Ralston Grills the GOP Gang
In advance of Nevada caucus, tough questions for the candidates
NYT Paywall Datapoints of the Day
By Felix Salmon Ken Doctor has a very smart and interesting take on the news that the NYT now has 390,000 paying digital subscribers — plus another 16,000 at the Boston Globe. It’s unambiguously good news, on many fronts. First, and most i...
Audit Notes: CDO Charges, Facebook’s Board, Deficits
By Ryan Chittum Sure enough, the Justice Department charged former Credit Suisse CDO executive Kareem Serageldin with fraud for allegedly artificially inflating CDO values. Two of his underlings pleaded guilty and say Serageldin orchestrated t...
The WSJ’s Sony Story Is a Page-One Dud
By Ryan Chittum News that Sony's board has picked a new CEO gets page-one play in The Wall Street Journal, apparently because Kazuo Hirai gave the paper an exclusive interview. But the story is weak, almost entirely from Hirai's and the compan...
The Literary Roots of the Gay Revolution
Reviewing Christopher Bram’s Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Dana Milbank Was Right
By Erika Fry Earlier today, I posted this story about the number of political journalists who have recently admitted to having a “rooting interest” in the Republican primary—favoring an extended campaign, and specifically an extended ca...
What Mitt Really Believes About Entitlements
Protecting Social Security and Medicare
Rooting for the Race
Journalists are suddenly eager to admit the media is biased in favor of an extended
campaign. Will they do anything about it?
Rebecca MacKinnon discusses new book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
By Alysia Santo Rebecca MacKinnon, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, visited Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism on Wednesday to talk about her new book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Inter...
The Old-School Value of Facebook
By Ryan Chittum The New York Times's curtain-raiser on the Facebook IPO this morning asks, "Personal Data’s Value? Facebook Is Set to Find Out." But is that really what Facebook is set to find out? The Times says about all this private data:...
