MSNBC (tv network)

CNN, MSNBC, Fox show true colors in choice of stories this week

2013-05-13 08:27:00

Last week was a great one for cable news watching. Not because any one channel did such outstanding work, but rather because several stories clamored simultaneously for the camera’s attention. The choices that a channel makes in such situations are...

Conservatives also care about the environment

2013-05-08 09:00:00

I am really getting tired of the invective and sarcasm shown by the likes of The Sun and MSNBC ("Don't save the planet" May 3). It is less and less logic and more just "shouting down the enemy". I guess Andrew Green, Rachel Maddow, and others are...

What makes 'Morning Joe' such a smart, winning way to start TV day

2013-04-22 14:11:00

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy If you want to know what makes MSNBC's "Morning Joe" so much better than anything else on morning TV, check out this video of a discussion Monday morning about President Obama's...

Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard

2013-04-21 04:00:00

Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Mr. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all....

Media coverage of the Gosnell case is proof of liberal bias

2013-04-20 06:30:00

Regarding your recent editorial on the murder trial of Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell, we are not all stupid ("Kermit Gosnell and the 'liberal media,'" April 16). Sean Hannity is a conservative and he admits it. But The Sun editorial...

Meet the new 'journalists': David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs and Karl Rove

2013-02-25 09:09:00

There was a time when the lines between the practices of politics and journalism were clear-cut. Professional politicians did their thing, which was getting elected and getting others elected. Professional journalists did theirs, writing and telling how...

Dr. Ben Carson's descent into the nasty, divisive world of cable TV news

2013-03-29 16:23:00

Dr. Ben Carson got a tough lesson in the past week on how quickly the angry and divisive world of cable TV can chew you up. The 61-year-old Baltimore County resident has been in the media spotlight as a darling of the right since early February, when...

Dr. Ben Carson apologizes, offers to withdraw from Hopkins speech

2013-03-29 10:18:00

Dr. Benjamin Carson, the famed Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, apologized Friday for his "choice of words" and use of examples in discussing gay marriage on Fox News earlier in the week. During Sean Hannity's show on Tuesday, when asked about the matter...

Calling Ben Carson's words 'hurtful, offensive,' Hopkins CEO brings clarity to debate

2013-04-05 12:26:00

In a letter sent to the Johns Hopkins Medical community Friday afternoon, Faculty Dean and CEO Dr. Paul Rothman labeled Dr. Ben Carson's comments on gay marriage "hurtful" and "offensive." Rothman's letter is a turning point in what has been two weeks...

How come we don't hear about 'conservative media bias'?

2013-03-05 10:16:00

Liberal media bias. So incessant is this complaint from conservatives that the three words string together as one, like Holy Roman Empire. But like the old saw about that infamous regime being neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, liberal media bias...

Ayanbadejo is wrong: Now is the time for a gay sports hero to speak up

2013-03-10 04:00:00

"Now is the time..." -- Martin Luther King, Aug. 28, 1963 Brendon Ayanbadejo is wrong. It is painful to say that. Mr. Ayanbadejo's heart is in a good place, and the advice he gave recently on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" was practical and well intentioned....

Could TV have a done a poorer job of covering sequester?

2013-03-03 17:49:00

There is no excuse for the kind of coverage TV has delivered the last two weeks on the sequester. Television news has been polarizing, sensational and mostly focused on personality rather than the policy behind the $85 billion in federal spending cuts...

MSNBC hosts Al Sharpton, left, and Chris Matthews arrive for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington.

2013-04-27 00:00:00

Ed Schultz's new MSNBC weekend show starts May 11.

2013-04-25 12:04:14

Boston (Pray for Boston, ball bearings, CNN, ABC News, NY Times, MSNBC, Patriots Day) Trending on: National Twitter, Baltimore Twitter, Google Trends, Reddit, Buzzfeed Why: The explosives that killed three people and injured more than 170 during the Boston Marathon on Monday were most likely

2013-04-15 00:00:00