The uneasy detante between David Paterson and Andrew Cuomo is over. After months of stories about how badly the White House would like Mr. Paterson to stand down, and months of polls showing how badly...
A grad student surprisingly acquired a large sum of money; unsurprisingly, he lacked the steely real-world survival instincts to keep it. A.P. writers used spy tactics to get hold of Going...
Gawker's Hamilton Nolan owned the week's A.P.-layoffs story, and this morning he took an elegiac tone: "We hope you will all receive much grander tributes to your individual careers than a single line in a Gawker post....
Bloomberg reports today on the local news battlegrounds that The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are currently staking out. Both papers are exploring regional editions in places like the Bay Area and Chicago, to...
Public figures of all kinds are aflutter after Oprah Winfrey's dramatic announcement that she's switching to cable. CNN did the thing where someone hands an urgent piece of paper to the anchor, the Daily Beast seems to...
The MTA has been printing the word "optimism" on MetroCards since September, but no one seems to have noticed until The Times did, extensively, this...
Chuck Schumer continued his exuberant cheerleading for Harry Reid yesterday, in keeping with his insistence that he doesn't have designs on Mr. Reid's majority leader post. On Morning Joe, he called the Senate Majority Leader "a great,...
At a topping-off ceremony for his Beekman Tower yesterday, 80-year old architect Frank Gehry took to the podium and made one of those slightly randy jokes that men can get away with when they're 80. Mr. Gehry...
During a joint hearing yesterday, the City Council's Transportation, Women's Issues, and Public Safety committees concluded that sexual harassment is the "number one quality of life offense on the subway." Some patterns emerged in the discussion of the...
The back covers this morning prompt a question: Which tabloid do you trust? They both have Allen Iverson, but the Daily News tell us "TIME OUT: Dolan has reservations," while the Post feels so confident it's actually happening...
Did Frank Gehry make a Viagra joke at a topping-off ceremony? The Blind Side movie made Ken Starr all teary-eyed. Colum McCann's Let The Great World Spin won the National Book...
Because all other vampire angles are exhausted on this, the eve of the second Twilight movie's release, today's hot topic is old and/or smart people who like Twilight in spite of themselves. The Washington Post writes that "good,...
What does Ed Koch think about the Times' report that Rudy Giuliani won't be running for...
Not infrequently, The New York Times supplements its regular offerings with a "special section," a home for special content on special topics or special events-and for the advertisers who want to read about these topics! We will...
Not to worry. Everything is "fine" between your governor and your media emperor. David Paterson insisted this morning that there weren't any hard feelings about Rupert Murdoch calling him "a very nice and honest man who's blind and...
November 17, 2009
What a week! Or, should I say, “Wart a week!”Yes, a horrid wart! In full view of my public? Can you believe? That’s what I get for trying to... READ MORE »
November 17, 2009
The loudest voices on the right never tire of telling us that they are the truest patriots. They claim to be the deepest believers in our system, the strongest... READ MORE »
November 17, 2009
Ho, ho, ho, the Condé Nast Christmas party is back! After a one-year break, Si Newhouse’s editors and publishers will celebrate the holidays next Monday, Nov. 23, at Aureole,... READ MORE »
