The EPA is Not Insane

The Obama White House is many things—flailing as it fishtails from an adult-in-the-room pose to screaming populism; cack-handed, as it both infuriates its base and loses independents; and passive to the point of paralysis, as Chris Christie pointed out in his Reagan Library speech. The Obama …

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Written by Jim DiPeso on Thursday September 29, 2011

Page One: Inside the New York Times

The new documentary Page One asks an important question: is it really surprising that people have lost faith in old media? "The old newspaper business is dying.  PERIOD," proclaims noted columnist and author Jeff Jarvis, at one point in Andrew Rossi's up-to-the-second new documentary, Page One: …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday July 8, 2011

New Media Holds Back Assad's Crackdown

Unlike his father, Syria's Bashar al-Assad can't respond to an uprising with brutal force. In the new media age, bloodbaths don't play with the Arab street or TV audiences. The traditional rules of engagement between the Syrian regime and its opponents have been suspended. The Carthaginian …

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Written by Tim Hodgson on Saturday March 26, 2011

5 yrs of Twitter? I cn hrdly blv it

Y it seems just ystrdy oped clmnsts wd go on & on. Ponderously using 900 wds to make a pt that cd be made in a sentence or 2. 5 yrs of Twitter? I cn hrdly blv it. Y it seems just ystrdy oped clmnsts wd go on & on. Ponderously using 900 wds to make a pt that cd be made in a sentence or …

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Written by David Frum on Saturday March 19, 2011

Israel's BlackBerry Gap

After a week meeting with senior defense and political officials in Jerusalem, one thing's surprised me: you'll see few BlackBerrys in Israel. Over the last week it has surprised me that there were so few BlackBerrys in Israel’s capital of Jerusalem. In a city that is supposed to be the center of …

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Written by Tim Mak on Friday March 18, 2011

Oops! HuffPo Puffs 9/11 Truther

How did writer Dan Froomkin's piece celebrating a 9/11 denialist as a lonely heroic defender of civil liberties end up on the Huffington Post's homepage? You’ll miss the Mainstream Media when they’re gone. You’ll miss professional reporting. You’ll miss editors who ask questions like, …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday March 9, 2011