The land of Egypt has recently witnessed thousands of protests during the past few years! Protests have now expanded to space! In a sudden brave move,...
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
Travel writing is mostly bad. It's partly the fault of the form. Sometimes, quality sneaks in. And every so often the glossies still let Paul Theroux into the works so as to keep their bonafides burnished.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media
Once upon a time there were well-worn paths to the top of the press pile. America's Next Great Pundit Contest, however, is based on the premise that well-informed voices could come from just about anywhere.
Art Brodsky | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
If conservatives truly understood the Fairness Doctrine, then they wouldn't go around using it as a justification for opposing Net Neutrality.
Oliver Willis | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
While the concerns of many white, middle-class people are worthy causes and should be addressed by liberals, it is not elitism to treat this roving band of conspiracy nuts for who they are.
Kenneth Kales | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books
Why are we as a nation giving a free pass to Mr. Obama on his avoidance to confront human rights atrocities in China? I am baffled sometimes when I see in the media those stories gushing about how great China is.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
The media, once again, fell hook, line and sinker for a military account of what happened during the tragedy.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
As I watched the sad eyes of Lou Dobbs last night while he bade an abrupt farewell to his long career at CNN, I shed the tears that he apparently couldn't. I was inspired by the power of the movement to oust him.
Rachel Sterne | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
New media guru Jeff Jarvis calls it the 'Holy Grail.' Michael Gluckstadt's Fast Company feature questioned its '$100 Billion Potential.' So what does ...
Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
Only yesterday Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. announced the closure of the magazine fondly known as Met Home to the urban, sophisticated home decor cognoscenti.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Congo's economy is not undermined by "unregulated fertility" rates. Civil society has been destroyed by decades of war and over a hundred years of exploitation of Congo's wealth by international interests.
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books
Like David Foster Wallace, Saunders appears in his own journalism as the bumbling journalist, but Saunders is more believable, which is to say that he is a bumbler, which is part of the charm.
Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."
Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
You merely need to let Tancredo talk to defeat him in a debate. Why would you deride him for not serving his country because of depression, a debilitating illness that affects 8 to 12 percent of the population?
Rich Nadworny | Posted 12.14.2009 | Media
Last week at the Tea Party rally at the U.S. Capitol, angry demonstrators held up signs protesting Health Care legislation, signs that showed piles of...
Will Schwartz | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York
Within hours of winning their elections, Bill De Blasio, our future public advocate, and John Liu, our comptroller-elect, each demonstrated their own distinct styles of ineptitude.
Susan Moeller | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
Today's digital-media-enabled contests, perhaps even the most familiar reality-TV, American Idol-type kind, are popular because they promise a rags-to-riches success for at least one contestant.
Kevin George | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
The Legacy Award celebrates a vision of bringing environmental messages into entertainment -- television, film and music -- to educate and motivate the public.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home
Just back from Lagos, Nigeria, where I took part in the second African Media Leadership Forum, which brought together journalists from 46 African countries. New media play a powerful role on the continent, where traditional media face constant government restrictions, over 300 million Africans have cellphones, and locals are being trained to use texting and camera phone video to report from rural areas. Hearing the stories of many of the journalists present was a powerful reminder that, in much of the world, being a journalist requires great courage. "I've been arrested 136 times," a journalist from Cameroon told me. "The government threw grenades into our offices," said a newspaperman from Liberia, "so we went down the street and started another paper." It makes the rheumy bleatings of the likes of Glenn Beck feel even more contemptible and pathetic.
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media
So Fortune magazine is cutting back its issues to 18 from 25. But don't panic. The new Fortune will become more of a lush-looking premium product.
Jackson Williams | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.
Rich Nadworny | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
The teabaggers and the angry conservatives sure make a lot of noise these days. And much of the noise is about them making noise. It sure seems like the online channel is a key element in the vitriol.
Mike Stark | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
I thought it would be interesting to see how much some of the most virulent opponents of health care reform knew about the people they are supposed to be representing. I came up with two simple questions.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.
Farai Chideya | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media
One year has passed since a new President was elected. We are less flush and less frivolous. But we are finding the joy in the struggle, and that is a beautiful thing to see.
Wael Nawara | Posted 11.27.2009 | World