Outside the Beltway

Forbes media critic Jeff Bercovici is a bit late spotting a trend.

This charge is false, as 10 minutes’ work by the Washington Post would have shown.

Breaking: The American press often does a lousy job.

Mitt Romney is no more of a wimp than George H.W. Bush or John Kerry.

The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.

Why the hell is CNN—which purports to be a news organization—pretending that NBC is live casting the Olympics?

David Brooks is wistful for the noblesse oblige of the elites of yore.

We’ve reached the point where public figures coming out of the closet is barely news anymore, and that’s a good thing.

Obama holds up “MANDATE STRUCK DOWN” headline from CNN in “DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN” photoshop

Mary Cheney has married longtime partner Heather Poe.

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

The 1976 Pulitizer prize winner is phoning it in.

When I saw the headline “Black Mormons Face Tough Election Choice Between Romney And Obama,” I naturally presumed it would lead to a parody news piece in The Onion.

Physical fitness and weight loss infomercials have gone from promising ease to promising a grueling challenge. What happened?

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

Since Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón began an all-out assault on drug cartels in 2006, more than 50,000 people have lost their lives across the country in a nearly-continuous string of shootouts, bombings, and ever-bloodier murders.

Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.

Animal’s Joel Johnson declares “Comments are Bad Business for Online Media.”

The Washington Post prematurely posted that Rick Santorum was dropping out of the race on its news wire and Bloomberg made the story viral while the Post was verifying its accuracy.

The Sky News leadership is taking a novel approach to charges that it illegally hacked emails: Claiming a right to break the law when they think it’s in the public’s interest to do so.

The wonderfully wry British media strikes again with the BBC headline “Soviet ex-KGB chief Leonid Shebarshin ‘kills himself'”

Sometimes, art imitates life rather than the reverse. And sometimes reality seems stranger than fiction.

Dear Bill Maher and Alexandra Pelosi: The plural of anecdote is not data.

Several newspapers are refusing to run this week’s Doonesbury strip.

Is it fair to single out the most powerful man in radio’s commentary for attention?

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

The Associated Press has rolled out a slightly new logo for the first time since the Reagan Administration.

Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and Remi Ochlik of Reuters have become the latest journalists to die reporting on the massacres in Syria.