Politico recently noticed that every major contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination who isn’t currently holding office and isn’t named Mitt Romney is now a paid contributor to Fox News. Paul Krugman has an interesting take on this development

What is the difference between the corporate media and the independent media?

Larry King literally embraced Bush, to the dismay of good journalists.

You’re forgiven for not knowing that the gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as the clusterFOX Congressional race in NY-23 and referenda on stripping same-sex marriage rights in Maine (NO!) and Washington (YES!) are not the only elections today: even the Washington Post neglected to mention the Congressional election in California’s Tenth District (East Bay) in its Sunday roundup. But this election is important. John Nichols at The Nation tells why.

Yesterday, Alan Grayson went on The Situation Room on CNN to discuss his statements on the Republicans’ lack of a health care reform plan. He was subjected to very vigorous questioning from three panelists and the host. In contrast, The Situation Room was very respectful to John Boehner when he came on the program to defend Joe Wilson’s “You lie” outburst during Obama’s speech to a joint session.

The Media Wants Health Care Reform to Fail: it would be a bigger story.

“rabid Democrats” says CNN reporter posing as Blitzer

The Washington Post Ombudsman is very concerned over what she describes as “liberal bias,” but it’s not clear that there’s really a problem there.