Russian war bloggers tell—and show—what they saw at the front

Georgia cuts access to the last Russian radio station left standing

So does some fat guy

At great personal peril, Russian bloggers report on the Georgian war

A chaotic American Morning

Just when we thought it was over, the second season comes anon: it’s Politics As Usual time, folks, by which I mean it’s time for our celebrities, our golden calves, to weigh in and for Obama to rise nobly above them. We heard much since Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” made […]

While minority journalists stretched themselves into a soul-searching pretzel debating whether they should applaud Barack Obama when he spoke at the Unity ’08 Convention yesterday, someone thought he was getting no love from the mainstream media. That someone was not John “A Little Left Out” McCain; it was Barack “Too Good to Be True” Obama. […]

CNN = Politics, but CNN sometimes = Cosmo. Because sex sells page views in a way that muckraking doesn’t, the fourth most-viewed article on CNN.com today is titled “Ladies: 5 Ways to Get Your Sex Life Going,” which sounds a bit like a glossy’s tired drumbeat of 142 Hot New Sex Tips Sure to Send […]

Except the horse isn’t dead—and neither are our nation’s guerilla satirists! Not surprisingly, they’re hiding out, starved yet resolved, in the tropical caves of the Internets. Joshua David Stein, formerly of Gawker fame, slammed this week’s New Yorker cover as anti-Semitic:* This week’s cover depicts a bunch of affluent whites carousing while their crustacean dinner […]

Sneaking in one last pundit punch before the New Yorker hits newsstands with a new cover this week, meta-media critic Howard Kurtz weighed in—twice!—on Sunday to reiterate that he just didn’t get the joke. Appearing on Lou Dobbs on Sunday night to cover the coverage of Obama’s coming-of-age trip abroad, Kurtz rattled off all the […]