Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

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Matt Taibbi on media groupthink and Sarah Palin . The press corps that is bashing her skull in right now is the same one that hyped that WMD...

Will Bunch on the media's failure to cover ... the media's failure . Jon Stewart and his outstanding team of "Daily Show" ...

Jon Stewart does Fox as only he can: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Po...

Ta-Nehisi Coates on journalism and blogging . Incredible journalism is like incredible baby-making--it starts with passion. The guy combing ...

Kevin Drum forecasts the demise of newspapers . A few years ago I was on a panel discussion and the moderator asked us all how long newspape...

Rachel Maddow explains what's wrong with Fox News's claim to be just another news channel. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World...

Joe Conason puts the Obama-Nixon comparison in perspective . Over the past few days, that false comparison has been made by Ken Rudin, the p...

Ezra Klein on balloon boy . Whether or not the drama was staged, it certainly served as a perfect metaphor for cable news: America spent hou...

Jon Stewart on fact-checking. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c CNN Leaves It There www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full...

John McIntyre, totally nailing it, on why people don't read newspapers anymore . The vanishing generation of newspaper readers formed th...

Connie Casey recalls the early days of the National Book Critics Circle -- a time when the Mercury News had a (gulp) 12-page stand-alone boo...

I don't know why I was reading Tim Goodman's column in the Chron today about new shows on the CW, which I never watch and am not ev...

If you missed Rachel Maddow's interview with Tom Ridge tonight, you should go watch it all . But here's the highlight: her stern rip...

John McIntyre on the cliche beat: Two articles in this morning’s Baltimore Sun reach for the same cliche with reference to the late Sen. Ed...

Markos goes off on a rant about the stupidity of newspaper management.

I canceled delivery of the San Jose Mercury News today. It's no longer the newspaper I worked for. It's no longer a paper I need, or...

Michael Bazeley , a former Mercury News staffer, has a perceptive comment on the state of the newspaper. Tomorrow is Black Friday, when anot...