Author: jpol

While one must give him credit for his candor, CBS Pentagon correspondent David Martin made a disturbing, if not surprising admission at the CBS newsblog, Public Eye, the other day: “This week I killed a story about the...

A new Quinnipiac poll is out that is widely reported by the media as showing would-be Democratic Senate candidate Bob Casey, Jr. holding a 15-point lead over Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race. For those not...

A rather extraordinary event has taken place this week in Mexico City where Cuban officials and U.S. energy executives were meeting at the Hotel Maria Isabel Sheraton, owned by Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. The meetings...

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, continues to be one of the Bush administration’s worst nightmares. In a February 3rd interview aired on PBS, and summarized at Raw Story, Wilkerson went further...

An article in the current edition of The New York Observer resurrects many questions, some perhaps unintentionally, about the decision-making processes at The New York Times in recent years regarding just what is news and what...