Outside the Beltway

Rupert Murdoch’s publishing empire is being rocked by a second scandal, this one a scheme to inflate the circulation figures of the Wall Street Journal.

Andy Rooney made his last appearance as a regular commenter on “60 Minutes” last night but says he’s not retiring because “writers don’t retire.”

Can someone who doesn’t look like a GQ model make it in politics anymore?

Is quoting President Obama without fixing his grammar “racist”? Some say it is.

Paul Krugman chose to mark the the 10th anniversary of September 11th with an odd blog post.

The very question is rather dubious.

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.

If Palin runs and loses, is that the end of Palin?

Comparing Bachmann and Palin in regards to managing the media.

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 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.

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.

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

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.

Ann Coulter explains why she’s not a fan of the late Princess Di: “”I find it a little baffling when Americans get so gaga-eyed over a princess. In particular Lady Di, who was just this anorexic, bulimic narcissist.”

Gene Weingarten is not a fan of journalists building a brand.

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.

Does Limbaugh love the Heritage Foundation because of their ideas or their check book?

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.

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

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.