shouting loudly

Wow. I didn’t have any respect for Tucker Carlson to begin with.  But I assumed he was above this, at least. On November 1, days before Senator Robert Mendendez (D-NJ) faced reelection, the DailyCaller led with a story of two prostitutes in the Dominican Republic who claimed they’d slept with him.  They produced video testimony [...]

You might remember Tucker Carlson as the bow-tie’ed cohost of Crossfire.  That show ended after Jon Stewart’s appearance, when he asked Carlson to “stop hurting America” with the two-bit hackery he was passing off as “journalism” on CNN. After leaving Crossfire, Carlson decided to start a website for serious conservative journalism.  It has not gone [...]

On Monday evening, the Hunter College Roosevelt House is hosting an event on media policy and reform, featuring former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps. Sadly, it’s in the middle of my Monday class, so I will be unable to attend — and it’s oversubscribed, so I can’t urge you to attend either. Still, I’m really excited [...]

Free Beacon is the worst.  Take a minute to read Jonathan Chait’s latest column at New York Magazine, “Hitler Alive and Well, Owning Liberal Magazine.”  While  relaunching The New Republic, Chris Hughes removed 12 contributing editors from the masthead.  Five of them were jewish.  None of them had written anything at TNR in years.  Free Beacon decided [...]

I spent this afternoon at a protest CREDO organized outside the NRA’s DC office.  It seemed only appropriate. As the protest ended, a woman with a Flipcam approached me, hastily identified herself as being with Breitbart TV, and then launched into a few interview questions designed to provoke an outraged-liberal reaction (“do you really believe [...]

Henry Blodget at Business Insider offers the latest evidence of what’s wrong with the news business.  Take a good hard look at the advertising revenue numbers below.  Simply put, newspapers don’t have a readership problem.  They have a revenue problem. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen charts like this.  Pew reported similar numbers in [...]

Beck kind of has a new album out.  But only kind of.  He’s partnered with the folks at McSweeney’s* to produce “Song Reader,” a collection of sheet music that fans can play and upload themselves.  Will Burns at Forbes.com raves that “It’s more than an album. It’s an invitation.” “Beck fans the world over will [...]

I humbly request that you read Charles Pierce’s latest piece, “Our Athletes Are Not Meant to Fit Our Ideologies.” There’s really no excuse for the Daily Caller anymore.  If Tucker Carlson is not ashamed of his publication, we ought to take it as proof that the man has no shame.

Justin Elliott has an interesting post up at Salon today.  It concerns “The Freedom Community,” a secret e-mail list made up of conservative journalists and policy-types.  I can’t say much more about the list itself, because it’s secret.  Its very existence has been scrubbed from Google-Groups since he contacted one of its participants with questions. [...]

Eli Pariser, the former Executive Director of MoveOn, has a new book out on the social impacts of the internet.  It’s quite good – reminiscent of Cass Sunstein’s Republic.com and Infotopia, in that it is utterly readable, carefully constructed, and critical in tenor.  The important difference between Pariser’s book and Sunstein’s books is temporal in [...]