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Jonathan Chait begins a column titled “Why I’m So Mean” thusly: People often ask, “Why is Jonathan Chait so mean?” It is a fair question, one that has been raised by my close friends, colleagues, wife, and parents, and it merits a suitably thoughtful reply. The latest person to ask it is ubiquitous right-wing misinformation [...]
For the third year in a row, the Super Bowl was the most-watched television program in history: NEW YORK—For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants beat the [...]
A story from September 2010 reminds us that rushing to judgment is never a good idea.
The entire above-the-fold of Drudge Report is devoted to anti-Gingrich stories, which continue on scrolling.
Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.
Should journalists report things they happen to overhear in a public place?
All Good Things… Now like all good things, this adventure is coming to an end. I’ve been invited to move my blog and print journalism to the Daily Beast/Newsweek, a larger and more technologically advanced platform. Tina Brown is one of the great media visionaries of our time. The opportunity to work with her-and learn [...]
Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.
Yahoo political reporter Chris Moody wrote a story this afternoon about Donald Trump withdrawing as host of the December 27th Newsmax debate. Late this afternoon, Moody reported via Twitter that he had just received this from Trump, apparently via facsimile: What a complete jerk. On the other hand, as I said to him, Chris won [...]
Savage has offered Gingrich one million dollars to drop out of the race and Beck has said that he’d vote for Ron Paul as a third party candidate rather than supporting the former Speaker.
Christiane Amanpour, who’s losing audience share for ABC’s “This Week” Sunday show, may be on her way back to CNN.
Via Andrew Exum, the front covers of the newest issue of Time Magazine for the United States, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific: Notice anything?
A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.
Treating entertainment as entertainment is one thing. Treating it as news and education is another.
The Associated Press is trying to fight Twitter rather than engage it.
Chelsea Clinton’s hiring as an NBC personality is another hit for the meritocracy myth.
CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.
In a rather obvious triumph of political and business connections, the former First Daughter will now be a special correspondent for NBC News: NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at [...]
DEVELOPING STORY: In a well-marked building in McLean, Virginia, hundreds of CIA analysts are reading newspapers and watching cable news networks for information that might be helpful in assessing terrorist networks. Often, sources tell OTB, this information is pieced together in order to then kill people in faraway countries using drones. Additionally, as a wildly [...]
A cute protest sign based on a blog quip has created a minor internet sensation.
Rick Perry has gotten the most and best coverage thus far in the campaign. President Obama has gotten mostly negative coverage.
Jon Stewart describes how “The Daily Show” comes together while wearing a 1st Cav baseball cap. “The best shows are made of the smallest moments,” says Stewart. “Donald Trump eating pizza with a fork, and making that into eight minutes of a completely overblown sanctimonious rant on the apostasy of eating pizza with a fork.”
Can someone who doesn’t look like a GQ model make it in politics anymore?
Via the NYT: MSNBC Is Close to Falling to Third Place in Cable News Ratings The ratings results for the month of September show that CNN, long relegated to third place in the prime-time cable news competition, is edging its way back up, while MSNBC is moving in the other direction. What’s always striking (to [...]
Paul Krugman chose to mark the the 10th anniversary of September 11th with an odd blog post.
Now that the storm has passed, the media is being accused of over-hyping Hurricane Irene.
Political journalists aren’t like you and me. Well, you, anyway.
CNN correspondent Sara Sidner is in Tripoli, Libya reporting on the rebel advance into the city. Unfortunately when she was interviewed recently whoever was in charge of graphics at CNN must’ve been someone who flunked geography: There is a Tripoli, Lebanon, of course, but it isn’t currently under rebel assault, and presumably not the hideout [...]
Political journalists are asking clumsy, ignorant, and intolerant questions. Film at 11.
Comparing Bachmann and Palin in regards to managing the media.
Several radio reports today, based on readings of the “manifesto” of Anders Behring Breivik, teased the story with some variation of “We have learned disturbing new things about the Norway terrorist.” I’m hard pressed to even conjure something that I could learn about a man who engaged in a calculated, drawn out killing spree in [...]
