At 9, the ABC News 20/20 and NBC News Dateline specials both drew a 1.7 rating/5 share in the 18-49 demo. At 10 p.m., the CBS news Michael Jackson spe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
Hal Turner, New Jersey's top white-supremacist internet-radio show hosting lunatic is back in the news today, for pretty much the same reason he was i...
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
CNN's "Campbell Brown" hit a new ratings low for 2009 on Friday, June 19, when she averaged just 516,000 total viewers. Brown's previous 2009 low had...
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
Somehow, CNN.com is bestowing positive coverage upon the Shah and his son without once acknowledging the repressive practices of the Shah's regime.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media
Oh, the delights of the National Review's cover stories! Earlier this month, I think we all enjoyed ourselves immensely when the magazine, in their r...
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media
Even if the recession is over, what are newspapers going to do with the ever growing competition coming from their online counterparts?
Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
It's not just Iran. Getting news out of countries in the throes of political turmoil has always been dicey. And getting the news out has often meant using the most recent technology to thwart the authorities.
Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media
The pictures from Tehran are showing that Iranians are not monolithic in their beliefs. Demonstrably they can be both committed to God and to free and fair elections.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media
Apple released the new iPhone 3GS, as well as the iPhone 3.0 OS, yesterday afternoon. While the new iPhone did not receive the same of pre-sale hype...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
The State Department asked Twitter to delay a "critical network upgrade" scheduled for yesterday in order for civilian reporters in Tehran to use th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media
The paranoia that Obama would be getting all up in the radio tubes and force talk radio to start presenting an equal array of opposing viewpoints, thus destroying America, has persisted.
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media
'Morning Joe' co-host Willie Geist presented his usual, always-amusing Friday run-down of the week's top stories. There were only three, but they are ...
Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
Check out this video, produced by Dent Asset Management, that posits this recession is no different from the many others America has experienced over ...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
Today marks the end of Analog Television; AOL acquires local news site Patch and events site Going.com; Yahoo announces that Timothy Morse will serve as the company's new CFO.
Charles Warner | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
People will act against their own best interests when they think they are being treated unfairly. They may go down, but they're going to take the greedy bastards down with them.
Larry Gellman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media
We can't call ourselves civilized until we learn to disagree like grownups.
Richard Laermer | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media
Newspapers strive to be viewed as the defenders of society -- holding government and industry accountable for their actions in instances where the eve...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media
Acer is set to be the first PC manufacturer to package its netbooks with Google's Android operating system. One of the finest selling points about Google's OS is that its free.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media
As you may have heard, there was this one time that Judge Sonia Sotomayor totally interrupted a government lawyer, for the first time ever in the hist...
Karl Frisch | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
The Right's reaction to Sotomayor's "wise Latina" comment shows that numerous conservatives in the media have savaged her as a racist and a bigot.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
Two weeks ago, Eat The Press' founder/blogmother Rachel Sklar took to these pages to describe the ongoing effort to procure a much needed heart transp...
Alberto Ibargüen | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media
If the future of democracy's news and information is online, then we must ensure everyone is online, and bring technology training, digital literacy and higher quality networks to our local communities.
Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Keillor called for a fair and thorough congressional investigation that would "lay the whole wretched business out on the public record".
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
About two weeks ago, I criticized Jeffrey Rosen for a profile of potential Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Purporting to be "The Case Against ...
Heidi Sinclair | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media
Being able to separate content from distribution and determine how to monetize each is critical to being an effective media organization. We don't buy newspapers, we buy news.
Broadcasting & Cable | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media