We've got pretty thick skin here at Mediaite, and faced some critics when we launched back in July. We welcomed it, really, and we continue to do so (Jeff Jarvis has a standing invitation to come on Office Hours). But there was a particularly ridiculous review of our new site, Geekosystem, that needs to be addressed. (more...)

In the ongoing conversation about the future of media, there are few in a better position to talk about it - and Google, Rupert Murdoch, and the SF Chronicle - than Phil Bronstein, the Executive Vice President in charge of Content Development and Editor-At-Large for the Newspaper Division of The Hearst Corporation. Phil's also known as a celebrity, but my feeling going in was that I want to focus on the more substantive issue of media's future with someone I work with, and that I wasn't interested in adding to someone's caricature of "Phil Bronstein." We met at Phil's office at San Francisco Chronicle headquarters in San Francisco. (more...)

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"This is no smile-and-say-cheese matter. Two rank amateurs breached what is supposed to be unbreachable security. Let there be no doubt about the consequences for the romp: Careers will be ruined. That's reality."

--The San Francisco Chronicle editorial board on the Salahi gate-crashing incident (more...)

When the Congressional debate of health care kicked into high gear Saturday afternoon, many news outlets had their coverage follow -- from endless updates on the Huffington Post to CSPAN's exhaustive video cataloging. Meanwhile, printed newspapers doubtlessly spent the day preparing their Sunday covers -- unable to foresee exactly how the vote and bill would shake out, but fully aware of its inevitable headline grabbing appeal. (more...)