Election, War, TV Offer Words Deserving Banishment
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The U.S. presidential campaign, the  Iraq war and television broadcasts all provided words and  phrases featured on a year-end list of misused, overused and  generally useless terms compiled by a Michigan university.
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From Berlin to London to Jakarta, the presidential candidatesâ destinies have become hometown news in a way that commentators cannot recall.
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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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Bitter rivalry between TV stations accompanies Georgia's tense presidential election.
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THE FIRST presidential election since 9/11 is rapidly being defined as the most negative campaign in our collective memory. Devoid of the usual debate over taxes, education
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Two old sayings are colliding in the presidential campaign, and there's some truth to both of them. Politics is dirty. Midwesterners are nice.
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When TV news organizations start repositioning themselves to pander to "moral values" voters, it's a problem for everyone.
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A serious discussion on pressing national issues may be good for the country. But it isnât necessarily good television.
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President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry muted their war of words on Saturday to commemorate the Sept. 11 attacks in ways that managed to underscore their campaign themes.
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The emotions are as jumbled as the campaign posters are clear. There is fear over the vote, hope for the future, disdain at the parties, and resilience among the people.
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TONY EASTLEY: It&#39;s less than a month now until the United States election and terrorism and the war in Iraq continue to dominate that campaign, to the virtual exclusion of other issues.
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On the news, the war plays as tragedy. Can television producers repackage it as situation comedy?
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Different readings in the presidential race point, in part, to a volatile electorate.
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A TV review of Thursday's presidential debate could have mostly been written before airtime. And it was, by many critics.
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For months, the big media and Democratic politicians have hammered on President George W. Bush and his service in the National Guard, suggesting it was less than honorable.
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Those incessant political ads aren't just on television. They're now on billboards, DVDs and even traffic reports.
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The month of November in a US presidential-election year is not supposed to be particularly eventful, but this year may be an exception, in the light of the gathering storm over