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In what is tantamount to an admission of the abandonment of journalistic impartiality, the New York Times Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan submitted an analysis of the paper’s coverage of the resurrection of Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner’s career.  In a navel-gazing column designed to explore the

The government obtained “thousands and thousands” of phone records of Associated Press staffers according to CEO Gary Pruitt.  Pruitt held a town hall meeting with AP staff and revealed that the phone records obtained by the DOJ included incoming and

NBC News cable outlet MSNBC finished May in a dismal 4th place in the ratings race delivering a humiliating blow to the left-leaning news network. If MSNBC execs are rationalizing the 4th place finish by pointing out that CNN Headline

The Associated Press is the latest major news outlet to inform President Obama’s Department of Justice that they will not be participating in an off-the-record briefing on how Eric Holder’s team deals with journalists who work with leakers.  The announcement came

The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee raised the stakes in the ongoing stare-down with Attorney General Eric Holder over his involvement with controversial investigations of reporters over the past several years.   Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) along with Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner

Tuesday’s self-serving, distraction tour of the Jersey Shore featuring President Barack Obama palling around with Governor Chris Christie to show-off the progress made since the devastating hurricane pummeled the shore six months ago, successfully allowed the media to change the subject from

Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder is in full damage control mode. In an attempt to re-shape his image with the press after the highly damaging revelations that he personally signed-off on secret subpoena requests for James Rosen and Fox News over

It’s almost like the Washington Post is trying to be irrelevant.  As the IRS scandal continues to unfold, certain members of the Obama Administration are coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism for purposely keeping the president in the dark about

As Politico’s Dylan Byers wrote Friday tensions remain very high in the hallways of CBS News as Sharyl Attkisson continues to butt heads with producers unwilling to give her stories air time on CBS Evening News. The tensions began when

The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald C. Machen – the man responsible for the aggressive surveillance and phone record scrutiny at Fox News – is also a big donor to the Obama Campaigns. At the time of

The provocative headline “Obama administration mistakes journalism for espionage” doesn’t appear in a traditionally conservative paper like the NY Post or Wall Street Journal; it’s in the Washington Post. And before you equivocate, no, it’s not hovering over the byline

Jay Carney’s credibility is now on the line, according to veteran White House correspondent Keith Koffler. He reports today, at White House Dossier, that  Monday’s briefing by Carney was filled with acrimony over the ever-evolving narrative put forth by the

The obfuscation continues. Monday’s White House press briefing was enlightening, in many respects, with regard to the ever evolving story of whom at the White House knew about the IRS IG report on the targeting of conservative groups for inappropriate, extra scrutiny.

The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward appeared on “Meet the Press” Sunday to discuss the brewing scandals of the Obama White House. When conversation turned to the controversy over the Benghazi talking points which show the White House and State Department’s successful attempts

CBS News’ Bob Schieffer took aim at the Obama White House today and their involvement in the IRS scandal. “Welcome to dumb and dumber,” Schieffer intoned, as he railed against the administration’s contention that no one really knew anything about

Anderson Cooper is one of the few remaining journalists in CNN’s prime time line-up who actually attracts viewers on a semi-regular basis. Saturday night he appeared in a pre-filmed sketch on Saturday Night Live designed to send off perennial players

Former White House Counsel during the Clinton Administration, Lanny Davis, is calling for the resignation of Obama White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler.  Davis joined me and co-host Brian Wilson on “Mornings on the Mall” on WMAL in Washington DC Friday morning

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera appeared on “Fox and Friends” Friday morning to discuss the latest revelations regarding the IRS scandal and Sarah Hall Ingram, the woman who oversaw the division responsible for harassing conservative groups. The show’s hosts pointed out

Bob Woodward appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this Friday morning and, in stark contrast to his less-concerned Watergate colleague Carl Bernstein, he admonished the show’s hosts to “not dismiss Benghazi” and compared the White House’s behavior over CIA/State Department talking

MSNBC analyst Joy-Ann Reid joined host Thomas Roberts yesterday to comment on John Boehner’s call for accountability and, perhaps, jail time for individuals responsible for the IRS scandal involving harassment and denial of non-profit status to conservative advocacy groups.   Reid asserted that

On Thursday’s “Morning Rundown” on MSNBC, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) noted President Obama’s “culture of intimidation” as a motivating factor behind the scandal involving the IRS hassling grassroots conservative groups seeking non-profit status.  Rubio specifically cited the National Labor Relations

Ari Fleischer knows what it’s like to take the podium in the White House briefing room, especially with a hostile press corps.  As the spokesman for the White House during the George W. Bush Administration, he had to deal with

The denizens of the oddly-shaped table discussion on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” delved into the broader political ramifications of the IRS scandal Thursday morning, and panelist Donny Deutsch took issue with the assumption that the issue would be a net positive

Lawrence O’Donnell likes to march to the beat of a different drummer. And in the case of Wednesday night’s edition of “The Last Word” on MSNBC, he marched away from just about everyone in the media and politics by maintaining

Leave it to NBC News cable outlet MSNBC to somehow inject race into the discussion of the IRS scandal gripping Washington. As they awaited President Obama’s remarks on the brewing debacle at Treasury, Chris Matthews and his colleague, Al Sharpton, discussed

NBC News Senior Investigative Correspondent Lisa Myers appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to discuss the growing AP scandal involving the Dept. of Justice secretly obtaining phone records of reporters with the Associated Press.  Myers maintained that it was unlikely that

Barack Obama’s political Svengali, David Axelrod, appeared on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC to respond to the latest revelations regarding the Obama Justice Department’s extensive investigation into Associated Press reporters, including secret wiretaps and collections of phone logs of the reporters

One common thread in the multiple scandals hammering the Obama White House is the president’s claim that he first heard of the stories from news reports. Many find this claim to be unbelievable and are beginning to echo Sen. Howard

Politico reported on the IRS Inspector General report on the systematic targeting of grassroots conservative groups for extra scrutiny. And, ultimately, in its article Politico has done what it does best: Pretend to report on a story but ultimately give Democrats cover

On the “Open Channel” investigative reporting blog at NBCNews.com Dave Levinthal of The Center for Public Integrity gets to the real root of the problem surrounding the IRS scandal involving revelations that conservative groups suffered more intense scrutiny when qualifying for their non-profit status.  According

Matthew Winkler, Editor-In-Chief of Bloomberg News, admitted Sunday that his reporters had accessed proprietary trading information and used the information in their reporting. The admission was made in an article posted on the Bloomberg website titled “Holding Ourselves Accountable:” We are defined by

There was a time when Carl Bernstein was celebrated for speaking truth to power and relentlessly pursuing a president even though the rest of his colleagues didn’t join him in following a political scandal that involved a second-rate break-in at

Late Sunday night Barbara Walters took to Twitter to announce that she is retiring “next summer.” She will make the formal announcement Monday morning on “The View.” Big news – and I want to tell you first: abcn.ws/19gEaKv. (Looking forward

The media is giving oxygen to a bizarre facet of the Boston terror bombings: The strange movement of young teen girls who seem to have a Bieber-like crush on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The #FreeJahar movement on social media is gaining steam on