Ok, not to flog a dead horse, but memories in the poli-junkie world tend to be short. Innumerable pundits & public intellectuals shit the bed on Iraq and totally escaped any accountability after things went south — despite blithely campaigning for an illegal crusade that left untold dead...
So. You’ve all no doubt heard about the $315m dollar acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL (and, no doubt, already made the T&A CD-ROM coaster joke on Twitter). With $315m in your coffers, one would think that calls for Arianna and her new corporate overlords in Silicon Valley to finally...
MediaPost provides details on the New York Times’ upcoming “metered” paywall — and it provides some comfort for bloggers/social media mavens: [T]he so-called “metered model” will allow readers who are referred from third-party sites such as blogs, social media networks...
I would like to sign up for Richard Kim’s newsletter: Maybe it’s the establishment that’s so busy lecturing the masses on the Constitution and Islam that should be sent back to class instead. Lesson one: the hysteria over the “Ground Zero mosque” did not happen in a vacuum....