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Blitzer, Albright Roast Christiane Amanpour At Fourth Estate Award Fete (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Video, Liz Glover, Cnn, Christiane Amanpour, National Press Club, Wolf Blitzer, Media News

Last Friday night, the National Press Club bestowed its Fourth Estate Award on CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour, whose world travels and remarkable re...

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Joan Garry | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Election 2008 Coverage, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Cnn, Wolf Blitzer, Media News
Joan Garry

I will not listen to Wolf Blitzer -- with or without holograms -- talk about Palin's prospects for 2012 for another minute. I've had enough.

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Cable News Networks Ban Actual News

William Klein | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Cnn, 2008 Presidential Race, Cable News Channels, C-Span, News Media, Keith Olbermann, Bbc News, Mika Brzezinski, Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Media News
William Klein

Just off their mostly news-free coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, the major news networks have directed their correspondents to refrain from traditional news and stick to glitz.

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Post-Election: Call it Decompression

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

He did the strangest thing last night: He turned the TV off. There he was, still in the early part of the evening, with another hour or two of pol...

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Cindy Adams At CNN Grill: Lou Dobbs' Diet, Wolf Blitzer's Dancing Lessons

New York Post | Cindy Adams | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media

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ELECTION night Camp Obama was getting its updates from CNN. So I spent Election Night at Election Central. News chief Jon Klein carved a CNN Grill out...

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(Watch) In Grant Park on Night History Was Made

John Hubers | Posted 11.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama Victory, Grant Park, Obama Wins, Barack Obama Grant Park, Election Day, Chicago Election Party, Chicago for Obama, Chicago Party, Chicago, Election Results, Wolf Blitzer, Barack Obama, Home News
John Hubers

It's 12:45 am on the day after everything changed. It changed around 9:45 or so last night when a giant Wolf Blitzer, floating above our heads on t...

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Axelrod CNN Interview: Obama Campaign Confident (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics

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Wolf Blitzer interviewed Obama campaign manager David Axelrod on CNN, and based on the returns for far, Axelrod sounded confident of the Obama campaig...

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Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild: The Female Joe Lieberman

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

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Beth Arnold

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild must be one of the worst sports that has stepped onto the political stage in a very long time. When Hillary Clinton ...

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What is the One Question Wolf Blitzer Can Ask Obama He Hasn't Answered Already?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Small Business Administration, Cnn, Economy, Middle Class, Washington Post, Barack Obama, Wolf Blitzer, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

This Friday CNN's Wolf Blitzer will interview Senator Barack Obama (D - IL). CNN is accepting questions from the public. In nearly two years of campai...

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Sam Stein

McCain Economic Surrogate: We Shouldn't Fire SEC Chair

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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The former director of the Office of Management and Budget and one-time John McCain vice presidential hopeful Rob Portman said on Sunday that he disag...

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Journalists of America--Your Country Needs You Now!

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

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Larry Gellman

You remember journalists. They were the reporters and analysts who used to make sure that stories were true before they published or went on the air with them.

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Why Replacing Biden With Hillary Makes Perfect Sense for Obama

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Joe Scarborough, John McCain, Keith Olbermann, Joe Biden, Republicans, Brit Hume, Democrats, Wolf Blitzer, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Obama should do what the Republicans would do in this situation. In fact, he should do exactly what his opponent did -- shake things up.

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Is Palin Afraid to Talk to the Press?

Caroline Presno | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Clinton, Free Press, Tom Brokaw, Media Bias, Katie Couric, Republicans, Chris Matthews, Sarah Palin, Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Politics News
Caroline Presno

For a group that wraps itself in patriotism, the extreme Right is certainly being unpatriotic about one of the cornerstones of democracy--the free press.

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Media and Political Things to Ponder While Stuck in Traffic

Tom Alderman | Posted 09.03.2008 | Media

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Tom Alderman

• If a Walter Cronkite auditioned for a major news anchor job today, he would not get on the call-back sheet. The moustache, alone, would kil...

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Issues You Won't Hear on Cable News

Charles Warner | Posted 09.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, The Fairness Doctrine, Cable News, Wolf Blitzer, Media News
Charles Warner

A new low point in cable news occurred this week with the focus on Sarah Palin's family issues. Even after Barack Obama correctly and firmly said tha...

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DNC: From An Arab Prism

Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, Dnc, Democratic Primary, Cnn, Arab Media, Jimmy Carter, Shalom Tv, Amy Goodman, Joe Biden, Israel, Al Jazeera, Wolf Blitzer, Barack Obama, Media News
Jamal Dajani

Several Arab networks dispatched their best anchors to Denver to beam a sliver of American politics to more than 300 million viewers in the region.

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Play TV Talking Heads Rope-A-Dope Poker

William Klein | Posted 08.27.2008 | Media

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William Klein

The networks' convention coverage can be so mind-numbingly tedious that viewers are concocting their own strategies for staying awake.

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CNN -- Eat Your Own Red Meat

Linda Bergthold | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media

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Linda Bergthold

There is a channel or two that only carries the convention podium live and doesn't annoy us with the talking heads. Folks, I call on you to watch those stations. Boycott CNN.

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Welcome, Mr. Blitzer!

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 08.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Denver Convention, Dnc, Wolf Blitzer, Democratic Convention, Democratic Natiional Convention, Democratic Convention Denver, ETP at the DNC, Media News

After getting off a veepstakes-filled flight after midnight (by our body clocks, at least) and rushing to take advantage of Denver International Airpo...

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Wolf Blitzer, Israeli Foreign Minister Interview: Tzipi Livni Tells Blitzer She Doesn't Negotiate With Interviewers

Huffington Post | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media

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Wolf Blitzer interviewed Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Foreign Minister, today on CNN's Late Edition about the prospects for a peace deal between Israel an...

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Would McCain Rather Win Than Catch bin Laden?

Seth Grahame-Smith | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, John McCain, 2008 Election, Wolf Blitzer, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Seth Grahame-Smith

Is John McCain privy to some intelligence or strategy that would better our chances of capturing bin Laden? And if so, why hasn't he shared this information with the current administration?

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GOP Co-Star: South Carolina's Sanford Wants It So Bad He's...Speechless

Linda Hansen | Posted 07.13.2008 | Home

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Linda Hansen

S.C. GOP Governor Mark Sanford wants the veep spot so bad he rushed unprepared onto the Sunday morning talk shows and made a mockery of McCain's non-plan for the economy.

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Breaking News from CNN: The Election's Over!

William Klein | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media

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William Klein

Is CNN so addicted to the excitement of election night coverage that they are turning their ratings-boosting primary coverage into a nightly drama instead of waiting until November to do it again?

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Time to Bury the "Meet the Press" Format

Beverly Davis | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home

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Beverly Davis

Watching Brokaw manage the Snoozeville format demonstrated how dated the program has become. We need a show that combines web speed with major interviews conducted by someone unafraid to offend.

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Who Will Fill Russert's Chair?

Dave Winer | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, George Stephanopoulos, Tom Brokaw, Tim Russert, David Gregory, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Wolf Blitzer, Meet the Press, Media News
Dave Winer

We haven't yet heard any speculation, so we thought we might as well raise the question and run down some possibilities.

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