At long last, it looks like the Bancrofts are going to finally going to get a room with Murdoch, and have a discussion about selling the Dow and the Wall Street Journal.
TV Newser is calling Diane Sawyer's GMA sit-down with Andrew Speaker, the peripatetic tuberculosis patient who ended up risking the health of people o...
Viewers Cross Borders to Watch Lou Dobbs Well, it looks like Lou Dobbs has basically earned the right to all "up in our newz, deescribin our leperz" b...
First the good news. While they would have been marginally better off tuning into Wolf Blitzer and the Democratic candidate debate, the Youth of Amer...
This day and age, it seems that you are more likely to encounter someone who feels they haven't received a fair shake at the hands of the media than n...
Last week, we related how things were looking up for Joe Scarborough as far as becoming the Don Imus' official morning-radio replacement. Good number...
Someday, we hope that the good people who file White House Pool Reports receive the credit they are due for their contributions to the culture. In re...
Yesterday, Rupert Murdoch got his audience with the reclusive Bancroft family, meeting over afternoon tea. If the summit inspired any activity, it was from the camp of Murdoch's detractors.
For decades, people have been reading Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 as a cautionary tale about the state-sponsored censorship of books. As it turns out, at least according to Bradbury, everyone who thought that was hopelessly wrong.
Andrew Speaker, the infamously contagious jet-setting TB patient of a week ago, may have dodged a bullet where spreading his germs are concerned, but ...
Last night, speaking at Breindel Awards, Fox News honcho Roger Ailes took great pains to let the gathered audience know what a golly-darned patriotic ...
The Oklahoman today revealed the identity of the person behind several full-page advertisements that appeared in East Coast newspapers praising the Du...
The winner is...the East Texas Review, who begin their article, "Reverend Moon: the man, mission and movement," thusly: "Is there a greater icon for ...
No emoticon currently exists to succinctly and exquisitely capture the feelings of Slate's Jack Shafer where Rupert Murdoch's ambitions to take over t...
You know, your anchorpersons are only human, and this was never more evident than this morning, on Fox and Friends. As Steve Doocy tacked his way int...
TV Newser, among others, invites the comparison between the actions of the news division at NBC and the actions of the news division at CBS and how th...
Jossip has preserved for posterity this CNN screengrab, documenting a moment that is very much newsworthy. Apparently, U2 lead singer Bono grew so up...
Well, now that our brief national nightmare, during which a frazzled country worried that Paris Hilton might benefit from a miscarriage (or at least a...
The action on the diamond at this weekend's NCAA Baseball Tournament ended up sharing the stage with the two sides in another epic battle--new media v...
"I worry about CNN more than I do about CNN.com." That's the quote from Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, offered during a London media conference las...
It's official. Every county has now been heard from on the matter on how the media has covered the Paris Hilton case. Everyone thank Editor and Publ...
The big news for everyone who likes to fret over the vagaries of the Associated Press Stylebook is that the 2007 version of the venerable guide has fi...
Writing for CNNMoney, Paul R. La Monica has deemed the ongoing three-way between Rupert Murdoch, the Bancroft family and whatever competitor officiall...
There's still about a year and a half of life to live before the presidential election. Yet, with each passing day, we get closer and closer to the grim media dystopia that is political content without end or relief.
Hard on the heels of Fox News mistakenly deploying an image of John Conyers as a means of identifying William Jefferson, ABC News has had to apologize...
