If you wanted to find one single real-life human who embodies the concept of “Overpaid Zillionaire CEO Rich White Guy Con Artist,” you could do no better than CBS chief Les Moonves. Take a bow, Les, you fuck.
Kremlin-appointed Russian media personality Dmitry Kiselyov, who once urged that the hearts of gay auto-accident victims “be either buried or burned” because they are “unsuitable” for organ donation, got called on some very creative bullshit this week.
Liz Heron, executive editor of The Huffington Post, tweeted out this poorly-worded caption recently, forgetting that the internet is all-seeing and unforgiving.
Three top editors at the independent Russian media group RBC left the company last week, following several investigative pieces that rubbed Kremlin in the wrong places, including one about a problematic oyster farm. Yesterday, the former editor-in-chief Elizaveta Osetinskaya finally hinted that her being forced out…
“If you’re going to make cars, you better like cars. Ford liked cars. He was into like, tires and shit,” says Vice Media boss Shane Smith. “If you’re going to make content, you’d better love content, and understand what it is.” Well said.
Sophisticated readers of the New York Times are well aware that the most—and sometimes only—worthwhile section of the weekend paper is the “Sunday Routine.” We would like to alert you to an noteworthy occurrence that may signal a sea change in the “Sunday Routine.”
It’s a new day, meaning Donald Trump, the presumptive (or presumptuous, depending on your camp) Republican nominee for president, has a new ax to grind.
We are, right now, in the midst of a digital media upheaval. What was previously conventional wisdom—that a media company with hopes of turning a profit needs, above all, to achieve scale—is being proven false. The new conventional wisdom is that video will be digital media’s savior, but it is only a matter of time…
Media mogul and schmooze artist Arianna Huffington is currently in contract negotiations with her newly unionized employees, and doing her best to piss them off. What better time to show off her fabulous wealth?
Arianna Huffington, a famous liberal pundit who is also the editor-in-chief of one of America’s biggest online news sites, is now a board member of Uber. How does that...work?
Have you heard about this hot new trend where you feed unsuspecting people all sorts of wacky things on camera and then laugh at their nescience? It’s gonna be huge. Just ask the NYPD.
The New York Observer, which was once a good newspaper, is endorsing the owner’s wife’s dad for president.
Last Friday, the media industry toasted BuzzFeed for successfully drawing the attention of nearly 800,000 Facebook users to a livestream of two employees wrapping hundreds of rubber bands around a watermelon until the fruit exploded. The gambit capped another quarter of widespread confidence in BuzzFeed’s business…
The long-awaited “front page we hope to never publish” from the Boston Globe is here, and it is reportedly a “joke.”
What do former First Lady Laura Bush, IMF chief Christine Lagarde, Cambridge classicist Mary Beard, and comedian Mindy Kaling have in common? They are all women. And... and??
The public hates the press. The press hates the public. We get it. Fair enough. We can only get the faintest glimmer of love from college kids, even.
Hirsute oracle of the Davos set Thomas Friedman has a question. Thomas Friedman has a lot of questions.
It’s easy to dismiss today’s National Enquirer story about the alleged secret, highly active extramarital sex life of Ted Cruz, because, hey, it’s just some crappy tabloid that makes up all of its stories, right? And it’s true: They’ve printed a lot of fantasy and nonsense. But on some stories—including some huge…
Are you “Looking for America?” Have you checked underneath your shoes? Ah, here it is—inside of the Washington Post, of course.
