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cable news news
Sept. 6, 2012
This Is What Tom Brokaw Looks Like on Half an Ambien
The anchor was rushed to the hospital after accidentally taking a sleeping pill (and appearing on TV).
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Sept. 5, 2012
Jonah Lehrer Can Always Fall Back on Poetry
Another side effect of a plagiarism scandal: your undergrad poems revealed.
By
Joe Coscarelli
scandal-stained wretches
Sept. 4, 2012
News Corp. Phone-Hacking Saga Is Never Ending, Extremely Expensive
It could cost authorities £40 million over four years.
By
Joe Coscarelli
media
Sept. 4, 2012
Pat Kiernan Is Really, Honestly, Totally Getting Over Kelly Ripa
Today, his ‘Live!’ dreams are dead.
By
Joe Coscarelli
scandal-stained wretches
Sept. 4, 2012
Jonah Lehrer’s Plagiarism Scandal: But Wait, There’s More!
A review of his blog posts for ‘Wired’ turned up enough misdeeds to lose him another job.
By
Joe Coscarelli
history
Sept. 3, 2012
The
Times
’ ‘History of New York in 50 Objects’ Missed a Few Things
Hint: a large building.
By
Brett Smiley
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 31, 2012
Newsweek
Gets Last Laugh on Roundly Dismantled Anti-Obama Issue
Tina Brown scoffs at your silly facts.
By
Joe Coscarelli
truth vigilantes
Aug. 30, 2012
Paul Ryan, the Media, and the L-Word
Most news outlets are “fact-checking” his speech last night, but did he “lie” or not?
By
Joe Coscarelli
blog-stained wretches
Aug. 29, 2012
David Chalian Fired From Yahoo Over Romney Gaffe
“They’re happy to have a party with black people drowning.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
blog-stained wretches
Aug. 29, 2012
The Huffington Post Accused of Not Paying RNC Masseuses [Updated]
Those providing the site’s convention perk are working for “exposure.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
empty chairs
Aug. 28, 2012
Bachmann Cancels on
Piers Morgan
, Morgan Wonders If It’s His Accent
“Why are all these Republicans suddenly bailing on me?”
By
Brett Smiley
media
Aug. 27, 2012
New York
Times
Dumps About.com, Says It Needs to Focus on Itself
And what to do with the $300 million.
By
Margaret Hartmann
the internet
Aug. 24, 2012
Insensitive Instagram User Not Actually Cashing In on Photo of Shooting Victim
He was just being a jerk.
By
Joe Coscarelli
early and awful
Aug. 23, 2012
Mitt Romney Bars Interviewer From Asking About the News
No questions about “abortion or Todd Akin.”
By
Dan Amira
scandal-stained wretches
Aug. 23, 2012
Elisabeth Murdoch Goes a Little Rogue Against News Corp.
The Murdoch daughter took some shots at her brother and father in a speech today.
By
Joe Coscarelli
media
Aug. 23, 2012
Times
Photog Beat Up by NYPD Got His Stuff Back
Robert Stolarik is not off the hook yet.
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 23, 2012
Newsweek
Loses Creative Director to
The New Republic
Tough week.
By
Joe Coscarelli
tv news news
Aug. 23, 2012
Ann Romney’s Speech Bumped for
Hawaii Five-O
Rerun
Networks cut convention coverage, leaving us with only a dozen other ways to watch.
By
Margaret Hartmann
neighborhood news
Aug. 22, 2012
Pat Kiernan Now Officially Belongs to Brooklyn
Borough President Marty Markowitz said so.
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 22, 2012
Tina Brown Speaks on Niall Ferguson Cover Story
But the
Newsweek
editor is mostly sticking by her man.
By
Joe Coscarelli
media
Aug. 21, 2012
About.com Is a Hot Commodity All of a Sudden
Barry Diller’s IAC has made an offer to buy it from the New York Times Company.
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 21, 2012
‘Gatecrasher’ Is No More in the Ongoing
Daily News
Revamp
Tabloid war: back on?
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 21, 2012
Niall Ferguson: Liberal Media Is ‘Nit-Picking’
“I don’t think you can claim this undermines my academic reputation.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 20, 2012
Fareed Zakaria Plagiarized Because He Is Old-Fashioned
and
a New Breed
The brand-name journalist completes his repentance cycle with an apology and explanation.
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 19, 2012
Michael Lewis Given ‘Extensive’ Access to Obama
The
Moneyball
author’s piece will appear in
Vanity Fair
’s October issue.
By
Caroline Bankoff
the donald
Aug. 15, 2012
Donald Trump Not a Fan of ‘Loser Salon,’ Which Is His Name for Salon
Why won’t trump disparage us?
By
Dan Amira
scandal-stained wretches
Aug. 15, 2012
Jonah Lehrer Still Plugged in at
Wired
Scandal be damned.
By
Adam K. Raymond
cable news news
Aug. 13, 2012
Report: CNN Plans to Save Itself by Featuring Less News, More Reality Shows
What happens when the Best Political Team on Television stops being polite and starts getting real?
By
Margaret Hartmann
crimes and misdemeanors
Aug. 9, 2012
Deadline.com Owner Jay Penske Allegedly Assaulted a Woman, Peed on Her Boots
He was arrested with his brother after a break-in at a yacht club.
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 9, 2012
Was the New York
Times
Too Mean to Lolo Jones?
The paper’s public editor says yes.
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 9, 2012
The Bizarre Sexual-Harassment Scandal Shaking
The Oxford American
The Southern literary magazine is full of drama.
By
Joe Coscarelli
cable news news
Aug. 8, 2012
Al Gore to Play Keith Olbermann on Current TV
The former vice-president is anchoring convention coverage on his own network.
By
Joe Coscarelli
media
Aug. 8, 2012
The New York Times Is Almost Rid of About.com
The content farm may be unloaded for $270 million.
By
Joe Coscarelli
media
Aug. 8, 2012
Sue Simmons to Play Fake Sue Simmons on
Law & Order: SVU
She’s a making a cameo in the season premiere.
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 7, 2012
New Yorker
Photographer on Instagram Experiment: My Kid Could Make That
“I could hand the phone over to my 3-year-old son and he could come up with a good picture.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
media
Aug. 6, 2012
Times
Photographer Roughed Up by NYPD Just Wants His Stuff Back
“They were violent toward me, and they were violent toward the media.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
bobos in paris
Aug. 3, 2012
David Brooks’s Jay-Z Man-Crush
“I do listen to rap.”
By
Jessica Pressler
scandal-stained wretches
Aug. 3, 2012
Examples of Jonah Lehrer’s Deception Keep Coming
There’s a lot of his work left to go through.
By
Joe Coscarelli
media
Aug. 3, 2012
NBC Doesn’t Have Much Incentive to Change Its Olympics Coverage
Sorry, Internet.
By
Caroline Bankoff
tablet-stained wretches
Aug. 2, 2012
The Huffington Post Will Now Give Away Its Tablet Magazine
For the first five issues it was 99 cents.
By
Joe Coscarelli
pink-stained wretches
Aug. 2, 2012
Elizabeth Spiers Out As New York
Observer
Editor
Business-side boss Christopher Barnes is leaving as well.
By
Joe Coscarelli
embarrassing for everyone
Aug. 2, 2012
Katie Couric Will YOLO As She Pleases, Thank You Very Much [Updated]
She’s a tad sensitive about her hipness.
By
Joe Coscarelli
blog-stained wretches
Aug. 2, 2012
Keith Olbermann Started a Sad Tumblr of Sunsets
He used to be a photographer, apparently.
By
Joe Coscarelli
ink-stained wretches
Aug. 2, 2012
The
Times
Got a Few Things Wrong in Its Gore Vidal Obit
Crypto-
Nazi
, not crypto-fascist. Get it right!
By
Margaret Hartmann
scandal-stained wretches
July 31, 2012
News Corp. Would Prefer Its Directors Not Face Charges for Neglect
It’s still a possibility in the phone-hacking scandal.
By
Joe Coscarelli
tablet-stained wretches
July 31, 2012
Layoffs Hit Rupert Murdoch’s
The Daily
The iPad newspaper is firing 50 of its 170 employees.
By
Joe Coscarelli
the internet
July 31, 2012
Twitter and NBC Looking Bad in Guy Adams Drama
The journalist’s account is still suspended.
By
Joe Coscarelli
scandal-stained wretches
July 31, 2012
Jayson Blair Has Some Sympathy and Advice for Jonah Lehrer
He’s a life coach now.
By
Joe Coscarelli
the internet
July 30, 2012
Journalist Has Twitter Suspended After Complaining About NBC’s Olympics Coverage
Twitter and the network have their reasons, but they’re shaky at best.
By
Joe Coscarelli
scandal-stained wretches
July 30, 2012
Jonah Lehrer Resigns from
The New Yorker
“The lies are over now.”
By
Joe Coscarelli
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