Molly Ivins: Media With No Guts, No Grace

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Aug 3, 2006 The press is under attack by the administration, but does the Washington corps of reporters fight back? No, instead it falls all over itself trying to play courtier to George W. Bush. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Syndicate: Coulter Didn’t Plagiarize

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2006 The company that syndicates Ann Coulter's column says it has found no evidence the hatemonger plagiarized in her work. (Read about the original allegations here.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fox News Debunks Santorum’s WMD Claim

Staff / Truthdig Jun 22, 2006 Mere hours after Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) announced breathlessly at a press conference that ?we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,? a Fox news reporter found out that Santorum was hyping a document that describes degraded, pre-1991 munitions already acknowledged and dismissed by the White House?s Iraq Survey Group. Watch Santorum dissemble when confronted with these truths on air. (h/t: Think Progress) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Murtha Attacks Rove on ‘Cut and Run’ Comments

Staff / Truthdig Jun 19, 2006 Antiwar Democratic Rep. John Murtha on Karl Rove's assertion that Democrats are, essentially, cowards on Iraq: "He?s sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside--saying stay the course. That?s not a plan!" Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Learned of Haditha Massacre From Press

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2006 The president didn't know about the November atrocity in which Marines killed 24 unarmed civilians until March, when a Time magazine reporter called the White House for comment on the story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CBS Reporter: Feature Stories Can Get Us Killed in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2006 In light of the CBS crew that was just attacked (two killed, one wounded) reporting a routine feature story in Iraq, watch CBS reporter Lara Logan speak in late March about how these kinds of attacks are tragically all too common. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Answering His First Question, Tony Snow Misleads Press

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 Amazing. (Or maybe not.) The new White House press secretary (a former Fox News host) kicked off his tenure with a misleading statement about Bush and the NSA program. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Snow Melts at Debut ‘Gaggle’

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2006 New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow stumbled a bit during his first briefing, but also came off as refreshingly candid. "I'm not even going to try to fake it," he told one reporter. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ari Fleischer: White House Press Briefing Is ‘a TV Show’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2006 Bush's first spokesman describes how the televised briefings we see on TV have much more to do with preening and posturing than serious Q & A. We think the administration needs more public grilling, not less, but it's worth hearing his argument. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cheney Roasted at Gridiron Club

Staff / Truthdig Mar 13, 2006 The elite of the nation's political reporters gather at the 121-year-old club to poke fun at administration figures. Bush headlines the event, which focuses on Cheney's hunting accident. Call us crazy, but we've always felt uneasy about the press yukking it up with their sources like this. It's hard to be a watchdog when you're cozying up with the people you're supposed to be watching. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Something Rotten in the State of Denmark

Khalil Bendib Feb 8, 2006 Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )