Bad news sells. Apparently, this is a truism as far as media is concerned. People are just interested in bad news and controversies or, at the very least, the unusual. Thus this is what media give the public.

After this week’s Republican National Convention unleashed a barrage of attacks on the news media for their coverage of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, network news executives defended their coverage and dismissed the charges as a stale political

After the GOP attacks the media over stories about the vice presidential nominee's family, TV networks and newspapers deny bias and say Republicans opened the door to coverage. News executives Thursday tried to shake off the excoriations of the media

W hen the early vote totals were announced after the Aug. 19 primary, it looked like good news for the Democrats. Gov. Chris Gregoire was beating Dino Rossi by about four and a half percentage points and heading toward 50 percent of the total vote.

On Saturday evening, CNN broadcast Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s campaign appearance on an Ohio football field, with the live feed taking up roughly three-quarters of viewers’ television screens.