So Mike Daisey stepped over the line. So he combined bits of fabrication with his facts about the Chinese factories that make Apple products. So he converted some research into first-person experience. So he led "This American Life" to believe that his piece, "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory" -- adapted from his one-man show, "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" -- was journalistically sound.
Soledad O'Brien asks Breitbart's Joel Pollak what's so controversial about their Harvard-era videotape of Barack Obama.
When Derrick Bell was a young lawyer in the Department of Justice's new Civil Rights Division in the late 1950s, his supervisor told him to drop his membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
To get a sense of just how polarizing a figure new media innovator Andrew Breitbart was, get a load of this tweet from Slate's Matt Yglesias that went out mere hours after the news of Breitbart's unexpected death at age 43 broke: "The world outlook is slightly improved with @AndrewBrietbart dead."
CNN looks at what might happen to Shirley Sherrod's defamation suit against Andrew Breitbart now that he's died.
Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of a sexually explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman's downfall, has died, his attorney confirmed Thursday.
Redstate.com's Erick Erickson remembers Andrew Breitbart as a driving force of the conservative movement.
The distributor of the Sarah Palin biopic "The Undefeated" announced Tuesday that it would expand the film's run to more markets after a 10-city opening last weekend.
I get it: A lot of people think Anthony Weiner's a pig.
A photo that conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart claims shows the naked genitals of Rep. Anthony Weiner made its way to the Internet on Wednesday.
CNN's Lisa Sylvester has the latest on a purported x-rated picture of Rep. Anthony Weiner that's now circulating online.
Bare-chested photos that U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner sent to a woman he met online had been the talk of Washington -- and, increasingly, the world -- for a week when the married Democrat finally scheduled a news conference to admit that he had sent the photos, then lied about doing it.
Andrew Breitbart explains how he broke the Rep. Weiner sexting scandal, and why he spoke at a Monday press conference.
One Weiner cries while another gets served on French bread. CNN's Jeanne Moos has the juicy details.
A week after claiming a hacker had posted a lewd photo to his Twitter account, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner on Monday apologized for lying about the incident and admitted carrying on inappropriate relationships with several women he'd met online.
Top Democrats in the House are giving no credence to those looking for a real scandal over a lewd picture that appeared on the Twitter account of New York Congressman Anthony Weiner.
Rep. Anthony Weiner tells reporters again his Twitter account was hacked and that he's ready to get back to work.
A prank or a possible glimpse of scandal?
New York Rep. Anthony Weiner says someone hacked his Twitter account to send a lewd photo.
A weekend controversy involving a lewd photo posted on the Twitter account of Rep. Anthony Weiner is a "prank" caused by a hacker, Weiner told CNN on Monday.
Andrew Breitbart discusses the latest NPR scandal, and whether the tactics used were over the line.
A former Department of Agriculture employee who was forced to resign last year after the posting of a misleading video has filed suit against Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who posted it.
Shirley Sherrod talks about rejecting the job offer from the USDA and whether she still plans to sue Andrew Breitbart.
Shirley Sherrod, who received an apology after being forced to resign from the Agriculture Department, will meet Tuesday with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss a job offer, a department official confirmed Saturday.
There is very little evidence, if any, that Sarah Palin hates teachers, or that Andrew Breitbart is a racist. Yet a recent flood of viral stories propagated by internet journalists allegedly catch prominent conservatives red-handed in acts of hate.
Shirley Sherrod tells a black journalists convention she plans to sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.
Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will pursue a lawsuit against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.
The former Agriculture Department employee at the center of a political firestorm said Friday that President Barack Obama didn't literally say he was "sorry" when they spoke Thursday, but "by simply calling me," she believed he was apologizing.
Shirley Sherrod talks with CNN's Anderson Cooper about the conversation she had with President Obama.
If Shirley Sherrod had 30 seconds with conservative website blogger Andrew Breitbart, her response would be simple.
Shirley Sherrod has words for a blogger who posted her speech on his website that eventually led to her losing her job.
In the midst of a prolonged recession, two wars, and an ongoing environmental catastrophe, it is unfortunate that inconsequential controversies about race are among America's most widely discussed subjects.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday he apologized to Shirley Sherrod for forcing her to resign from her government job in Georgia based on incomplete and misleading reports of a speech she gave.
Fmr. USDA employee Shirley Sherrod watches as her resignation is discussed during the White House briefing.
There is no issue that is more volatile, passionate, confusing, perplexing and complex than the reality of race in America.
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