Outside the Beltway

Newsweek is joining US News in getting out of the printed magazine business, leaving Time as the last old American newsweekly standing.

Barack Obama attended Martha Raddatz’ wedding. Now, she’s moderating the VP debate. Conspiracy!

Conservatives are suposed to be cheerleaders these days.

The home of the Wayback Machine now has every major news program since 2009 archived.

The career of Larry Schwartz, who is the Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Cairo, is over.

Tom Brokaw was rushed to the hospital after feeling light-headed on “Morning Joe.”

When and how often must they disclose their relationship? And can we take them seriously at all?

Forbes media critic Jeff Bercovici is a bit late spotting a trend.

This charge is false, as 10 minutes’ work by the Washington Post would have shown.

Breaking: The American press often does a lousy job.

Mitt Romney is no more of a wimp than George H.W. Bush or John Kerry.

The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.

Why the hell is CNN—which purports to be a news organization—pretending that NBC is live casting the Olympics?

David Brooks is wistful for the noblesse oblige of the elites of yore.

We’ve reached the point where public figures coming out of the closet is barely news anymore, and that’s a good thing.

Obama holds up “MANDATE STRUCK DOWN” headline from CNN in “DEWEY BEATS TRUMAN” photoshop

Mary Cheney has married longtime partner Heather Poe.

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

The 1976 Pulitizer prize winner is phoning it in.

When I saw the headline “Black Mormons Face Tough Election Choice Between Romney And Obama,” I naturally presumed it would lead to a parody news piece in The Onion.

Physical fitness and weight loss infomercials have gone from promising ease to promising a grueling challenge. What happened?

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

Since Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón began an all-out assault on drug cartels in 2006, more than 50,000 people have lost their lives across the country in a nearly-continuous string of shootouts, bombings, and ever-bloodier murders.

Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.

Animal’s Joel Johnson declares “Comments are Bad Business for Online Media.”

The Washington Post prematurely posted that Rick Santorum was dropping out of the race on its news wire and Bloomberg made the story viral while the Post was verifying its accuracy.

The Sky News leadership is taking a novel approach to charges that it illegally hacked emails: Claiming a right to break the law when they think it’s in the public’s interest to do so.

The wonderfully wry British media strikes again with the BBC headline “Soviet ex-KGB chief Leonid Shebarshin ‘kills himself'”