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Jeff Zucker wastes no time in starting to rebuild CNN

2013-01-30 03:42:00

Talk about hitting the floor running, Jeff Zucker looks to have arrived at CNN this month in a flat-out sprint. It’s hard not to be impressed by what he’s already done: Started to make CNN suddenly seem a couple of decades younger. It’...

Will it be Clinton? Cuomo? Warren?

2012-12-13 00:00:00

Shortly after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party's nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of...

MSNBC stellar in early Paul Ryan coverage - really

2012-08-11 12:01:00

Paul Ryan being selected as Mitt Romney's GOP running mate was big news late Friday night, and no one on television did a better job of covering it on the fly than MSNBC. I can't believe I typed those words either. MSNBC had become such a joke in its...

Romney's woes: Blame the candidate, not the campaign

2012-07-09 09:20:00

After a few shaky weeks, the Romney kibitzers are calling for a big staff shakeup, apparently on the assumption that his footsoldiers have been responsible for the bumps in his campaign trail. Fingered particularly is his longtime Boston aide and...

Even media is falling out of love with Obama

2012-06-23 04:00:00

Those cannibals who recently turned up in Miami and Baltimore aren't the only people eating their own. Following President Barack Obama's 54-minute snoozer of a speech in Ohio last week, even his "friends" are beginning to feed on him. In 2008, David...

Reading the court's mind

2012-03-30 00:00:00

The Supreme Court's three days of arguments on the constitutionality of the Obama health care law have triggered a guessing game, replacing for the moment the 2012 presidential campaign as topic A on the nation's nonstop talk shows. Did the justices'...

Bill Clinton - PBS offers a second draft of history this week

2012-02-20 03:31:00

If the daily coverage of Bill Clinton's rollercoaster presidency and the inititial wave of journalist-written biographies constituted the first draft of history, this four-hour PBS film some 12 years after he left office is the second. Proper...

Mr. Obama, you're no Ronald Reagan

2011-07-07 10:11:00

5.1, 9.3, 8.1, 8.5, 8, 7.1 and 3.9. While that might sound like a controversial series of Olympic curling scores, these numbers in fact add up to a grave problem for PresidentBarack Obama. They are the quarterly percentage gains in gross domestic...

Some belated praise for CNN's debate partnership with Tea Party

2011-09-16 15:05:00

I am only about 2,000 news cycles behind with this post. But I was working on another project since Monday and did not have time to write about the GOP candidates debate hosted by CNN and the Tea Party Express. I thought I would get over it, but I...

Cain not the only option for conservatives

2011-11-04 06:24:00

The recent surge by Herman Cain to the top of the GOP field was not fueled by the tea party. The tea party was the first to embrace Mr. Cain because of his 9-9-9 tax plan and because he speaks like a businessman rather than a politician, which is very...

Herman Cain, Bill Clinton and the media's double standard

2011-11-07 03:00:00

When it comes to sex, the media apply different standards to Republicans and Democrats. Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton allegedly trolled for women, using state troopers as his procurers. As president, mr. Clinton engaged in oral sex with Monica Lewinsky in...

Can Jeff Zucker Rebuild CNN From 6 A.M. Up?

2013-05-06 19:41:02

May 07 (TheWrap.com) - Jeff Zucker's four-month tenure running CNN has been marred by failed programming experiments and embarrassing reporting gaffes. But he has one weapon that he's hoping will turn CNN's fortunes around: The morning news show,...

D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hedgus direct a behind-the-scenes documentary about the 1992 Clinton for President campaign, mostly following the spin doctors of the movement: the outspoken campaign manager James Carville and softer-spoken but brilliant director of communications George Stephanopoulos.

2012-03-06 15:57:04

Winner Evos-inspired or developed in parallel styling makes the new Fusion as sharp as a Kia Optima or Hyundai Sonata. Family sedan shoppers haven t had this many lookers since perhaps the early 2000s, when the first Mazda6 and an upsized Nissan Altima hit the scene.

2012-01-12 00:00:00