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The guy who came up with a legendary New York Post headline has retired: The genius who dreamed up the iconic New York Post headline “Headless Body in Topless Bar,” Vincent A. Musetto, was given an affectionate send-off by his colleagues last night after 40 years at the paper. Retiring film critic Musetto, who once [...]
The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.
Rupert Murdoch’s son, who runs News International’s British newspapers, has been accused by two former aides of misleading Parliament about the extent of his knowledge of the phone hacking scandal at News Of The World: British lawmaker says James Murdoch could be asked to clarify his testimony to a parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking after [...]
Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a man with shaving cream 2 hours into Parliamentary testimony.
A video of the New York Times website from September 2010 to July 2011.
Via WaPo: Cameron cuts short Africa trip; police second-in-command resigns Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who years ago made the decision to drop the police probe of the hacking scandal, announced his resignation Monday, one day after his boss did the same. Yates–once considered a candidate to run Scotland Yard–had defiantly sought to hold on to [...]
WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.
I must confess to having only paid peripheral attention at first, but it is clear that there is a major story here that requires attention.
Rebekah Brooks, who ran Rupert Murdoch’s media operations in Britain until just a few days ago, is now the biggest name arrested in the still unfolding hacking scandal: The British police on Sunday arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s media operations in Britain, according to a former associate at News International, the [...]
Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car deal are rapidly ending.
The legal shoes are starting to drop in the News Of The World phone hacking scandal Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking and corruption allegations. Ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman, jailed in 2007 for phone hacking, has been arrested over corruption claims. It came as [...]
For four years now, Rupert Murdoch’s News Of The World, a British tabloid known for salacious headlines, has been caught up in a scandal surrounding revelations that reporters for the paper had been hacking into the voice mail of celebrities, crime victims, and even the British Royal Family for years. Today, the paper announced it [...]
I have been only peripherally aware of the trial–and then only in the way that I’m aware of Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and reality TV.
What if in 1861 a cable news network existed to broadcast the events of the day?
Gene Weingarten is not a fan of journalists building a brand.
Jon Stewart told Chris Wallace that Fox News viewers are consistently the least informed. It’s actually not true. PolitFact looks at a number of surveys on the subject and finds that Fox viewers do relatively well–indeed, Fox outperforms CNN and MSNBC–although not nearly as well as viewers of the Daily Show or listeners to Rush [...]
Daily Show host Jon Stewart spent 15 minutes on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace trying to explain why he thinks Fox is a propaganda machine.
NBC stoked a minor furor among the perpetually victimized by using the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Tomorrow morning between 10:00am and Noon Eastern, I’ll be a guest on Da Tech Guy show on WCRN 830am in Worcester, Massachusetts, hosted by DaTechGuy himself Peter Ingemi. The first hour we’ll be talking about the New Hampshire Presidential Debate, the war powers dispute between Congress and the President over Libya, and the recent decision [...]
Does Limbaugh love the Heritage Foundation because of their ideas or their check book?
Sure, there’s a lot of crap out there. But it’s easier to find good information and engage with experts than ever.
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.
I’ve been reading quite a bit of commentary about Mitch Daniels deciding not to run for the Presidency and I admit to some surprise at something. There is an awful lot of weeping, moaning and gnashing of teeth at his departure, which makes no sense to me because he had zero chance of winning the [...]
The NYT has an interesting piece of the Drudge Report: How Drudge Has Stayed on Top. It is amazing the degree to which the internet has changed since Drudge’s debut and yet the to degree to which Drudge hasn’t while still retaining such a substantial level of influence. For me, I used to check the [...]
I must say that the “OSAMA BIN WANKIN’” headline is right up there this classic from the 1970s. Via various sources on Twitter and The Newseum
Bill Clinton thinks some sort of government agency should do somethingorother about rumors on the Internet.
An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)
Floridians are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop having sex with animals soon.
The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs this the Greatest Front Page Ever: A day filled with romance, pageantry, and playfulness is sealsed with a kiss: Osama bin Laden is dead”
The photographs of President Obama that appeared in the papers after the Osama announcement were staged.
A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.
There were several examples last night of people in haste typing, or saying, “Obama” instead of “Osama.” Here are two of the most notable First from the local Fox affiliate here in Washington, D.C.: President Obama dead? He looked pretty healthy walking away from the podium just then. Then, there was Geraldo Rivera who, unfortunately [...]
Keith Urbahn, chief of staff of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news.
CBS reporter Lara Logan spoke for the first time about her assault in Tahrir Square on the night Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt’s President in a 60 Minutes interview that will air this coming Sunday: Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob [...]
A moment of silence across all of Washington Hubert Schlafly created the teleprompter, the device that helps actors and politicians read scripts on television without looking down. Then he helped develop the satellite and cable networks that sent their words around the globe. Mr. Schlafly, an engineer who died April 20 at age 91, created [...]
A special surprise was waiting this morning for those who subscribe to Jim Geraghty’s Jolt newsletter.
Your silly media controversy of the day involves the public response to a J. Crew ad featuring a toddler boy with pink toenail polish: A mother paints her son’s toenails hot pink because it’s his favorite color. Does that mean he’ll become gay or transgender? That is the controversy surrounding a J. Crew ad that [...]
A Huffington Post contributor who had no expectation of being paid for his contributions is suing HuffPo for $105 million.
