Forget truth in advertising... how about truth in "live" performances?

We have now learned that neither Faith Hill nor Jennifer Hudson performed live at Sunday's Super Bowl. This, after finding out that Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman didn't perform live at the Obama inaugural either. If they tell me...

This morning in my home delivery copy of The New York Times came the note I was hoping wouldn't. From the senior vice president for marketing and circulation, it began, "I wanted to let you know that you will see changes in the Times's layout, starting Monday, October 6."

I...

When an individual throws him or herself into the glare of publicity by standing for public office, does the candidate drag the members of their family along with them? And should the press feel obligated to reveal prior or current indiscretions of the family members as they do the candidate?

The Department of Defense would be required to permit journalists to photograph military commemoration ceremonies and memorial services for soldiers who have died on active duty and when their caskets arrive at military installations in the United States under a bill introduced last month by Republican Congressman Walter B. Jones...

NBC ought to hang its collective head in shame. Its nearly three hours of coverage of yesterday's Kentucky Derby just about completely ignored the news.

Yes, Big Brown, the overwhelming favorite, won the race by nearly five lengths. But meanwhile, there was a horse -- Eight Belles, a filly who...

Be afraid... be very afraid.

Remember Charles Foster Kane? The fictional newspaper publisher/editor in Citizen Kane who ran his publications on whim, punishing his enemies and rewarding his friends?

Lost in the flurry of the Pennsylvania primary and who's more elite than whom, the visit to America by the Pope,...

Thursday's revelation that the Los Angeles Times and its Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter had been duped into believing forged FBI documents that linked Sean "Puffy" "Puff Daddy" "P. Diddy" Combs to a shooting of the late rapper Tupac Shakur in 1994 is just the latest in a long recent list of...

An article in this week's New York Observer, by John Koblin, discusses the New York Times policy of forbidding its regular editorial columnists from endorsing candidates in the presidential election. With quotes from Frank Rich, Gail Collins, Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman, the article details how partisan discussion is approved...

"Journalists are people, too." I'm not the first person to have said this. Leonard Downie Jr., the Washington Post's executive editor, wrote that sentence in a 2004 column explaining to readers the difference between the political endorsements on the editorial pages and the campaign coverage in the paper's news pages.

Beginning at about 11PM Saturday night, the big news of the weekend, nearly eclipsing the South Carolina results, was Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg's endorsement, in a Sunday New York Times op-ed column, of Barack Obama for President.

Much has been written about why someone who has never before evidenced any...