i've spent the last year and a half writing a procedural thriller. most of the feedback i've received focuses on the fact that we never get invested enough in the characters. the message came in different forms. some said i hadn't developed my characters enough, some said they weren't sympathetic en...

Eric Boehlert didn't buy the Washington Post's claim that Limbaugh's ratings have doubled since he became head of the GOP. Usually a journalist would base the evidence on facts, but... Yesterday I raised doubts about the claim in a Howard Kurtz article that Limbaugh's ratings have "nearly doubled" s...

The L.A. media ranks continue to be winnowed. The Media News Group is turning long-time Daily News critic Bob Strauss into an entertainment editor, leaving colleague Sean Means in Salt Lake City (who is keeping track of the declining numbers of film critics) as one of the chain's surviving movie rev...

Download | Play    Download | Play Norah O'Donnell exposes Republican hack John Feehery's talking points in about a second and leaves him scratching his head like a dimwit when he had no response after he was asked to name one "pork barrel" project contained in the stimulus bill. (rou...

Duncan makes a great point as usual: I really do wonder what it would take for the Villagers to realize people don't like Republicans and their stupid shit anymore. I almost doubt they ever will. I finally heard Chuck Todd on MSNBC say that Obama should not engage in as much bipartisanship to get hi...

By Scott Olin Schmidt Because they are so rare, multiple births are bound to cause a media sensation. Pop out six, seven, or eight children and you're news, whether you like it or not. That's the hard lesson being learned by single mom Nadya......

Here’s a piece I wrote for Talking Points Memo on a subject I’ve covered here before. It begins: Our government’s current operating principle seems to be bailing out people who were culpable in the financial meltdown. If so, journalists are surely entitled to billions of dollars. W...

today i saw the billboard version of this on the way to work. and it disgusted me. i mean really. an all-white cast? wtf? you're telling me in this day and age you can't find room in your ensemble movie for anyone who isn't white? there are nine roles represented on this poster alone; not one of tho...

MediaMatters' Eric Boehlert catches the AP in some serious hackery regarding the cost of President-elect Obama's inauguration celebration. MM: It's hard to find journalism more shoddy than this, courtesy of the AP's Matt Apuzzo [emphasis added]: The price tag for President-elect Barack Obama's inaug...

Glenn Greenwald (Salon): Establishment Washington unifies against prosecutions. As confirmed accounts emerged years ago of chronic presidential lawbreaking, warrantless eavesdropping, systematic torture, rendition, “black site” prisons, corruption in every realm, and all sorts of other d...