Did you visit The Drudge Report yesterday to get the latest breaking news on the Obamacare decision? We were mainly focused on CNN (big mistake) but if you stopped by Matt Drudge's breaking news site, you were not alone.
Everyone knows that Mitt Romney doesn't have the fanatical support of a Ron Paul or even a Rick Santorum, but what does it say about the candidate if even the powerful people endorsing him don't seem excited about his candidacy?
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Monday's best green reads: NPR on the Texas drought, Mother Jones on anti-coal activism, The New York Times on uranium-mine radiation, The Guardian on measuring global warming, and Good on an eco-friendly pantry.
On yesterday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart waded into a Supreme Court case hyped to be bigger than Bush v. Gore and United States v. Nixon combined.
On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart calls out the beef's industry's public-relations spin on "lean, finely textured beef," a classy name given to a classless beef byproduct everyone else is calling "pink slime."
The incredible $1,000-a-day windfall one man named "Steve" claimed to make by spamming Pinterest users turned out to be just that -- not very credible.
After Jon Stewart weighed in on Lawrence O'Donnell grilling an empty chair and Rick Santorum chewing out a New York Times reporter, he took on the big issue of the day. Yes, The Daily Show went to The Park Slope Food Coop.
iPads are often heralded as the future of newspapers and magazines, which may very well be true, but be sure to remember that journalism in tablet-form is still pretty young. Case in point: news apps on the iPad still make a fraction of the revenue that print circulation does.
Back from a week-long vacation, The Daily Show host tried to avoid the low-hanging fruit among the stories he missed -- Dick Cheney's heart transplant -- and weigh in on the meatier subject of the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The import of Supreme Court decisions usually can't be fully felt until years after they're made, but there's one early sign that the case deciding the fate of the Affordable Care Act will be a doozy.
Using the treasure trove of readership data that are Bitly links, Forbes' Jon Bruner has created an interactive map of the news preferences of online readers that mediaphiles like us are sure to scour over.
The release of Verizon's annual "Data Breach Investigations Report" gives some numeric confirmation that 2011 was indeed "The Year of the Hack," as some observers (including us) maintained.
Ron Paul may be dead-last among the major GOP candidates in the all-important delegate count, but he's winning the Republican race in at least one place: Web traffic.
There's some sad news for Gail Collins this morning. While 68 percent of voters agree with The New York Times columnist that it is not "humane to put your family dog in a kennel on the roof of your car for a long car trip," 62 percent also say they wouldn't hold it against Mitt Romney.
Outlets like the New York Post and The New York Times started the hype for the nascent Knicks superstar, so they might as well have the right to say "Linsanity" is over when it's over.
On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart followed up on perhaps the only story coming out of Syria that could be called funny: a batch of Bashar al-Assad's personal emails that were leaked to The Guardian.
By one study's measure, slightly more than half of all the Internet's traffic comes from computers not being used by fleshy humans that might actually purchase products.
Tuesday was suppose to be a "last stand" for Gingrich, who's pinned his nomination hope on Mississippi and Alabama, so Jon Stewart is surprised to see Newt chalking up his second-place finishes in the states as a victory.
Rumors are already starting to fly out of Goldman Sachs that Greg Smith, who resigned from the investment bank in the pages of The New York Times, was a small-time employee upset over his small bonus, which only confirms the cutthroat corporate culture Smith accused the company of perpetuating.
In its latest ad, the Democratic National Committee is latching onto the pro-contraception zeitgeist within its party by dinging Mitt Romney on his Planned Parenthood stance.
By offering surveillance footage revealing the shooter involved in Sunday's violence and sending over the head of the U.S. military Wednesday, the United States is striving to generate some good will at a time when relations between the two countries are at a sad but understandable "all-time low."
As the brouhaha continues over Rush Limbaugh's "slut" comment, Jon Stewart took a look at how the right is covering the story, asking, how should Fox News handle the recent dose of Rush-brand hate-mongering?
Game Change, HBO's docudrama about the McCain-Palin presidential bid, pulled in 2.1 million viewers on Saturday night.
While the U.N. ups its casualty count yesterday in the Syrian conflict to 8,000, we learn today of more gruesome ways Bashar al-Assad is targeting fleeing refugees.
Invisible Children has done more to raise the profile of Joseph Kony in a 30-minute YouTube video than the mainstream media has with several decades of coverage, and Jon Stewart can't help but notice some hard feelings in the way they cover the story.
Apparently the GOP's gas price talking point is starting to hurt the president. The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll has found that 65 percent of Americans disapprove (52 percent "strongly") of the way Obama is handling the recent rise in gas prices.
The casualty count in the missile exchange between Israelis and Palestinians over the weekend has climbed to 21 Gazans but only two seriously wounded Israelis, bringing new focus to Israel's "Iron Dome" anti-missile system, which has worked so well in the lastest skirmish Israel wants to triple its size in a year.
Americans Elect's quest for a third-party moderate to challenge Obama and whoever the Republicans settled on has hit a PR snafu of its own making.
With some 57 million views in four days, "KONY 2012" is a full-fledged mega-meme. But the odds were stacked against it going viral.
While flying in Air Force One over Virginia this morning, President Obama finally made a phone call he'd been putting off all week to Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on his dubious presidential win in Russia, well after many of his Western counterparts had done so.
Want another sign that the New York Police Department was very explicitly spying on Muslims, on the basis of their religion alone? In the latest files unearthed yet again by the Associated Press, the NYPD kind of incriminates itself.
Our treat for not dying from one of the sun's biggest flare-ups in years? Pretty lights!
After Sean Hannity rolled-out the late Andrew Breitbart's "big" video reveal of a young Barack Obama hugging controversial Harvard professor Derrick Bell, Jon Stewart reminds Hannity that there's more recent footage he could have used to make Obama look bad.
Being a member of Congress is hard, say members of Congress. But don't break out the violins just yet.
Want a sweet gig in the Obama administration? Raising some money for his presidential campaign might just be your best bet for landing one.
One Israeli newspaper thinks it knows what was discussed between Obama and Netanyahu behind closed doors Monday: bunker-busters and planes for a possible strike on Iran.
Unfortunately for Jon Stewart, Super Tuesday provided no respite for his election-season fatigue.
Last week Bloomberg offered some competition to Forbes' annual billionaires lists with its own daily "Bloomberg Billionaires Index," so when the original wealth-ranker released its "World's Billionaires" feature today, it felt like déjà vu.
While American physicists today offer more tantalizing evidence that the Higgs boson exists, the term journalists once loved to call it, the "God particle," is going out of fashion.
As Jon Stewart noted on yesterday's Daily Show, the amped-up rhetoric around a possible Middle Eastern war has produced some funny -- though mostly frightening -- comments from the three actors.
A group of economists has found that women who had better access to the Pill were earning 8 percent more than those who didn't by the time they reached age 50.
Though it's bit of a wind up ahead of the reporting madness that will be tonight's Super Tuesday primary results, let that not stop was from ogling at the terrible number of caffeinated beverages those reporting on it are drinking.
Yesterday's New York Times featured a story about actress Junie Hoang's ongoing lawsuit against the Internet Movie Database for publishing her actual age against her wishes, but the paper of record ended up committing an even more egregious error by accidentally making her a year older than she is.
When you have two members of the Bush family publicly wringing their hands over the current Republican race, it's not the best sign that things are going as well as the GOP establishment would like.
"Personally, I don't get too worked up about the things Rush Limbugh says, because he is -- and has been for many years -- a terrible person," Jon Stewart said on last night's Daily Show.
Giving yet another cause for pause in the constitutionally dubious detainment of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, a relatively small portion of those released -- 16 percent -- go on to become terrorists again.
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