The Spoof That Fooled the Associated Press
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Media
Friday A/V Club: Ice-T's Guide to Sexual Subcultures
When the down-low panic came to Law and Order: SVU
NBC Suspends Serial Humble-Bragger Brian Williams for Six Months, Costing Him $5 Million
Move comes despite defenses from millionaire media friends like Jon Stewart (who's also retiring, BTW).
All the President's Voxsplainers
Remember when Vox was going to give us all a better way to "understand the news"? What we get instead is a better way to become courtiers to power.
Brian Williams vs. New Media (AKA "a Guy Named Vinny in an Efficiency Apartment")
Faking a story about being attacked in a war zone is awful, but it's not the newsman's biggest mistake.
No, Campus Feminists Didn't Shut Down Kate Smurthwaite's 'Free Speech Comedy Show'
Behold the anatomy of an outrage cycle
Owning Ideas—An Outdated Idea?
Maybe intellectual property in its current form has outlived its expiration date.
Clearly What Indianans Need Is a Taxpayer-Funded State News Outlet
Governor proposes his own media coverage.
There Will Be No More Bare-Breasted Models in the London Sun
The line that separates the news from softcore porn just got a little less blurry.
British Spy Agency Practiced Scooping Up Journalists' E-mails
Ten minutes of communications at news outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times, and NBC collected.
Search Engines Trump Traditional Media as Most-Trusted by Millennials
In Google News we trust.
Sky News Really Doesn't Want to Show the New Charlie Hebdo Cover
Self-censorship in action
Charlie Hebdo Plans to Publish Its Next Issue On Schedule, With an Expanded Print Run
Defiance in the face of murder.
The Sony Hack and the First Amendment
If Sony sued to keep the press from publishing info acquired by hackers, it would probably lose.
Rolling Stone and the Cult of Credulity
The mantra 'I believe' pathologizes skepticism and doesn't help victims.
History Repeats Itself at The New Republic
The latest shift at a magazine that has changed course many times before
