The Fromson File

At a time when the U.S. economy seemed to be going into the tank, the question no one seemed to be asking the past two weeks was what about the press… the talking press? For years, everything seemed quite rosy if you watched or listened to the broadcast media. Rukeyser, Dobbs and all the other [...]

The past two weeks in election year politics resemble a script that might have been written by Woody Allen or the late Peter Sellers. But the story has lent itself more to tragedy than comedy. What was on John McCain’s mind except his own desperate need to be president when he chose a gun-toting radical [...]

It is not Sarah Palin’s shortage of experience, but her lack of sophistication that is most troubling. It was a cute applause line, describing herself as a pit bull with lipstick. She and her political handlers on the night of her nationwide television debut may have thought her message would resonate across the country. But [...]