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Media: The ‘Underpaid’ and the Unemployed

Last Friday, the already dangerously-thin hometown paper, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, announced that they were laying off 23 employees. According to the Riverfront Times, that makes 234 people laid off...

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Media Room: Portland Ghost Basement

One of the major hubs for fiber-optic cables carrying the Internet to most homes and businesses in the Pacific Northwest is located in the basement of a building in Portland, Oregon. Nothing terribly...

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Quote of the Day: Celebrity ‘Journalism’

From the always perspicacious P.J. O’Rourke, who wrote recently on the through-the-looking-glass experience that is reading an entire issue of People, or even US Weekly: The formula for celebrity...

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Department of Media: 2014’s Best Magazine Stories

(Library of Congress) The winners of the 2015 Magazine Awards (the rather unfortunately named Ellies) have been announced. The New Yorker took home a few as usual, and Vogue won for publication of the...

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Reader’s Corner: David Foster Wallace Predicted Netflix

Plenty of us have fallen down the new TV-binge rabbit hole more than once in the past few years. It’s a nice change of pace every now and again, instead of patiently waiting for the next installment...

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Weekend Reading: December 16, 2016

Beyond Pizzagate: a brief guide to shooters who love to read Infowars. The new Republican reality turns the Reagan era on its head when it comes to Russia and Islam. If Obamacare goes, over 50 million...

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Weekend Reading: February 24, 2017

If the Great Cheeto were more competent, we’d really be in trouble; also, how his courtiers push a diet of flattering media to keep the boss from Tweeting all the damn time. For these folks,...

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Screening Room: ‘Official Secrets’

In the new thriller from Gavin Hood (Rendition), Keira Knightley plays the real-life whistle-blower who tried to stop the UK from bending to US pressure to cook up intelligence to justify the invasion...

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