In this week's New Yorker, Larissa MacFarquhar has done a goodly bit of fine sifting, identifying the ingredients to Barack Obama's approach to commun...
Believe it or not, there actually does exist a magazine called Blogger & Podcaster. And yes, the tagline is: "For Aspiring New Media Titans." And ye...
The media world is slowly continuing its dialogue on NBC News' decision to air the submitted materials of Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui, followin...
Because of the sinking feeling that none of them might ever have the chance to report on the virgin birth of an actual Messiah, the media continues to...
Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy the Dow Jones hit the world like the combined effect of a Cat-5 hurricane, a super-volcano and holy zombie terror. He's g...
Some months ago, Mark Halperin clumsied up his appearance on The Colbert Report by violating the First Rule of Improvisation: Do not negate the premis...
Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly, for whom the mere existence of pre-eclampsia and ectopic pregnancies constitutes "spin", is many things--mainly an...
The Examiner is reporting today that tomorrow's 20/20 special report on "DC Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey will fall short of living up to the hype that...
Happy Thursday, everyone! There's no better time than now to dig into some Thursday Styles! And, really, people...drink deeply. Savor each morsel. ...
Congratulations, reporters! According to the Army's new Operational Security Guidelines, you have all been categorized as a danger to America! "Unde...
So, how about that GOP candidate debate last night? Don't you just love how early everything gets rolling now? Seriously, we're already encased in a...
FT Alphaville has the term of the day: "full-frontal charm offensive." That's how Rupert Murdoch's next move is going down: wining and wooing, mash n...
"No, you see. Here's the problem. You don't know the history of seatbelts. I do." "Aren't there examples, and might not you, yourself be an example, ...
Offsetting a $10 million donation from the Ochs-Sulzburger family, The New York Times offers their readers a preview of their latest investment--the g...
Readers can occasionally get cross with their daily newspaper for a variety of reasons. They can object to the tone of an editorial, be stirred to an...
Internally here at Eat The Press, we've wondered: Charlie Gibson--nice guy, eminently trustable, leading ABC News to something of a resurgence...why i...
If you thought Slate's Jack Shafer was done explaining why he's against Murdoch's ambition to take over Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, then th...
Say what you want about New York Magazine, but we have always thought of The Observer as a real desperado. And every Wednesday, we see why. This wee...
Jack Shafer isn't the only person hatin' on Rupert Murdoch today. In "The O'Murdoch Factor", Gary Weiss of Salon endeavors to explain why Murdoch's b...
Sometimes, you just have to take a minute, step back from the media maelstrom, and just run a hilarious picture of Katie Couric. The CBS Evening News...
If we here at Eat The Press didn't enshrine the gloriousness of the New York Times Thursday Styles on these pages, who would? The Newseum? Well...ma...
The Politico continues its reign as the most vexing and perplexing media organ of 2007. Today, James Joyner and Jeff Mascott filed a brief item purpo...
The news that the website PasadenaNow has made it a policy to outsource its local coverage overseas has started to reverberate around the web today. ...
You know, when the Reverend Al Sharpton disparaged the Mormon religion by saying of Mitt Romney's electoral chances: "As for the one Mormon running fo...
This Mother's Day, spare a thought for mother and daughter Haleh Esfandiari and Haleh Bakhash. Late last year, Efandiari, a noted Iranian-American sc...
