As I watched Olympic skier Bode Miller being interviewed by NBC’s Christin Cooper after his record-setting bronze medal, I had one wish for him. I wished that he would grab Cooper and throw her over the fence to a pack …

The first American hero of the 2014 Winter Olympics is the goofy and charming Sage Kotsenburg of Park City, who won the first ever slopestyle snowboarding competition. Slopestyle is acrobatic snowboarding in which riders fly off vertical ramps to reach …

Katie Couric started her new job doing television on the Internet and is now the “Yahoo News Global Anchor.” Katie started out as a spear-carrying reporter, worked her way up to the commanding position of anchor, and has become a …

It’s that time of year when news reporters run to the hardware store to interview the manager about the number of snow shovels he’s sold. Snow shovels are a measurement of severe weather and when the hardware store is sold …

  Credibility in the news business is hard to get and easy to lose. But at CNN they’re giving it away.   Several of CNN’s major anchors did an advertisement for the new Will Ferrell movie “Anchorman 2,” about the …

One of the stories in the news this Christmas is that there might be a shortage of toys. Hand-wringing business reporters say that because the stores were worried about a soft season, they ordered 2% fewer toys this year, which …

   One of the darkest moments in American history came when the day after Thanksgiving was named “Black Friday”.   What used to be a day with little to do but eat leftovers and hang out with family has become …

The old joke in journalism is “if your mother says she loves you, check it out.” Reporters pride themselves on being skeptical of everything they’re told. People lie to us all the time. It’s a reporter’s job to smoke out …

  If you have ever owned a computer, cellphone, or push-button telephone, you should feel sympathy for the people who rolled out the ObamaCare website. They’re taking a lot of heat for doing what everyone else in technology has done. …

The federal shutdown is a study in what is known in Washington as “messaging”, the political practice in which words are used to influence the outcome of arguments without conveying information or truth. In messaging there is no right or …