PBS Announces Plans for Debate and Beyond

Tonight Jim Lehrer, host of PBS’s The News Hour, will moderate the first presidential debate of the general election, which will take place at University of Mississippi in Oxford.

PBS will be one of nine networks broadcasting the debate tonight. With Mr. Lehrer in the moderator’s chair, Ray Suarez will anchor PBS’s pre- Read More

Obama and McCain Schedule Sept. 11 Meet-Up on PBS

On Thursday, September 11, Barack Obama and John McCain will participate in a forum at Columbia University, focusing on "their views on service and civic engagement in the post-9/11, post-Katrina world" which will be moderated by Judy Woodruff of PBS and Richard Stengel of Time.

More from today’s press release:

In their first Read More

VP Speculation Is Much Ado About Something

Every four years, just as the speculation over potential running mates reaches a fever pitch, contrarian voices speak up to dismiss it all as much ado about nothing. They are wrong.

Take, for example, this Sunday’s Meet the Press. After discussing this year’s usual VP suspects with the shows’ other two panelists, moderator Tom Brokaw Read More

On-Air Women Snub Mackris, Olbermann Offers Cash

When MSNBC host Keith Olbermann offered Fox News producer Andrea Mackris $99,000 to pay off her reported debts if she, in return, would come up with an audio tape of Fox News star Bill O’Reilly speaking rancid nothings to her on the phone, his viewers took him seriously. By Tuesday, Oct. 26, Mr. Olbermann said Read More