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On a new page on his official web site, announcing a series of “telephone town halls,” U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) writes, “To join our conversations, complete the form below and we will ...

http://bigmedia.org/2017/02/27/will-constituents-be-excluded-from-gardners-telephone-town-halls/

Rolly Fischer, who bravely fought off 2o1o GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’ attempts to blame him for McInnis’ plagiarized water articles, died last week in Glenwood Springs. Fische...

http://bigmedia.org/2016/11/11/rolly-fischer-whose-honesty-and-integrity-sank-a-republican-gubernatorial-candidate-dies/

In the nine long months after political reporter Eli Stokols left Fox 31 Denver, it looked like the local TV station’s surprising reputation as a go-to source for political news, cultivated by ...

http://bigmedia.org/2016/01/25/fox-31-denver-fills-stokols-political-reporter-position/

Last year, then U.S. Senate candidate Cory Gardner had a nice-sounding proposal: offer birth control over the counter, easy and quick. But… more expensive, journalists pointed out, because unde...

http://bigmedia.org/2015/06/08/reporters-should-find-out-why-gardner-didnt-deliver-on-his-promised-legislation-to-fix-obamacare-and-require-insurance-companies-to-pay-for-over-the-counter-birth-control/

In an online Denver Post op-ed yesterday, I urged reporters to seek out and interview hiding politicians. I gave some recent Colorado examples, like Rep. Mike Coffman hiding from reporters after ...

http://bigmedia.org/2015/05/28/ambush-in-the-public-interest/

For those of you who used to complain about the shrinking length of TV sound bites, but now you’re grateful for any political blip on TV at all, take this: A local TV public-affairs show that...

http://bigmedia.org/2014/07/18/political-tv-talk-show-airs-five-days-a-week-through-election-day-in-denver/

Last month, Univision Denver’s news show requested an interview with Republican Mike Coffman to get his reaction to Democrat Andrew Romanoff’s accusation that Coffman’s immigration policie...

http://bigmedia.org/2014/06/20/fed-falsehoods-by-coffman-spokesperson-telemundo-should-air-videos-of-coffmans-hero-like-admiration-of-tancredo/

Local TV public affairs shows are usually shot deep inside TV stations, where the light of day and the reality of everyday life can be hard to find. Fox 31 Denver’s Eli Stokols has dispensed...

http://bigmedia.org/2014/05/29/fox-31-denver-takes-new-public-policy-show-out-of-the-stuffy-confines-of-a-tv-studio/

With the growing influence of alternative media platforms like Twitter, is this kind of “peer review” a growing trend? Good thing?  Bad thing? We’ll be looking for data points to track t...

http://bigmedia.org/2013/10/11/messenger-shoots-messenger/

What happened to all the money television stations got for airing the nonstop spew of political ads right up until Election Day? You’d think television stations, whose news departments at least...

http://bigmedia.org/2013/01/23/pr-bonanza-awaits-tv-station-that-invests-some-political-ad-revenue-in-one-lonely-reporter/