Hah, someone fell asleep while Chip Reid asked Robert Gibbs a boring question during a White House press briefing. But who? Based on the press room seating charts, it looks to be someone from the Wall Street Journal. It doesn't look like Susan Davis or Sara Murray, the Journal's most prominent women...

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...

"One might say, in fact, that snarky writing is a wish-fulfillment for compulsive masturbators." No, that would be "banging your cousin in real life." *Snark!* [Collegiate David Denby supporter]...

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...

We already know the recession sucks for journalists because—to generalize slightly—they have been laid off. But it sucks for working journalists, too. Guess who else got laid off: all their sources! Imagine, if you will, that you're a business reporter. You spent years schmoozing and hob...

Various dead-enders accuse us of writing too much negative news, simply because we inform you daily that American society at large is collapsing. Unrelated: let's review the contents of actual publication "The Happy Herald!" Happy Herald is "South Florida's Positive Living and Entertainment Guide," ...

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...

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...

Barack Obama's barber "Zariff" has no last name and is suddenly in all the papers explaining that the president has GENUINE gray hair after just 44 days in office. Why? Zariff cut Obama's hair for 17 years. He still does, about every two weeks, so the president has presumably flown him out from Chic...

In your optimistic Wednesday media column: Alt-weeklies stabbed by the internet, a Rolling Stone buys a website, college reporters fight The Man and win, and a job available! Alt-weeklies are having trouble selling ads, naturally. The Creative Loafing chain is cutting executive pay up to 15%, a deci...