How cash secretly rules surveillance policy
Today's congressional hearing was a joke. The reason: Firms like Booz Allen bankroll and own Congress. Here's how
Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 8:40 PM UTC 29Media Media Criticism, NSA
Media Criticism
Media Media Criticism, NSA
Sunday shows solve Syria and government surveillance!
The punditry experts of "Meet the Press," "This Week" and "Face the Nation" unlock geopolitical puzzles in minutes
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 6:30 PM UTC 29Media meet the press, face the nation
From Fox News to Rush: Secrets of the right’s lie machine
Conservative media plays by its rules, and bends truth to back whatever argument they’ve decided to make that day
Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 2:45 PM UTC 255Entertainment Books, Media Criticism, Fox News
Grow up, Libertarians!
Your philosophy is superficial, juvenile nonsense. Here's what you should focus on instead
Thursday, Jun 13, 2013 3:06 PM UTC 457Politics Libertarianism, libertarians
David Brooks: The last Stalinist
Edward Snowden offended the commentator by declining to honor his oaths. There's a history behind such bromides
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 9:05 PM UTC 78Media Joseph Stalin, Edward Snowden
If you know nothing about whistle-blowers, don’t cover them
Jeffrey Toobin, Megan McArdle and Joe Klein spew ignorance and contempt for a process they don't understand
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 5:05 PM UTC 15Media Media Criticism, CNN
Is Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor? Who cares
Casting judgment on the leaker is way easier than seriously dealing with the leak
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 104Technology Opening Shot, intelligence, NSA
Sunday Shows meet Glenn Greenwald!
The punditry experts of "This Week" and "Face the Nation" try to process the Guardian writer's spying revelations
Sunday, Jun 9, 2013 6:30 PM UTC 75Media meet the press, This Week
Why the right is confounded by military sexual assault
They believe two contradictory myths: Rape is a logical result of hormones. And "All-American" boys don't commit it
Friday, Jun 7, 2013 4:38 PM UTC 61Politics Rape, Sexual assault, Military
Fox News is spoon-fed a scandal — and blows it
Fox is still too busy focusing on fake scandals to cover the real one
Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 5:44 PM UTC 185Media Fox News, Benghazi, FISA, Scandal
Istanbul protest is — and is not — about the trees
How a Reuters photo caption managed to marginalize the Gezi Park protests, limit their impact and miss the point
Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 5:11 PM UTCAll Salon trees, Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan
Why is Bob Woodward pushing discredited IRS report on “O’Reilly Factor”?
Famed Watergate reporter spreads debunked, week-old Daily Caller story on Fox News
Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013 8:20 PM UTC 18Technology Bill O'Reilly, Bob Woodward, IRS
I was a liberal mole at Fox News: From Bill O’Reilly to Roger Ailes, here’s all the inside dope
Inside the beast: O'Reilly hates Hannity. Producers know what's acceptable. Everyone fears a call from Roger Ailes
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:25 AM UTC 233Entertainment Books, Fox News, Roger Ailes
What the IRS did right
Turns out some of the conservative groups it scrutinized were actively and wrongly involved in partisan politics
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:28 PM UTC 69News IRS, Tea Party, Emerge America
What’s wrong with MSNBC?
I'm not harping on "Morning Joe" because it defines everything wrong with contemporary politics, though it does...
Monday, May 27, 2013 12:54 PM UTC 487Media Opening Shot, MSNBC
Nobody “needs” to rape
Jose Canseco joins the long list of men who resort to the idiotic defense that they can "get" women without force
Friday, May 24, 2013 6:58 PM UTC 102Life Jose Canseco, Rape
A brief history of Jennifer Weiner’s literary fights
Claire Messud joins the many buzzy figures -- Jonathan Franzen, Lena Dunham, Jennifer Egan -- to earn Weiner's ire
Friday, May 24, 2013 6:31 PM UTC 29Entertainment Books, Claire Messud
If Alex Pareene were a cable news executive…
Our favorite media critic tells 92Y which scandals his hypothetical news network would cover VIDEO
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:13 PM UTCMedia Alex Pareene, 92y, 92nd Street Y
Tornado survivor to Wolf Blitzer: Sorry, I’m an atheist. I don’t have to thank the Lord
Wolf Blitzer pushes a tornado survivor to praise the Lord. She tells him she's an atheist, with dignity and respect VIDEO
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:06 PM UTC 521Life Video, Atheism, Oklahoma
It’s Whitewater all over again
Obama's "scandals" are not like Nixon's. They're a fishing expedition to stop his agenda and find something bigger
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:37 PM UTC 68Media Media Criticism, Watergate
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