What could have possibly reduced Center For American Progress blogger Matt Yglesias to a state of "agitation," "despair," anger, and "helpless[ness]" ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media
The prospect of a defense contractor being blackmailed is of much greater significance than a late-night teevee comedian. The two should not, in any way, be compared.
Vamsee Juluri | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
It may be true that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promise rather than achievement, but let us not forget that there is at least one point on which he has already proven himself -- civility.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
The DNC is up in arms at a brief piece in The Politico that linked Barack Obama to Roman Polanski through a scant $34,000 worth of donations that were...
Annie Stamell | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment
Okay. Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, please! Enough with this David Letterman hoopla already! You know something? I DON'T CARE! I don't. In fac...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
Speaking of Betsy McCaughey, her return to the spotlight has prompted a second round of mea culpas from The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, who was the ed...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
Columbia Journalism Review's Greg Marx will have to be a little bit more specific on what "concerns" of mine he feels I am "overstating," but beyond t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald tore apart a piece of stenographic PR that ran in the Washington Post. Titled "Obama Team Says Zazi Case Illustrates Balan...
Danny Schechter | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash it helped instigate. We know that our government, whatever its stated desire to clean up ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
Lawmakers met at the White House to have a discussion on the war in Afghanistan. But Fox News' Neil Cavuto chose to spend his time fearmongering about the White House's Special Master for Compensation.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman doesn't go for a whole lot of media scolding -- a point he reiterates today in a related blog post, sayi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
Jonathan Turley flags an absolutely appalling column in the Toronto Star written by Rosie DiManno, concerning the suicide of a Toronto teacher named D...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2009 | Media
In yesterday's Los Angeles Times, John Horn and Tina Daunt wrote about the extent to which the Hollywood community is terribly out of touch with the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
In today's Wall Street Journal, columnist Thomas Frank calls out the Washington Post at length for its fawning, frolicsome coverage of the way lobbyists infect every single corner of Capitol Hill like a lycanthropic plague.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Of course, if you are not concerned about the awesomely ruinous opportunity cost to safety and prosperity that a brief jaunt to Denmark represents, surely you are worried about all the Chicago Machine Olympic corruption.
John Knefel | Posted 09.29.2009 | Comedy
It sure sounds like the media is congealing around a new meme like the unthinking wad of lard that they are.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
Print media: It's totally dying! And what can be done about it? The moment seems to call for a re-arrangement of journalistic priorities in the serv...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland and is facing extradition to the United States because he was convicted of having unlawful sex with a ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
My recent interview with Dale Maharidge provided the occasion to bring up one of my favorite recent pieces of downturn-era media criticism, Vice Magazine's "Something Something Something Detroit", in which Thomas Morton described how the recession had sparked a "gold rush mentality" among journalists, looking to document some desolation on the cheap.
Janet Turley | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media
The Polanski case is not about justice -- that happened years ago. It's about not retraumatizing the survivor. The prosecution should respect her wishes to drop the case.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
Is today's media built for these times? Is it capable of covering the widespread economic downturn in a way that conveys the pain so many Americans are feeling? For insight, we turn to a man who is built to cover this crisis: Dale Maharidge.
Matt Osborne | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media
For all our worries about Big Brother intruding on our lives, Big Brother has no way to stop individuals from intruding on him.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media
During today's edition of Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan interviewed filmmaker Michael Moore on his new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, during w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media
Earlier this week, our own Ryan Grim reported on the incredibly true story of how Congress, in its zealous race to shower ACORN with digestive leaving...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
The primary rationale -- the only rationale -- behind your representatives' decision in the ACORN matter was to ensure that their electoral hopes don't founder because of a media-driven scandal.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media