Follow politicalwire Howard Kurtz: "Rick Santorum's main complaint about the press used to be that he wasn't getting enough of it. But now that he's surged to the top of the national polls, the former senator's campaign is growing increasingly perturbed

When Romney first ran for president in 2008,

The Washington Post's "conservative" blogger is now telling Republicans to shut up and move on from their complaints of a liberal media double standard. The Post's Jennifer Rubin told all the GOP candidates to "grow up" on CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunda

Rick Santorum’s challenge to Mitt Romney’s front-runner status for the Republican presidential nomination is being taken seriously now, and that brings closer media scrutiny – always a double-edged sword. Santorum and his team are crying foul about quest

Despite there being numerous presidential news stories developing on Monday, including Rick Santorum and abortion, ABC's Good Morning America skipped all political topics. Not coincidentally, former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanop

Please, God -- Howard. Say it isn't so. The 73-year-old conservative blowhard was finally let go by MSNBC last week after 10 years. Buchanan blames "a vast left-wing conspiracy" calling for his head over a new book that offends liberal sensibilities. But

Last week, even Democrats were nervous the White House was screwing the decision up. "Why aren’t we messaging this better?," Sen. Barbara Mikulski demanded of President Obama's campaign manager, Politico reported. Republican National Committee spokeswoma

Here has to be the strangest “defense” of the ESPN “chink in the armor” incident to date. Sure, it’s not as if Buzz Bissinger was giving ESPN a pass, but to say that there are worse things they could have called Jeremy Lin… Yikes. Today on CNN, Bissinger

Yes, the ongoing saga continues between The Daily Caller, Media Matters, and possibly Fox News. Just to recap: Tucker Carlson, who runs the Caller and works for Fox News, launched an investigation into Media Matters, a big target of Fox News. The investi

About this Show Now more than ever, the press is a part of every story it covers. And CNN's "Reliable Sources" is one of television's only regular programs to examine how journalists do their jobs and how the media affect the stories they cover. Host How

About this Show Now more than ever, the press is a part of every story it covers. And CNN's "Reliable Sources" is one of television's only regular programs to examine how journalists do their jobs and how the media affect the stories they cover. Host How

About this Show Now more than ever, the press is a part of every story it covers. And CNN's "Reliable Sources" is one of television's only regular programs to examine how journalists do their jobs and how the media affect the stories they cover. Host How

About this Show Now more than ever, the press is a part of every story it covers. And CNN's "Reliable Sources" is one of television's only regular programs to examine how journalists do their jobs and how the media affect the stories they cover. Host How

Ah, the good-and-evil ad, a classic style in electoral politics. Contrast your rosy record with your opponent's greatest missteps. Add ominous voice, subdued orchestra music. Intersperse bright colors with scary black-and-white motifs, and then, based on

In politics this week Rick Santorum’s latest surge was all over the headlines, but much of it was focused on birth control and other social issues. But pundits were also intent on analyzing what Mitt Romney’s campaign is doing wrong – should he talk abou

On Wednesday Mitt Romney was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he delivered a humorous anecdote about his mom and dad: You’re probably thinking: what better way for Mitt to humanize himself than to remind people of the incontrovertible fact that he is the

With Texas court-ordered to move its primary back to at least May 28, the delegate math it takes to win the GOP nomination just got a lot tougher. Now, the likelihood that any candidate will clinch the nomination before late May or even June seems increa

"The more I think about it, and I know they deny it, I just don't believe George Stephanpolous's question on birth control wasn't coordinated," Erick Erickson, founder of the conservative blog RedState, tweeted Thursday.That was a few hours after Rick Sa

JEFFREY BROWN: It's become ever clearer that social networking is having a profound impact on how politics today works, how campaigns act and react, how journalists get and transmit information, how money is raised, how issues are fought over, and much m