Outside the Beltway

A new study says Twitter doesn’t break news faster than the wires. But nobody claims it does.

The NBC News graphics department failed geography miserably. Here, Brian Williams and company admit the error with grace, charm, and good humor.

Looking for a quick overview of recent developments in the IRS Tea Party Scandal? Here are two links to help.

Does David Gregory consider Glenn Greenwald to be a reporter deserving of protection, or “just a blogger” who may be a potential criminal?

The lede of a YahooNews report on President Obama’s trip to Africa: “President Barack Obama makes the first extended trip to Africa of his presidency next week—but he won’t be stopping at the country of his birth.”

This week’s Weekly Crowdsource is a search for new experts to follow.

The AP has the Supreme Court banning demonstrations at the Supreme Court. The regulation in question doesn’t actually do that.

Thanks to those new electronic cigarettes, ads for cigarettes are back on television for the first time since the Nixon Administration.

Superman’s famous shield changes from 1938 to present.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

At what point do science and magic converge? And what are the potential costs?

Fox and Disney are in a legal fight over movie rights to a minor comic book character.

Senior DOJ officials from the previous three administrations back the Obama DOJ’s controversial subpoenaing of AP conversations.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

Social scientists take note: the press has gotten bored with Syria, so your data are no longer reliable.

Just how serious was the leak that the Associated Press reported on last May?

What is the appropriate response to someone who’s acting like a jerk?

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.

POLITICO is joining the stampede toward metered paywalls. In a twist, it will remain free in regions where it’s most popular.

Ashleigh Banfield of CNN and Nancy Grace of CNN’s Headline News staged a bizarre split-screen interview on two breaking true crime stories despite being 30 feet from one another in the same parking lot.

The possible presidential contender has an op-ed in a rather dubious outlet.

The Examiner’s James Simpson makes a perfectly valid point in the most dishonest way with his chart “Sequester fraud in one picture.”

The man who changed the way Americans viewed newspapers, just before newspapers themselves began getting pushed aside by technology, has died at the age of 89.