Television: Talking Politics, Drawing Viewers
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As television viewers paid increasing attention this year to the presidential race, they often sought out more politically opinionated talk, at least on cable.
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Many see the TV show as a sly commentary on the current French political scene.
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This show is an entertaining but sometimes too earnest primer about the politics of food.
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A brash, personality-driven talk-TV format along the lines of Fox NewsÂs evening line-up is improving the prime time performance of CNNÂs Headline News.
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Wonktoberfest continues! With three days to go till the third presidential debate, those in need of a political TV fix can revisit the early days of the campaign with Diary of a Political Tourist
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Polls run by news sites to gauge public opinion of politicians are turning into partisan tools for political spin doctors. People voting, often repeatedly, in response to e-mails from their favored candidates can skew the results. By Louise Witt.
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Films become more politicized as filmmakers seek to influence the upcoming election.
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It certainly can't be a bad thing for a man with a political talk show called "Hardball" to be nearly challenged to a duel by a U.S. senator. MSNBC has quickly moved to take advantage of Sen. Zell Miller's combative GOP convention interview with Chris Matthews, featuring it in advertisements. It was Matthews' second eye-popping exchange with a guest in a month.
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Now that the Iowa caucuses  and New Hampshire primary have launched the presidential race,  non-news networks are piling on to document an election season  seen as just too entertaining to pass up.
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Political combat continues to hold the interest of television viewers, with Monday's Democratic debate on CNN setting a standard as most-watched debate ever in cable news.
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Okay, wonks: Think you know how the political game works?
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When it comes to presidential politics, the news media loves front-runners. And seems to hate them, too.
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When President Bush and Sen. John Kerry step onstage Thursday night in Miami for the first of three presidential debates, they will be engaging in a campaign ritual ushered in nearly 45 years ago as the television age changed the face of American politics.
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For sheer political drama, few spectacles can match the sight of two men going toe to toe before tens of millions of television viewers, slugging it out for the most powerful job on Earth.
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By Valerie Kuklenski\\ Staff Writer  While angry viewers send e-mails and snail mails, sign petitions and carry signs objecting to language, sex and violence on the big networks, a coalition of pretty powerful advertisers is doing something to improve what's on TV.
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A new series of events will allow their users to submit questions to presidential candidates in real time during Web and TV  broadcasts.
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Variety - The 2004 presidential contest could prove to be a defining moment in the history of television news: For the first time, three full-fledged cable news nets are battling it out for the viewer's vote, even sucking life from the broadcast network news divisions.