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The Axis of Earnest

According to the "Blogopticon" from Vanity Fair (which really means, of course, according to "high-end Hollywood dinner party gossip"), this... More

What’s Next for NBC News

Cropping up now among the remembrances of Tim Russert (including those of Russert's remarkably poised 22-year-old son Luke, who spoke... More

WaPo on Satire and Democracy (Yadda Yadda)

Today the Washington Post weighs in on a topic that will never make any List of Underreported Stories: The Daily... More

Fox News: On The Heels of “Terrorist Fist Jab”

Michelle Obama! Come on down! You ARE the next contestant on "Kill the Witch!" As such, Fox News will attempt... More

Reflections: “Hooting” Hillary Off The Stage?

A page from Katie Couric's CBS News Reporter's Notebook yesterday, in which she declared that in the "endles" media post-mortems... More

Campaign ‘08, Newshole Hog

Last week campaign coverage filled 50% of the overall newshole, "its third-highest level of weekly coverage in 2008," says the... More

Witch Watch

Speaking of witches, Rachel Sklar sees one in the illustration accompanying Michael Crowley's "What Undid Hillary" piece from Sunday's LA... More

Redemption in Baghdad?

George Packer tells the New York Observer: The press did discredit itself in the lead-up to the war. But I... More

The “Kill The Witch” Game

Forget Is America Ready for a Black President? Or Is America Ready for a Female President? Have you stopped to... More

Clinton Grudge List: Does It Exist?

We know journalists love lists. But does a Clinton Grudge List exist? Depends, I guess, on what your definition of... More

Russert (Et Al) Rejected! Rejoice?

Any media critic haunted by a feeling they are forever writing the equivalent of You hurt America. Don't do it... More

Friedman’s 4th Rule For Successful Web Journalism

"Entertain." Asked to give some "tough love" to Web-wary magazine editors assembled at a recent conference, MarketWatch's Jon Friedman came... More

Fist-Bump is The New Flag Pin?

To one reporter, "the fist bump heard 'round the world" exchanged by Barack and Michelle Obama last Tuesday evening "was... More

Reporting (and Fact Checking?) “High-End Gossip”

"Lies are the new facts." So says Gina Gershon, the actress who has been seeking a retraction from Vanity Fair... More

Cable Pundit Apology Watch

It's a sorry state of affairs on cable news, indeed. Chris Matthews...David Shuster...Liz Trotta... ...And on MSNBC just now, an... More

What was James Rosen thinking?

How much of Rosen’s trouble is of his own making?

The new ‘Snow Fall’

Cat Fall: A modern tragedy

The cartography of bullshit

Max Fisher and the problem with foreign-affairs blogging

Welcome to Google Island

“I hope my nudity doesn’t bother you. We’re completely committed to openness here”

This is water

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

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