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Rutten: Jackson Coverage Bad

Just because "America's serious news media -- whether print, broadcast or cable -- are in the grip of a collective... More

A “News Blackout” in Honduras

From Reporters Without Borders, on the situation in Honduras: President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster was followed by a curfew during which... More

How To Get (Re)Booked On Cable

Chris Cillizza's contribution to YouTube's Reporters' Center is a video he calls "How To Not Sound Like An Idiot on... More

The NYT’s Sports Icon/Daddy Beat

On June 13th, with golf's U.S. Open approaching, the New York Times's Karen Crouse reported that golf star Tiger Woods... More

Yesterday in Inter-Media (Intra-Media?) Name-Calling

Have you heard? After some heated exchanges between The Washington Post's Dana Milbank and The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney during... More

Collaborative News Gathering, Embraced

The New York Times's Brian Stelter on reporting from and about Iran: [M]any mainstream media sources, which have in the... More

Jackson, in Stipple

The WSJ's Speakeasy blog takes a look back at Michael Jackson's stipple-drawings-through-the-years: More

Forgetful Geniuses

Mere mortals lose car keys, real geniuses lose whole cars. This seems to be a recurring motif in New Yorker... More

Crowdsourcing…Satire

On the occasion of the announcement of Dick Cheney's book deal, The Washington Post is inviting its readers to offer... More

Jason Jones in Iran: in Which the Joke Was on Us

Last night, The Daily Show aired the last of Jason Jones's segments shot in Iran--a strange, funny, and surprisingly moving... More

Covering MJ

Here are some selections from a very sharp post by Los Angeles Times television critic Mary McNamara on the medium's... More

CARDIAC ARREST HAPPENS WHEN HEART SUDDENLY STOPS

...is the chyron MSNBC just ran as Norah O'Donnell interviewed Dr. Dan Simon, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Case Medical... More

Jackson News, on the Move

Twitter has been, in many ways, the news-delivery platform of Michael Jackson's death. Via The Guardian and Twitscoop, watch the... More

The Budginator

These must be desperate times, because this is surely a desperate measure: California is crowdsourcing its response to its budget... More

Letter Cry

Hold onto your Freundschaftsbrief, everyone: Jezebel gives the creepy, weepy e-mail exchange between Mark Sanford and "Maria" the old grad-student... More

The completist guide to Star Trek

Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise

The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi

The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions

Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal

A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade

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