Here’s a preview of your upcoming few months: all media outlets will put Barack Obama and his family’s faces on anything they reasonably can, because it is a license to print money. (TIME magazine, which just put out an Obama book, being no exception.) The Obama gravy train made a stop at 60 Minutes last [...]

I was a fan of Ted Allen from the get-go; on Queer Eye, the food writer was the member of the quintet who seemed most to act like a person rather than a media-ready persona. (Or was that his persona? Discuss!) So I was disappointed to see him gone from the judging lineup of Top [...]

Interesting New York Times piece on the continuing lawsuit by Dan Rather against CBS over its resolution of the 2004 controversy over President Bush’s National Guard records, which cost Rather his job. In a nutshell, the network came under conservative fire for a 60 Minutes II report that relied on documents suggesting that Bush had [...]

Anyone who follows the media business (or, ahem, works in it) knows well how hard that sector has it in a general economic downturn. But in an intriguing Boston Globe article imagining what an actual 21st-century Great Depression would look like, Drake Bennett raises an interesting point about the prospects for an entertainment medium that’s [...]