When Jon Stewart inaugurated his fake news anchor on The Daily Show eight years ago, his goal was to send up the hyperbolic and manufactured controversy of US Cable News and, if possible, be even more outrageous. Now, in a wonderful through-the-looking-gl

There will be books and dissertations aplenty analyzing media impacts on the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. After Tuesday's primaries in South Dakota and Montana, the media declared Sen. Barack Obama...

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Phil Griffin, the NBC News executive who oversees MSNBC, is a coiled mass of energy who needs little provocation to do battle. Now he's got something to fight for.

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