Eric Boehlert

Senior Fellow, Media Matters for America

In the national radio and television arena it's all about your platforms; how many radio stations you're heard on and how good your time slot is on television.

Michael J. Copps

Former FCC commissioner; Head of Media and Democracy Reform Initiative at Common Cause

Imagine how broadband customers who pay separately for satellite television feel being swept up into this spat. CBS is perpetrating an audacious violation of the FCC Open Internet ("net neutrality") rules.

Michelangelo Signorile

Editor-at-large, HuffPost Gay Voices

Glenn is right in describing it as "designed to send a message of intimidation." At this point, the governments involved are desperate to shut things down and don't seem to care how arrogant, over-reaching or unbelievable they come off.

Dean Baker

Co-director, CEPR; author, 'The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive'

Summers had ample opportunity in his prior jobs to demonstrate a commitment to rein in the financial sector. All the evidence shows he pushed in the opposite direction. The Obama administration's effort to portray him as the frustrated regulator should not be taken seriously.

Omri Marcus

Comedy writer and creative director

When the social media frenzy collides with television obsession, sometimes it seems that television viewers are busier writing about their favorite shows than actually watching them.

Troy Campbell

Social Scientist, Duke University

If NBC wants Americans to watch English soccer they must make Americans come to identify with soccer. It's going to take more than stunts, viral videos and general "awareness advertising."

Dan Kennedy

Assistant professor, School of Journalism, Northeastern University; author, 'The Wired City'

In fact, there is nothing to stop the U.S. government from censoring the media with regard to revelations such as those contained in the Snowden files -- nothing, that is, except longstanding tradition.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Host, HLN's 'Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell'

The notorious "King amendment" would essentially ban states from having any rules on how agricultural goods sold in the state are produced. Protections for rural communities, animal welfare, and food safety could all be thrown out the window.

David Coates

Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies, Wake Forest University, Department of Politics

It is time, surely, for those of us who want to see important things done in Washington D.C. and in state capitals like Raleigh, North Carolina -- who want Washington and Raleigh to succeed -- to unite together to minimize the impact in both cities of those who want government to fail.

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

Isaacson Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha's School of Communication

As the story in Egypt continues to unfold, mature questions need to be asked about the role of Twitter in news reporting.

Maria Armoudian

Author, Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World

Journalists and government watchdogs are right to express their anger over the detention of Mr. Miranda. But we should also, as a media corps, shine as strong a light on these other journalists' struggles.

Nathan Risinger

Research Program Coordinator, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Proselytizing of any shape or stripe should be viewed with a raised eyebrow and a challenging question. When this proselytizing is based on what one might charitably term pseudoscience (but truly resembles complete quackery) we should not simply be skeptical, we should be incredulous.

Irene Monroe

Nationally renowned African-American lesbian activist, scholar, public theologian and writer

The fury that Bay Windows editor Sue O'Connell's piece "Sharing our experience: White gay men and black men have more in common than they think" ignited raised this query: Can white LGBTQs suggest or give advice to communities of color from their own experiences of discrimination?

Andrew Pavelyev

Scientist

National Review used to be a serious magazine of conservative thought. But now it has degenerated into partisan cheerleading.

Jack Mirkinson

Media Editor, The Huffington Post

There were a bunch of good things and one very bad thing about the Genoa plot this week. The bad came entirely in the shape of Jerry Dantana.

Edward Wasserman

Dean, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

As somebody who grew up in Washington and who broke into the news business in the Post's shadow during Watergate, the very idea that the paper's proprietor wouldn't be thrilled to take the throne that comes with the title is more telling and more poignant than any other element of the story.

Andy Ostroy

Political & pop culture analyst

It's reasonable to expect that both productions could dredge up enough semi-dormant Clinton controversy to negatively impact her. So for the RNC to go absolutely RepubliBonkers over programming which it knows little about seems monumentally ill-advised.