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...

Today’s New York Sun has an editorial dealing with Condoleezza Rice’s criticism of Israel’s plans to build 1,300 homes in east Jerusalem. And what an editorial it is. President Bush often speaks to the annual policy conference in Washington of the American Israel Public Affairs Com...

Are you one of the apologist types who argues that not all hip hop music is ignorant, antisocial filth? Please excuse New York Sun columnist and bizarre racial thinker John McWhorter as he shakes his head in exasperation at your foolish "fallacy." Did you know that the urban black demographic has pr...

Barack Obama made two moves recently that leave him open to charges of selling out. One, his selection of James Johnson to help select a running mate. Johnson is a former CEO of Fannie Mae, where he helped usher in the subprime lending crisis. Also he's a Bilderberg attendee! The other new hire, tho...

From the Huffington Post: Another prostitute who advertised online, is named Kristen and fits the physical description has denied she is the Kristen who met Spitzer on February 13. Meet the real Kristen here* Eliot Spitzer announced he was involved with an alleged prostitution ring called the Empero...

When Rupert Murdoch goes a-poaching to staff his Wall Street Journal newsroom, the New York Times won't be the first place he'll look, if you take at face value (not advisable) comments he made yesterday during an interview with Fox News' Neil Cavuto. "There are some very fine journalists there we w...