I have been addicted to "The Drudge Report" since at least January, 1998 when he seemed to lead the coverage of Bill Clinton's sordid tryst with Monica Lewinsky--probably before that, too; I can't remember when I didn't visit the sight multiple times a day to check what's new.

Increasingly, I've...

The Beijinger is a magazine which functions partly as a Craig's List here in Beijing. Each day during Games time, members have been posting requests to buy or sell tickets for the sports events. I've inquired about a few of these. Last week, I asked about a basketball match and...

SAN FRANCISCO — BarackObama.com has a new look and feel this weekend. The campaign gave it a mini-makeover, adjusting the color scheme and the images at the top of the home page but leaving the rest of it intact.

Here's the old...

Amazon.com really thinks I need a Kindle. You know what that is: the Web store's portable, wireless reading device that instantly downloads -- for a price -- virtually any book you'd like from among thousands of titles. Feel the impulse to dive into Ahab's cetacean obsession? Just send...

When Jason Maloney and Kira Kay, two freelance journalists who work frequently with HDNet, first pitched me a story about some obscure places called Abkhazia and South Ossetia a few months ago, I was skeptical to say the least. A story about breakaway territories in the Caucasus didn't exactly scream...

Isabel Wilkinson's entry at...

Wow...what a feeling to arrive in Beijing in the middle of the Olympic Games.

I was curious to see how much I would really feel "part" of all the fervor. This is my first trip to China in over ten years. Even before, try as I might I never...

So, I work in PR and a lot of people (like me) depend upon newspapers. But they're dead, pretty much.

Everyone I know wonders whether newspapers and magazines firing just about everyone who isn't a star are going to affect people who PITCH for a living. They're asking:

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Wow.

So, Senator McCain goes on national television and lies to a pastor, pretending that he was in a "cone of silence" holding room during the Saddleback Forum where he couldn't hear the questions that he would be asked that were also being posed to Senator Obama, gets...

Reality television show producers, proudly noting they invented the concept of obscure Americans competing in skimpy outfits for glory and lucrative contracts way before the Olympics came around to it, are capitalizing on Olympics fever by throwing out their existing Fall schedules and implementing the following Games-themed lineup:

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Jennie Finch can hurl a softball harder than most women in the world. She and her teammates have worked their entire lives to become the best in their sport and they're proving themselves worthy of their Olympic expectations.

They are accomplished professionals, mothers and elite athletes with incredible talent and...

As the cable shows occupy themselves with campaign to-and-fro, Olympic swimmers, and stab-in-the-dark vice-presidential speculation, take some time to read this piece from the invaluable Gareth Porter about recent developments in Iraq.

One crucial revelation -- that should be carefully studied and kept in mind this fall, as presidential...

[originally published on CJR.org, the Web site of the Columbia Journalism Review.]

Once again, ABC This Week’s roundtable tilted off-center, even without semi-regulars Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts to do the honors. (Perhaps Ms. Roberts, having sneered last week that Obama was making a big mistake in taking his...

They have bought everything from the Chrysler Building to the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas. So why not some of the biggest newspapers in the U.S.?

We are referring, of course, to foreign, oil-rich investors. Leading newspapers in Chicago, San Diego, Newark and Austin are very much up for...

Bill Kristol, in the print edition of this morning's New York Times:

NBC's Andrea Mitchell reported on "Meet the Press" that "the Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context. ... What they're putting out privately is...

With the swimming competition of the Beijing Olympics completed, the game of finding an athlete comparable to 14-time gold medalist (8 in Beijing) Michael Phelps can begin. Spitz...Armstrong...Secretariat -- all comers (and all species) are welcome.

Phelps's hometown paper, the Baltimore Sun, celebrated its local hero after he completed...

Oh boy. We better brace for a tremendous outpouring from talk radio and such outlets of right wing ire as Instapundit, littlegreenfootballs, Powerline, and Free Republic. And I have to admit, even as an Obama partisan, I was shocked by the news that John McCain is...