Read more American media stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8378/american-media.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:19:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72669/where-bush-was-bashed-obama-gets-free-pass.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSupporters of George Bush are miffed about the passes the media has given President Obama for trespasses the former president would likely have been excoriated for. “We have a joke about it. We’re going to start a website: IfBushHadDoneThat.com,” former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie tells Politico. Some examples of...http://www.newser.com/story/72669/where-bush-was-bashed-obama-gets-free-pass.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Oct 2009 14:35:41 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71725/times-co-takes-globe-off-market.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe New York Times Company has decided not to sell the Boston Globe after all, its chairman told workers in a late-afternoon email today, saying that the financial picture has “significantly improved” for the 137-year-old newspaper in recent months after various cost-cutting and revenue-boosting moves. Two groups did bid after...http://www.newser.com/story/71725/times-co-takes-globe-off-market.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 18:14:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70543/media-lose-interest-in-war-dead-only-ap-shoots-coffins.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBack when George W. Bush was president, the media made a big fuss about the administration’s refusal to allow the press to photograph soldiers’ coffins, saying it hid the true cost of the war. President Obama lifted the ban in April, and the media flocked to snap shots of that...http://www.newser.com/story/70543/media-lose-interest-in-war-dead-only-ap-shoots-coffins.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 11:13:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70401/leakers-have-agendas-that-journos-hide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn the past few days the New York Times and Washington Post broke three major stories with the help of leaks: John Edwards' readiness to declare paternity, Stanley McChrystal's blunt assessment of the Afghanistan war, and Barack Obama's intervention in the New York governor's race. For Post media columnist Howard...http://www.newser.com/story/70401/leakers-have-agendas-that-journos-hide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 7:58:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69352/beck-didnt-need-mainstream-help-to-oust-van-jones.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTraditionally the script goes like this: Pundit attacks someone, the mainstream media notices, and the sap is quickly shown the door. The Van Jones affair was a lot like that, only without that mainstream middleman, writes Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post . Glenn Beck’s assault took out Jones before the...http://www.newser.com/story/69352/beck-didnt-need-mainstream-help-to-oust-van-jones.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 14 Sep 2009 9:15:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67216/jackson-doc-i-have-faith-the-truth-will-prevail.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDr. Conrad Murray posted a YouTube message today thanking friends and patients for support through the trial-by-media that has all but convicted him of complicity in Michael Jackson’s death, the Los Angeles Times reports. Murray says that the current frenzy means he can’t return calls or use email. Of the...http://www.newser.com/story/67216/jackson-doc-i-have-faith-the-truth-will-prevail.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 18 Aug 2009 15:55:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67033/right-wing-crazy-is-all-american.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith the left back in power, we’re seeing right-wing "crazies"—the “birthers, tea-partiers, town hall hecklers”—getting louder. But that’s nothing new, writes Rick Perlstein in the Washington Post . In America, “the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow...http://www.newser.com/story/67033/right-wing-crazy-is-all-american.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 16 Aug 2009 8:23:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66040/cnn-kills-ad-ripping-birther-dobbs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA media watchdog ad attacking CNN anchor Lou Dobbs for his "racially charged" support of conspiracy theorists who question President Obama's birth certificate is all set to run tomorrow on CNN. But there's fat chance you'll ever see it on CNN. Five of the six cable providers who sold ad...http://www.newser.com/story/66040/cnn-kills-ad-ripping-birther-dobbs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 2:32:34 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 CDT