In case you hadn't noticed - must be living under a rock or something - Gonzo is here! John Gonzalez is the new Page 2 sports columnist for The Inquirer, a local guy who thwacked his way through the journalistic swamps of Dallas and Boston before finding the path back...
CHICAGO -- Chicago Sun-Times syndicated political columnist Robert Novak announced he will discontinue his column of 46 years. He has decided to retire his award-winning column after he was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. Mr. Novak, 77, will undergo radiation and chemotherapy at the National Cancer Institute in Washington....
WASHINGTON AFP — Conservative US columnist Robert Novak, whose unmasking of a covert CIA agent sparked a political and legal firestorm, said Monday he was retiring after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. Novak, who announced he was suffering from the tumor late last month, said the medical prognosis...
CHICAGO -- The Chicago Sun-Times announced today that it is extending the contract of award-winning columnist Jay Mariotti, one of the country's most prominent sports commentators. The announcement was made by Sun-Times Editor-in-Chief Michael Cooke. Mr. Mariotti's contract with the newspaper will now continue through May, 2011. Mr. Mariotti...
*On the successful network-to-cable transplant Law & Order: Criminal Intent (USA, Sunday, 9 ET/PT), Mike Logan Chris Noth is reunited with partner Megan Wheeler Julianne Nicholson, who is back from Joint Task Force duty (Nicholson's pregnancy leave) to investigate the murder of a reviled gossip columnist. It's followed by new...
MEDIA DIARY OF ALL THE countless words expended on Cherie Blair's self- effacing Speaking For Myself (Fill That Trolley Till The Designer Gear Spills Over The Sides Press, 16.99), my eye is particularly caught by an astute piece by Kelvin MacKenzie in The Sun. Honing in...
The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Mike Luckovich, and Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall Honored in Washington, DC NEW YORK -- News and opinion magazine THE WEEK (www.theweekdaily.com), has selected the winners for its fifth annual Opinion Awards in the categories of Columnist of the Year, Editorial...
"You've got to love a guy who said a few years ago that he regretted likening Mr. Limbaugh to a 'circus clown' because of all the complaints from circus clowns insulted by the comparison." New York Times columnist Frank Rich claims that John McCain told a Fox News interviewer, "I...
The Feral Beast What a costume drama: BBC sells its wardrobe for a song As budgetary cock-ups go, it's up there with the Dome. The BBC has been forced to sell off its entire costumes and wigs department for a fraction of its real worth. The...
Byron Williams, blogger, The Huffington Post: "If Hillary Clinton fails to win both Ohio and Texas on March 4 -- something that former president Bill Clinton concedes is necessary if she is to remain viable -- what then? ... To lose either state would translate into 12 losses in the...
M2 PRESSWIRE-6 February 2008-CTST: New York Times Technology Columnist David Pogue to Keynote CTST 2008C1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06022008 NEW YORK -- Always known for 'scoring big' with audiences, New York Times technology columnist and Emmy-winning CBS News ...
The New York Times's decision to make Bill Kristol a regular columnist on its op-ed page was met with the predictable chorus of left-wing boos and catcalls. To the typical New York Times reader, inviting the editor of The Weekly Standard and a leading advocate of the troop surge in...
Technology Visionary, New York Times Columnist, and Scientific Investigator to Headline In-Depth Conference Program FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- FOSE 2008, the most comprehensive event for government information technology IT professionals, today announced its keynote lineup. Google Enterprise Vice President and General Manager Dave Girouard; New York Times columnist, Missing...
The 20th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting Here are the winners of the Media Research Center's annual awards for this year's worst reporting, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2007 (December 2006 through November 2007). To determine this year's winners,...
NEW YORK -- When Jason Oliver C. Smith died at age 13, Anna Quindlen did what newspaper reporters and columnists do in the face of death: She wrote an obituary. That Jason happened to be a dog -- Quindlen's golden retriever -- was only hinted at...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 2007 Arkansas football season has put a new spin on the slogan "banner year." Houston Nutt has been the subject of the usual message board and sports columnist criticism, but now a few of the Arkansas fan faithful have gone to sponsoring a banner that has...
The New York Times announced it would cease its Times Select product and open up 23 of its news and opinion columnists and some of its archives for free, rather than fee-based, access. Launched in 2005, Times Select garnered $10 million per year in revenue from 227,000...
King's set to lay down the law over Somerset House As London's new unofficial cultural home, Somerset House is not the sort of place to court controversy. So there'll be some anxiety among our capital's cultural leaders that a bitter row has kicked off between its esteemed board...
WASHINGTON AFP — The New York Times announced Monday it would stop charging for access to certain articles and archives on its web site, reversing a marketing plan implemented two years ago. The widely read newspaper, also known as the "Old Gray Lady," said it was canceling the pay-for-access...
STEVE McQUEEN WAS AN ICONIC antihero screen star of the 1960s and 1970s. The foundation to that monumental movie career was a hit Western television series about a bounty hunter, "Wanted: Dead or Alive" (CBS, 1958-61). After the completion of the program's first season, Hollywood powerbroker columnist Hedda Hopper wrote...
