In a strategy shift, MySpace will try to become an online hangout for people who want to connect with their friends over entertainment content.
Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media
What were the producers thinking when they cast DeLay in the first place? Did they believe that after seeing him do a samba, America would forget what a repulsive human being he is and embrace him in its collective bosom?
AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment
LONDON — George Clooney thinks something has gone wrong when the media prints celebrity rumor and innuendo as fact. The star, a journalist's so...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
It turns out that fewer magazines folded in 2009 than in the two years prior. While USA Today is way down right now, the Wall Street Journal has crept up to take its place.
Barry Sussman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media
Economist James Galbraith says America's economic collapse "was the product of wide-scale criminal fraud" but that the press, instead of investigating it properly, has treated it as a 'boys will be boys" phenomenon.
Richard Seireeni | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
They must be getting pretty desperate over at Fox News HQ. Tonight they posted the following headline: "Records Show Obama Mostly Travels To States He Won."
Pamela Samuelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media
Unlike the Alexandria library or modern public libraries, the Google Book Search (GBS) initiative is a commercial venture that aims to monetize millions of out-of-print books.
Jared Gardner | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
Mainstream media sits off at the sideline, discussing the birther movement with its back-to-Africa chants as if there are legitimate concerns here that have nothing to do with racism.
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
KAUST is the first university in Saudi Arabia to allow a mixed-gender environment. This has triggered a 'showdown' between the press and a senior member of the clergy.
Rob Kall | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
Crossposted from OpEdNews.com Every change in communications medium causes big changes in culture, since cuneiform, then writing were introduced. Em...
Dan Agin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media
The intellectual difficulty is that human social behavior is like an opera. Evolution provides the floorboards, but the arias, the drama, the story are most directly understood in terms of culture and history.
Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment
The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.
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.
Robert Siciliano | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media
Technology keeps providing new opportunities for harassment: social media identity theft, cell phone abuse, online bullying, the list goes on.
Christine Huang | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
No one likes to be talked down to -- whether by a suitor or a company. Speaking with humor and candor will sometimes work; but in general, what we want and expect is intelligent messaging.
David Latt | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media
Jay Leno killed Southland but whether NBC is the better for that remains to be seen.
John McQuaid | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media
The era of the media-as-honest broker is over. The Washington Post and other establishment outlets just haven't realized it yet. But this is actually a good thing.
Eric Deggans | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
We have not yet, as a pop culture-breathing, tabloid-fueled nation, decided how we feel about powerful older guys seducing the young women who work for them.
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.
Steve Ross | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books
I have noticed over the past few years a troubling trend entering the picture, a trend that is encapsulated in the blogs posted by Chip O'Brien and Mark Coker.
Michael Shaw | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Are the Republicans and the media finally discovering a critique that hits Obama at the core of his personality?
Brian Ross | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
Let us finally put to rest one myth: Ted Williams was not frozen by his evil son, John Henry Williams.
Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
In the last year, I joined the Board of Directors of Women's Expressive Theatre and Risk Takers. How could I not get involved? I have a daughter and I want her to know that she is unstoppable.
Rob Kall | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
If the US government invests directly in journalists, so that their writings and reports can be freely used by any media organization or site, that investment will yield big results.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
While many have quickly lamented URB's print hiatus or reminisced about our long legacy, there is also an unfortunate feeding frenzy on even the hint of print's presumed, imminent demise.
Piers Fawkes | Posted 10.15.2009 | Technology