's elites—the Bigs of the news media and Hollywood…

Voters have a pretty low opinion of the media. Only 19 percent of Americans have a favorable view of them, according to one recent NBC News poll. There are a lot of reasons for why that is the case, but one that shouldn't be overlooked is that the media don't hide their contempt for voters. Take…

I have long pointed out that PolitiFact is objectively biased. Surveys done by the University of Minnesota and George Mason University have shown that the supposedly impartial "fact checking" news organization rates Republican claims as false three times as often as Democratic claims and twice as…

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the two least liked presidential candidates since the advent of modern polling. But tellingly, there is one force in politics that voters hate even more—the news media.

Over the last few days, the Clinton campaign's been on the defensive. The reason is James Asher, the former Washington bureau chief of McClatchy, has publicly claimed that Clinton aide and confidant was spreading the rumor that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and therefore not eligible to be…

At the Washington Post, Dana Milbank has a column that takes on the rather incredible task of defending Hillary Clinton's remarks that half of Donald Trump supporters consist of "a basket of deplorables." According to Milbank, not only is Clinton right, she's being too generous:

On Tuesday night, BuzzFeed News reported the contents of private emails from former secretary of state Colin Powell. The emails, obtained by DCLeaks.com, include Powell's judgment of Donald Trump's campaign. His criticisms—among them, that "birtherism" is racist, and that Donald Trump a "national…

All the best sorts of people have been talking for weeks about the dangerous pathology revealed by questions about Hillary Clinton's health—that pathology being a toxic, mutant strain of Right-Wing-Derangement Syndrome.

Hillary Clinton palled around with reporters aboard her campaign's new "Stronger Together" plane this weekend, before eventually taking some questions from the traveling press corps.

Recently, Indiana's Child Services were called in to deal with a 7-year-old boy who came to school one day with 36 bruises on his body. His mother has been charged with child abuse. The mother's lawyer, for puzzling reasons, is asking for the case to be dismissed under the state's Religious Freedom…

The way John Kerry sees it, there is no joy when the president goes on The View.

Donald Trump used to love the polls, until the polls weren't useful anymore. Now he's is taking matters into his own hands by conducting a poll of his own. Trump's campaign emailed his supporters earlier Monday, saying that he is now facing two opponents: Hillary Clinton and the media.

I guess all the flacks in the vast Obama administration public relations apparatus are at the beach. What else would explain this inelegant quote from Robert Pear's story today in the New York Times?

For a myriad of obvious reasons, I am not compelled to defend Donald Trump's recent remark about "Second Amendment people" in reference to Hillary Clinton, which many have interpreted as calling for her assassination. While I think there's an evident interpretation of the remark that is innocent,…

It is a rare book that features appearances by Albert Camus, Willa Cather, and H. L. Mencken, but—alas—an even rarer book that squanders such a captivating cast of characters. The work of the aforementioned authors, along with that of dozens of others, was released by the husband-and-wife…

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For generations now, "If They'd Only Listened to Me" has served as the mythical title of the ultimate Washington memoir. The staffer/speechwriter/advisor/ex-close friend of a president/senator/ambassador lands a book contract and agrees to look back over his government service more in sorrow than…

In 2010, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives. One of the Republicans re-elected that year was Mike Pence, for a sixth term. During his campaign, Pence gave major speeches about the presidency and the Constitution, a key point of which was that President Obama was a poor…

Great Britain has voted to leave the EU and that may, or may not, be a good thing. Too soon to tell, as they say. Unless, that is, you are part of the elite media or the establishment left in which case, you know exactly. And these people, of course, are always right about these things.

The Media Research Center's NewsBusters website has carved out a beat identifying odd discrepancies in how much the press covers one topic relative to another. During primary election season, for instance, it reported routinely on Donald Trump's saturation of the nightly news, rendering his…

Allegations that Facebook censors conservative news from its "trending topics" widget has drawn condemnation from the right. The response would have been just fine had it included political complaints and not a government inquiry.

Man, Ben Rhodes had an excellent weekend. The 38-year-old Mets' fan who serves as President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications got to watch the press tear itself apart in rabid confusion, which proves one of his essential points—the U.S. media is a pile of…

A couple of weeks ago, Nate Silver wrote that "[Donald] Trump has been able to disrupt the news pretty much any time he wants, whether by being newsworthy, offensive, salacious or entertaining. The media has almost always played along."

No one can really question the net worth of Donald Trump's free media coverage.

There has been a lot of discussion about media bias this election, particularly in regard to the media's non-stop coverage of Donald Trump. But it looks like the media has another bias.

The press was forbidden from filming Hillary Clinton boarding her private plane, said an ABC reporter covering the leading Democratic candidate.

This morning on CNN, Alisyn Camerota said that journalists are scared to criticize Donald Trump.

Donald Trump released a video message Monday morning, naming most every political apparatus imaginable as one of his adversaries.

A headline on CNN goes like this: "Ta-Nehisi Coates' slam on Bernie Sanders." Readers should be excused for thinking the link leads to a story fitting that description. It doesn't.

On Tuesday, a state legislator in South Carolina proposed a law that would force journalists to register with the state as part of a "responsible journalism registry." Of course, Rep. Mike Pitts wasn't seriously proposing this. He was simply engaged in a bit of formal trolling to point out the…

President Obama went golfing in Hawaii yesterday and called the press over when he reached the 18th hole. The commander in chief then made what ABC News describes as a 40-foot chip shot:

At a press conference today at the Ritz Carlton in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, President Obama warned the media not to empower terrorists. The terrorists, he said, are just "a bunch of killers with good social media."

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Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus lashed out at debate host CNBC for the way it moderated tonight's Republican debate.

In March, an investigation by ProPublica and Gawker revealed that a “secret spy network” that was not on the State Department payroll, run by longtime Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal, was “funneling intelligence about the crisis in Libya directly to the Secretary of State’s private account starting…

Here's a less than illuminating passage from a hot-off-the-presses New York Times story on Scott Walker bowing out of the presidential race, headlined "Scott Walker’s Dismal Finish Is a Fitting Result, Old Foes Say" :

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with editor William Kristol on the circling of the media wagons to protect Hillary and attack Fiorina. 

Ever since the start of the campaign, Hillary Clinton boosters have been complaining about coverage of their candidate in the New York Times. And today the paper announced that Washington bureau chief Carolyn Ryan is being demoted -- or shifting roles! -- at the paper. 

On Wednesday, according to a report by WJLA in Washington, "Barvetta Singletary, a White House staffer, resigned today following assault charges." This dramatic news, however, received scant coverage in the major media. As of Thursday morning, only The Hill and Roll Call had covered the…

If you want a good idea of how much water the media is willing to carry for Planned Parenthood, go ahead and check out this Politico story. It seems Planned Parenthood commissioned a "forensic report" to analyze the undercover videos that have got the organization in trouble for harvesting and…

For several years now, PolitiFact has been waging war on anyone who points out that America has the smallest Navy it's had in nearly a century. Mitt Romney pointed out this fact in a presidential debate in 2012 and PolitiFact rated his statement "pants on fire" even though the number of ships in…

A few weeks ago, the Center For Medical Progress started releasing undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood selling parts of aborted fetuses.

The New York Times recently reported -- wrongly, as it turns out -- that Hillary Clinton was the subject of a "criminal" investigation for conducting official State Department business on her private email system. Many of the Times's liberal readers were upset about the paper's handling of the…

The Hillary Clinton campaign forbid young supporters from talking to the press at an event last night in Iowa: 

The Washington Post appears to be struggling a bit to cover today's blockbuster story about the undercover video of Planned Parenthood harvesting and selling organs from aborted fetuses. First, they changed the headline to something that's far more friendly to Planned Parenthood without noting the…

Longtime Clinton aide and defender Paul Begala called the roping off the press "horrible, horrible" this morning on CNN:

Fox News and SiriusXM announced today the launch of a new news channel.

Hillary Clinton finally made herself available this afternoon for her first press conference of the 2016 presidential campaign, and the crowd cheered. The cheers came after Clinton wrapped up her quick press conference.

Weekly Standard contributor Adam White posed this question on Twitter yesterday, and maybe it seems a little out there at first blush, but it's worth pondering:

Over the weekend, Lally Weymouth, a senior associate editor at The Washington Post, interviewed Naftali Bennett, Israel's new education minister and a notable tech entrepreneur. Bennett wants to annex the part if the West Bank known as Area C and, in the words of the Post, "offer full Israeli…

In his first two days as a presidential candidate, Democrat Martin O'Malley took "over 70 uncensored questions" from the press and general public, according to deputy campaign manager Lis Smith.

Florida press is knocking Hillary Clinton for hiding during her visit to the Sunshine State.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz had a simple question to a reporter who asked whether he had a "personal animus against gay Americans."

Ed Henry of Fox News dared to ask Hillary Clinton a question at an event today in Iowa.

Over the weekend, Vox published an article headlined "Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her." Given Vox's overwhelmingly liberal audience and the astounding lengths the publication's top editors will go to defend liberal politicians, the fact they're…

If anyone needs further evidence of why the news agencies often can’t be trusted to report accurately on Israel and the Palestinians, and why major news outlets such as the New York Times and the BBC should stop repeating agency copy without verifying it, here is an important example from this…

President Obama's former top political adviser, David Axelrod, says that "It would be a terrible mistake" for Hillary Clinton not to take questions from the press. Axelrod also once worked for the Clintons.

In her first week as a candidate for president, Carly Fiorina’s TV schedule alone has been dizzyingly prolific. Since announcing her run on May 4th, Fiorina has done the following: two interviews on ABC’s Good Morning America; two Fox News interviews, one in the morning and another in primetime; a…

Eric Costello, Baltimore city councilman for 11th district, wants the city's curfew lifted. And he wants the national media to go home. Costello made his plea in a series of tweets this morning directed straight at the media.

Over the weekend, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins appeared on CBS's Face the Nation. Here's one of the questions that outgoing host Bob Schieffer asked him:

The director of press advance at the White House has joined the press. The Los Angeles Times announced this morning the hiring of Johanna Maska, an aide to President Obama.

The U.S. State Department is looking to design and facilitate a media ethics course for journalists in India, and has even proposed appropriating the name of Robin Thicke's 2013 hit "Blurred Lines" as a title for the course. The U.S. consulate general in Hyderabad, India is looking for a non-profit…

My colleague Jay Cost flags this Newsweek article, which is ostensibly about the scandalous revelation that one of the largest Clinton Foundation donor has trade ties to Iran. But here's the first paragraph:

Following Marco Rubio's announcement that he's running for president, the Associated Press decided to "fact check" some of the candidate's rhetoric. If you follow the news, you're probably aware that "fact checking" is more often than not a lame attempt to cloak partisan opinion behind a veil of…

President Barack Obama's top adviser, Valerie Jarrett, went around the table and kissed reporters before an interview this morning on MNSBC's Morning Joe. The moment was briefly captured on live television before the network cut away to a commercial break. 

Hillary Clinton's team met privately with reporters ahead of her presidential campaign launch. Clinton is expected to announce her intentions to run for president as soon as this weekend. 

Rand Paul told CNN that he's "short-tempered" with not just female reporters, but also with male reporters.

Since Politico, a politics-focused website and newspaper, launched its subscription-based news service Politico Pro in 2011, government agencies have increasingly turned to the service to keep abreast of the latest developments in their spheres of policy. Government records show fiscal year 2011…

Another official from the Obama administration has been hired by the media. The latest is White House lawyer Michael D. Gottlieb, who's been hired by the National Journal Group.

Hillary Clinton gave a paid speech in Silicon Valley Tuesday. But before her public remarks to the Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women, the Democratic presidential candidate met with her daughter's boss.

Nothing like a quiet Sunday with the New York Times. Start with the sports section, as I do, hoping for an escape from the paper’s relentlessly liberal approach to what it calls news. No luck. It seems that James Dolan, owner of the Knicks and Madison Square Garden, host to this year’s All-Star…

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow complained on her TV show tonight that no one from NBC would come on her show to discuss the suspension of anchor Brian Williams:

Since Politico, a politics-focused website and newspaper, launched its subscription-based news service Politico Pro in 2011, government agencies have increasingly turned to the service to keep abreast of the latest developments in their spheres of policy. Government records show fiscal year 2011…

Matt Lewis has a column today over at the Daily Beast headlined, "You Betcha I Was Wrong About Sarah Palin: It’s time to admit that, whatever their motivation was at the time, the Alaska governor’s critics always had a point." I don't really disagree with much of what Matt says when it comes to…

Michael Bloomberg expressed interest in buying the New York Times, a new report in New York magazine says. "For years now, it has been speculated in media circles that Mike Bloomberg could be a white knight and save the New York Times. Now it appears he may actually have tried to do it," reads the…

President Obama sat down "interviews" with YouTube stars this afternoon. As one of the interviews ended, one of the stars, Hank Green, asked Obama for an autograph:

Back in 2012, I suggested that the Senate use Leon Panetta's confirmation hearing for CIA director to clear up one of Washington's more interesting media mysteries—who leaked Daniel Patrick Moynihan's authorship of controversial memo that used the phrase "benign neglect" in reference to the black…

CNN described its reasoning for not showing the latest cover of Charlie Hebdo (the first issue to be published after last week's massacre) in a broadcast this morning:

In the wake of today's massacre in Paris, there has already been a lot of preening about journalistic bravery. Much of it has come from people who, it can be shown, don't have the guts to work in Charlie Hebdo's newsroom. Preening about free speech may be reassuring at times like this, but what we…

CNN got today's Jerusalem terror attack wrong: It happened in a synagogue, not a mosque, as the chyron indicated earlier this morning.

This morning, the better half has some thoughts the media coverage of the Ebola epidemic. Her point is that everytime people start to ask reasonable questions about Ebola, the media lecture them not to panic. The truth is that nobody's really panicked about the Ebola epidemic (yet), but by…

For reasons known only to National Journal's Ron Fournier, he included this moment in a column on "wince-worthy" debate moments: 

The NBC News crew that was working with the NBC freelance cameraman has been ordered into quarantine after violating their self-imposed separation.

For years, it's been axiomatic among political observers that the GOP "brand" is damaged. There is certainly merit to this observation, though it is often bandied about in contexts where there's little to no evidence supporting that conclusion. The media has turned this talking point into such an…

Bill Clinton was asked about Barack Obama's political situation by former aide George Stephanopoulos on ABC Clinton of course has some words for Republicans and "how totally political Washington is today" (as opposed to when Clinton was in the White House?). But surprisingly Clinton also claims a…

During the six weeks of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, Hamas has used human shields—women and children—to protect its infrastructure in Gaza. This tactic is meant either to deter Israel from striking at the rockets, attack tunnels, and terrorists that threaten it, or—and for Hamas this is much…

The Department of Health and Human Services is looking to school the entertainment industry media when it comes to reporting on substance abuse and mental health disorders. In a notice posted this week on behalf of HHS's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the agency…

Recently National Journal’s Ron Fournier published this story, “Why Benjamin Netanyahu Should Be Very, Very Worried.” Fournier’s strange line is that the Israelis until recently enjoyed a “near-monopoly” over “the mind share of public-opinion elites.” Partly because those elites “embraced and…

Someone I'm related to by marriage has written a superb column on the problem of media ignorance. The fact I'm not a disinterested observer shouldn't stop me from noting that the column and the event that prompted it has attracted some attention. The piece is pegged to a much discussed interview…

Agence France-Presse State Department correspondent Jo Biddle is claiming on Twitter that members of the media traveling with Secretary of State John Kerry to China "have had their bank accounts hacked."

Maggie Flick of Reuters is reporting that:

In the print edition of Politico, columnist Roger Simon asks, "Will the Real Hillary Clinton Please Stop Talking?"

Reporting on the administration’s bungle that blew the cover of the CIA’s Afghanistan station chief, Paul Richter of the Los Angeles Times does a little egregious falsifying of the historical record.  The objective, apparently, was to remind readers of how nasty the Bush administration was by…

Over at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent reprints President Obama's remarks from a fundraiser Thursday night. They're worth pondering, because the remarks amount to a pretty perfect distillation of Obama's recent fecklessness. Naturally, Sargent is encouraged because Obama is on board with the…

The front page of today's Denver Post skips Easter. Its main focus? Marijuana.

The professional press corps has been frozen out of Michelle Obama's swing through China. But the White House has partnered with CNN to bring in amateurs. Katie Hawkins-Gaar, a CNN editor, coordinated the effort to solicit and accumulate submissions from "iReporters" interested in asking questions…

A CBS reporter from Arizona reveals that President Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, receives questions from the press in advance of his daily press briefing. In fact, she says, the reporters often receive the answers in advance of the briefing, too.

When Anders Breivik went on his shooting rampage in Norway in 2011, he left behind a curious and lengthy manifesto identifying himself as Christian with zionist sympathies. The media focused narrowly on his pro-Israel Christian views when discussing his motivation, even though the addled manifesto…

Matthew Continetti, writing at the Washington Free Beacon, describes how many in the mainstream media tried to dismiss the Beacon's extensive reporting on archives from Hillary Clinton's close friend during Clinton's time as First Lady. Here's Continetti:

White House press secretary Jay Carney is concerned that the press in China -- the foreign press there -- is facing "restrictions."

Appearing with Piers Morgan on CNN, Barbara Walters summed up The Grand Disillusionment this way

Dan Rather is still at it.  The story that brought him down was true, he claims, unlike the one that is the cause of Lara Logan’s difficulties.  On CNN, Rather said:

Matthew Continetti, writing in the Washington Free Beacon:

In Politico, Trudy Lieberman delivers a careful, detailed analysis of how the media failed to see the approaching Obamacare storm:

Sheera Frenkel, Buzzfeed’s recently-hired Middle East correspondent, should know the Israel beat better than most: She reported from the country for more than seven years, speaks Hebrew fluently, and knows Israeli society intimately.

On Thursday, a scathing article by Ron Fournier titled, "Obama’s Image Machine: Monopolistic Propaganda Funded by You, at National Journal, took the White House to task for shutting out press photographers from presidential events in favor of official White House photos taken by White House…

Politico argues that, with the recent departure of some high-profile reporters and editors, "The New York Times is suffering a brain drain."

In last week's issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, I wrote "The Media Kowtow" a feature about how "a hugely influential portion of the American media has vacillated between openly admiring the Chinese government and providing a forum for its apologists." A large part of that story is how China has wooed…

Last week, after the President started receiving a torrent of criticism over his broken promise that Americans who wanted to could keep their health insurance plan under Obamacare, I wrote an item asking the question "Will PolitiFact Ever Correct Its Biggest Obamacare Error?" I noted that the fact…

The Washington Post has done a thorough job of reporting on the creation of Obamacare. It is a tale of how political hubris prevailed over prudence, as summed up in a single quotation:

PolitiFact has a pretty terrible and rather partisan history of Obamacare fact checks. However, there's one, in particular, about Obamacare that remains especially puzzling. It's the "half-true" rating the organization gave when President Obama promised that, If you like your health insurance, you…

The fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy is nearly upon us, so one would expect America's public intellectuals are gearing up to present a series of sober and illuminating reflections about the tragedy's cultural and political legacy.

A reporter proposed a deal to White House press secretary Jay Carney: How about Obama "delay Obamacare for a year if Republicans would agree to delay heart attacks for a year?"

David Gelernter, on what Republicans should be saying during the shutdown:

Blame it on Rouhani Fever. Earlier this week, Foreign Policy’s website reported that for the first time in decades an Iranian official used the word “Israel”—“not Zionist entity,” “not occupying regime”—to describe the Jewish state. Later acknowledging their story was wrong (“Death to Israel” after…

The Washington Post today printed President Obama's letter to all federal employees, which was sent yesterday. The printed version appears on B4 of the paper's Metro section, "The Federal Worker" page, and is titled, "President gives shutdown notice while praising public servants."

NBC announced today that it would be launching a week of programming to help Obamacare get off its feet, according to a press release sent out by the network. The law has been widely opposed by all Republicans and supported by most Democrats, including President Obama.

Occasionally the White House conducts "background briefings" for reporters, often in the form of a conference call in which "senior administration officials" participate. The officials, though known to the reporters, are not to be named by the reporters in their stories; hence the term…

Under the headline, "Veteran Journalist Douglas Frantz Heading To State Department," Michael Calderone of the Huffington Post reports on one Secretary of State John Kerry's latest hires.

The press, for whatever reason, has been strangely Panglossian on North Korea ever since Kim Jong-un took over as supreme leader back in December 2011. No Stalinist tyrant is he, we’ve been told time and again. In fact, he may just be a bona fide reformer!