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No Coverage, Not “So Startling?”

"[President Bush] was aware that his top aides met in the White House basement to micromanage the application of waterboarding... More

Us Versus Us

Writers vs. editors! (Michael Kinsley describes that "Battle For the Ages). Print reporters vs. TV reporters! (Charles Gasparino on how... More

Not to Nitpick, But…

A List, for people who like that sort of thing: TV Week's annual ranking of the "10 Most Powerful People... More

MSNBC’s BitterGate Update

Keeping cable viewers current on the latest exchange in the Campaign Gaffe of the Week is hard work. From the... More

Should The Press Report…

Via Michael Calderone, in the wake of recent Spitzer (and Paterson) news, Crain's New York Business polled New York voters... More

“W(h)ither the Cable Blowhard?”

The most memorable moment in Mark Leibovich's New York Times magazine cover piece on Chris Matthews -- in which we... More

You Read Us! You Really Read Us!

Know how Us Weekly sometimes runs pictures of famous people - and they’re candid photos, of course - studying the... More

If You Don’t Cut That Hair…

Wondering what it takes to break into CNN? It may be a hair thing. U.S. News reports that former CNN... More

WaPo, NYT Liveblogging “Petraeuspalooza”

Both The Washington Post (military beat reporter and author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Tom Ricks) and... More

Voting Clinton? But Mooooom!

Mom. C'mon, Mom. Please? Vote for Obama. Okay? Mom? You're voting for Obama, right? Why do you hate hope? Mooooom!... More

Obama on “100-Years-War Calumny”

Obama defended (dialed-back? clarified?) his McCain's for a 100-years-war statement on the Today Show this morning (hat tip, Michael Calderone):... More

High School Newsical

Says Amanda, the bespectacled copy editor for Cyprus Bay High School's "award-winning" newspaper, The Circuit, and star of MTV's upcoming... More

Previewing (Coverage of) Petraeus Hearing

The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman previews the inevitable politicization of Army Gen. David H. Petraeus' and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker's... More

Foreign Policy Chops? “First Lady Puffery?”

Genius! Rather than having a Clinton surrogate and an Obama surrogate duke it out over Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience... More

Report: Barry Bearak Released

IC Publications is reporting that both the New York Times' Barry Bearak (who was arrested in Zimbabwe last Thursday, initially... More

Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism

“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”

‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’

Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says

If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?

The story behind one of the best business models in the country

What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas

“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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