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Before we got the news Sunday night, America got about a solid hour of ramping and vamping, as newspeople took to the teevee to make wild speculation about what it was that they were all summoned back to work to report.
There are some radically different ways of reading this picture. Are we looking at understandable pride and justifiable relief, dancing on a grave, or "jingoism meets Spring Break"?
Douthat's ideas about human choices and freedom to act are a reminder of the chasm between conservative and progressive worldviews.
President Obama officially released his "long form" birth certificate this week, causing Donald Trump to express how proud he was of himself. Here's how late night TV responded.
With a fast-growing digital spports news business and investment backing from Accel Partners, Comcast, and Allen & Company, SB Nation is aiming to be a "great media company" in various content verticals, CEO Jim Bankoff tells Beet.TV in this interview.
Cat Greenleaf and her Emmy award-winning series, Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf, are a part of almost every New York City taxi rider's journey.
Sunday marks the 8th anniversary of Mission Accomplished Day, or as it might better be known, Mission Accomplished (NOT) Day. Even nearly eight years later, the "overconfident" reporting from Baghdad and Kabul takes your breath away.
This is going to be a somewhat surprising column introduction, for I am about to talk about something I've been absolutely ridiculing all week long -- the royal wedding. And how the American media missed a joke (not to mention a kiss).
This corporate owned media needs more than a tongue lashing: the president, our Congress and We the People need to take action to restore real fairness and balance to our broadcasters and to our Democracy.
It happens every spring--or at least has done so now for the past eight years. Time publishes a special issue in which it names the 100 most influential people in the world and then throws a party to celebrate how special it makes everybody feel to be part of it.
Renouncing America is substantially different than renouncing American citizenship. Especially if it spares the United States the position of having to be responsible for Superman's actions.
White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country from the approved pool of journalists for using now-standard multimedia tools to gather the news.
To give credit where it's due, Trump has made Celebrity Apprentice the must-see guilty pleasure spectacle of the season.
I watched a live segment yesterday on the always entertaining Cenk Uygur's show on MSNBC and to be honest the guy and his producers really deserve to be called out on a couple of things.
In an era of partisan journalism, there has been a presumption that at least one area of reporting, science, was insulated from blatant bias. But that's naive, and a brewing ethical brouhaha at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel shows why.
The next time you hear about another round of layoffs at a TV news division, the closing of a bureau, the decision not to cover a foreign story with full force, remember this week of silliness in April.
Who would have suspected, basking in the world-changing spirit of electing America's first black president, that three years later he would be holding a national address to refute continually debunked allegations he was not born in the U.S.?
Keith Olbermann has expressed concern about the influence of corporate ownership of news media. Until Al Gore entered the picture it was impossible to fully quantify the impact of corporate ownership of news. With his new show, we'll finally see.
Nearly three years after the financial world imploded, the business media is still operating under a cloud of shame for failing to sound the alarm that the end was near.
Michael Shaw, 2011.05.02