By now you’ve heard: Scott Brown, the Lt. Colonel of the Army National Guard, has just been elected to the United States Senate. Oh, also, he posed nude in Cosmo in 1982. And now that this campaign is over, I have to wonder – where was the outrage? (more...)

audio During the Fox & Friends interview with Sarah Palin last week, besides saying she wants to interview Katie Couric, she also weighed in on the potential of a Palin-Glenn Beck ticket in 2012. She thought Beck must think the whole discussion is a "hoot" and didn't rule anything out. Beck responded to the potential ticket on the radio Wednesday: he doesn't think anything is a "hoot," the ticket would have to be Beck-Palin, and she'd probably just be "yapping" instead of staying "in the kitchen." You know, kidding, of course. (more...)

Here is a video of the GELF "Overlooked Women In Media" panel from September 2009, featuring Mediaite's Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol, CNET's Caroline McCarthy, Jezebel's Anna Holmes and Slate Double X's Jessica Grose. (more...)

Meme alert! Get ready for the President's golf game to take the cablers by storm. Let's take a look at the signs. Barack Obama's fondness for golf is not a secret -- anyone who follows a White House correspondent on Twitter knows that their weekends are often spent waiting for the president to finish his 18 holes. This past weekend, however, Obama's favorite pastime got some extra, significantly placed, mentions. The first from CBS's Mark Knoller who noted that Obama has racked as many golf games in his first nine months than George W. Bush did in almost three years: (more...)

exclusive Capitol File, a Washington society magazine in Jason Binn's Niche Media stable, got very lucky: They had a Diane Sawyer interview in the can just before the announcement came in late August that she would be taking over from Charlie Gibson as the anchor of ABC World News. Sawyer doesn't do many of these, and Cap File got lots of access, a sweet photoshoot capturing Sawyer in various guises, and a nice chatty interview about Sawyer's career highlights (interviewing Nelson Mandela and Boris Yeltsin was amazing; interviewing Saddam Hussein was stressful and made her extremely conscious of the mortality of herself and her crew), Nixon's geopolitical insight, and how many hours of sleep she gets a night (four). The article goes to great lengths to present her as an ambitious, accomplished leader in her industry, which was made all the more impressive considering the era in which Sawyer rose to prominence as a woman in a man's world. Then I saw the headline. It read: WOMAN ON TOP. (more...)