Aaron Sorkin’s attempts to recycle long-mildewed news stories on The Newsroom—which begins its second season this Sunday—have grown modestly better! Sort of.
Media
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How the Conservative Media Are Eating Up the Zimmerman Trial
It’s all an Obama/Holder conspiracy, meant to keep the oppressed white man down.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Drawing the Wrong Lessons from Egypt
Yes, democracy is hard, but political Islam isn’t going away.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Song of the White House Spokesperson
Jay Carney and his 13 different kinds of evasion
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Offensive Photo Spreads and Insincere Apologies
Vice magazine did a photo spread of models re-enacting women writers’ suicides, then apologized and pulled the photos from their website. Did they do the wrong thing?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Gang of 8 Lobbies Fox News
Being the house organ of the Republican party can get complicated when it comes to immigration.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Cable News Is a Third of a Century Old
Looking back at CNN’s debut
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
What’s Eating the Left’s Media?
After a decade of ferment and crisis, politics has settled into a less urgent period, and that’s bad for liberal media.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Will Blog for Swag
Why tech reporters should feel a little wrong about all that free stuff they’re taking home
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Notes on a Pseudo-Scandal
Things like Benghazi generate their own momentum, whether there was any actual wrongdoing or not.
