video This clip from this morning's Morning Joe is currently making the rounds due to Peggy Noonan's remark that today's Mass. special election GOP candidate Scott Brown is popular because he "looks like an American" (which is not the full quote, though she doesn't exactly redeem herself either). Actually, Noonan's remark may be the least offensive to come out of this morning's chat session on the subject; Donny Deutsch thinks the fact Brown not black or a woman may offer a "visceral comfort" to voters. The more things change, etc.
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Last week we reported the sad news that Editor & Publisher would be shutting down by the end of the year. We noted how the demise of the 125 year-old newspaper trade magazine was "a sign of how badly that industry has been hammered over the past few years, and further calls into question its future survival." Well not so fast! Today E&P announced plans to publish their January issue, and teases in the headline: "Hope Remains?" Could this be a Christmas miracle? (more...)

video Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to trial at a New York City courthouse was received with mixed reaction Friday, both on the political spectrum and in the media world. There are many parts to this story and so as a service to you, let's review where this story has been and where its likely to go, at least in the world of the opinion press. (more...)

This morning, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was freed from his captors in northern Afghanistan by a military raid that took the life of his interpreter. As in the case of David Rohde, the Times asked news outlets not to report on Farrell's capture, although fortunately his was a shorter ordeal than Rohde's. (more...)