Condé Nast closing Gourmet Magazine

Condé Nast today announced that it was immediately closing the well regarded Gourmet Magazine due to a massive decline in advertising revenues. The folding of Gourmet Magazine comes as Condé Nast undertakes a strategic review of its titles ... Read >

Condé Nast shutters Gourmet, Cookie, 2 bridal titles

Publishing giant Condé Nast announced today that it was discontinuing Gourmet magazine, an influential publication that has been published since 1940. The closure comes as a shock, as Gourmet is a more influential magazine than fellow Condé Nast title ... Read >

Cutting through the LA Times hype over the Wave hype

Not even a day into Google Wave crashing upon the shores of the tech blogosphere and we have the L.A. Times gushing on over how it’s is going to transform how they work. Now ... Read >

NY Times Columnist William Safire Dead at 79

Former NY Times columnist, Pulitzer prize winner and former Nixon speechwriter William Safire has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 79. Safire started his career as a radio and television producer until a ... Read >

Washington Post puts the hammer down of staff tweets

It appears that the Washington Post has finally had enough of their staff’s free-wheeling Twitter postings. While we might all look at the thousands of Twitter messages that fly around the world every minute ... Read >

An open letter to President Obama – Stay out of the newspaper business

See that slippery slope over there? That’s the slope you will slide down President if you even consider any legislation to “rescue” the newspaper industry. It is a never ending slope that will ... Read >

Can I have one of those giant coffee pots in the sky?

Recently in Vancouver, Canada, McDonald’s was giving away small cups of their coffee over a two-week period. To help publicize the promotion that had someone change a lamppost to resemble a giant coffee-pot in the sky pouring ... Read >

Interesting: Bill O’Reilly nonchalantly supports public option

Conservapundit Bill O'Reilly expressed support for a public option on his show last night, like it was no big deal, like people aren't biting each other's fingers off over the whole debacle. Via Daily Kos, the baffling (but ... Read >

Why CNN won’t let go of Lou Dobbs just yet

In every business there is the concept of ‘the loss leader’. The idea is that you offer a product at such a low cost that people who wouldn’t normally come through the door come in to buy ... Read >

Glenn Beck and Fox show just how much of a joke news is

If there is a venereal disease that could infect television news it would have to be called the “Glenn Beck Disease” for no other reason than Glenn Beck being the most irritating brain frying ... Read >

Michael Moore: In 1 to 2 years we will not have daily newspapers [Video]

You may not agree with Michael Moore regarding a lot of the things he makes films about but at a press event in Toronto for a film festival he said something that most people ... Read >

CurrentTV journalists detained in North Korea break out the violins

CurrentTV journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have finally spoken publicly about how they managed to end up in a North Korean jail, and the story is colorful to say the least. If you've missed the story so ... Read >