Big Journalism

Jesse Griffin, the anti-Palin blogger who was the recipient of a self-damning email from Random House author Joe McGinniss released yesterday by Andrew Breitbart, has accused Breitbart of “hacking” his email. Griffin published his accusation in a blog post today,

This morning while on the Political Buzz panel for CNN we discussed the reported “booing” of the gay soldier who asked about DADT at last night’s debate. Considering the amount of print devoted to painting the entire crowd out to

Dave Weigel of Slate reports that Random House, publisher of The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, has released the following statement on allegations that Joe McGinniss’s book is a literary hoax: Joe McGinniss’s book The Rogue is based

NewsBusters catches a liberal think tank accidentally destroying the liberal meme that millionaires don’t pay their fair share. A non-partisan pollling firm discovered Fox News is viewed as the best news network by a plurality of Americans. Don’t tell Erick

Joe McGinniss, author of Random House would-be blockbuster The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, has confirmed the authenticity of the e-mail posted by Andrew Breitbart earlier today, which suggests that the book may have included allegations that McGinniss

No surprises from Washington Whispers: A new study by a conservative media watchdog group finds that the big three TV network’s morning shows are far more biased against the current GOP presidential field than they were to Democrats running in

According to Gallup, 55% of the American people do not believe the mass media reports the news without bias. Which proves that 45% of the American people don’t read Politico. The numbers get even more interesting as you drill down.

Last week in HuffPo: Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” comic has been pulled from the Chicago Tribune this week because, according to the newspaper’s editorial staff, its content, excerpted from Joe McGinniss’s Sarah Palin biography, violates their standards of fairness. … But

First Random House promised Joe McGinniss would respect Sarah Palin’s privacy. Then Random House boasted about how McGinniss had exposed Sarah Palin’s personal and family life. May 2010: One of the country’s most respected nonfiction authors, Joe McGinniss, is presently

Since other liberal pundits are throwing the President under the bus over his latest jobs bill, I’ve only to assume that Borger wants to differentiate herself by doubling-down on his perception of teflon awesomeness. If you’re President Obama, you’ve had

In an email dated January 27, 2011, Joe McGinniss, author of The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, says that Random House lawyers have told him he has provided nothing more than “tawdry gossip” to substantiate “any of the

After last week’s GOP debate I was pretty furious with Governor Mitt Romney over his demagoguery of Social Security at Rick Perry’s expense. But after some time to cool down (a little) and a few days to see how this

The awful launch week for the over-hyped, expected bestseller The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, by controversial author Joe McGinniss, just got worse. Much worse. After a week of universally scathing pans from the reflexively anti-Palin establishment media,

Sarah Palin practices politics as lap dance, and we’re the suckers who pay the price. Members of our jaded national press corps eagerly stuff hundred-dollar bills into her G-string, even as they wink at one another to show that they

We certainly don’t need the Columbia Journalism Review to tell us our media class isn’t interested in honestly declaring that Barack Obama’s shameless class warfare is, uhm, shameless class warfare; and we certainly don’t need them to tell us the

THR: The progressive watchdog group has made it a priority to bash Fox News, which is also carried by the satellite radio company. Progressive watchdog group Media Matters will get itself a powerful new platform to wage its war on

Is vanity hard to mock? Failure? Addiction to a teleprompter? How about the need to use the word “I”? Urging Congress to pass a bill now that hasn’t been written yet is kind of stupid, no? And so is “jobs

Today, National Public Radio (NPR) did its best to promote a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) by the Palestinian Authority, which has rejected negotiations with Israel in favor of a strategy of isolating Israel through the United Nations General Assembly

From Misfit Politics, the group of Big Journalism contributor Ezra Dulis. “Day of Rage!” “Non-violent rage!” “Awareness rage!” I interviewed two Misfits, Brandon Morse and Dulis yesterday on my show and Dulis copped to being the now-infamous voice behind ATTACKWAAAAATCH.

I’ve written before of ESPN’s enforcement of policy concerning political speech. I’m sure you’ll be shocked to know that the selective condemnation extends to radio commentary as well. Don’t everyone gasp at once. We remember how Rush Limbaugh had to

Joe McGinniss, author of a controversial new biography of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, was charged in connection with a hit-and-run accident in Wasilla, Alaska in July 2010, police and court records show. McGinniss had moved to Wasilla in the

That guy who was a placemarker for the superstar Reverend Al Sharpton has been hired by Current TV. It makes since for the inventor of the internet to have his own channel and buy up all of MSNBC’s discarded on

– Tingles are out David Brooks has admitted to having sap running down his leg over Obama. It’s taken Brooks over two years to catch up to what most out here have been telling him. How good a columnist does

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Last Friday, the Daily Caller ran a piece on Mike Tyson’s recent heinous ESPN remarks on Sarah Palin, and the story sparked a massive row amongst conservatives. The gist of Tyson’s remarks was tantamount to advocating rape. Were this about