One of the many iterations of the McLaughlin Group cast, as depicted in this Al Hirschfeld lithograph. Occupying the center is John McLau...

NBC "rebooted" its 66-year old flagship Sunday talk program with its 12th host last weekend Although it took me about 36 hour...

This is the fourth installment for my personal journalism-related observations of the current summer season...as promised, whether you reme...

[ NOTE: I apologize for the long break between segments but I have been doing some employment-related activities with at least two potent...

This is the second installment for my personal journalism-related observations of the current summer season...as promised, here's a ne...

[ NOTE : this is a consolidated product--one part reporting, one part analyzing and a heap of opining for good measure--and I didn't ...

Probably the only vantage point that wasn't shown on a wide variety of viewing options--from the floor of the US House of Representat...

[ NOTE : this is the third--and sadly last--of an originally anticipated five-part series critiquing morning news offerings from US broadcas...

One of the posts that I had sitting on the "back burner" was to be a critique of last year's premiere season of HBO's T...

Three Oscar-contending films...and all feature some elements of our past and present press in their presentations From around Thanksgiv...

Wolf Blizter ( Jason Sudeikis ) attempts to provide his viewers with the most complete coverage of the unfolding Petraeus scandal As I...

MSNBC host Chuck Todd hosted "The Daily Rundown" from Cincinnati on Thursday morning...and Dayton is nowhere to be seen behind ...

This past weekend, Saturday Night Live caught my attention (in regards to this blog) with a scathing skit that portrayed several of th...

Twitter...'tweeting'...the 'Twitter-verse'...if you are currently involved in any kind of media-related activity, you can...

If you are a reader of my blog, you will know that this is only the second time that I have used "In Memorium" in the title of ...

This is what greeted me this morning on the back cover of today's New York Times Magazine I'm not quite sure if it's due t...

Due to a temporary change in my work schedule this week, I am waking up at dawn and coming home in the afternoon time frame--almost com...

Two recent movies featuring television news clips but none were of Fox News...oversight or intentional snub? I've written here from...

Zooey Deschanel as Marla Sneed, the Daily Post's new reporter I had to laugh out loud when I saw this past weekend's repeat br...

( NOTE : This is only meant to be a short posting and is not a full-fledged follow-up to my previous entry about Current TV that will ...