It's important to remember how stories like this come together. Some political figure likes some artist. If the artist is worth his or her salt, then chances he or she has probably done something outre or controversial. And, wow, a rapper?
We are all custodians of our collective history and it is essential that we strive to present and teach an accurate depiction of historical moments, despite our personal beliefs.
You could have knocked me over with a feather. For the first time, it hit me like a ton of bricks -- fashion was truly losing one of its biggest allies, champions and dream makers -- Oprah Winfrey.
While other magazines develop new sections, revamp covers, choose new typefaces and call it a redesign, Forbes is altering the very way it reports and delivers its stories.
Confusion regarding "human shields," "firefights," and "burial at sea" has provided grist for the media mills. These have allowed the story to play out in ways that reflect the predisposition of the storytellers.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is regarded as this sort of action classic that defined a genre, but when you read it, all the characters do is sit around eating endangered species.
Too many Western writers try to portray themselves as selfless, Mother Theresa-like figures who venture to an exotic and dangerous country to single-handedly save the natives.
While I won't rip the DoD for propaganda, I will rip it for weak propaganda.
The Rachel Maddow Show enjoys the highest degree of engagement, meaning minutes spent per month, among all the NBC News and MSNBC news programs, according to MSNBC.com president Charles Tillinghas.
In the end, the act of writing a book will not change. Yet as the publishing world changes, as do the ways in which readers digest books, many of the most meaningful moments in an author's career will be lost or different in a way to make them unrecognizable.
After all is said and done, what kind of damage will Trump's "terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week" have on his future?
Far be it for the New York Times to take up the cudgel of oil prices being a gamed market and that the recent sell off is but the timid beginnings of a return to market conditions without "fraud and manipulation".
Salam Shabab (which means Peace Youth) is a 9-part series in which 18 teams from different Iraqi provinces compete to become the peace ambassador representing Iraq's youth to parliament.
I crawl to the finish line of every day knowing that at 10 pm, no matter what else has happened, I will turn on the daily soap re-run channel, and instantly, happily, fall into a trance.
Any invasion of armies today is being met with an equally hard-hitting invasion of media to cover unfolding events -- often to the consternation of those who seek to suppress people.
Donald Trump and George Will don't have much in common save the fact that both are selling peculiarly dangerous forms of snake oil and are doing so with the imprimatur of The Washington Post.
Social media has become the dot-connector between the young gunners eager to pull the trigger on a career in music and the industry itself.
This week, we launched a great new chapter for Patch.com -- we are welcoming new bloggers to Patch sites around the country through our new Local Voices blog feature. Local Voices will complement Patch's original reporting, allowing members of each community to speak up and speak out to their neighbors -- whether they're across town, a block away, or two doors down. READ MORE
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I didn't buy a newspaper because I wanted to find out more about the operation in Pakistan. I bought it because it was tangible representation of massively important historic event, and I wanted to save it.
Terry Krepel, 2011.05.10
