Surrounded by a gaggle of reporters lobbing questions about his sexual harassment scandal in Alexandria, Herman Cain lost his temper, “Let me say one thing! Don’t even bother asking me all of these other questions that you all are curious about, okay? Don’t even bother.” But reporters wouldn’t get out of his way. “What did I say?!” Cain barked. “Excuse me. Excuse me!”

As hurricane Irene makes its way along the coast and up to the center of the world New York City, we can’t help but wonder… What are reporters assigned to cover the hurricane thinking right about now? We suspect it’s something like “@#%@^@%@!!!!” and “#$@% you, Don. Sitting there in that studio with your tan and your little mug and your big dumb face.” Covering bad weather is awful. And it’s made worse by the fact that people will watch video footage of you falling down over and over and over because your pain is hilarious.

These people are, truly, the unsung heroes throughout terrible storms, risking their comfort, hairstyles and sometimes even their lives (!) in order to make sure we’re informed and remain safe. That’s exactly why these reporters are our Patriots of the Week.

Aol / HuffPost wants freelancers with professional journalism backgrounds to come on board as staffers. According to TechCrunch, the company does not view the ability to blog – not even about adorable kitten antics – as synonymous with journalism. Who’da thunk?

If Jon Stewart is allowed to find humor with the crisis in Egypt, then so too should Rush Limbaugh be able to, right? Well hopefully your answer is yes, otherwise you might not want to read any further.

Yesterday, Smudged Newsprint’s “Media Nation” column, written by Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, took on The New Haven Register for the Connecticut paper’s decision to run an online poll on the “hottest” female television personality. (We’d link you to it, but, as of this morning, the URL for the poll [...]

Hey, did you hear that it’s been snowing all up in the Northeast? It’s true! And, as is usually the case when the weather does weathery things, newscasters are sent out to brave the elements in order to inform viewers that it gets cold in winter. In that spirit, we’ve decided to compile a list of five funny / cringe-inducing looks at what happens when defenseless reporters are forced out of their safe, cozy studios and into the hellish nightmarescape that is Mother Nature’s playground.

While doing image search after image search to satisfy the Power Grid’s voracious appetite for photos, we here at Mediaite came upon a rather titillating discovery: a surprising number of media professionals seem to have an odd connection to another seedy profession: pornography!