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Zachary Roth

Obama, McCain: Media Darlings

It’s true that, as Howard Kurtz notes today in The Washington Post, Barack Obama is getting some pretty adulatory press coverage lately. Still, Sen. Obama did win the first nominating contest, against what looked at one time to be pretty long odds, so a certain amount of the praise is
only to be Read More

An Obama-Krugman Détente?

One of the strange subplots to the Democratic primary race has been the ongoing feud between the Obama campaign and liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Mr. Krugman has argued that Sen. Obama’s healthcare plan is too incremental, and more generally, that the senator’s intention of working with Republicans and their allies, rather Read More

CBS Ends Public Eye Blog

TV Newser confirms that CBS News’ PublicEye blog, once described as the "de facto ombudsman of CBS News," has been shuttered.

The former editor of the site, Matthew Felling, had been laid off last month as part of a round of job cuts at CBS Interactive — though CBS had at the time Read More