I want to draw my personal line at Brittany Murphy. It's a death without worthy pathos. It does not even invite much morbid curiosity. A most minor starlet, already past her prime, dies in an utterly conventional way--methodical, long-term, self-abuse. And yet, nearly as a Christmas miracle, she's reborn...

More than a decade ago, President Clinton pledged that every person in America would soon be able to go online "to order up every movie ever produced or every symphony ever created in a minute's time."

Well, we're already well into the next millennium and less than one...

Fox and the Right Wing has stolen the presidential election of 2008.

In 2008 the Left was active and engaged. We spent our time, our money, and our hearts to get Obama elected. In 2009 though, we have left him twisting in the wind.

Fox has done an outstanding...

The media’s treatment of Sarah Palin and her family has been abhorrent. Like various hard news outlets' biased and unjust brethren, entertainment outlets have gone out of their way to tarnish Palin's image.

Tabloids and semi-legitimate entertainment programs generate incessant praise for President Obama and his leftist policies, while...

The FCC is abuzz about Verizon's new $350 cancellation fee. Verizon claims that the $350 fee is due to the fact that the devices that carry the excessive fee are expensive devices that cost the company more, hence the fees....

When we think about the year past and the year ahead, often the crystal ball can be a bit blurry. But not this year. There are so many forces now clearly at work that predictions for 2010 seem clearer than at any time in the past 10 years.

So, that...

IAB's Smartbrief picks-up on an interview over at Forbes.com with Susan Credle, the U.S. Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett. Ms. Credle, laments the presence of limited thinking inside the advertising business today. She means that literally in regards to behavior targeting ("Narrowly targeting audiences is...

It might seem futile to try to select just two quotes from the previous decade and single them out as bookends to illustrate how the political press so often malfunctioned over the last 10 years. But if pressed, I know which duo I'd nominate in hopes of highlighting the absurdity...

If you go on Twitter and type "Frank Rich" into the search box, you will learn that Rich's latest column deserves a Pulitzer. It's today's "MUST READ." Quite simply, it's "gold."

I see it differently.

In "Tiger Woods, Person of the Year," Rich's prose bounds from notion to notion...

The feature article in this week's New York Times Magazine refers to Princeton professor Robert P. George as the "intellectual architect" of the extreme right. This is hardly an honor, considering the main competition for "Values Valedictorian" is Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter and Mike Huckabee. One also has...

I recently appeared on the Mike Huckabee Show to talk about cap-and -trade legislation which I support. A live studio audience booed me vociferously. The Governor, whom I had admired, patted my hand and promised me safe passage from the building. Friends at home wondered what I'd expected. After all,...


"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising." With this quote, Sir Harold Evans, our era's acknowledged master journalist, summarized much of what I find crucial in his newest book, My Paper Chase. By resurrecting Lord Northcliffe's astute observation at the Washington, D.C. launch of...

After being hit with over a foot of snow over the weekend, Twitter users in Washington D.C. organized a snow ball fight. The crowd-sourced snow ball fight was all in good fun, until an off duty police officer brandished a...

How often do the pop charts become a tool for a social statement? This week in Britain, that's just what they are.

Every year in the U.K., the pop singles chart that's dated for Christmas week is a very big deal. Music fans and media outlets attach enormous...

Some in the rightwing blogosphere, who can't stand Garrison Keillor for his liberal politics, are taking shots at him for his recent pro-Christmas piece at Salon.com, syndicated in various newspapers around the country.

What seems to offend is a brief and benign swipe at Jewish songwriters who...

Once upon a time I wanted to be a journalist. I was given a chance in college and the discovery I made was that most journalists were hard-working stiffs like anyone, except their hours stunk (too many nights and weekends). They weren't the experts I expected them to be, either....