CNN can seize that middle ground
November 13, 2009
You knew the likes of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow would respond with fury when Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" during President Obama's health address to Congress.
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Don't leave us, an Afghan radio programmer tells U.S. audiences
November 6, 2009
In Masood Farivar's life, the absurdly improbable has often come to look like the preordained. Once a teenage jihadi who went to the caves of Tora Bora to fight the Soviets, he also attracted the attention of a mentor, who paved the Afghan youth's way to Harvard.
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Childhood vaccines, autism and the dangers of group think
November 4, 2009
Los Angeles writer Amy Wallace knew there would be blow back when she wrote a story for Wired magazine debunking the idea that autism is caused by childhood vaccinations. But she didn't imagine anything like this.
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At Fox, opinion taints the news
October 30, 2009
White House versus Fox News eye gouging has been all the rage in recent days. The Obama administration calls the cable outlet a partisan political organ. Fox retorts that the president can't take a fair punch.
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Last stand for newsstands: Read all about it
October 28, 2009
It's the month that Condé Nast folded Gourmet and a couple of other big-name magazines, the week that newspapers reported tanking circulation, again, and the day that hundreds of micro-bloggers gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate a world of tiny messages on glowing screens.
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Harvey Levin stands for a principle
October 23, 2009
My 1st Amendment hero brings close-up photos of celebrity rear ends to the world, under the witty, witty headline "Beach Bums." My 1st Amendment hero delivers us the news any time someone famous looks fat, drunk or plain gaga.
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A new-media read on books at Huffington Post
October 21, 2009
The great thing about the wide-open space of the Web is that it's accepted practice -- encouraged really -- for anyone to walk in many worlds and take on many guises.
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Why do the children keep dying?
October 16, 2009
Gail Helms told me how she happened on the pictures and the headline on the front page of Sunday's Times: "Flawed County System Lets Children Die Invisibly."
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Better that the reporters just tell the story
October 14, 2009
Eight years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama faces a decision about what to do in that troubled part of the world.
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KCOP-TV: This is news?
October 9, 2009
In the television news business, they call them duopolies. How about a more descriptive name? Zombie stations.
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Truth in advertising meets the blogosphere
October 7, 2009
Does a moment pass when Kim Kardashian isn't selling? If she's not hyping her workout video, she's touting her online shoe club, her new book or her sisters' "reality" TV spinoff, a gripping look inside their high-end Miami boutique.
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With information galore, we need news judgment
October 2, 2009
I've felt a bit quaint the last couple of days, toting a pen, a notepad and my old journalism notions around here at the Googleplex.
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A new spin on inside stories
September 30, 2009
What do the Los Angeles Kings, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and California trial lawyers have in common?
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Nonprofit news is good news
September 28, 2009
Some of you have suggested that we ink-stained newspaper wretches seem like a bunch of charity cases. Now comes proof positive that you were (at least partly) right.
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All Altadena, all the time
September 25, 2009
It would be easy to miss this newsroom of the future. It's disguised inside a graceful wood shingle home, just beyond the living room crammed with children's toys, tucked on one side of a modest kitchen.
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Mainstream media and ACORN-like video stings
September 23, 2009
You've got to give James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles credit for abundant chutzpah and guile.
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KCRW's People Meter problem
September 18, 2009
Listening to velvet-voiced Jason Bentley the other day on the radio pitching KCRW's first-ever Halloween masquerade ball at the fabulous old Park Plaza hotel, my mind began to drift.
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