CNBC says that Santelli opted out of going on the Daily Show because he felt Stewart was "bizarrely obsessed" with him. You know, in the way that he kept trying to "book" him by "calling" him "repeatedly."

Michael Tomasky cannot put me off wanting to read this book, because even if the destination is lame, the journey is mind-bending! Sources get murdered! Deus ex machinae emerge! There is an "orgy," apparently, in "Arlington."

While both "the right and the left," in plying their case, often lamely impugn the press when their point of view fails to take root, this is not the reason the public believes the press to be damaging to democracy.

Ah, journalism! How are we going to save it? Gently suggest they produce a better product? HAY-YELLS NO! As of this moment, I'm backing the Alex B...

Even as the storyline draws to an understandable conclusion, the storytellers are getting more and more unhinged.

It seems that some mean old emails have requested that Mike Barnicle maybe should preempt his litany of complaints over the plan to cap the executive salaries.

I've heard it said that good journalism afflicts the comfortable and comforts the afflicted, but for my money, I love an article that includes insight...

Bailouts. Everyone wants one. Banks want a bailout. Homeowners want a bailout. Car companies want a bailout. Dude jumping out of planes want a bail...

We posted earlier on this interesting finding by Think Progress, which found that in the discussion over the economic stimulus package, the cable news...

Columbia Journalism Review has a piece today about a study undertaken by James Snyder Jr. of MIT and David Strömberg of Stockholm University, which p...

Fancy some time travel? Go back to my blog entry about John Thain from January 22, and click on the first link. I promise I haven't edited it. Amazing...

Given the incidences of lack of attention to dissenting opinion and aggression in the run up to war, it's troubling that Liz Spayd will be tasked with "oversee[ing] the gathering, editing and production of news."

This is pretty much ace stuff from Steve Benen: The Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb, who used to also blog for the McCain campaign, recently compl...

I can already predict an email complaining that Bill O'Reilly doesn't make this list. It seems to me that some examples of stupidity are far too ubiquitous to be remarkable.

It's the end of the year, and so I must answer the call for summative listicles of things. So, why not a list of stuff I liked that people in the mass media did this year? Okay!

It seems to be emerging as an accepted fact that the reporter who threw both his shoes at Bush this weekend had specific ideological connections to Saddam Hussein and/or the Ba'ath Party.

Carol Marin seems to live in this world where the people who are actively responsible for turning the story into a "distraction" and a "soap opera" are not aware of what they are doing.