Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are quite entrepreneurial in their attempts to influence public policy in their favor.
CBS DC is inexplicably shocked that Attorney General Eric Holder bored a good portion of the 700 kids who saw him speak at the Boys and Girls Club in Washington Tuesday, lulling the kids to sleep.
The Washington Post published a story June 21 calling Mitt Romney an offshoring "pioneer" while at Bain Capitol, and President Obama's campaign made an ad about that. On Wednesday, six days after the story was published, Romney's campaign is seeking a full retraction from the Post, Politico's Dylan Byers reports.
A worrisome trend is underfoot, creeping like a viral fungus. The trend is niceness.
The couple that many would say never should have been is no longer. John Edwards and Rielle Hunter are splitsville.
The Wall Street Journal — a key arm of the Rupert Murdoch media empire — is reporting that their boss is seriously considering splitting that empire's entertainment and publishing divisions into two separate companies.
Everything is now sexualized and objectified. We can blame the Internet, or we can blame ourselves.
When Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz revamped her hairdo in April, our commenters bristled at the ensuing headlines: "Can't wait for a similar story about a man's grooming." Turns out, they were right: The Democrat's curly locks were dramatically-overplayed!
Journalist Anthony Shadid, who was killed by a severe asthma attack while in Syria in February, apparently told his wife before making his final trip abroad that if anything happened to him he wanted his death to be blamed on the New York Times.
NBC News is getting hammered in two of the country's biggest newspapers and former Keith Olbermann, who went to war with NBC two employer fights ago, couldn't be happier.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
As The Atlantic Wire's Connor Simpson explained, Ann Curry's exit from The Today Show can be explained by her lack of chemistry with co-host Matt Lauer.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The American Prospect faces a challenge: how to shift their business model so supporters don't have to bail them out with another $1.2 million but maintain their identity as a wonky, liberal, policy focused magazine.
Ann Curry's days as a co-host of NBC's The Today Show are officially numbered, as The New York Times' Brian Stelter is reporting network execs want Curry out of her current role by the London Summer Olympics.
Jonah Lehrer got in piles of trouble on Tuesday when it was revealed he has a history of recycling his own material, and now he's apologized and ended any ethics debate you were already bored of hearing about.
Some of us never forget the first sentence we conjugated. Others of us are, like, LOL, WTF?
Fox has introduced Fox News Magazine, a site apparently for the ladies, and it is shocking not because it has a conservative take on traditional women's content, but because it has no point of view at all, other than getting clicks through anxiety traps like "10 Reasons You're Not Having Sex."
The New York Post is not a fan of John Edwards. And Rielle Hunter's new book, What Really Happened, which is out June 26, is getting plenty of attention from the tabloid because of that.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Jane Pratt has finally weighed in on Cat Marnell's decision to leave xoJane, and she's justifiably heartbroken.
As of Monday, The New York Post will cost $1 on weekdays. How many Post covers and headlines stand up to the dollar test so far this year?
A lot of us in the media have been watching one of our own—Cat Marnell, the former beauty director and health critic of xoJane.com—deal with her unabashed addiction in a very public forum.
Vanilla cable news channel CNN is ceaselessly derided for its rock-bottom primetime ratings and gimmicky presentation but the middle-of-the-road network is actually a profit-generating behemoth.
Paul Krugman on Europe, Niall Ferguson on the future, E.J. Dionne on government, The Wall Street Journal on bailouts and Juan Williams on Obama's playbook.
Paul Krugman on Reagan, Robert Satloff on Syria, Peggy Noonan on Obama, Jonathan Chait on Romney's money, and John Yoo on drone strikes.
Did you hear? Bangs are back! Or so says The New York Times' Thursday Styles section. Let's put it through The Atlantic Wire's trend-story rating system to figure out if this true, probably, true, or totally fake.
Walter Russell Mead on the Wisconsin recall, Alec MacGillis on union power, Sohrab Ahmari on Ray Bradbury, John Nagl on modern warfare and Michael Kinsley on banning soda.
President Obama's adviser David Axelrod sounded confident and a little mystical in October when he said of the Republican presidential candidates, "Campaigns are like an MRI for the soul — whoever you are, eventually people find out." But the vetting of Mitt Romney has not revealed him to have a terrible dark side. Instead, it's painted a picture of him as a fun-killing square.
John Kerry and the New York Times are having a debate about journalism. It all started when Kerry was asked by CNN's Ted Barrett if he thought The Times should have held their story on President Obama's ordering cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear program "for national security reasons."
CNBC's sports business reporter Darren Rovell has been victimized by a devious prankster, who tricked him into reporting something that wasn't true. But it's his response to getting played that raises even more questions about the meaning journalistic integrity.
Adweek has a pretty breastactular article on the science and history of the mammary in advertising today.
The Republican National Committee and allied Super PACs have all made countless puns on "hope and change" at the expense of President Obama this election, but those with the true creative gift for Obama punnery are the the unpaid and unheralded anonymous trolls on news websites.
Herman Cain will get a nationally syndicated radio show next year, following in the footsteps of other terrible presidential candidates who became successful media stars.
If there's one thing Amercia loves, it's a good, old-fashioned viral typo.
As of now, it's still unlikely that this will translate into action, but Warren Buffet responded to an open letter from a New Orleans musician to say, "Naturally I've been following the Times-Pic situation with interest." With interest!
There's a further gender gap in media, and this one extends beyond the bylines themselves.
James Fallows of The Atlantic has a response to those sensing a left-wing media bias this election season. Take a look at this chart.
Fox & Friends aired an attack ad against President Obama that many have said could have been produced by the Republican National Committee. But the Fox video is actually a cartoon version of the Mitt Romney campaign's series of ads it's released in recent weeks titled "Broken Promises."
Every couple of weeks another report comes out with a new statistic that demonstrates what we should all know by now: women writers are not being published as often as men. But we're still working at getting to the heart of the matter.
It was nearly a year ago that Anthony Weiner resigned from his Congressional seat after being busted in a sexting scandal. But The New York Post is not done with him yet.
Once again, nearly as consistently as prying public discussions into the supposed ticking of our biological clocks, the Cosmo-esque fake cover of Overanalyzing magazine has been recirculating. Where did it come from?
Newt Gingrich will "debate" Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, his second big appearance on an NBC political show in less than a week.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune will undergo some radical and painful changes an in attempt to save its life, but if the history of its sibling newspapers is any guide, the cuts will only delay the inevitable.
Faced with massive budget cuts, The New Orleans Times-Picayune will cut back its frequency to three days a week starting in the fall.
Proposed legislation in New York State hopes to rid the Internet of mean, anonymous commenters. But do we really want to get rid of those people, even if we can?
Chris Hughes, the Facebook-made millionaire owner of The New Republic, announced he's rehiring an old face to run the magazine and that he's not worried about it making a profit right away.
Birtherism is back! More than a year after Barack Obama definitively settled the question of his birthplace by releasing his Hawaii birth certificate the right-wing blogosphere is focusing in on two typos that, if they were not typos, would suggest that he was born in Kenya. But this time the message is it's all Obama's fault.
Today in publishing and literature: Foul-mouthed Y.A. characters are everywhere nowadays, pregnancy books have changed, George Bush is writing a book about economic growth, and Twitter book clubs are a thing.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney fantasizes about President Romney, President Obama loves higher-ed because he loved his mom, Karl Rove's Super PAC gets into the Nebraska Senate race, and Democrats gloat over the negative coverage of Romney's business career.
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