An AFP story Tuesday ran with the headline, "Gulf focus shifts, but where is all the oil?" The story essentially states that while clean-up efforts are in full swing after the well was finally capped, the crews are not finding very much oil in the Gulf; they're actually wondering where it has gone....
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» The new Kindle is lighter, cheaper, faster than ever—but will it kill the iPad?» Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) execs are increasingly d...
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WikiLeaks head Julian Assange is angry that, among other things, the New York Times did not link to his site in their mammoth report. The complaint caught my eye because it's something the Times has been taken to task for in the past (for much, much smaller stories). This...
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Whether you think that this week's massive leak from WikiLeaks was heroic or evil, you really need to read this fascinating timeline of its publication put together by the Columbia Journalism Review. While the story of how Pfc. Bradley Manning copied and disseminated the material and was then captured has become common knowledge,...
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Turns out we’re not as addicted to narcissistic social media sites as we like to think, at least not where money’s concerned. Social media researchers from the University of Southern California are reporting that no one, as in exactly 0% of the people surveyed, would be willing to pay for previously free web...
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Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg has finally found a subject on which he can praise the New York Times: the publication last night of top secret military documents uncovered by the website Wikileaks. Supporting the leak as long as it "doesn't hurt either American troops or the ability to gather information,"...
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This morning on Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos spoke with Adrian Lamo, the former computer hacker who was the one to turn in Pfc. Bradley Manning, the young military specialist who has been accused of leaking both information leaked on Sunday as well as the infamous "Collateral Murder" video from last...
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Early Sunday, in what is being called the "one of the biggest leaks in US military history," the whistleblower site Wikileaks posted tens of thousands of classified military field reports about the Afghan war. According to the New York Times, the Times, the Guardian, and the German newspaper Der Spiegel were...
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Yesterday, the New York Times profiled one of the most important media figures of the 21st century so far, Shirley Sherrod Jersey Shore's Snooki. Or, more specifically, author Cathy Horyn tried to find something Snooki was good at, and not even Snooki's father could give her an answer.
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Earlier this year, a juror in a high-profile case came forward with a shocking allegation: after reaching a verdict, her peers conspired to cover up her dissent and to develop an untrue representation of how their decisions were reached. As evidence, she presented a number of emails between the jurors. The New York...
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