The Media Consortium, 01.25.2011

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Tonight, President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address. A major theme of the spee...

Mark Green, 01.26.2011

Host, 'Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin'

It's only been three weeks but House Republicans are already losing momentum on health care, deficits, civility, guns, and Issa's investigations. Was Nov. 2 their high point?

Brian Ross, 01.24.2011

Writer, Journalist, Documentarian, and Political Satirist

Political horror film: Sarah Palin is put into a time machine and unleashed on John F. Kennedy in the 1960s. "How's that 'civility's not a signy of we...

Mitchell Bard, 01.24.2011

Writer and Filmmaker

Anyone charging that Olbermann's show was equivalent to Beck's clearly hasn't watched either. Olbermann wasn't objective, but he was honest about it. His show was well-researched; it relied on facts to make progressive points.

Russell Simmons, 01.23.2011

Founder of GlobalGrind.com

It's not so much that Olbermann (whose final broadcast on MSNBC occurred Friday) had strong opinions, it's that he was strong on the facts. He corrected every mistake, a rarity on cable news.

Charles Warner, 01.24.2011

Blogger at Media Curmudgeon.com; Teacher at The New School, NYU

America, especially progressives and independents, need to hear the conservative views of such media mouthpieces of the right as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn ...

Peter Dreier, 01.25.2011

For two years Beck has targeted the political science professor as a Marxist Machiavelli whose writings constitute a manifesto for a radical revolution. But in recent months Beck has escalated his hate even further.

Jillian York, 01.21.2011

Boston-based writer and activist

Take or leave Al Jazeera, it won't be what gets Jordanians, Egyptians, or Libyans out in the street, the conditions of their countries-and the degree to which their regimes have become despotic-will be.

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 01.20.2011

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Fox "...

Dave Helfert, 01.20.2011

Professor of Political Communication, Johns Hopkins University

If its horror can lead us to constructive change in ourselves and our society, a glimmer of silver lining might yet emerge from the attempted political assassination in Arizona.

Joshua Stanton, 01.20.2011

co-Founder, Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue and Religious Freedom USA

An effort is currently underway to hold a public hearing in Congress on the "radicalization" of Muslim Americans. This is both troubling and dumbfounding.

Andy Plesser, 01.19.2011

Beet.TV

Bloomberg News is the only news organization to provide a free, live version of its linear television programming in the U.S. online. And it will soon expand its live streaming to Apps too.

Ari Melber, 01.19.2011

Correspondent, The Nation; Attorney

"There are no parties that I want to go to, and I didn't go to Columbia journalism school." Those are Roger Ailes' qualifications to be one of the most important people in media, according to Roger Ailes.

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 01.18.2011

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The s...

Andy Ostroy, 01.18.2011

Political & pop culture analyst

Only Sarah Palin could consider calling Obama a terrorist and targeting Gabrielle Giffords with rifle cross hairs "respectful" debate.

Michael Russnow, 01.22.2011

Screenwriter, former Member WGAW Board of Directors, former U.S. Senate aide

I was also delighted when Katey Sagal won for Sons of Anarchy. Kudos also for Chris Colfer's win for Fox' Glee. But then we had to listen to Gervais again.

Andy Borowitz, 01.16.2011

Comedian and creator of BorowitzReport.com

"For years, 'I Have a Dream' has been synonymous with the legacy of Martin Luther King," said the official Fox statement. "We can think of no better way to honor that legacy than by offering a strongly-worded rebuttal."

Brian Ross, 01.19.2011

Writer, Journalist, Documentarian, and Political Satirist

Anyone who makes the claim that America is not a socialist country is a liar or delusional. The United States practices Preferential Socialism, a Tao...

Jonathan Greenblatt, 01.16.2011

Serial social entrepreneur

2011 could be an inflection point in the Capitol. New leadership in Congress. New staff at the White House. Perhaps even a new era of bipartisanship forged out of the tragedy in Arizona.

Simon Jenkins, 01.14.2011

Writer for the Guardian and the London Sunday Times

Free speech needs its own discipline, however enforced. The best rebuttal of the politics of hate is a torrent of love, and if not love then at least of facts.

Brian Ross, 01.14.2011

Writer, Journalist, Documentarian, and Political Satirist

John Boehner stayed in D.C. to play politics at a GOP dinner rather than attend the memorial of the victims of Jared Lee Loughner. That is a moment of news theater that Fox viewers eat up.