On July 6th, 2005, The Observer officially launched the Media Mob under editor Tom Scocca with a post that attempted—and failed—to introduce an awkward portmanteau word we thought would capture large media companies' incursions into the then-still novel medium of blogs. We called it (shudder) bl...

Oh no! Not the Swedish model! Look carefully at that terrifying blue and yellow Nordic Cross; it is our generation's hammer and sickle. What is "the Swedish Model"? That's temporary nationalization of failed banks. See, you seize control of them, clean up the balance sheets, and auction them off. In...

If the Wordle and other coverage isn’t enough, here’s Sun editor, Rebekah Wade’s Hugh Cudlipp speech in full [note: may have differed very slightly in actual delivery]: The challenging future of national and regional newspapers is now the staple diet of media commentators. If you h...

Well, I’m not the one who called Andrew Breitbart “Matt Drudge’s Bitch” — Andrew Breitbart himself coined the “Matt Drudge’s Bitch” label for himself. (I suppose there’s some sort of closeted gay Republican thing going on there.) So let’s p...

I very much doubt the claim by Matt Drudge that white-supremacist Barbie was banned from NBC "for life" and partly because of they way his breathless "report" is written. I reads like a press release: The nation's top selling conservative author has been banned from appearing on NBC, insiders tell t...

Matt Drudge reports: "Coulter was set to unveil her new book, GUILTY. But one network insider claims it was the book’s theme — a brutal examination of liberal bias in the new era — that got executives to dis-invite the controversialist. "We are just not interested in anyo...

If you wanted to wipe out the American media establishment in one blow, you might have targeted the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the Plaza hotel at around 9 a.m. on Nov. 12. The Foursquare Conference was organized by media mogul Steve Rattner’s Quadrangle Partners, and had the kind of excl...

This political season (can you call something that's gone on for nearly two years a season?) has generated more interest than any other in my lifetime. Cable viewership is up and the political blogs and websites have seen their traffic grow considerably. But in looking at the recent comScore results...

Poor Matt Drudge. The little weasel who always looks like he is masturbating under his overcoat has been throwing everything at the O man but the kitchen sink. Unfortunately for him, nothing seems to stick. Every day it's a new so called bomb shell written in red, and the little weasel prays that ea...

Craig Seymour is a college professor who was living a boring little life in Washington, DC when he said, quote, "Fuck it" and became a gay stripper. And now he wrote a book about the whole thing, as strippers who are also writers are wont to do. And you'll never guess who Seymour's good "cool ass wh...