The former Gawker editor, “exposed” in the Times Magazine

Brzezinski plays a new Morning Joe role

The comedian celebrates Memorial Day by doing some politician-grilling

Now it’s gone…gone…gone…

The inauguration of Dmitri Medvedev as Russia’s new president this week is one of those fantastic Historical Occasions for which air quotes (yes, “air quotes”) seem designed. In the sense that the inauguration is basically a farce. Medvedev is, if not a full-on puppet of Putin, then at least overshadowed by his predecessor, the power-consolidating […]

In what might just be one of the most fun pieces of research ever conducted, ever, the Project for Excellence in Journalism spent 2007—yes, the whole year—watching, analyzing, and likely guffawing at footage of…The Daily Show. Ugh. Why do data analysts always have all the fun? Anyway, per the study’s summary report, released today: When […]

Howard Kurtz today takes a macrocosmic—literally, macrocosmic—view of the media’s post-Tuesday treatment of the Democrats’ Epic Battle for Cosmic Domina—er, Nomination: For the moment, there seem to be two separate media universes out there. In the mainstream print galaxy, Hillary’s “options” are “dwindling,” her “path” to the nomination is “narrowing,” the “math” is “challenging,” Obama […]

Hey, MSNBC: Why the remembrance of things past?