Stop Picking on Fox News (This Time)
Should Fox News have to give up its seat in the White House briefing room because of ideological bias? That's what the liberal group Media Matters is saying. But is this issue really worth all the hubbub?
Helen Thomas
Out of Context: The Hazards of Acting Fast
Agricultural Department director Shirley Sherrod and CNN editor Octavia Nasr both lost their jobs because they said things that sounded bad out of context. In the pressure of a lighting-fast news cycle, did their employers act too fast?
The Least Important Crisis Facing Political Journalism
Fox News and Bloomberg both want Helen Thomas's old front row seat in the White House briefing room because of the symbolism they see in it. But what it actually symbolizes is something very different.
Helen Thomas Should Have Retired Long Ago
Helen Thomas, the so-called dean of the White House press corps, has retired from journalism after being videotaped saying Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine." Is she an anti-Semite, or was it just a "senior moment"?