The Media Drop

Gee, I guess it sucks to be Ann Coulter this week, huh.
[Thanks, Alex!]

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As it turns out, White House spokesguy Tony Snow is ready to get back to work, the WaPo’s Peter Baker is reporting. Wishing Snow all the best in getting back to the grind, as it were, even if I don’t agree with a lot of what he has to say =).

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It’s not every day that a hockey-themed site probably gets mentioned in the Weekly Standard, but that’s what just went down with this profile of Minnesota’s governor Tim Pawlenty, who is apparently a big fan of David Singer’s hockeyfights.com. Congrats on the huge mention, David!

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The Baltimore Sun’s Nick Madigan writes this week about how one of the bigger trends in politics in recent times (though I can’t say that this is totally a recent issue) is for politicians or those seeking office to go after the reporters that are questioning them.
Awww, c’mon. It worked for Zell Miller, didn’t it? […]

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The Baltimore Sun’s Nick Madigan writes about the countersuit filed against Sinclair Broadcasting by a former employee, Jonathan Leiberman, who took offense to the much-ballyhooed documentary about Senator John Kerry that the television station ownership company was running across its network before the 2004 Presidential Election. Leiberman was tossed after he refused to take part […]

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Over at Newsbusters, Brad Wilmouth writes about last night’s Countdown on MSNBC, where Keith Olbermann had Janeane Garofalo on, and ended up in a discussion against conservatives and FOX News. Apparently, the two had fun trashing FOX’s Fox & Friends show, which Olbermann called “punishment” to watch.

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This morning, after the announcement that Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme Court had been pulled back, NBC’s David Gregory was on the “Imus in the Morning” radio show doing his usual interview, but this time with a specific topic to cover. He specifically wondered if this announcement wasn’t “timed” for release today, with the […]

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One of the major comments heard by critics of the blogosphere in late 2004 was that without a presidential election coming up within about a year or so, that political blogs would lose their luster in a national sense. While it’s probably clear to everyone that the every single American reader isn’t drooling over politics […]

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Last week, EdWonk compared statements made by Chris Heinz and Pat Buchanan about Israel, and says “it is unlikely that the left-leaning media will have much to say about Chris’s utterances.”

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