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...

Who is Dan Loeb, the rich guy who flew NonSociety egobloggers Julia Allison and Meghan Asha home from Davos in his private jet? He's a widely hated surfer, yoga enthusiast, and hedge-fund manager! A vicious critic of management. Loeb, 47, whose Third Point fund runs $2.6 billion in assets, is "Wall ...

It used to be that private planes inspired hatred simply because their occupants were probably over-wealthy environmental hypocrites. But thanks to the recession, private jets are an even more radioactive populist issue. Fly and die! Sure, private planes were always an easy target. They're incredibl...

Can one criticize Israel without being perceived as criticizing Jews? Is it political suicide to criticize Israel? Former President Jimmy Carter on Larry King Live the other night stated that Israel receives $10M per day from the USA. That's more than $3.5B a year. He also went on to say Israel's di...

Page Six is giving Citigroup's new Chairman, Dick Parsons, a big pat on the back for not taking one of the corporate jets to his meeting with President Obama and other business heads in D.C. yesterday. He reportedly took Amtrak......

With the credit crunch hitting New York State's budget hard, Governor Paterson is looking for ways to raise income:New York should expand its personal income tax for non-residents to include income from hedge funds and management fees, and limit itemized......

Or: How To Blow A Congressional Bailout For Your Industry So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that youll wait for me Hold me like youll never let me go cause Im leavin on a jet plane Dont know when Ill be back again Oh babe, I hate to go Well, to take a page from 'Cool Hand Luke' , what we got here ...

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Dude. This is the funniest thing ever! Kate Moss was recently in Germany, at the launch party for her new fragrance called Velvet Hour, when her hair extensions got bored and went KERPLUNK, falling to the ground and leaving the supermodel blushing and horrified. She was so horrified, in fact, that s...

For some reason, Spanish designer Jaime Hayon decided to put the weirdest elements he could find in this airplane concept, made of white gold and fiberglass tiles for a ceramics company called......