"I've been here from the beginning, and have never seen a White House "talking points." -- And I don't know anyone else who's seen one either. I asked senior management if they have ever seen a White House talking points. No one had." Bill O'Reilly reacting to Dan Rather's accusation...

Review of My Sister, My Love. By Joyce Carol Oates. Publisher: Harper Collins. $25.95

Oscar Wilde delighted in dissing Dickens. "One must have a heart of stone," he wrote, "to read about the death of Little Nell without laughing." He would have felt the same way, we think, about the...

It's unusual for federal bureaucrats to achieve rock star status, but two commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission have amassed an enthusiastic fan base among the emerging "Open Internet" movement.

For several years, Democratic Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps have stood up, spoke out and worked all...

Eric Boehlert has written a terrific column about the AP's "Ron Fournier problem," here. He does the kind of digging that is so rare both in the MSM and in most of the blogosphere to show why Fournier's suck-up comments to Karl Rove were not evidence of a reporter's...

On Thursday, The New Republic published an article entitled "End of the Affair." The article details how the press believes the Obama camp is behaving secretively, arrogantly, and carrying itself with a sense of unearned entitlement.

The love, it seems, is over. But so what? The end of...

Angry citizen reaction to the latest cynical, cyclical outpouring of hateful speech over the public radio airwaves -- top-rated talk show host Michael Savage's despicable attack on autistic children as "brats, morons and idiots" -- has once again injected America's talk radio problem back into the mainstream news cycle. But...

If you're not of a certain age and disposition (a teenager who likes to take glamour shots of yourself in your bathroom mirror), you may not have noticed the coming of a curious period of internet history called The Decline and Fall Of MySpace. After Rupert Murdoch bought the popular...

Better than explain the inartful headline, it would be better to read the complete statement issued by Talk Radio Network (posted below*) - the company who owns Michael Savage's radio show - that lays out their defense of Savage's inartful comments about Autistic children. Don't be surprised if Savage or...

Sporting a fog machine for its smoke and mirrors routine and an extravagant stage that would make The Rolling Stones blush, the "ex-gay" group Exodus International held its glitzy annual conference in Asheville, North Carolina. I was in town all week to partner with regional and...

Sein republikanischer Kontrahent John McCain und Senator Lindsey Graham
hatte die Worte Obamas in "Schmidt's Fudge Haus" in Columbus (Ohio) verfolgt.

(caption courtesy the Berliner Morgenpost with the 66 photo Obama slide...

Seldom does a day pass without stories of China's rapid emergence both as an economic giant and a political power. Recently, with the approaching Beijing Olympics, it seems as though much of the discussion is more akin to an ongoing tirade, a continual verbal onslaught by western journalists and politicians....

I am stunned by an article put out by Newsweek, "Young, Gay and Murdered". At best, it is poor journalism, at it's worst, it is a hate crime in itself, paving the way for a "gay panic" defense for the kid who pulled the trigger.

Remember? Larry King was...

This year I promised myself not to be surprised by how awful our election coverage is, no matter how awful it is. How awful is it?

Well, this WSJ op-ed is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. Richard V. Allen, who was forced...

I think it was Hamlet that said "for murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organ: the record player."

Perhaps that wasn't the exact quote. But one thing is true: the CD is finally dying its much-awaited death, and it wasn't the MP3 that killed...

If you want your wheatpasted poster to last in Berlin, you have to come correct. In a city whose name is synonymous with design at the bleeding edge, an ad campaign needs to show both political and artistic acumen to stand tall. Barack Obama knows that, if the...

Four years ago, I'm eating Chinese take out with three other guys in Brooklyn during halftime at the Super Bowl. Janet Jackson was dancing and singing (or lip syncing) with Justin Timberlake, and during a certain movement, her breast was revealed for (according to Rachel Maddow on Countdown) 9/16 of...