Underbelly

Am I correct to detect just a whiff of hubris cockiness in Nate Silver's account of how he hires , which might perhaps be titled ...

Syllabus for Journalism 101: When a politician calls a scandal involving himself “sensationalized,” you know he’s in deep yoghurt. When h...

Those bogus Asiana pilot names: last week I said you ought to look for a vengeful ex-boyfriend. But I backed down as soon as I heard they...

Against my better judgment, I just spent most of an hour watching the third episode of Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom . It was almost unbearab...

Others can probably say better than I why I read every word of last week's three-part series in the University of Maryland's studen...

Mrs. B and I  were chatting at lunch yesterday about the lamentable state of mainstream journalism and the possible alternatives, if any. W...

Two interesting pieces this week about American journalism's most visible gaseous afflatus, Bob Woodward.  One, Tanner Colby's e...

Would I be right that the coolest magazines in anything like mass-market distribution today would be Foreign Policy (aka FP ) and The Atla...

TPM nails it:   the NYT gains more from Nate Silver than Silver gains from the NYT. Inside out: if Margaret Sullivan thinks it is Nate w...

--"Now there are two Irish women," Mrs. Buce remarked over breakfast. --Two what?  Oh, right. She's reading the Sunda...

Things happen in threes, right? One: Mitt Romney was Joking about Airplane Windows Two: Columnist's Satire of Paul Ryan Fools J...

Why I'm glad I got out of journalism: Mike Trimble, Denton Record-Chronicle Opinion Editor,  Fired After Clash with Publisher ...

..Murdoch's closing of News of the World is just a quicky way of downsizing, and first chance he gets he'll be back with the Sun on...

I mean, say what you like about those guys-- a couple of weeks back, there was that boffo, longform granular account in which Charles Duhigg...

 They say the reason to go to Harvard or Yale is to develop a fancy address book.  Maybe, but perhaps it works also at the University of Ill...

This one? Afterthought:  perhaps surpassed by Woman from Decatur Attends Theatre

Fascinating piece about the death of a News of the World reporter , made not less interesting by the fact that the author of the piece is ...

Les Hinton, longtime dogsbody and sandwich-getter to Rupert Murdoch, ends 52 years of loyal service by taking one for the team: Dear Rupert...

I was telling Joel this morning that Barry Ritholtz tops the most-read stats on my Google reader--"uncomplicated, no bullshit, ornery,...

Felix really hits one out of the park this weekend with his Fisking of the New York Times and its egregious attack of bunker mentalit y.  I...