2010: The Year of These Things
Since I wrote a sketch about Yemen 4 years ago, I consider myself a bona fide soothsayer. Therefore, better late than on time, here are 10 '10 Predictions.
Since I wrote a sketch about Yemen 4 years ago, I consider myself a bona fide soothsayer. Therefore, better late than on time, here are 10 '10 Predictions.
Posted 01.05.2010 | Media
On Tuesday on CNN, in the moments leading up to President Obama's remarks on terrorism and airline safety, someone waiting for the president to speak ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.01.2010 | Media
Earlier, I offered up the Ten Things That Did Not Suck About The Media in 2009. You know what's coming now! The stuff in 2009 that straight up sucked canal water! Let's hit it and quit it.
Huffington Post | Dan Abramson, Jason Linkins, And Alex Leo | Posted 12.31.2009 | Comedy
It's New Year's Eve--a time to look ahead before passing out in a pool of your own vomit and waking up in a new year. What will 2010 hold for us? Only...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.25.2009 | Comedy
Earlier this week, I asked for your ideas on what gifts we should give to some of our favorite -- and not so favorite -- public figures. You dusted of...
Posted 12.17.2009 | Media
Mike Barnacle, filling in for Willie Geist on MSNBC, catches Wolf Blitzer in some pretty awkward moments during his interview with Shakira. Blitzer c...
Whitney Cummings | Posted 12.07.2009 | Los Angeles
I'm not saying we shouldn't be interested in naked people. That's a biological impulse over which we have no control. Boobs are what kept us alive for the first couple years of our lives.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Never has there been a more important time for Muslims to engage in greater introspection, self-evaluation. We face a Muslim world rife with conflicts, sectarian hatred, misogyny and injustice.
Jackson Williams | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
President Obama bowed this week when greeting Japanese Emperor Akihito, and the conservative media and blogosphere went positively apoplectic.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
It goes without saying that when the available facts accrue and weigh so heavily against a defendant, like the alleged Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, o...
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."
Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Things got a little personal for CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Jessica Yellin during a report about Congressman Barney Frank partner's bust for possess...
Isabel Macdonald | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media
New Jersey state police appear to be contradicting CNN Host Lou Dobbs' account of a gunfire incident near his Sussex County, New Jersey, house.
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.25.2009 | Media
For a country desperate for good news, the now-deflated "balloon boy" spectacle would seem to be the perfect tonic. As Wolf Blitzer of CNN summed up t...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media
Truth is often lost when we fail to distinguish between opinion and fact, and that is the danger we now face as a society.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media
News as defined by dictionary.com is the presentation of a report on recent or new events [intelligence; information] in a newspaper or other periodi...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment
Reality television is a stain on our society and an insult to culture. It's dumbed-down television at its worst, lowest common-denominator.
Dan Mirvish | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
CNN pundit Alex Castellanos was "revealed" by Media Matters to be working with the health care industry on their ad campaign. Everyone seems "shocked!" Why is it surprising?
Huff TV | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Arianna appeared on CNN's The Situation Room Monday, along with Gloria Borger, Joe Johns and Ben Stein. She discussed the Afghan War, huge Wall Street...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
Who knew the media were so "deeply worried" about the welfare of children? As it turns out, their concern only extends to children in certain circumstances -- such as when they are thought to be in a runaway balloon.
Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver
When Falcon let loose the truth on prime time to Wolf Blitzer, even Barney Fife could have figured it out. By his own admission, that was the first moment the light came on for local Sheriff Jim Alderden.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
I can't help but notice that in its recent report on the "Balloon boy" incident of last week, which authorities are now treating as a staged hoax, CNN...
Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
Write it off to Thursday being a slow news day if you want, but the wall-to-wall coverage of Colorado's 'Balloon Boy' by the national media was a bit ...
Judith Ellis | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
Arianna was right to question the networks about their "balloon boy" coverage. Does anybody really wonder why old media is becoming more irrelevant, while new media continues to pave a new path?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
So, it's half past six or so on a Wednesday evening and I am watching that evening's edition of CNN's Wolf Blitzer and the Chamber of Situations, wher...
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 01.07.2010 | Comedy