“Lean and Mean”, is that a reference to running your site almost entirely through the efforts of unpaid interns? If so, it’s not something to be proud of, it’s exploitation.

Mediaite has developed in to my favorite website, and first source for news.  I congratulate you and the team for a job well done.  Each day, actually numerous times each day, I first check Mediaite for new stories, skim through the reader comments of stories that interest me, and only after exhausting the interesting stories on Mediaite do I head over to Drudge then other sources to see what else is happening.    I don’t like the extreme slant of some of the articles (pretty much anything written by Tommy), but reader comments are the best part of Mediaite, where real people, occasionally non-partisan, can balance out a biased article, and often add facts or sources that weren’t included in the article.  Most articles are short, having an included video, which helps to invite readers to contribute additional details that they’ve researched, or know, or think…

My Windows gadget that shows local weather says its 32 degrees, but I think hell would have to freeze over before I’d watch current, but maybe I’ll check it out if they decide to make an effort to have balanced reporting.  Propaganda gets stale fast, from either side.    Good luck over there, and thanks again for helping build a great website.

we have not unpaid interns, but thanks for the kind words Guy!

Good luck Colby!  This site has become a fixture for me too.

Colby, who will ban me now!!  No hard feelings, good luck to you!

ps, Consider me checked, one more time!

”
 I don’t like the extreme slant of some of the articles (pretty much anything written by Tommy),”

LOL

Tommy will.  Liberals like banning things that don’t fit into their narrow boxes. 

Clear Channel? Interesting. Please tell us that Tommy isn’t taking over your position. Please.

Going from this to this network to the network that carries Rush Limbaugh (20 million listeners) is going to be a huge culture shock. Take Tommy with you, he might become a dittohead.

I thought Clear Channel was just radio and billboards?  At least you get to visit San Antonio on corporate trips to headquarters.

I have not been a viewer to this site, and reading your articles, long enough to say whether I should cheer or deplore your departure.

In any case, best of luck to you, I will never hear from you again, because  I am too cheap to pay for radio.

I just hope that Mediaite will hire someone who replaces you to make this site fair and balanced.

Best of luck Colby, say hello to Rush from all of us. 

Congratulations Colby.  I hope you have a lot of success w/ Clear Channel.

And Savage!

Oops, I’d misread, had thought article was stating Colby was going to Current.  I’ve no opinion of Clear Channel, I haven’t listened to terrestrial radio in a long time, too impatient to tolerate minutes-long commercials every few minutes.

http://tunein.com/radio/WHAS-840-s29231/
Here is a nice Clear Channel station you can listen to while blogging.

Congrats… Onward and upward.

Wishing you much success and happiness.    

Nice job, Colby, good luck.

Bring back the guy that went to CNN, job security is not very good there. He was fair and balanced.

“The good news is that Mediaite founder Dan Abrams has agreed to have me continue to write for Mediaite as an Editor-at-Large.”

Hmmm. I thought editor-at-large was an honorary position for former Mediaite writers who now occasionally dabble in television commentary?

Find a blog that reflects your sense of fairness, such as Hotair or FoxNation. 

Clear Channel home of right wing radio,and the destruction of local radio,which warns communities of tornadoes,floods,fires.

You will be missed Colby, and I wish you good luck (please make sure anybody else but Tommy fills your void in articles please).

Good Luck!!

If this was April 1st, I’d have thought for sure this was an April’s Fools joke, since I’ve been around long enough to remember when Clear Channel was the leftist’s favorite boogeyman, a title now held by the Koch brothers.

good luck bro.

He’s going right where he belongs.

Hi Colby, Just a short note to wish you well in your new endeavor. Clear Channel?! That should be interesting. I also want to tell you how much I appreciate what you’ve helped to create with Mediaite. It’s a great meeting place for political junkies of all stripes, and I’m sure it’s been very educational for all and sundry, even some of the hardcore extremists on both the right and left, mostly right!

I always thought you were a closeted Conservative!!! Congratulations for finally getting out of the low rent gutter that is mediaite.com. May you make some real money my Conservative friend.

It’s not news chuck-o. It’s Saturday Night Live and Rush Limbaugh.
Then again what would you know , You’re from Sactown. A place that should be nuked off the map…

hahahah.. He’s taking a pay cut and no job security…

How are they ever going to replace a generic left wing cog.

Appreciate the reply. I should have framed my question more respectfully. I often see ads for intern positions on your site, and rarely for actual full time positions. Having worked many years at a college, I’m painfully aware of the abuses that take place in internship programs. I’m glad to see that yours are at least paid. In my state, internships are required to be geared toward benefiting the intern, and not the employer. I don’t know if that’s the case for NY, but it should be. I echo the words of ChuckSacramento below, Mediaite has become my preferred news site as well, and I applaud your candor in replying to my comment. I’ll wait for your farewell post to let you know how I feel about ClearChannel…

Congrats and good luck, Colby!

Good luck, Colby!

And a special thanks to Bill O’Reilly for mentioning Mediaite on his show a couple of years ago, otherwise, I would have never found you guys.

It’s a tragedy you’re leaving. Can I help you pack or anything to help get you ass on outta here?

“first source of news”   it is odd to me that so many still don’t get that this is not a news site,, it’s a site that reports on other media.  

Colby, you were one of the few on here who seemed to proof read your posts,  I’ll miss that.  

I won’t hold it against you that you offered me an opportunity to write a piece for this blog a while back (on twitter).  If they want me I’d do it for a fee :)  ….   I’m much tamer and more behaved when being professional.

I don’t get clear channel but good luck over there.

Chasing that paper hey Colby?  Can’t say that I blame you and Lord knows Clear Channel and the Right Wing noise machine need all the help they can get.

NAh, the comments on mediaite suck.  They are generally awful, mindless, cheap partisan bickering of the most shallow variety.  There are exceptions, but over all they suck.

Also, the writing tends to suck too.  The opinions of the editorialists aren’t all that interesting or original and in terms of basic writing, even, it’s subpar (shockingly bad, sometimes. They better be employing mostly unpaid interns, as I’d fire most of these people if they are on a salary).

So why do I come here?Basically their selection of stories is usually interesting enough to satisfy my neverending craving for political junk food.  Even if they rely WAY WAY too much on just reporting every word the 5, O;Reilly, John Stewart said the night before, they will occasionally have an interesting video clip or something.

Plus, they aren’t as obnoxious with their headlines as other blogs.  Huffpo, for example, is really annoying nowdays just because they turn every article into a sensational riddle just to get clicks (i.e. “Click here to find out what X politician said!”).  I do give mediatie credit for actually putting the content of the article in the headline, rather than doing the typical blogger tease of forcing you to click on the article to find what it’s actually about that most websites are doing these days to get hits.

he meant untrained low paid bloggers who learned their “skills” at the daily kos.

colby hall is a punk who let the comments section of this site be a free for all of the ugliest kind of insults – but sure quickly banned anybody who called him out for his misdeeds or the unfairness and overwhelming untruth sometimes shoved out through this blog sites posts. (and yes, its a blog site – not a news site – see tommy christopher’s work for the defining example of this)

Congratulations and good luck Colby.  Oh, and I apologize for that time I accused you of being intimate with Glenn Beck, I have no proof of that.

Congrats Colby! You will be missed. Not sure you will miss us though! 

Hopefully you’ll still be tweeting – I do love those tweets about Olby! HA 
I guess no more FOX appearances? bummer.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all that. 
Cheers.