Andy Newman is the editor of the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill version of “The Local,� a newly minted hyper-local blogging experiment by The New York Times. “I’m about as newbie as you get,� he admitted when asked about previous blogging experience. He’s so new, in fact, that he spent the bet...

How long should a dead Timesman have to wait before getting an obituary in his own damn paper? It used to be that a gig at the Times was a life-long, perk-filled sinecure. These days all it gets you is a guaranteed wedding announcement and a timely obit. Robert J. Cole, a former business reporter fo...

Hooray! The Times found their new token conservative! Taking over for Bill Kristol: Mr. Ross Douthat. Douthat is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he blogs. He is one of those "reasonable" "centrist" conservatives, like David Brooks except not so much of an asshole. Yes, he thinks fertilized eg...

In your blustery Wednesday media column: the newspaper industry burns, News Corp can't handle hardcore music, NPR needs more black people, and the NYT sells a jet: What is happening in the land of dying newspapers today? Only the usual tragedy and grief. The Miami Herald is laying off a fifth of its...

I started to write this post last week but got sidetracked. Maybe it was for the best because we have a follow-up today that actually makes my point for me. Last week David Brooks wrote a standard piece of conservative claptrap 'bout how - and this is his own description - "the ...

Front page shocker in today's New York Times : William Shakespeare was a homosexual. Grizzled former war correspondent John F. Burns has unearthed the bombshell in the form of a very gay-looking portrait. The previously unkown painting comes from the private collection of "an aristocratic Anglo-Iris...

The Man-Child appears to be unsure of what hand to raise to return a proper salute. The expression on the face of the helicopter pilot says it all: "What an arrogant primping turkey we've got for a president." Well, Obama, are you or are you not a socialist? "Well...hmmm...uh...well...let me just sa...

David Carr has a piece in the New York Times today - "United, Newspapers May Stand," where he envisions a world in which the heads of newspapers all get together to hold hands and unanimously decide to work together and declare.... No more free content. The Web has become the primary delivery mechan...

Did you know that the reason talk show hosts don't have sidekicks anymore is because of blogs and Dick Cheney? Alessandra Stanley cracked the code! Alessandra Stanley is the New York Times TV critic, even though it's pretty much obvious that she hates television and doesn't really watch it that much...

Yes, I used the word "God." Pretend that it means "Going Out for Dinner," which also may as well not exist these days. I must admit that in this instance, the expression has a certain ring to it. Dear GOD that man is an idiot. Dear GOD I didn't need to read that when I'm trying to suppress my nacho/...