Adam Bienkov has kindly published a scan of the Sunday Express feature, and I strongly urge you to at least take a look at this thumbnail if you don't have the time to fully appreciate the readable PDFs hosted by Justin and featured at the tail of this post. The scan makes it clear that this was The...

Guardian - Padding the truth: But the truth is that circulation - at least in the short term - has little to do with a newspaper's quality or the editor's skills. Marketing campaigns, price cuts (or rises), free offers and even, as we have seen, unusual activity by a rival have more influence on sal...

Erin pointed me at Stephen Hume’s column in the Vancouver Sun from earlier in the week. With a certain “you kids get off my lawn” charm, Mr. Hume protests a little too much about the rise of new media: Meanwhile, blogosphere chatter responds with gleefully patronizing pronouncement...

How many more 1972 Munichs can Abbas finance with Obama acting as Rooftop Credit Ape?  We shall soon see: The United States plans to pledge more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel’s invasion and strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, a U.S. official said on Mond...

Scientists have discovered the secondhand fat is now the leading cause of divorce in the U.S.  And  by “scientists”, I mean a random observation that came to me after staring at the lower cholesterol remnants of Honey Nut Cheerios in front of me. Powdered doughnut tip to Stop The ACLU ...

I really wanted to have a better logo ready for today, but hopefully you can see where I'm going with this, and I won't need a long paragraph explaining exactly what this change in priorities means for 'Murdoch Watch': The Sun: Tabloid Lies needs a tidy up and some focus, but I'm very happy with the...

Ron Hart, who is usually hilarious, puts aside the humor and pens an apology letter to his great grandkids. I’m sending it to mine as well. I am nearing mid-life now, and on my birthday I write this letter to you to apologize for what my generation has done to the country that you will inherit...

Snoopy, victim of friendly fire Fresh off of criticizing Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, Urkel Christ struck back at last night’s press conference as if to say, “Hey, I’ve got a fatso radio blowhard of my own” by giving a prime lame duck blind in the press shooting gallery to...

A friend’s 81-year-old father told me this weekend, “when the New York Times goes, I go.” He was still kicking hard, but the same can’t be said for the Times this morning. Liquidity crunch?...

There’s no doubt that media is in a time of change. Magazines and newspapers are hard pressed to save money, journalists are let go, there’s restructoring, and so on. All of this isn’t because of the financial crisis, but it sure speeds things up. So where do we turn for informatio...