Reading the Pictures: 100% of Your Weekly Dose of Terrorism Panic

Michael Shaw, 11.13.2009

Publisher of the visual politics blog, BAGnewsNotes

Too Big to Block? Why Obama Must Stop the Comcast-NBC Merger

Josh Silver, 11.13.2009

Executive Director, Free Press

If President Obama really wants to change the system that green-lighted the bailout of "too big to fail" banks, he will have to overhaul federal antitrust laws so that they actually protect the greater good.

Pundit Contest Would Have Gone Down Better with a Spoonful of Psychology

Bella DePaulo, 11.13.2009

Author of "Singled Out" and the "Living Single" blog

Once upon a time there were well-worn paths to the top of the press pile. America's Next Great Pundit Contest, however, is based on the premise that well-informed voices could come from just about anywhere.

Matsui and Rivera: Behavioral Models for TV

Charles Warner, 11.12.2009

Charles Warner is an active blogger at Media Curmudgeon.com and teaches at The New School.

They didn't jump up, pump their fists, look to the heavens, or even smile. They just did their jobs in a non-demonstrative, professional manner -- with a dignity rarely seen on commercial television.

Truth in Newsvertising

Brad Friedman, 11.11.2009

Investigative journalist and broadcaster

Fox News Channel should be treated not like a news organization, but as one which does little more than promote a specific political agenda.

Earth to Lou: It Could Have Been Different

Mark Potok, 11.12.2009

Director, Southern Poverty Law Center

It didn't have to end this way for Lou Dobbs. He could have been a contender. But Dobbs, a supremely self-confident man who often mentions his Harvard education in private conversation, just wouldn't listen.

CNN Drops Dobbs: To All Those Who Joined Us in the Drop Dobbs Campaign

Janet Murguía, 11.12.2009

President and CEO NCLR (National Council of La Raza)

Yesterday's resignation came after thousands of people and organizations pressured CNN to stop Dobbs's biased coverage of our community and the immigration debate.

Those Who Hate The Fairness Doctrine Should Love Net Neutrality

Art Brodsky, 11.12.2009

communications dir., Public Knowledge

If conservatives truly understood the Fairness Doctrine, then they wouldn't go around using it as a justification for opposing Net Neutrality.

Sean Hannity's Act of Neo-Contrition

Chez Pazienza, 11.12.2009

Editor of Deus Ex Malcontent, Author, Ex-Network News Producer, New Media Consultant

Fox News host Sean Hannity did something many will call shocking, some will call phony and insincere, and I'll call, at the very least, uncharacteristic. He admitted that Jon Stewart was right

Watch for More Hybrid Marketing in 2010

Rich Nadworny, 11.14.2009

Digital Strategist, Owner of Digalicious

Social media has enabled digital marketing in a way nothing previously has. It's clearly shown the value of two-way communication, using technology to enable the dialogue.

Travels with Wells Tower, or Another Reason Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers

Joshuah Bearman, 11.13.2009

Editor and writer at the LA Weekly

Travel writing is mostly bad. It's partly the fault of the form. Sometimes, quality sneaks in. And every so often the glossies still let Paul Theroux into the works so as to keep their bonafides burnished.

New York Times Blames Workers for Unemployment?

Les Leopold, 11.12.2009

Author of "The Looting of America"

A column in the Business section was about how the American worker is overpaid. They claim that if workers don't take cuts, these "overpaid" working stiffs will be the cause of another Great Depression.