Cocktail Crossfire: Is Ryan Gosling a Hero or Fraud?
As another tale of Ryan Gosling super-hero-dom makes its way across the Internet, we ask ourselves: Is Gosling too good to be true?
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Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are quite entrepreneurial in their attempts to influence public policy in their favor.
As another tale of Ryan Gosling super-hero-dom makes its way across the Internet, we ask ourselves: Is Gosling too good to be true?
While the media focused on President Obama's attacks on Paul Ryan's budget yesterday, the president had a separate message for the press: Here's how to cover my re-election campaign.
Recently unemployed news anchor Keith Olbermann stopped by The Late Show with David Letterman last night to give his first public, non-Twitter explanation for what went wrong on Current TV.
The National Magazine Award finalists have been announced, and women are not represented at all in reporting, feature writing, profile writing, essays and criticism, columns and commentary, or feature photography.
Being pretty is so, so hard. We know this because the the world's largest news site Daily Mail has a feature on it!
We appear to be entering Phase Three of Sarah Palin's career: Woman stuff guru.
The first thing a lot of people do whenever a new list of "most outstandings" comes down the pike is check to see what the male to female breakdown is.
There's another article about Anna Gristina in the paper that makes us wonder if the editors have decided to go a bit harder on the Mommy Madam—and if that's the case, if it has anything to do with the claims of last week that the paper and the madam are friends.
Perpetual bridge-burner Keith Olbermann set ablaze another viaduct Friday with an acrimonious departure from Al Gore's Current TV network. Where can he go next?
The New York Post's Jeane MacIntosh has come forward to admit that "Anna Gristina, the notorious soccer mom madam, does have a relationship with someone at the New York Post. It's me."
To the delight of Arianna Huffington, we imagine, a judge has dismissed that class action lawsuit filed last Spring by a group of unpaid bloggers suing the Huffington Post for pay, falling on the side of the Huffington Post.
This week, Esquire magazine joined the proud tradition of media trolling with its Sex Issue, a cocktail of self-aware misogyny, arm-chair sociology, and pinup photos that engendered near-universal disgust, resulting in lots of "buzz."
The uniquely stark cover of Thursday's New York Daily News asks a question that seems to keep coming up in highly publicized rape cases—publicized, generally, because they involve powerful men, including cops, accused, but not convicted, of rape.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
There is "no real outrage" over Trayvon Martin's death, Rush Limbaugh declared on his radio show Thursday, just like there was no real outrage over the time he called Sandra Fluke a "slut" and demanded to see sex tapes.
The Washington Post must have offered John Temple a pretty sweet gig to get him to leave gorgeous beach paradise Hawaii for swampy inland Washington, D.C.
Now that the outrage over his comments about activist Sandra Fluke have had a few weeks to die down, it seems clear that Rush Limbaugh and his radio show are going to be okay.
Fox News felt a 17 percent drop in viewers this month compared to March 2011 -- guess that means everyone hates Republicans, right?
A Maxim magazine an article entitled "How to Cure a Feminist" is inspiring lots of people around the Internet to get very angry. But this article is from 2003.
Readers and pundits have been wondering how a new owner might change the venerable Washington political magazine, The New Republic, and they just got a early answer.
Race can be a very uncomfortable thing to talk about. It is so uncomfortable for some conservative writers to talk about that they feel moved to call for everyone to stop talking by declaring racism dead.
The cover of Tuesday's New York Post is dedicated to the Trayvon Martin story, but there's a twist: It's not about Martin (or his alleged shooter, George Zimmerman) at all, but about the tragedy being "hijacked by 'race hustlers.'"
Oh no, President Obama accidentally let it slip that he's just waiting till after he's suckered America into reelecting him to sell us out to Vladimir Putin.
Where does Rick Santorum's anti-reporter cussing rank in the all-time great politician-reporter cuss outs? Not very high.
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.
There's been a lot of change underway at the good old dependable Associated Press in the last few weeks, culminating in the hiring of a new president and CEO, Gary Pruitt.
Consumer Reports has gotten itself into some uncomfortably tepid water over a recent declaration. About bagels.
While new media evangelists like to say social media has takeover of the news, Pew Research Center's State of the News Media report shows that the revolution is still far from overthrowing the old regime.
A murder at an out-of-control house party is being blamed on the teen freakout movie Project X, which would suggest that someone might have actually gone to see Project X.
A front page story in The New York Times today attempts to tie Mitt Romney to Chinese state repression, but it really says more about the complexities of international business than his investment strategies.
Mitt Romney was an agitated and evasive candidate on Fox News Wednesday. He was a relaxed and able explainer of his policies on Fox News Thursday.
The print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is no more, a fact that's already sending bibliophiles to mourn the death of print (even more) and digital types to cheer on Wikipedia (even more). As the Chicago Tribune put it, this is "a cultural benchmark and, certainly, a moment in history." True, but it's not a sad one.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Appearing at South by Southwest for the first time, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson spoke frankly about the paper's pay wall at a panel dedicated to "The Future of The New York Times." Abramson said that she supports the pay wall but also thinks that "news wants to be free."
A pair of reports that CNN is preparing to spend $200 million on Mashable, an Internet news website founded by a would-be male model in Scotland, has tech geeks chatting up a storm down in Austin this week.
Rupert Murdoch turns 81 years young on Sunday March 11, an accomplishment for any human being but a true milestone the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., who's had a rough go lately.
Less than 24 hours after Fox News's Greta Van Susteren wrote a grumpy blog post refusing to go to the Radio and Television Correspondents on account of it's "pig" of a host, the "pig" in question, Louis C.K. decided he wasn't going either.
The Romney campaign's new effort to woo reporters -- sometimes with booze -- might be coming a bit too late. On Friday The New York Times explores the striking similarity between Mitt Romney and George H. W. Bush, while Politico notes how much Romney has in common with Bob Dole.
Chris Hughes, the fortunate Harvard roommate of Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, is the new owner, publisher, and editor-in-chief of The New Republic.
RushLimbaugh.com appears to have removed parts of his radio transcripts from February 29 and March 1 in which he called Sandra Fluke a "slut" and demanded a sex tape as a thank you to taxpayers for subsidizing her birth control.
A woman in Michigan won $1 million from a state lottery game, but is still collecting state food assistance, a fact that is sure to open another front in the ongoing class war.
Democrats say they're really mad about Rush Limbaugh's slut controversy, but it sure is useful to them. Obama reelection adviser David Axelrod did his part to keep the story alive on Wednesday, asking reporters that if Mitt Romney can't stand up to Limbaugh, "how can he stand up to Ahmadinejad?"
We're still updating our list of companies that have pulled their ads from Rush Limbaugh even after he apologized for calling Sandra Fluke a slut on Monday. The current tally is up to 46.
It's been a big week of news for Russia, Iran, and Syria, which means their propaganda mills have been working overtime.
Despite winning six of the ten states and most of the available delegates last night, the media narrative still seems to be that Mitt Romney just can't get it done.
Less than 10 companies had pulled their ads from Rush Limbaugh's radio show Tuesday, when The Atlantic Wire counted the ads still running. Since then, the number pulling their ads has more than doubled.
Rush Limbaugh said he wasn't motivated to apologize to Sandra Fluke by the number of companies pulling ads from his show. He insists he's turned away "millions" in ads and he can always "replace" the ones who've left! But it made us wonder exactly who does advertise on Limbaugh's show.
At first glance it seems odd that Mitt Romney's campaign would have Donald Trump, of all people, vouching for the candidate's authenticity, not to mention his brainpower.
Just after AOL announced it would no longer be advertising on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, he opened Monday's edition with yet another apology to Sandra Fluke for calling her a "slut" and a "prostitute," this time blaming (who else?) the left.
WikiLeaks is trying to hang onto its dignity following its divorce from several mainstream media outlets by claiming it severed ties with those companies—not the other way around.
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