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Since his unexpected death on June 26, Michael Jackson has dominated much of the nation's news coverage.

Filling in for Lou Dobbs, CNN's Kitty Pilgrim asks Howard Kurtz and Robert Thompson if they think the Michael Jackson story has received too much coverage or not.

On CNN's "Reliable Sources" today, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank and Huffington Post's Nico Pitney squared off over the latter's controversial question to President Obama at Tuesdays' press conference.

Howard Kurtz is almost certainly the nation's best-known and most influential media critic.

June 28, 2009 Matthew Yglesias on the hissy-fit the policy substance-free "opinions on shape of earth differ" journamalists of the Stenographer faction are pulling.

This morning, Dana Milbank, Amanda Carpenter, and I appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources, hosted by Howard Kurtz.

Good morning America, and welcome to your Sunday Morning Liveblog of political-minder chit and chat.

A Fox Nation headline declared, "Diane Sawyer 'proud' of Obama Health Care Infomercial." But in a video clip the Fox Nation included, Sawyer stated, "It is not an infomercial.

Good Morning America's Diane SawyerA popped up onA Sunday's Reliable Sources and swore that ABC's much-scrutinized health care special with President Obama "won't be an infomercial ." She also seriously touted the objectivity of the network, cheering, "I know that our network has worked very, very hard to be completely- completely responsible and ...

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" Between uncertainty about her appearance at a big fundraiser and a war of words with a late night TV talk show host, former Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov.

It seemed like deja vu on the opinion shows on cable television this week. Ten days after the killing of Dr.

TOPICS CNN Oh poor, put-upon Bill O'Reilly. Those mean old "liberals" in the media are just itching to blame him for the assassination of Dr.

Panelists on this morning's broadcast of CNN's Reliable Sources came to an agreement in the murder case of Dr.

NBC's Meet the Press : Programming note : Due to NBC's coverage of the French Open, Meet the Press will not air Sunday, June 7. We will return at our regular time on June 14.

So, Howard Kurtz - no relation to Tippy the Turtle, but the resemblance is startling - had Playboy Grotto ghoul Bill Maher on "Reliable Sources" recently and my name came up.

You may have been memorializing on Sunday so here's your Reliable Sources update: Howard Kurtz led a panel discussion on cable news's prime time partisanship.

In the course of an interview with CNN's Howard Kurtz on Sunday, HBO's Bill Maher got off shots against limousine liberals, the stupidity of religion, and Sean Hannity, but his most cutting remarks were directed against Republican men.

Are the Fox News Channel and MSNBC bad for America? Such was implied on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday when host Howard Kurtz invited the Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik, "USA Today Live's" Lauren Ashburn, and the BBC's Matt Frei on his program to discuss the " increasingly partisan nature of cable news ." By the end of the conversation, Ashburn ...

During Howard Kurtz's interview with Bill Maher today on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Kurtz played a clip of right wing Fox News host Sean Hannity saying that Maher had become "an angry, bitter guy" as an example of Maher's lack of popularity with the cable channel.