After last week's hilarious GOP disinformation campaign about the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) report on the economic impact of the Affordable Care Act, the Republicans have changed gears to an all new disinformation campaign about the report. To recap: the CBO report ...read more

There are a lot of things HBO's The Newsroom gets right about national TV news production. It's rare that one show does all of its own research and general digging for facts, as the fictional "Newsnight" seems to do, since you have to keep in mind that you've got the ...read more

By Chez Pazienza: I happened to stumble across the very good 1994 movie Quiz Show on cable the other day. For those who haven't seen it or don't know much about it, the film dramatizes the television quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, in which Twenty-One and other popular TV ...read more