Although many don’t concur about the Swine Flu’s handling from the world media, there is no dispute that its overall topic has assumed a lot more attention in the political and technological community than expected. And as the H1N1 flu virus seems to take a back seat in the media’s more promontory coverage of Arlen Spector’s seniority battle and baseball’s internal drug problem, the time for evaluation of the press has come.
One of the best thought out analysis was from foreign policy writer Adam Elkus, who responded to claims that social networking and the microblogging …

The main stream media has never acquired a story with more fuel and endurance than to criticize its own colleagues. Countless papers and analysis have been written, achieving a complete political dissection of the topic — but does it actually accomplish anything?
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly recently delivered his “talking points memo” detailing that starting in the rise of the internet as a press source, “true reporting” has been replaced with stories containing too little substance and too much flap. Citing the early days of the news, Mr. O’Reilly accused media giants NBC and CNN …

Political contribution reform and all of its due glory has its ups and downs, but like other things, when manipulated it will become exactly what it is seemlingly posed against — partisan warfare. Enter the Democratic Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Commities.
In what has exploded throughout the political world, a June fundraiser for these committees turned into a give and take offer for the president — to speak at the event in exchange for a ban on PAC and Lobbyist donations — for one day. Pundits, the partisan media, politicians and …

Washington is a very confusing place. 
In the past week, the public has seen the story of waterboarding explode into literately hundreds of pieces. President Barack Obama and his cabinet have almost fatally contradicted themselves and the main stream media’s supposed unbiased analysis of the waterboardings have flown hand in hand — and in some cases have assumed the form of — their own talking heads. And of course, this all comes in great time of President Obama’s 100 day celebration. 
So how can this all be politically interpreted? In some ways, it can’t. 
As John Dickerson writes, we …