1. politics as unusual
    Forget Haiti. You Know Who Has It Really Hard? Congressional Staffers“Sometimes the only chance you have to eat are hors d’oeuvres at parties.”
    By Chris Rovzar
  2. ink-stained wretches
    Editor & Publisher Gets Another ChanceFollowing in the footsteps of its former sister ‘Kirkus Reviews,’ the trade finds a new home.
    By Chris Rovzar
  3. in other news
    President Obama to Write Newsweek’s Haiti Cover StoryWell, his name will be on it at least.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  4. ink-stained wretches
    New York Times to Hire Gossip Girl ReporterThey want a journalist for the New York City private-school beat.
    By Chris Rovzar
  5. ink-stained wretches
    Never Accept an Invitation to Lunch at the Reuters CafeteriaOr MSNBC. Or CBS, for that matter.
    By Chris Rovzar
  7. ink-stained wretches
    Murdoch Pulls News Content From British Aggregator SiteIs America next?
    By Chris Rovzar
  8. sad things
    Do Pat Robertson’s Good Deeds Outweigh His Seemingly Hateful Words?That’s what Joe Scarborough argues, after the Christian TV minister claimed that Haiti earned its troubles when it made a deal with the devil.
    By Chris Rovzar
  9. sad things
    Heidi Montag Had Ten Plastic Surgeries in One Day, and Wants to Tell You About It’People’ has really got to be regretting their choice of cover this week.
    By Chris Rovzar
  10. built ford tough
    Harold Ford Teaches a Lesson on How Not to Be PopulistLesson one: Do not reference helicopters.
    By Chris Rovzar
  11. america’s sweetheart
    Sarah Palin Makes Her Fox News DebutShe is now entering the No Spin Zone!
    By Adam K. Raymond
  12. in other news
    Don’t Expect News Corp. to Ditch Roger Ailes Anytime SoonReports out this morning have the Fox News titan on the outs with the Murdoch family, and therefore out at the media conglomerate. But don’t bet on it.
    By Chris Rovzar
  13. ink-stained wretches
    Canada’s Beaver Magazine Changes Name After 90 YearsBut not for the reason you think! Okay, for exactly the reason you think.
    By Chris Rovzar
  14. anchors away!
    Dan Rather’s Last Request for Appeal DeniedAnd so the former CBS anchor’s breach-of-contract suit against his former employer thuds to a halt, finally.
    By Chris Rovzar
  15. journalism
    Teen.com Reporter Gives Michael Cera Her Phone NumberHopefully he’ll call! Because we’re not sure she’ll get to keep her job.
    By Jessica Pressler
  16. ink-stained wretches
    Head-Clonking Condé Bigwig on the Way Out? [Updated]Richard Beckman may be tapped to head a new trade group, the ‘Post’ reports.
    By Chris Rovzar
  17. in other news
    Tucker Carlson’s Website Is Finally HereAnd it has boobs.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  18. party chat
    Alan Cumming Grew Up in a ForestAnd other things we learned from his ‘Times’ Talk this weekend.
    By Bennett Marcus
  19. in other news
    Barbara Walters: NBC Tried to Poach MeLast year, the legendary journalist’s old home tried to lure her back.
    By Chris Rovzar
  20. in other news
    Things Just Keep Getting Worse for Dominic CarterThe Post reports that the NY1 reporter is being investigated for another attack on his wife.
    By Lindsay Robertson
  21. white men with money
    Reuters Editors Increasingly Testy Over Hedge-Fund Story QuestionsThey didn’t kill a story about Steve Cohen just because he asked, okay?
    By Chris Rovzar
  22. ink-stained wretches
    Will the Journal Be Pleased by Sewell Chan’s Departure From the Times ‘Metro’ Section?The industrious City Room blogger and metro reporter leaves just when preparations for the ‘Journal”s New York bureau are amping up.
    By Chris Rovzar
  23. ink-stained wretches
    Don’t Show Off Your Breast Implants If You Work at Condé NastIt’s not just Anna Wintour who won’t like it.
    By Chris Rovzar
  24. ink-stained wretches
    Nikki Finke Has the Post by the BriefsThe ‘Post’ crossed the wrong Hollywood blogger.
    By Jessica Pressler
  25. ink-stained wretches
    Gastrointestinal Outbreak at the Times!Just when you thought things couldn’t get much worse.
    By Chris Rovzar
  26. ink-stained wretches
    Bloomberg Business Week Writers Now Banned From Calling Subjects ‘Sphincter Tightening’ Without AttributionSeems pretty reasonable. But way less fun!
    By Chris Rovzar
  27. ink-stained wretches
    Kirkus Reviews May Survive YetA buyer is on the horizon, and work has resumed at the venerable trade.
    By Chris Rovzar
  28. tiger catches tail
    Tiger Woods Probably Regrets That Annie Leibovitz Photo ShootBecause now there’s a photo of him looking like a scary thug on the cover of ‘Vanity Fair.’
    By Chris Rovzar
  29. Brit Hume to Tiger Woods: Drop Buddhism and You Will Be ForgivenIt’s the only way to make a “total recovery and be a great example to the world.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  30. in other news
    Sometimes Dominic Carter Cries a LotOther times he reads the paper or watches movies.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  31. ink-stained wretches
    Even in Dismal Print Climate, New York Post and Daily News Couldn’t Get AlongEven considering such a partnership would once have been considered sacrilege.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  32. media deathwatch
    Washington Times Lays Off Nearly Half Its StaffThe Sports and Metro sections are dead.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  33. breaking
    Rush Limbaugh Rushed to the HospitalThe radio host is spending the holidays in Honolulu.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  34. ink-stained wretches
    Maureen Dowd’s Most-Referenced Pop-Culture Touchstones’Ally McBeal’? Really?
    By Chris Rovzar
  35. in other news
    Michael Musto’s Ode to the AughtsMusto as Carrie Prejean channeling Fred Phelps? Wowza.
    By Chris Rovzar
  36. in other news
    Fox News Sails to Best Year EverThanks Glenn Beck’s magic tears!
    By Adam K. Raymond
  37. in other news
    Great News for ABC: Diane Sawyer Got Ordinary Ratings in Her First WeekAnd she kicked Katie Couric’s butt, which must have felt nice.
    By Chris Rovzar
  38. in other news
    TMZ Screws Up Big TimePerhaps they should stick to living celebrities.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  39. in other news
    Fox News Dominates Year-End Ratings, But Isn’t Only News Network to GrowHLN, CNN’s “News and Views” offshoot, grew as well.
    By Chris Rovzar
  40. ink-stained wretches
    Rupert Murdoch and the Art of WarMedia fisticuffs!
    By Daily Intelligencer
  41. in other news
    Diane Sawyer Hosted the News Last NightAnd it was good!
    By Adam K. Raymond
  42. pranks
    Will Ferrell Makes Cameo in Showbiz Couple’s New York Times Wedding AnnouncementThe weddings and celebrations section is funny for once.
    By Lindsay Robertson
  43. early and often
    Tepid Climate-Change Agreement Reached After Obama ‘Bursts’ Into India/Brazil/China MeetingApparently, this sort of thing happens.
    By Chris Rovzar
  44. early and often
    Obama in Copenhagen: ‘Time for Talk Is Over’A ‘visibly angry’ Obama addressed the climate conference.
    By Chris Rovzar
  45. manderson
    Kathy Griffin, Anderson Cooper, and Lance Bass to Host CNN’s New Year’s BroadcastReally, CNN? Really?
    By Chris Rovzar
  46. in other news
    Andrea Peyser: Diane Sawyer’s Evening-News Role ‘Affirmative Action’Sorry, Andrea, but we have to disagree.
    By Chris Rovzar
  47. ink-stained wretches
    Washington Post Company Selling Budget TravelThe new owners, Fletcher Asset Management, have resolved to keep almost the entire staff of the title and its website.
    By Chris Rovzar
  48. in other news
    Stephanopoulos Debut Doesn’t Give GMA a BumpBut it didn’t cause a significant dip in ratings, either.
    By Chris Rovzar
  49. tiger catches tail
    Maybe Tiger Woods Knows Exactly What He’s DoingIn fact, he might be a secret PR genius.
    By Simon Dumenco
  50. international intrigue
    China on Climate: No DealThis will have repercussions in the atmosphere, and in Washington.
    By Chris Rovzar
  51. ink-stained wretches
    NYT vs. WSJ Flame War ContinuesBill Keller and Robert Thomson continue to fight.
    By Jessica Pressler
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