Accessory to the Candidate

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 3, 2010 at 09:25 AM

In anticipation of Florida's primary day, August 24, the St. Petersburg Times on Sunday helped acquaint readers with the wives... More

More Songs For Amanpour

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM

One TV critic's "panache and briskness" is another's "shrill and showy." Some of the very things that the New York... More

Mercury News: Lobbyists As “Shadow Legislature” in CA

A special report explains the “Sacramento version” of lawmaking

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 29, 2010 at 11:44 AM

There's the "Civics Class Version" of “How Laws Are Created," in which, in brief, a legislator has an idea for... More

Obama on The View (On Afghanistan, On Snooki)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 29, 2010 at 11:14 AM

For anyone, like me, who happens not to right now be watching (and/or Twittering about), President Obama on The View... More

For CNN: The “What Glenn Beck Said” Show

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Nancy Franklin On Television in the current New Yorker: Everyone, it seems, is a media hound and a media watchdog... More

The Summer of Alvin Greene?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 27, 2010 at 10:03 AM

"People who write about Alvin Greene are going to get clicked on," [Democratic operative Wyeth] Ruthven explains to Politico's Jonathan... More

Be Joy Behar (What Would You Ask Obama?)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 26, 2010 at 02:26 PM

A "non-traditional news show” is how the White House describes ABC's The View, in explaining to the New York Times's... More

Blog Reax to WikiLeaks’s Leak (Afghan War’s Pentagon Papers?)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 26, 2010 at 01:48 PM

Once you’ve finished reading the 90,000-plus mostly classified Afghanistan-related U.S. military documents brought to you by WikiLeaks, you can read... More

A Story in Screen Shots: Cable News Covers Lohan

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 20, 2010 at 02:51 PM

A chronological summary, in screen shots, of the cable news coverage of Lindsay Lohan reporting to the Beverly Hills Municipal... More

The Young and The Burned Out

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 19, 2010 at 03:53 PM

The "state of the media business these days," writes the New York Times's Jeremy W. Peters, is "frantic and fatigued."... More

It’s Morning in “Top Secret America”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 19, 2010 at 12:19 PM

The Washington Post rolls out its significant "Top Secret America" project today, a public records-based investigation of America's post-9/11 national... More

BBC for Us!

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM

BBC is today launching an original U.S. news Web site! (When Jay Rosen met with BBC execs, he tweets, he... More

Most Politico Sentence In Politico Piece

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM

It's hard to choose just one. But, here's my vote for The Most Politico (Half-)Sentence in the Politico piece today,... More

Some Spice in the Pundit Pool

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 15, 2010 at 09:58 AM

Yesterday, George Stephanopoulos's offerings on Good Morning America looked, sounded, and smelled a lot like his offerings on This Week... More

In Afghanistan: “Yes, That Was Your Son”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 14, 2010 at 04:41 PM

Eight U.S. soldiers were killed in three attacks in southern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, per the LA Times.... More