Patrick Hynes

Blogs. The very word elicits tension. Or so it seemed at the recent Politics Online Conference 2005, put on last…

I’ve seen the media misbehave in my time. Indeed, in just the last six months I watched Rathergate and Easongate…

The talking heads’ leitmotif of the moment is the admonition that Republicans should not “misunderestimate” newly crowned DNC Chairman Howard…

Last week I covered the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a credentialed blogger. I had access to some pretty…

WASHINGTON — Everyone remembers the CBS forged memo scandal. The apex brand in news magazines (yes, I know it was…

John Kerry recently returned from an extended tour of the Middle East and Europe. He tried some of his old…

On Tuesday Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of the Daily Kos, the most trafficked blog on the web, attacked me personally and…

WASHINGTON — On October 13, 2004, Senator Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) gave his staff the rest of the month off, locked…

Both the Golden Globes and the Broadcast Film Critics passed over The Passion of The Christ for any major nominations…

Twenty years after the original debuted, a new crop of British pop stars has re-recorded “Sir” Bob Geldof’s 1984 hit…