Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are quite entrepreneurial in their attempts to influence public policy in their favor.
The John McAfee saga was intriguing at first and then exciting when everything got all action-packed. But as McAfee sits in a Guatemalan detention center awaiting his fate, things seem a little sad.
ABC's senior political correspondent lays out his favorite beat reporters and confesses to a severe case of Bieber Fever.
Whether or not Bill O'Reilly's War on Christmas is fake, he's fighting on the wrong side this year.
After four months of searching and endless speculation, it looks like Jeff Zucker will be the man to take the reins at CNN, the cable news network that nobody really takes seriously any more.
The Washington Post today allowed our female anchor class to become some harbinger of a gender-equal clothing trend (except not quite), and that does the whole topic a disservice.
The Foreign Policy blogger now says Fox News is "making it up" when it claims he apologized for going on the network live and saying its coverage of Benghazi was hyped because it was operating as a wing of the GOP.
The fight between Fox News and Foreign Policy reporter Tom Ricks has escalated, with Fox News claiming Ricks apologized off air for saying on air Monday that the network hyped the Benghazi attacks because "Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican Party." Ricks says no such apology happened.
Chris Brown is really bad at public relations. The 23-year-old rapper went on a memorably vulgar tirade against comedian Jenny Johnson on Sunday and apparently realized soon thereafter that it was a bad idea, because he scrambled to cover his tracks.
Now that the dust has settled from last week's shakeup at the top of The Washington Post's masthead, New York Times media sage David Carr has a clearer view of what's happening at the paper, and it is not a pretty picture.
Justin Peters is my hero. Or, whomever came up with the idea to make Justin Peters try to live as many New York Times Styles section trend stories as possible—wearing a man bun, speaking in Britishisms, getting a bikini wax, blacking out a tooth to imitate a gap—that person is really my hero.
Time is gearing up to name it's annual Person of the Year in December and based on the discussion at the annual celebrity nomination debate luncheon it's probably going to be another non-person winning this year.
Information continues to emerge in the increasingly complicated, increasingly tawdry, and entirely all-consuming news story of what at first seemed like a "relatively" simple affair between former CIA head David Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell. But let's pause for a moment and talk about one very special sentence in the affair.
Brian Stelter of The New York Times reports that MSNBC is finally starting to catch up to Fox News in the ratings game, mainly by becoming the left-wing answer to Fox's conservative cheerleaders.
Occasionally, the headline writers for the New York Post and the New York Daily News are presented a story that will challenge their pun-making skills and gives them an opportunity to try and out do each other. The Petraeus affair has them both in rare form.
It's been more than a week since Sandy hit the New York area, and with an intervening election and, now, snow on the ground, to some it may be a faded memory, enough so we can start talking about how hilarious and interesting it all was, the funny things it made us do, the compromises we had to make, and how much weight we gained from the whole event. Right?
The best moment on television Election Night was when Karl Rove picked a fight with the usually nameless and faceless Fox News guys who crunch the numbers and call the winners—and lost. Why'd he do that?
The Internet has even reduced the time we have to wait to see tomorrow's Barack Obama-laden front pages, with Twitter giving us a sneak peek of the morning's coverage.
Once again, Diane Sawyer helped to lead ABC's Election Night coverage, and once again, she appeared entirely intoxicated while doing so. At least, that's what Twitter thought.
With less than 24 hours to go until the polls close and the 2012 presidential election is, for all intents and purposes, over, the time has finally come to tally up the stats and begin to try and make sense of the past couple years of madness.
The cover for this week's New Yorker was revealed last night, and it's definitely one you should not miss.
Maybe this says something about the state of these respective industries or maybe not, but today two Wired editors (one print, one digital) announced their departures to work full time at their respective start-ups.
In the book publishing industry, Sandy's impact has been felt, with downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn stores closed, tens of thousands of dollars in damages sustained, and struggles to regain basic functionality and get things moving again in the business of publishing in general. And then there are the writers.
Yesterday I was reminded by a friend of how "nice" people in the city became following another disaster, albeit a very different one, with far more deaths—after 9/11, she said, people were just nice to each other for almost a year. How long would we be nice to each other after Sandy? Are we being nice to each other as we speak?
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has condemned Nate Silver for tweeting a bet to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough as unbecoming of a Times journalist.
The Economist has endorsed President Obama for a second term, a decision it anticipated would surprise its readers.
When did The New York Times start talking like Yoda, and when did we begin to notice it? On it, the Twitter account @NYTPrepositions is.
When Andrew Sullivan complained of ABC's This Week Sunday that at the presidential debates, Mitt Romney "ripped off his mask and said, 'I'm brand new now.'" But we liked the new Romney, former Bush adviser Nicolle Wallace responded. Whether that's true of voters, we don't yet know, but it's definitely true of many newspapers who've backed the Republican this month.
The great war between people who write about politics for a living is not between liberals and conservatives, but between humanities majors and math nerds, and their battleground is currently the validity of Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight election prediction model.
As the New York City area (and beyond) attempts to recover from one of the most massive, damaging storms in our history, we get a story in the New York Post that changes everything. Or, nothing, in that it confirms what we had suspected about a certain set of people who will stop at nothing to get their Starbucks.
When liberal firebrand Keith Olbermann was acrimoniously dismissed from Current TV seven months ago, we pondered the remaining networks he could jump to that didn't already have sour relations with him. Turns out, he's approaching some rather unorthodox venues: Viacom, AMC Networks and at least one broadcast network, according to Forbes' Jeff Bercovici.
Kate Carraway, Vice columnist and writer for the National Post, the Globe and Mail, and The Grid, is a media consumption machine, but she draws the line at sites that ask her to write for them and then say they can't pay her.
In a matter of hours, CNN published and removed a story about how hormones influence women voters, one that made claims about how women tend to lean liberal when ovulating because they "feel sexier."
Donald Trump officiated the week's biggest eye-rolling contest on Wednesday, when he made his "very big announcement" about President Obama, a ploy for attention that inspired The Daily Beast slash Newsweek to launch a ploy of their own: a Donald Trump boycott.
It is International Caps Lock Day, as Megan Garber has alerted us in her TheAtlantic.com post on the subject. This is a day to celebrate (if you must), but with some caveats. It's not like you can just hit the caps lock key with your pinkie and carry on. There are rules, here, even on its special day.
Rupert Murdoch wants to add two new gems to his soon-to-be-formed publishing company after News Corp. splits into two pieces, and his wandering eyes are focusing on the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune.
Best-selling author Jennifer Weiner has responded to the news of New York Times Magazine's "Talk" columnist Andrew Goldman's month-long suspension from the paper over his recent tweets, called "insulting and profane" by New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan.
As we grow old and grey on the Internet, one thing will remain the same. There will always be trend stories about ladies' hair, whether it's about bangs, or lack of bangs, or partial Caesar-type bangs, or short new gamine cuts (how French!), or updos, or long-dos, or color (ombre, remember ombre?).
Rembert Browne, staff writer for Grantland, loves books, thinks he still hates the Internet (but uses it constantly anyway), and steals his New York Times from a neighbor.
In a momentous (though not totally unforeseen) development, Newsweek editor Tina Brown announced this morning that the magazine will move to an all-digital format and shutter the print edition just shy of its 80th birthday.
Executives at Guardian News & Media are "seriously discussing" getting rid of its print edition, reports The Telegraph's Katherine Rushton, citing no sources.
The first semester of freshman year is hard. Your interest expand beyond your teenage obsessions. You find new things to focus on. Sometimes you grow too fast, and relationships get strained. Like the one between Jonathan Krohn and VICE which only lasted three weeks.
"Can you believe we're talking about this in 2012?" asks New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan in a piece regarding a recent inflammatory situation involving best-selling novelist Jennifer Weiner and New York Times Magazine contributor Andrew Goldman. She's talking about the way we talk about sexism.
It's the third day of coverage in the New York Post for Larry Greenfield, the multi-millionaire who said that the six matchmaker services to whom he'd paid $65,000 hadn't done a good enough job in the last 12 years and 250 women to set him up with the girl of his dreams.
It's impossible not to ask where the sympathies of The Daily Caller's founder, Tucker Carlson, really lie given this shocking revelation, reported exclusively at The Atlantic Wire (that is, exclusively because at this moment no one else is reporting it): Tucker Carlson worked with top-level Democrats for years.
Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan got a little cheeky with Flint, Michigan's ABC 12 on Monday. Despite what you might've read in The Huffington Post or BuzzFeed, however, he did not walk out on his probably seemingly well intentioned interviewer.
Jessica Grose's debut novel, Sad Desk Salad, featuring the character of Alex Lyons, a writer for "Chick Habit, an increasingly popular women's website" (a la Jezebel and Slate's Double X, both sites at which Grose blogged), is out this week from William Morrow/Harper Collins.
The polling guru tells us the sources he loves and what he hates most about punditry.
Conservative blogger and general muckraker Matt Drudge has been trumpeting an Obama video to air on Fox News tonight that would change the face of the election. Turns out, it's a five year old video of a speech that's been online the whole time.
Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air and an author herself, exemplifies the reading life. For her, that means limiting her online reading and getting up as early as 4 a.m. to tackle the more than 100 books delivered to her house weekly.
The head of Reuters' Tehran bureau chief Parisa Hafezi could be looking at jail time after a special media court found her guilty of "spreading lies" with a February video about Iranian women in martial arts training.
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