Al Sharpton: What I Read
The reverend and MSNBC host explains his new-found love for Twitter and a long-time admiration for Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.
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Forget Roland Martin. How about Wolf Blitzer? Hell, maybe Jeff Zucker should fire literally everyone and start from the ground up, firmly reinventing the network as the go-to place for Poop Cruise coverage and other newstainment. Why not?
The reverend and MSNBC host explains his new-found love for Twitter and a long-time admiration for Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.
Liberals are thrashing The New Republic for suggesting that the cable news doyenne is anything but marvelous.
The MSNBC host explains how Occupy Wall Street hijacked her media diet
On its 15th birthday, people are taking inventory of its nine years of news ratings dominance
The Peacock might be missing Keith Olbermann following its September ratings slump
The vice president gives Uygur his own 7 p.m. week night show on Current TV
The former civil rights leader and minister will host "PoliticsNation" at 6 p.m.
Everyone was wondering why MSNBC, CNN, and Fox didn't broadcast from Tripoli sooner
The MSNBC host's anger-fueled rant summons memories of the 'Network'
The Hollywood Reporter says she negotiated a multi-year deal with MSNBC
The Nation editor will start in the fall
Finally MSNBC president Phil Griffin admits to what everyone already knows
Host Cenk Uygur gets the boot
A new count pegs the network's coverage at at least 30 segments
Ratigan explains the downsides of cable news and political pundits
The backlash to the backlash against Halperin's "dick" comment is already here
Tina's Wednesday morning appearance on Morning Joe was kind of a disaster
He's been touting his new Current show, but biting his tongue about MSNBC
The deposed MSNBC host's debut on Current was awfully familiar
Hours after Ed Henry moved from CNN to Fox News he's painted as a right-wing nut
The morning reading list of the MSNBC host starting with his local "shopper"
The case for the congressman's future in television
News organizations would like your help going through the 24,199 pages
Revelations in a new interview: he doesn't talk to Rachel Maddow, bad-mouthed Jeff Zucker
The Republican will fit in comfortably among their talking heads
Maybe not the best party chairman, he's always made great TV
Lawrence O'Donnell is angry there's no word on whether The Apprentice will return
The majority of coverage of Obama on cable in recent weeks looked at his citizenship
The new 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' will premiere on Current TV on June 20
The cable news campaign enters a more sobering phase
NBC's chief foreign affairs correspondent explains her daily media diet
Are we feeling superficial or serious? The answer's in how many people watch CNN
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