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...

In your meaty Tuesday media column: rumors of coming layoffs (and a die-off?) at OK! magazine, a golf magazine is killed, advertising plummets, media companies may default, and Americans don't know a damn thing: We hear that OK! Magazine is, sadly, well on its way to becoming a mere shell of the gra...

Filed under: The Sack Pack 7 Dinosaurs You Could Take in a Fight We can't imagine a more important article for these trying times. (Cracked) Epic Celebrity Side Boob. (The Chive) Female Viagra Is Questioned. (Your Tango) Jackie Chan's Power and Finesse Demonstration. (Double... Read more   Perm...

Section: Communications, Computers, Wireless, Gadgets / Other, Features, Originals, Columns, Who's On Crack This week’s list is dedicated to the march of technology that continues to screw me over.  I’ll show you the things I’ve finally coughed up actual cash for only to have ...

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In your philosophical Friday media column: arm-twisting at the San Francisco Chronicle, intellectual thuggery at the NAACP, body-slamming of college papers, and death and rebirth of reporters: Even as it's busy shutting down the Seattle paper and (maybe) combining some papers in Texas, Hearst has fo...

A couple of thoughts on today’s news that Jason Calacanis employed John Schiefer, at Mahalo (or more accurately, that he didn’t fire him when he found out about his past). For those who don’t know, before he worked at Mahalo Schiefer got caught up in creating a botnet that was late...

In your muddy Thursday media column: the grownup version of 'Jocks vs. School Newspaper Nerds,' a blogger passes away, everything is too sexy, and rumors of magazine troubles: Ha, the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association is suing Gannett for covering the news. Really. The WIAA says that th...

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Ducan Fanfan — who, in a future "law nerd" version of Trivial Pursuit, will be the answer to the question "What was the name of the defendant in the companion case to US v. Booker?" — has made some more......