Liberal Talk Radio

Does the Daily News need help moderating the comments on their website? From a story about a horrific spate of murders Christmas Eve, these beauties: BLACK ON BLACK CRIMES. 80% OF THE CRIMES COMITTED AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IS CAUSED BY BLACK PEOPLE. MEANWHILE, WHILE THE DUMB BLACK OR LATINO ARE KILLING THEMSELVES, THE WHITE MAN [...]

The Professor isn’t the only member of the media elite who has to suffer on Northwest Airlines’ narrow-body 757s. The New Republic’s Frank Foer welcomes us aboard “Conventional Wisdom One”: When I journeyed to Des Moines last night, I hopped a flight that should rebrand itself Conventional Wisdom One. It is the lone direct flight [...]

Perhaps you wondered why that fantastic unsolicited op-ed you wrote received no response from the Times opinon editors? Well, to start, is your father a New York Times bestselling author and a former Times writer & Times guest op-ed columnist? If so, then perhaps that perceptive piece about your semester abroad would fit nicely there, [...]

Michelle Obama will not cross a picket line to appear on ABC’s The View. (I know what you’re thinking — they have writers on The View?) Meanwhile Hillary Clinton, in the process of running the best Presidential campaign ever, deftly avoided the picket line altogether and sent a note to she show’s token Republican, Elizabeth [...]

Great little “gotcha” video from the writers of The Daily Show, currently on strike: Either content has value or it doesn’t. Viacom wants it both ways.

Fun with NY Times hyperlinks: I never thought that Congress was suffering from muscle atrophy. Spine atrophy, maybe! (ba-dum-ching!) Seriously, though, in some brave new future world, New York Times reporters might be able to add actual hyperlinks to past articles, thereby deepening one’s understanding of a topic in the way that the Internet has [...]

Matt Yglesias notes that Tom Brokaw goes bird watching with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and notes, “it is striking that you tend not to hear about this sort of coziness between the media and political elites when said media elites are busy posturing as a vast brigade of Woodward and Bernsteins eagerly digging to the [...]

A profile of new Columbia Records honcho Rick Rubin has spurred quite a discussion in the blogs over the future of music. In particular, this paragraph: “You would subscribe to music,” Rubin explained, as he settled on the velvet couch in his library. “You’d pay, say, $19.95 a month, and the music will come anywhere [...]

The blogger known as “Fake Steve Jobs” lets loose on NBC after the network decides to bail on iTunes: You know what the new network is? It’s me. I don’t think people have quite figured this out yet, but just as Pixar was once a medical imaging company until I decided to make it into [...]

O. Casey Corr has a good run-down of what’s been going on at KUOW-FM in the wake of Ken Vincent’s surprise resignation. As Seattleites spend more time stuck in traffic, expect KUOW to do even better. I’m one of those (annoying, pretentious) people who listen almost exlclusively to public radio (KUOW and KEXP), mostly because [...]