We feel poor. Stressed. Depressed. We're trying to hold on to our jobs and pay our bills and not fall behind on our alphabet soup of a mortgage. Our nest eggs are cracking, our home values are plummeting and we're in credit card debt up to our shiny little iPods....

Nazila Fathi reported in the New York Times that Iran recently executed a man it claimed was a "spy" and has arrested another one also for "spying."

This second man, Hossein Derakhshan, is among the most famous Persian bloggers. Hossein is jailed and threatened with the same fate...

CNN made two scrupulous decisions before the tragedy in Mumbai. Both illustrating to the nation and the world the capacity of television news to be more than, as Edward R. Murrow put it, "Wires and a Box."

If the other handful of mostly entertainment networks owning America's major conduits...

After spending 7 years of my life head to toe with the characters of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, you can understand my amazement when, at 11 A.M. that autumn morning, the phone rang and the person on the other end introduced himself as "Stephen Joyce."

On the morning of...

... everyone. He's not even in the Oval Office yet. The media are running around like a bunch of chickens, clucking wildly about those things they don't know and those things they do. They need to replace their election drama, I suppose, with some post-election, pre-inauguration drama. It's about the...

There has been much discussion about the creation of a Chief Technology Officer. I believe this is a very appropriate and necessary initiative that can make a stronger and better America. However, the CTO needs a framework to tackle how technology can achieve its potential. This should comprise five elements:

Cyber Monday will follow a robust Black Friday. While dim reports on the state of retail are all the rage, if analysts and the media continue to spin the doom and gloom, they will only become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Over...

If Barack Obama wants to debrief Michelle Rhee, even he may have to take a number. The intrepid chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools is on the Dec. 8 Time cover, star of the unequivocally-titled "How To Fix America's Schools." It's the latest in a series of profiles...

There's nothing worse than a long holiday weekend for falling behind on the news. What group of clumsy criminals are we bailing out now? And, gosh, will a zillion dollars be enough? You can lose track. Plus what's happening with Heidi and Spencer?

That's why a website like Free Republic...

Okay, so in upcoming Michael Wolff biography of Rupert Murdoch, "The Man Who Owns The News," we discover that the Fox Corp head honcho "despises" Bill O'Reilly. Wolff also brings up the fact that FN's chief executive, Roger Ailes "loathes" the No-spinster.

Big...

Tribune Company's owner Sam Zell's ideas are so old and decaying that they are beginning to smell rancid. He's playing a hindsight blame game similar to another old, rich dinosaur, Rupert Murdoch, and to Internet guru Jeff Jarvis.

Recently Zell spoke with Condé Nast Portfolio editor-in-chief Joanne Lipman at...

Pro-Syrian partisans in Lebanon battered a Future News TV journalist leaving him crippled in hospital six months after their group contributed to the siege of Beirut with Hezbollah and other allies who unplugged the channel, burned its archives and shot missiles through the offices of the media firm's daily, Al...

As I read about Ann Coulter having her jaw wired shut, my thoughts turned to the election reporting and commentary. I realized that never in our history has so little been said with so many words. I also thought about how screaming has become an important part of our news...

In the snarkoff recently about my holding journalists to account for the state and fate of journalism, commenters asked with good reason when I say journalism will be done, how we're going to watch the government, and where the money will come from. I don't have answers to those...

Michelle Malkin was pleased to be on the list I wrote last week on '10 Republicans who should go away. She writes:

Whoo-hoo: We're Number Three!

...on a Huffington Post blogger's list of "10 Republicans Who Should Go Away."

I'm a conservative, not a Republican. But whatever.

We're...