Steve Clemons is taking his talents to The Atlantic

Beck heads to the internet.

So, Anthony Weiner is a lying dick. Does it matter?

Another sad chapter in the slow death of a once proud magazine.

Sure, there’s a lot of crap out there. But it’s easier to find good information and engage with experts than ever.

So reports Mediaite:  Exclusive: Glenn Beck’s Last Day On Fox News Will Be June 30th

It’s hard to get paid for work others will do for nothing.

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.)

George Will reflects on turning 70.

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.

It appears there may be some budget cuts.

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 [...]

The Independent allows creative versions of the URLs on their stories.

A special surprise was waiting this morning for those who subscribe to Jim Geraghty’s Jolt newsletter.

Demographic information about TV viewers is worthless to advertisers.

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.

Glenn Beck will leave his Fox News show in December.

You remember how the House GOP was trying to pass laws without the Senate or the President agreeing? Yeah, about that….

Five years after becoming the first woman to anchor a major network newscast, it appears that Katie Couric will be leaving the CBS Evening News: After weeks of speculation in the press that “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric was mulling whether she wanted to make another career change – this time to become a [...]

The New York Times wins for “Afghans Avenge Florida Koran Burning, Killing 12.”

I’ll be on Birmingham’s News Radio 105.5 WERC around 11:10 Eastern to discuss the allegations that Auburn University was paying players (and the larger implications this has for college athletics) and rise of concierge vacations for the rich.

A photo suggesting oral sex on the cover of a student newspaper has generated controversy.

Doug Mataconis, in his most recent post on Donald Trump’s flirtations with both running for president and birtherism, asks in the post’s headline:  Donald Trump: Crazy, Cynical, Or Both? The answer that popped into my head immediately was:  Donald Trump is a novelty act. Yes, I know he has had a successful real estate business, [...]

A handful of young male bloggers have launched themselves to the head of the line, leapfrogging those who’ve spent years playing the game by the old rules.juice

Vice President Joe Biden’s team forced a reporter to wait in a tiny closet in order to cover the vice president’s remarks at a fundraiser.

Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune posted a want ad for an investigative reporter and it’s gone viral.

Michael DeGusta compares the digital subscription prices of a variety of services and concludes that the New York Times is delusional. Does The Times really think the mass audience is going to decide their $455/year is better spent on The Times rather than getting 20+ free articles/month from The Times plus The Wall Street Journal ($207/year) plus [...]

Shailagh Murray becomes the latest reporter to join the Obama White House.

Folks, this is what passes for journalism: CNN alone will have a team of roughly 400 reporters, cameramen and crew assigned to the wedding. The network has 50 people on the ground working on the breaking news in Japan, plus others scattered in Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt And they’re not the only ones, for [...]

In less than two weeks, much of the content of The New York Times will go behind a paywall.

Late yesterday, The Washington Post admitted that one of its reporters had plagarized significant portions of at least two articles about the aftermath of the Tuscon shootings in January: The Washington Post suspended one of its most seasoned reporters Wednesday after editors determined that “substantial” parts of two recent news articles were taken without attribution [...]

New York Times journalists Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks, and Lynsey Addario have not been heard from in more than 24 hours.

Philippa Thomas has a fascinating take on how she broke the news of (now former) State Department P.J. Crowley’s condemnation of the Obama administration’s treatment of Bradley Manning.

NPR is a collection of local stations, not a single station. And it’s run that way.

While there are doubtless flaws with the journalistic values and culture of the New Media, we too often contrast today with a Golden Age of Media that never existed.

Via NPR:  NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns. The story is developing, but it is in the context of yesterday’s release of a video tape showing an NPR fundraiser making disparaging remarks about the Tea Party in what ended up being a sting/hoax perpetrated by James O’Keefe. The broader context is a public relations and ideological [...]

While the prestige outlets of the halcyon days of the last millennium still hold some cachet for those of us old enough to remember that era, they mean next to nothing on the Web.

Last week, I noted that Judith Regan had stated in a Federal Court affidavit that Fox News head Roger Ailes had told her to lie to Federal investigators regarding Bernard Kerik. Today, financial blogger and frequent cable news guest Barry Ritholtz has this: Here’s what I learned recently: Someone I spoke with claimed that Ailes [...]