My friend Ian Katz, a senior editorial figure at the Guardian newspaper in London, and a prime mover of an initiative to create one editorial on climate change that a coalition of newspapers around the world publishes today, writes to ask my opinion of "why no major US newspapers...

It is good for the media business that Tiger Woods has, apparently, never read a tabloid newspaper or watched a tabloid show. Nobody may have ever been so unsavvy as Tiger.

The Tiger image--uncomplicated, unspoiled, unworldly, utterly game-focused, which is now seemingly being debunked by events and by the...

The Times business section leads with one of those stories that have been so often written about great media mergers: How did it happen, who whispered what to whom, who knew what when about the deal? In the past, these stories were breathless if not orgiastic. This one, about

It is neither unreasonable nor dishonorable to be as cynical as possible when evaluating the official rationale for going to war--or continuing one.

President Obama, plausibly, believes very little of what he said last night about why we should continue to be in Afghanistan--that we could successful prosecute it,...

There is a club in the West 40s in Manhattan which includes among its members many old newsmen who, curiously, have sworn, on pain of expulsion, never to utter its name in the press--a quaintness by which I will abide.

I had lunch yesterday, in the members' dining room, with...

Google is under media attack.

Rupert Murdoch is the most outspoken anti-Googlist, but his fulminations are now followed by a new book, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It, by the New Yorker's media writer, Ken Auletta--the closest thing the media world has to a court biographer--which...

Microsoft is a company that Rupert Murdoch understands. When he talks about the technology business or about the Internet or Google, which, on at least one occasion, I've heard him call Gadget, he invariably reverts to talking about Microsoft, which, on at least one occasion, I've heard him call IBM....

A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become--and pathetic, designed only to sell and then not selling--I wrote the line "books suck," subjecting me to much middlebrow opprobrium.

I'd like to revise that line: Books are evil.

They're pernicious....

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily kill women to save money. My colleague, Caroline Miller, Newser's editor in chief, took umbrage in this space the other day about the new guidelines....

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving.

Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it.

There may not have ever been anything like it in modern American politics. Well, Ronald Reagan perhaps. But his was, at least, a 20-year phenomenon. In little more than a...

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot like the Chinese (though it's unclear which group, if either, is being slurred). But hear me out.

It is simple math. In eight years, according to...

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he'd call the play Death of a PR Guy.

Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch's PR guy who got the ax yesterday, used to beg me not to call him a PR Guy--his official title was Executive VP of Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs--but that was...

"First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people--you know, they're very busy with all these electronics. My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone. But I'm a big believer in technology, and I'm a big believer in...

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll--except, apparently, Warren Buffet (who I don't actually know), who announced yesterday that "the financial panic is behind us."

But then he...

At the top of the Internet boom, Lou Dobbs left CNN to start his ill-fated Space.com, from which he returned ignominiously not long after. Dobbs left CNN again yesterday, at what is possibly the top of the conservative pundit boom, to, as CNN put it with a certain dig,...

It seems to be coming to this: Was he a Muslim or a nutcase?

The nation's two most sententious conservative columnists have weighed in with their view. Both David Brooks, in the Times, and Dorothy Rabinowitz, in the Wall Street Journal, believe that the evidence--ie, he was a practicing...

Rupert continues his war with the Internet. Over the weekend, he told an interviewer (the interviewer, on Sky News Australia, works for him) that as part of his campaign to charge users for reading his content, what he plans to do is to block Google from indexing his newspapers.

I think they have it. If they don't have the votes for the best and purest version of the bill, I think they at least have a fallback position which holds 60 votes.

I believe this has to be true because you wouldn't risk your presidency and place in...

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry.

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal. That former paper, with its particular look and feel and characteristically myopic focus on business and finance, has departed the stage, replaced by a vigorous, strong-minded...