As an in-house advertisement in the Halloween issue of Newsweek promised, Tina Brown’s dormant TV career is back from the dead. Daily Beast TV, the online video channel The Observer first caught wind of in July, has launched on the Beast's website. Though none of the shows bear the name of Ms. Brown’s erstwhile CNBC Read More
In the new issue of Rolling Stone, National Magazine Award winner and onetime Observer 'Power Punk' Matt Taibbi offers a little bit of George W. Bush fan fiction in the form of a fake interview headlined Bush Apologizes: The Farewell Interview We Wish He'd Give.
Subheadlined "W. comes clean—on his dad, Condi's Read More
That's what Times op-ed editor Andy Rosenthal told a Columbia j-school class last night, Radaronline.com's Ben Chapman reports.
The U2 frontman will write between "six and ten" columns next year, and he's doing it ... pro bono.
Other Rosenthal dish from last night:
On the night of Monday, October 13, Oliver Stone was being chauffeured around downtown Manhattan, looking for the dinner party he was running late for, and talking about what the subject of his new film, W., has in common with the Wizard of Oz. Connecting W., which examines and chronicles the life of George W. Read More
Oliver Stone’s W., from a screenplay by Stanley Weiser, arrives at a strange time in our nation’s history, when even Iraq and Afghanistan have been pushed off the front pages and away Read More
Chuck Schumer, along with Claire McCaskill and John Kerry, responded quickly with a letter to Condoleezza Rice asking her to prevent the deals from going forward until there is an Read More
Except that the speculation may have just taken a twist that the Powell Read More
This statement just came in from Hillary Clinton's Senate office:This morning, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice contacted Senator Clinton in order to inform her that the Senator's passport file was breached in 2007. The State Department will be briefing Senator Clinton's staff this afternoon to provide details about the recent unauthorized breaches of passport records. Read More
The most important question asked at last week’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas did not create much of a stir. It set off no pyrotechnics between Senator Hillary Clinton and her rivals, caused no tsunami in the blogosphere, incited no pundits to new heights of hyperbole.
It did, however, cut to the heart of Read More
Iraq remains bloody and chaotic, the security situation in Afghanistan is rocky and efforts to stabilize Pakistan by pushing Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto into a pact are at risk of unraveling.
Casting around Read More
Hevesi: toast. It should be quite a scene this morning. First phrase of Fred Dicker's story: "Sealing his political doom..." A lot of people want his job. His temporary replacement may be Jack Chartier, Peggy Lipton's friend. Times' editorial page on Hevesi's replacement: "This choice should be about credentials, Read More
In today's Quinnipiac poll, 45 percent of voters said Condoleezza Rice is the most powerful woman in the country. That's compared to 29 percent who said the same thing about Hillary Clinton, and 23 percent who said it about Nancy Pelosi. Regardless of who voters support in a presidential race, 56-41percent said Hillary is Read More
An important piece in the Forward this week suggests that Bush is at last going to do something about Israel/Palestine so as to try and redeem his failed policies in the Middle East and restore American legitimacy in the world. The Forward quotes Philip Zelikow, an assistant to Condoleezza Rice, speaking at the pro-Israel Read More
How scary must the New York Times legal department be when Salon is forced to run a second and much-expanded correction to a story they've already corrected and removed from their site? The crux of the correction, regarding a piece by Debbie Nathan on Kurt Eichenwald's internet-child-porn reporting, is an amplification of the right Read More
With Condoleezza Rice pressing for a cease-fire and a particularly high weekly toll in civilian casualties, we asked Congressman Eliot Engel -- one of the more vocal politicians urging strong support for Israel's actions on "the frontline of terror" -- whether his attitude had evolved at all since the beginning of hostilities. Here was Engel's Read More
