Apparently some pundits have become upset about the Watchmen movie. In case some of you think that this is a "superhero" movie, let me disabuse you of that mistake. One: Its based on a VERY dark graphic novel. If you haven't read it, hit up your neighborhood comic book store. (I recommend Dave's Com...

Terminally unemployed beer heiress Meghan McCain continues her very weird too-much-information blogging at Tina Brown’s secret charity project for the rich, The Daily Beast. Today, we learn how she is just not getting laid at all, and she is NOT turned on by Obama supporters (because they hate...

Not a good day for the Twitterati! Dan Abrams found himself stalked by a coworker. Perma-perky PR person Brooke Hammerling got bummed out. And an underling of Tina Brown faced up to an unwelcome chore: Daily Beast West Coast editor Tom Tapp did his laundry at 11 a.m. Reporter-pimping rapscallion Dan...

Not that Jossip is the arbiter of what's real nowadays -- in spite of it being a snarkily fun read -- but I couldn't help but notice it's antagonistic (if not anachronistic) view of the PR profession. In a post titled "J-School to Public Relations: Selling Out or Buying In?," the Gawker/Defamer wann...

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...

A tipster tells us that Rachel Syme, culture editor at Tina Brown's Daily Beast, has sent the "world's worst email" in an attempt to get free research for an article she's writing. Let's read it! Our tipster writes, by way of preface: So I recently got this from a freelancer who now works at the Dai...

Did you know: it's sexist to use sports metaphors, because, as we all know, girls don't understand sports. It's true, according to a girl! Barack Obama's press secretary was supposed to introduce a new era of inclusiveness and feminism maybe because Barack Obama is a liberal and he would end the "ol...

One week after Tina Brown launched the Daily Beast back in October, Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and the founder of Newser, gave a typically tart assessment of his new competitor. “She’s not a news aggregator, although that is her pretense for doing something Web-like,� he said to ...

In a recent Daily Beast post, Tina Brown talks about how everyone she knows is “hustling for gigs.” As I was reading the article, I noticed a few interesting things about the language in the post - mainly all of the words with “gig” in them: gig economy, gigonomics, and gigoc...

There is a natural tendency, after a great event, to try and go back into the old patterns and assume that, somehow, nothing has really happened. So it is with the Republicans and their media allies. The party of Barack Obama's inauguration is over. They assume business as usual is about to return. ...