Michael Hirschorn's recent piece in The Atlantic offers up a sensational possibility: "What if The New York Times goes out of business -- like, this May?" Could he be right?
If new areas are to be served, and if underserved areas are to be upgraded, then either the incumbent telecom companies have to clean up their acts, or they have to make way for others.
How much does Hollywood influence politics? Despite all of the myths about communist-agitating actors, in the late 1930s and early 40s, caution and commerce trumped ideology.
I don't know of anyone now -- at least anyone who isn't employed by the Times -- who believes that the business, as currently organized and managed, can survive.
Google's throwing its first ever party for a US president's inauguration. It's not a ball. In fact, the invitation specifically avoids calling it that.
As a Jew I am ashamed of what Israel is doing under the banner of my heritage. As a journalist, I am alarmed at the media censorship. As a human rights advocate, I demand that Israel stop.
Enough already with Kearns' "Team of Rivals." Obama and company will need more than history books to get them through the dark nights to come. They need to stock up on self-help books.
Building better broadband is not a bailout. It's a buildout for better democracy.
How come the Guardian found out the new administration is about to radically restructure the U.S. approach to the Middle East before anybody in the US media got it?
The Times called and I panicked a bit. All I can say now is that I have told the story verbally so many times over the years and then, along the way, internalized it as my own experience.
Thousands of Americans are asking whether Obama will order an independent investigation into allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S. government. We deserve a "yes," or a "no."
We are accustomed to thinking of censorship purely as a human rights issue, but for information providers and technology companies, censorship acts as a trade barrier.
Due to an inept attempt to defuse the "miserable failure" Googlebomb, when Bush goes, the next US president (Obama) inherits the problem.
