By Dan Moore This would have surprised me no matter who had turned it up, but there was a special irony in learning that illegal music downloads "aren't hurting the music industry" from a beleaguered print magazine's free-news arm: Illegal downloads aren't hurting the music industry, new study cla ... More >>
Today, Time Magazine published its annual list of the 140 Best Twitter Feeds (in the world!). The list is full of cultural tastemakers, newshounds and celebrities -- but it seems to missing something. That's right, it's missing you. You didn't make the list, despite your tireless dedication to Twitt ... More >>
Michael Lemonick is a former senior science writer at Time Magazine, the senior staff writer at Climate Central, and the lead author of Global Weirdness, a new book that attempts to lay out, in simple terms, what scientists do and don't know about climate change. We spoke with him this week about c ... More >>
In journalism school, plagiarism is equivalent to life without parole: it is the bane of any writer's existence and an automatic halt on one's professional reputation. We are told over and over and over again to source everything, make sure all of your facts line up and that we'll be outcasted from ... More >>
Yup, this sure is a 3-year-old breastfeeding on the cover of Time Magazine.
Someone needs to check the chemicals in the water cooler at Time magazine. And while they're at it, perhaps check to see if some sort of virus from their website has filtered through to Time's readers. Several athletes made Time's Top 100 Influential People list, the highest being Kicks point guar ... More >>
via A new Occupy Wall Street-related art project: the "Police Brutality Coloring Book." The copy states explicitly that it's "not for kids." The description continues:
Julian Assange joins U.S. President Barack Obama, actor Colin Firth and designer Tom Ford on a list of the 20 best dressed men in the world from the French magazine Le Figaro Madame, as reported by CNN Mexico. Placement on the list is something of a coup for Assange, whose look was described ... More >>
Sports Guy SimmonsThe warring of rich white men behind the scenes at magazine companies can be as dull as it sounds or, as in the case of Jack Griffin's firing from Time Inc. at the hands of Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, it can be amusing, provided the powerful people are pissy and willing to ... More >>
Summing up 2010 in two little words
The Most Popular Boy in the World rules the only voting bloc that matters: pre-teen girls
Bringin' back the boombox
All photos by Stacey AndersonThis season, Marc Jacobs recalled melancholic, Taxi Driver-era Jodie Foster with his eponymous line, but he took off Tuesday afternoon to play in the sand. His younger diffusion line, Marc by Marc Jacobs, surprised ready-to-wear loyalists with sharp strides away f ... More >>
When the nation marched to the beat of Henry Luce's newsreels
In the latest issue of Time magazine, comedic writer Joel Stein does a profoundly unfunny bit about how families from India have descended upon the New Jersey town where he grew up. "The A&P I shoplifted from is now an Indian grocery. The multiplex where we snuck into R-rated movies now shows ... More >>
A Time magazine article came out earlier this month discussing a steroid called dexamethasone, which Maria New, a pediatric endocrinologist and researcher at Mount Sinai Medical Center -- and one of the world's foremost experts in congenital adrenal hyperplasia, or CAH -- has advised pregnant ... More >>
Dear Josh: You and I have known each other for years, and I've always regarded you as a knowledgeable and sometimes even scholarly observer of the culinary scene. But I found your piece ("Great Wedding Food: Tips from a Newly Married Critic") in last week's Time magazine disturbing, and felt the n ... More >>
The most important artists were those who made the biggest impact on other artists
The Times used the term "cool nerds" in an article, and seems at first to have been taken to task for it by psychology professor David Anderegg. Under the headline, "'Nerd' and 'Geek' Should Be Banned, Professor Says," Anderegg is said to believe "that merely mentioning terms like nerd or gee ... More >>
"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time informs us, "are labeled federal reserve note for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply." As ... More >>
Hey, it was porn week! Zach live-blogged the Dim Mak porn video. Jadakiss vowed to wake up beside you naked. Peter Saville's Erotic House of Pop streamed online. Asher Roth debuted his sweet new Bukkake-inspired video. (Speaking of which, Asher Roth should probably lose that hypeman.) The police ... More >>
A confederacy of dunces
Umbertos moves its tasty crustaceans and shellfish to the Bronx
Midtown bar ideal for sucking corporate teat dry
When ethics and profit clash in today's corporate newsrooms, guess which side wins?
High stakes for all reporters, but prosecutor hasn't shown his hand
The peril for the press of the corporate cave-in on plamegate sources
Corporate magazine caves in over Plamegate sources
Suede magazine wants advertisers to see its true colorsand spend some real green
Outsourcing and the sad little movement to stop it
'Time' Mag Closes Mexico City Bureau
Media Industry Hit by Rolling Layoffs
Freelancers Accuse AOL of a Rights Grab
Public Interest Journalism Is Born Again
AOL's Love-Hate Relationship With 'Time'
Time Warner Goes to China and Gets Shanghaied by Its Hosts
