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...

  We're often discussing ways to reconcile our need for unrestrained, raunchy sex with our boring ol' environmentalism. Sometimes we've even gotten specific about ways our love lives have evolved in a more socially-conscious era. But we not as specific as the recent Fox News piece &...

. DUMP HOG RUPERT MURDOCH'S STOCK: NY POST & FOXNEWS PARENT NEWSCORP GOP PIGS GET FATTER, AMERICA SUFFERS AS RIGHT-WING MEDIA SPREADS LIES YOUTUBE: CNN: LARRY KING "Gov. Jindal: "Glad RNC's Steele Apologized to Rush Limbaugh"" Grovel, grovel. YOUTUBE: FOXNEWS SUNDAY "Brit Hume: Racial Defender!"...

. DUMP HOG RUPERT MURDOCH'S STOCK: NY POST & FOXNEWS PARENT NEWSCORP GOP PIGS GET FATTER, AMERICA SUFFERS AS RIGHT-WING MEDIA SPREADS LIES YOUTUBE: CNN: LARRY KING "Gov. Jindal: "Glad RNC's Steele Apologized to Rush Limbaugh"" Grovel, grovel. YOUTUBE: FOXNEWS SUNDAY "Brit Hume: Racial Defender!" Lap...

Bad: Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff is rumored to be having an affair with his younger employee. Far worse, for Wolff: this gives News Corp (and others) a chance to get back at him. Cityfile broke the affair story last week. Wolff said his lawyer would be in touch with them—but they'v...

I am not new to social media, having been in newsgroups and chat rooms since the early 90s. I’m also not new to information overload, as I’ve always been a news junkie and a voracious reader. But every once in a while, my life changes with respect to how I give and receive information, a...

NYDailyNews.com: The New York Post issued a second, more contrite apology Tuesday for a controversial cartoon that some critics called racist. Declaring "the buck stops with me," Post Chairman Rupert Murdoch called the cartoon - which critics believe compared President Barack Obama to the rampaging ...

This has to be one of the best lines I’ve read in a while, from SAI’s Nicholas Carlson’s piece on succession planning at News Corp. Know what happens when a boxing referee slips between the ropes and out of the ring in the middle of the match? A hint: The brawlers don’t sudde...

Sean Delonas' New York Post cartoon said, essentially, "Screw you, monkeys." The Post itself said, "Screw you if you didn't like it." But Rupert Murdoch—their boss—is suddenly being polite! Did Rev. Al win? Rupert has issued what we must admit is a very civil and human-sounding apology! ...

A tipster tells us Wendi Deng dropped by MySpace headquarters with a friend on Friday. What is Mrs. Rupert Murdoch up to at the News Corp.-owned social network? Aside from her unofficial role as her husband's consigliere, Deng is the chief strategist of MySpace China. So it's hardly unusual for her ...