Sorry, Arianna, but your much vaunted presidential mash-up debate has been made into a pathetic insult to the voters thanks to Yahoo's decision -- as reported by Wired.com -- not to allow us to remix the raw video. I urge you and Slate to force Yahoo to...

I'm as much of a media wonk as anybody, but the Times outwonked me today devoting an entire story to The Wall Street Journal changing the name of a section from Pursuits to Weekend.

Who could possibly give a damn? And why would they?

What's even more amusing...

It does my democratic heart good to see the system work, as it did yesterday when an appeals court defended the First Amendment in the face of the FCC's "arbitrary and capricious" attempt to punish Fox for the fleeting expletives.

The most entertaining aspect of the decision: The...

On HuffingtonPost, there has been much coverage of the debate over NBC's release and airing of some of the Virginia Tech murderer's multimedia manifesto and Joan Blades and Richard Gizbert come out squarely here against releasing them, arguing that if we air those images, the terrorist...

ParkRidge47, aka Phillip de Vellis, the guy who made that Hillary attack ad and who was unmasked by reporting by Arianna Huffington et al, is interviewed on video by YouTube's editor of news and politics,...

The video above is my invitation/plea to any and all of you to record a question for a presidential candidate, post it on YouTube, and tag it PREZCONFERENCE. Then we'll challenge the candidates to answer our questions directly...

On the same day, Hillary Clinton and Sam Brownback announce their campaigns for the White House via internet video. Compare and contrast. A video post:

Here's an invitation to Davos: I hope that many of you will record video questions and thoughts to send to Davos, putting them up on YouTube tagged "davos07."

This is part of the World Economic Forum's attempt to open the conversation from Davos to the world and vice versa....

When the networks try to interact with us, the result is too often condescending: They tell us to give them our news images (rather than just linking to us). The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric puts on a tightly controlled 'Free Speech' segment but quickly tires of hearing...

I'm fascinated to see journalism schools mirroring the strategic debate going on in the journalism business -- as well they should.

Columbia's J-school seems to be establishing itself as the classicist, the sanctuary whose ivied castle walls guard journalism as journalism has been done. I suspect that's an unfair...

I want to see the editor of a major U.S. newspaper who is covering and uncovering classified government antiterrorism programs write a piece under the headline: "When and why I will reveal secrets." For I have not yet seen a satisfactory answer to that obvious and essential question in

CNN is trying to be hip. Take from a guy with a gray beard: There's nothing more pathetically cringeworthy than an old fart trying to be with it. (Just ask for my son's reaction when I play hiphop in the car.)

But that is what CNN is dying to...

The FCC has outlawed the single most essential word in political discourse and protest: bullshit.

This is not only an absurd misinterpretation of our community standards and another perilous attack on our First Amendment, I also believe it is a violation of our civil rights worthy of court challenge....

Bill Keller won't read this.

The executive editor of The New York Times has stopped reading media blogs, says Rachel Smolkin's story about transparency in American Journalism Review:

But Keller has become a little more choosy about transparency. On the advice of Managing Editor Jill Abramson, he's mostly stopped...

At The Huffington Post, Rep. Dennis Kucinich publishes a letter he and 23 more members of Congress sent to the publisher of the LA Times objecting to the dismissal of columnist Robert Sheer. If they were just readers writing to a paper complaining about something the paper had done, fine....

Jay Rosen has a suggestion for Knight Ridder's sale: Entice local buyers.

I have to disagree with Jay -- or at least get tougher than he does -- on a few key points:

First, buying a paper as it stands today is a no-win deal. Newspapers are...