Pirates’ Spokesman Still Speaking

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 9, 2008 at 10:57 AM

You forgot about that Somali-pirates-holding-Ukranian-vessel story, didn't you? The latest: that ship is still being held, NATO is sending ships... More

CBS News: “McCain Plane Better Than Obama’s!”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 9, 2008 at 09:32 AM

Reading some of the gripes CBS News's Dean Reynolds writes up in his online Reporter's Notebook this week reminds me... More

Suddenly Funny

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 9, 2008 at 08:14 AM

Remember back in July when the New York Times' Bill Carter reported that political comedy was at a loss? When... More

Reality Brokaw, Rated

Pacts before facts

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 8, 2008 at 01:29 PM

There was a moment during last night's debate when Tom Brokaw said, with an edge to his voice: Since the... More

Reality Brokaw

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM

Also during Tom Brokaw's appearance on MSNBC this morning, Joe Scarborough asked Brokaw, since he "had the best seat in... More

Brokaw Reads McCain’s Mind

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM

On MSNBC this morning, an exchange between Pat Buchanan and Tom Brokaw: BUCHANAN: Tom, in the first debate McCain was... More

CNN: Dismount High Horse

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 8, 2008 at 09:18 AM

At 11:30 last night, CNN's Anderson Cooper announced: You're looking at a picture of The Spin Room. That is one... More

Can We Get Some Quo With That Quid?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 7, 2008 at 04:18 PM

"The Place for Politics" has felt more like "The Place for Palin" of late. You can't tune in to MSNBC... More

An Alternative Debate Format

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 7, 2008 at 04:04 PM

Kevin Drum wonders why Brokaw when PowerPoint will do? Why bother with a human audience or moderator at all? You... More

“Partisan Accusations” Dressed as Journalism

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 7, 2008 at 02:05 PM

Megan argued on Campaign Desk recently, after Fox News's Sean Hannity first interviewed Gov. Sarah Palin (an interview Megan called... More

Fantasy Brokaw

What if Brokaw broke the absurd rules of tonight’s debate?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 7, 2008 at 01:03 PM

Yesterday, I hoped that Tom Brokaw might do more with tonight's debate than Gwen Ifill did with last Thursday’s (more... More

Attention!

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 7, 2008 at 09:34 AM

http://journalism.org/node/13105">Per PEJ, from Sept. 29-Oct. 5, "the financial crisis received the most attention from the media for any non-campaign... More

What “Kind of Rough” Can Look Like?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 7, 2008 at 09:18 AM

From Dana Milbank today: ...Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater [FL], arriving... More

A “Job to Do At the Table” (But, What?)

Will Tom Brokaw do better than Gwen Ifill?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 6, 2008 at 02:24 PM

As the VP debate wound down last week, Andrew Sullivan's insta-reactions included the following: There was only one loser: Gwen... More

Talk of the Brown

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 6, 2008 at 01:18 PM

CNN's Campbell Brown, from a New York Times profile on Saturday: As journalists, and certainly for me over the last... More