A guy walked into a Clinton campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, with what looks like a bomb taped to his chest and demanding to “speak” with Hillary. She’s not in New Hampshire. Track the story for now here. Health-care reform? Campaign financing? The Sopranos spoof? What’s on his mind?

If you were nominated by your major media bosses to cover the presidential campaign, congratulations and, I’m sorry. Although an important beat, it has also got to be exhausting, repetitive and overwhelming. The email alone must be mountainous, amounting to an inbox in every account, personal and professional, stuffed to the brim with messages from [...]

$300 million is a lot for a building. But it just ain’t “architecture” less it’s wrapped in leaking swirly titanium!

I hope someone filmed the productions of Waiting for Godot director Paul Chan put on earlier this month in the open air of New Orleans. Wendell “Bunk” Pierce as Vladimir and J Kyle Manzay as Estragon, holding forth while waiting for that which will never come amid the slumped houses, skeleton trees, post-Katrina emptiness of [...]

Facebook continues its campaign for global media domination, announcing a partnership with ABC News designed to bring the campaign trail to the top of the news feed.
The goal, as the New York Times reported Monday, is to draw Facebook users (read: 18-29 year olds) into political coverage, creating a web of information and opinion for [...]

Coming soon to this spot will be an overview of and excerpts from a major interview and research project P+P and additional staff completed recently on U.S. newsroom diversity and the news agenda. Our staff talked to editors at more than 300 newspapers that failed for whatever reason to complete the American Society of Newspaper [...]

It’s been a good couple of weeks for the Obama candidacy. In addition to gaining a lead in Iowa, Obama also picked up two significant endorsements, at least in my book. The first was from tireless copyright-legal philosopher and genuine information-age freedom lover Larry Lessig, who offered his old friend a thoughtful and unabashed thumbs [...]

Time magazine columnist Joe Klein appears to be the latest Judith Miller— ie, a careerist journalist and damned shoddy reporter who has been manipulated by the “well-placed sources” he depends on for advancement and whom he will protect at all cost. A column he wrote last week has been dissected by Glen Greenwald at Salon [...]

The question is simple: Can any of the Democrats running for president this time spin a good yarn?

The writers strike has produced some entertaining ads. It’s an admitted hard sell, though, making millionaires like the Desperate Housewives cast into sympathetic working stiffs when actual laborers in meat factories and on farms across the country don’t enjoy the benefit of real health and safety standards much less decent pay. Anyway, point is workers [...]