Read more press stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2488/press.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:28:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/67462/obama-says-wee-weed-press-goes-nuts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAround this time every year, “everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up,” President Obama said yesterday—and immediately, the media was aflutter, Politico reports. “WTF does wee-weed up mean and how do you spell it?” wondered a reporter for the Hill . Soon after, the jokes started rolling in: “Is this...http://www.newser.com/story/67462/obama-says-wee-weed-press-goes-nuts.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Aug 2009 11:50:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65308/media-should-learn-from-cronkite-grow-a-backbone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt wasn’t Walter Cronkite’s “avuncular persona” or his reaction to the JFK assassination that made him “the most trusted man in America,” Frank Rich writes in the New York Times —it was his willingness to challenge the halls of power. That’s become increasingly rare in today’s media, which failed Americans...http://www.newser.com/story/65308/media-should-learn-from-cronkite-grow-a-backbone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 26 Jul 2009 9:20:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64547/forget-best-colbert-wants-to-be-worst.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagStephen Colbert is a glutton for punishment. Keith Olbermann dished some out to conservative media outlets Tuesday, spanking them for plying Gov. Mark Sanford with email offers of friendly treatment, and awarding them “Worst People in the World” honors. But he omitted Colbert, despite Colbert’s email offering Sanford “a friendly...http://www.newser.com/story/64547/forget-best-colbert-wants-to-be-worst.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 16 Jul 2009 11:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64451/media-sucked-up-to-sanford-to-get-access-emails-show.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNo surprise that a lot of media outlets tried to butter up Mark Sanford’s aides in order to win interviews with the governor when he was AWOL in Argentina. But their emails, obtained by the State, show the lengths they were willing to go to, some coming about as close...http://www.newser.com/story/64451/media-sucked-up-to-sanford-to-get-access-emails-show.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Jul 2009 11:03:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64184/brit-cops-face-probe-over-media-bribes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritish Parliament may investigate police over reports that journalists pay them for dirt on celebrities and criminal suspects, the Guardian reports. Since police opted not to reopen a probe into alleged phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid News of the World , several politicians have been seeking to determine if the...http://www.newser.com/story/64184/brit-cops-face-probe-over-media-bribes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 12 Jul 2009 7:24:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62623/emanuels-media-blitz-goes-relentlessly-247.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRahm Emanuel is “in constant touch” with journalists, offering a “round-the-clock offensive” on behalf of the White House, writes Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post . “He calls, drops a few F-bombs, makes his point and hangs up,” says one commentator. Brief he may be, but “perhaps no White House chief...http://www.newser.com/story/62623/emanuels-media-blitz-goes-relentlessly-247.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 23 Jun 2009 14:34:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60626/fawning-press-glosses-over-obamas-agenda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama has enchanted the media more than any president this side of Jack Kennedy, writes Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post . A recent Pew study concluded that Obama had enjoyed “substantially more positive media coverage,” than either Bush or Clinton during their first months. “On the whole, this is...http://www.newser.com/story/60626/fawning-press-glosses-over-obamas-agenda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 01 Jun 2009 8:12:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58655/hey-media-us-jails-journos-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe American media are celebrating Iran’s release of journalist Roxana Saberi in a case the press doggedly pursued. But today’s back-patting is hypocritical, writes Glenn Greenwald in Salon : the US media have all but ignored foreign journalists imprisoned by our own government, often with little reason. Case in point: the...http://www.newser.com/story/58655/hey-media-us-jails-journos-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 11 May 2009 12:21:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56826/obamas-auto-boss-faces-charges-of-nothing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe press is abuzz over Obama auto-recovery boss Steven Rattner’s ties to a pay-to-play scandal, but every story about Rattner mentions he’s not accused of anything. What he apparently did—paid to receive part of a public pension fund to manage—is “an open practice,” so why the fuss? asks...http://www.newser.com/story/56826/obamas-auto-boss-faces-charges-of-nothing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Apr 2009 7:49:31 CDT