Obama's decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last eight years Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang announced that he will resign from his position. The search engine founder, who has had a controversial run as CEO, will contin...
Michael Seitzman | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
The Republicans are in a period of "soul searching." And by "soul searching" they really mean, "Who do I have to kill to be in charge here?" The answer, of course, appears to be Sarah Palin.
Michael Shaw | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media
How big a figure did Obama cut on 60 Minutes Sunday night? Well, watching anybody else that close up would probably give you vertigo.
AP | James Hibberd | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — The campaign is over, but Barack Obama is still a TV hit. CBS' "60 Minutes" had its highest overnight ratings in nearly a decade wit...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
The question shouldn't be whether or not to bail out the U.S. auto industry, but how assistance to the car manufacturers fits within the larger national energy plan that is greener, self-sustaining and economically positive.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
***UPDATE*** 9:15PM Nov. 16 60 Minutes aired its interview tonight with Barack and Michelle Obama, they're first interview since Obama won the preside...
CBS News | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama has agreed to give his first post-election interview to 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft. The interview includes futu...
CBS | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green
The United States produces an enormous amount of e-waste -- the stuff discarded when we replace our old gadgets with newer ones. Computers and other e...
CBS News | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
Not getting obsessed about Barack Obama's race was one of the secrets of the successful campaign to put the first African American in the White House,...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media
CBS News' Scott Pelley and his "60 Minutes" crew were attacked in China while working on a story about toxic waste there. Pelley described the Guiyi ...
60 Minutes | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business
Credit default swaps are consistently listed as one of the top reasons for America's current economic crisis, and though many on main street probably ...
Stephen H. Baum | Posted 10.27.2008 | Media
Even on subjects as hot as the financial crisis, much of the "news" and comment we see on TV lacks real critical thinking. 60 Minutes has revived investigative journalism. More please.
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.06.2008 | Green
Show me an environmentalist that "likes" Bob Lutz and I'll show you a gullible fool. Seriously, I'd love to know who he is talking about.
AP | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Morley Safer has created a work of art celebrating the 40th anniversary of "60 Minutes." It will be unveiled at a party Monday. It's...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
Well, I guess we can toss aside the notion that John McCain is going to reinvent himself as a support of tough new regulations, because on 60 Minutes ...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics
Voters have (or could have) all the information they need to make a choice this year. They're just making a choice that those on the left would consider a bad one.
Steve Ralls | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has cast a shadow over the careers, lives and families of the service members I have come to know and respect, many of whom are LGBT.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
The former president's absence from Hillary's photo album brings the campaign full circle. So poor Bill, who has temporarily dropped from sight, sustained a double humiliation.
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.08.2008 | Media
Just two years out of the White House, Clinton was still struggling to find his place; Don Hewitt hoped that TV face-off starring Bill would become so popular that it would be parodied on SNL.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
The accomplished Barbara Walters is not that different from the beleaguered little girl: a victim and a beneficiary of the glitz and glamour of showbiz.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media
Why is TV's newest talking head being held up as a paragon of political analysis at the very moment the Republican president he helped mold is in complete free fall?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing in oil and toxic sludge; Republicans block federal aid to wind and solar; the shocking testimony of three whistleblowers on US contractors in Iraq.
Kathryn Kolbert | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
Scalia's 60 Minutes interview underscores just how high the stakes are when Americans go to the polls this November.
On ABC's This Week, conservative pundit George Will took up the case against...
Time magazine reports that in his new book, Do The Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing...
Despite trailing his opponent by slightly more than two...
It was surely an odd bit of timing...
I can't. I won't. Because it won't matter. There is nothing I can say...
Now that Barack Obama and John McCain met on Monday, it's looking increasingly as...
TV Newser has learned that Fox News anchor E.D. Hill is leaving the channel after her contract was...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Victoria's Secret's angels have descended upon...
Two months before he leaves office, Sen. Chuck Hagel is increasingly
LAS VEGAS — Comedian Wanda Sykes says the passage of a same-sex marriage ban in California has...
With the House of Representatives pledging an aid package for the auto...
SALT LAKE CITY — The view of...
My favorite story of the week was the news that Michelle Obama's mother will be coming to live with the...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics