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The Voice Talks Black Voter Support for Gay Marriage with Michelangelo Signorile on Sirius [AUDIO]

We're approaching, if not looking in the rearview mirror at, a watershed moment in American civil rights history. A majority of the American public now supports marriage equality for same-sex couples. And, despite what detractors have been saying and predicting, this includes black people, too. An ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Would Probably Like to Host SNL; Seth Meyers Makes No Serious Promises

Forget the cast of Gossip Girl, Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, and Lady Gaga. Mayor Mike Bloomberg brought in some serious entertainment power to really spice up his press conference this afternoon: Saturday Night Live. Well actually, it was just Seth Meyers. But he got to use the whole stage of S ... More >>

I'm Number One With A Bullet!

I've finally gotten my bad self way on top of a chart. According to Odyssey magazine's "F" List -- for the fabulous and fierce, not the fucked up and forgotten -- I have the top spot this week. And I did it with no promotion whatsoever!

100 & Single: Adele's Focus-Grouped Chart-Topper And The Demise Of The "Deep Cut"

Remember the album cut—the track deep on a disc that fans knew best, that only cool radio stations would play? Like so many cherished things from before the iTunes era, it's essentially extinct. My evidence for this bold and seemingly facile statement isn't the steady, well-chronicled disappe ... More >>

Journalists From Rupert Murdoch's The Sun Arrested

​News of the World? Old news. Months after the that paper was shut down in the wake of phone hacking revelations, the Associated Press reported this morning that four current and former journalists from another one of Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids, The Sun, were arrested for allegedly brib ... More >>

I'm Appearing At The LGBT Center!

​ In an OutProfessionals event. This Wednesday, September 14, at 630 PM, Sirius XM OutQ's Frank DeCaro will chat with me about my new book, Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back, and we'll no doubt dig into all kinds of gossipy topics with reckless abandon.

Rupert and James Murdoch Awarded Handsome Bonuses, But James Turns His Down

​News Corp head honcho Rupert Murdoch received a $12.5 million cash bonus for the last financial year; about the same time period during which the phone hacking scandal exploded into a full-blown crisis, shuttering News of the World and forcing the Murdochs to testify in front of British MP's. ... More >>

News International Scandal: UK Cops Now Investigating Alleged Computer Hacking

​A new twist in the seemingly endless News Corp debacle: now authorities in Britain are expanding their investigation into allegations of computer hacking on top of the existing phone hacking and police bribing. Scotland Yard released a statement: "Operation Tuleta is currently considering a n ... More >>

Fox News' Brazen Sugarcoating of News Corp's Hacking Scandal

They've outdone themselves! I mean, damn. The obviousness of it. The comparison of the News Corp hacking scandal to the hacking incidents at the Pentagon and Citibank boggles the mind, since the Pentagon and Citibank were the victims of hacking, while News of the World was the perpetrator. Not t ... More >>

The 5 Weirdest News Corp Properties

The Faithgirlz! Bible from Zondervan, a News Corp company.​Common knowledge holds that News Corp owns a lot of stuff. A lot a lot, including obvious things like Dow Jones and Fox News. But if you ever really go over News Corp's properties with a fine-tooth comb, you find some amusingly outside ... More >>

Were 9/11 Victims Hacked by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, Too?

Murdoch, not pleased​Despite the last issue of News of the World being published yesterday, the phone hacking scandal haunting Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid -- and his whole News Corp. empire -- is only getting scarier, with new allegations continuing to surface. Over the weekend, another g ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Kills Baby: News of the World Goes Down in UK Phone Hacking Scandal

​Although the website is still offering a four-week free trial, today's announcement that News Corporation will shutter its long-running Sunday tabloid News of the World because of a now officially out of control phone hacking scandal reverberated through the media news sphere for hours today, ... More >>

TAKE ME OUT

Minor-league ball is back

Is Western Coverage of Japan Veering Into "Disaster Porn"?

Reuters via NYT​An idea getting thrown around on the Internet is that American news networks' coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is a form of "disaster porn." This post from Tokyo photographer Rikki Kasso's blog reposted on Tumblr sums up the argument: Please everybody do not re ... More >>

Mubarak to Step Down Amid Continued Protests and a New List of Demands in Egypt

​On the seventeenth day of protests in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak may finally be stepping down, according to reports from Britain's Channel 4 News. Mubarak is expected to transfer power to his newly appointed vice president, Omar Suleiman. Lindsey Hilsum, a Channel 4 reported, said on Twitter that H ... More >>

New York Times Opens Hangover Rooms, Goes WikiLeaks; Rupert Murdoch Babies His Kids

""recoverycouch.jpg" via​It happens: some mornings you get to work without having been home the night before and you pull a freshly starched white shirt from the bottom drawer of your desk, you brush your teeth under the fluorescent light of the men's room with one of those little things you p ... More >>

Fade to Black: Bloomy Schools Pick Cathie Black Is Down for the Count

​ Less than 24 hours after everyone decided that a special panel to evaluate Cathie Black as schools chancellor had to be in the tank for Mayor Bloomberg, the group voted an overwhelming thumbs down for the publishing exec. So much for assumptions. Black got just two out of eight votes on the ... More >>

New York Post Shills For MTV's Jersey Shore With Full Snooki Arrest Cover

​Yesterday, upon the arrest of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, we got a lesson on Twitter reporting, as TMZ scoured feeds for beachfront witnesses of "America's beloved pint-sized troublemaker." Wait, who called her "beloved," you might be wondering. That's the New York Post in today's cover story, a ... More >>

Freedom of Speech Means We May Get More F-Bombs on Air

George Carlin would be proud.​The United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has determined that the FCC's ban on even one small "patently offensive" expletive and other profanity on TV and radio violates the First Amendment. They stated that the current policy is "unconstitutional ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Is Watching: The Greatest Media Prank of All Time

​What do Rupert Murdoch, a former Page Six gossip columnist, a guy who works at the News Corp commissary, and the founder of College Humor have in common? They were all part of what might be the greatest media prank of all time.

LOVER & A FIGHTER

Fighting to be on top

Bloomberg: The Movie (At Your Expense)

From L.A. to Bali, city workers film mayor touting himself at your expense

Au Revoir Simone

ART ATTACK

Performa 09 features a dizzying program

Food Network to Go Global; Daniel Joins Michelin Three-Star Club

​A group of food corps is launching the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, a national, multi-year campaign to help reduce obesity -- especially childhood obesity -- by 2015. [PR Newsire] A study reveals that customers at fast-food chains, such as McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, and KFC, ... More >>

Nine Inch Nails+Jane's Addiction

Times Saves Globe, Murdoch Mulls Charging for Online Papers

The New York Times' financial troubles have been widely reported, especially by the fun-loving guys and gals at the New York Post, who avail a "Pinch-o-Meter" to track the degree of woefulness suffered by the paper and its publisher. But the Times had a rare piece of decent news today: they got conc ... More >>

TV by Design; Pipilotti Rist's Pour Your Body Out at MOMA

Television tangles with modern art—Warhol wins

MAGNETIC APPEAL

Town Hall gets distorted with Stephin Merritt & Co.

Clip Job: Charles Van Doren Signs with NBC

EL-P To Play Urban Outfitters in July

Naomi Leaves Dept. of Sanitation in Couture

Al Qaeda's L.A. Plot? Yawn. . .

The really scary news? Airport security is still so bad

Rx for Info Overload

Adult dosage: Take two papers and a website daily—add grains of salt

Morning Report 6/30/05
Psst! There's a War Going On.

Viacom Execs Get $100 Mil

CBS parent's stock fell while duo raked in dough for on-the-job training

Fit to Post

From Sarin to the Berg beheading: why do the news media keep silent when rumors sweep the internet?

The War According to Sinclair

New York Radio

Left of the Dial

A Noir's By-the-Musical-Numbers Remake Hits a Sour Note

U.S. Curtails Iraq's Newfound Media Freedoms

Quid Pro Coup

The 'Times' Condones Censorship, Venezuelan Style

The Pusillanimous 'Post'

Reporter Sues News Corp. for $10 Million

Telecom for Dummies

Touring the Media Industrial Complex

Transmission Impossible

Feds to Big Apple: Forget Neighborhood Stations

Adventures in Hi-Fi

Digital Kills the Radio Star

Channel Turfing

Minorities struggle for a foothold in public television's digital future

'Mega' Mania

New York's new number 1 radio station leads frenzied market drive