Facebook 'credits' to buy virtual goods from the third-party applications that run on the site is one of the ways Facebook plans to make money.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
Why do we lavish all this attention on Supreme Court nominees? What do we hope to learn?
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
These photographs can't and won't be kept secret. The British press has become one of the most effective back doors to the American media.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.27.2009 | Entertainment
They've always been there, entirely irrelevant to almost everyone, and, then, suddenly, they're a cultural phenomenon, for no reason that anyone can quite tell you.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
The Republican Party is not going to be saved by Dick Cheney or Rush Limbaugh or Colin Powell or Sarah Palin. It is going to be saved by... Frank Luntz!
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
Dick Cheney wasn't supposed to have political needs, or ambitions, of his own. He was supposed to be the adviser, tactician, and adult presence. It's embarrassing when the inside man steps up.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
It occurs to me that maybe the Republicans are in a good mood, rather than in the terrible doldrums all liberals think the GOP is in.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
Here's the most boring question I've been asked in the last 24 hours: What do you think of Maureen Dowd's plagiarism? Here's the most boring question I'm regularly asked: What do you think of Maureen Dowd?
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.19.2009 | Entertainment
The entire tussle, while ostensibly about rights of publicity -- American Apparel used an unauthorized image of Woody Allen in an advertising campaign -- is about who's grosser.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business
What happens now to that sort of rapacious desire and to those kind of Sammy Glick personalities in this new, earnest, cautionary, and reform-minded, age?
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
In the digital age, if you know a picture exists and it's in hot demand -- whether it's a nude Miss California or a gruesome bit of aggressive interrogation -- there's little or no chance it won't be found.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Even George Bush's Iraq adventure, greeted with so much patriotic awe, was given more scrutiny than the Obama Afghanistan build up.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
The people truly interested in the Times are limited to a smaller and smaller circle. And yet, for us, the Times is -- as well as a dying way of life -- an irresistible soap opera.
Huff TV | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business
Huffington Post political reporter Jason Linkins appeared on CNBC Friday to discuss the threats facing California's film industry. CNBC's Julia Boors...
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media
Rupert Murdoch is mad as hell about the Internet and is going to do something about it.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business
Forget about whether Apple buying Twitter is a boneheaded move. Here's what it is: It isn't a Steve Jobs move. This is the first sign of the post-Jobs Apple.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
If only ever-so-slowly, it may have caught up with the Times that its future hangs in the balance of economic recovery.
Rob Fishman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
Michael Wolff depends entirely on working journalists to make his case that newspapers suck. Wolff can't source a blog without the Times, but we're supposed to renounce the paper?
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
With the announcement of the imminent resignation of Justice Souter, we get a close-up view of what an odd bird he is.
Michael Wolff | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living
As the WHO raises its warning to just this side of official pandemic, and Joe Biden tells his family to avoid confined spaces, the backlash is also setting in.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 06.01.2009 | Media
According to Michael Wolff, the Drudge Report is a long-gone bygone, little more than the "leftover" tatters of transitional late 1990s media.
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
Everywhere there is the obvious, almost pained, inability to criticize Obama on his first hundred days. Here's the reasonable question to ask of a person who is universally loved: Is he a fake?
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
Nobody's going to cast an uncritical vote for a 79-year-old if there's a sentient alternative. Except, of course, the Democratic president of the United States.
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
The reporters at yesterday's White House press briefing were determined to make swine flu not just big news, but practically Watergate.
Michael Wolff | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
I've been writing about Steve Rattner pretty steadily for five or six years. He's been one of my favorite characters from the age of financial ambition.
Michael Wolff | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media