Outside the Beltway

Sometimes, art imitates life rather than the reverse. And sometimes reality seems stranger than fiction.

Dear Bill Maher and Alexandra Pelosi: The plural of anecdote is not data.

Several newspapers are refusing to run this week’s Doonesbury strip.

Is it fair to single out the most powerful man in radio’s commentary for attention?

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

The Associated Press has rolled out a slightly new logo for the first time since the Reagan Administration.

Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and Remi Ochlik of Reuters have become the latest journalists to die reporting on the massacres in Syria.

The scam of the US News college rankings and the various ways in which colleges scam said scam rankings.

A story from September 2010 reminds us that rushing to judgment is never a good idea.

Tom Brokaw isn’t happy with Mitt Romney’s latest ad, which use of a 1997 NBC news report on Newt Gingrich’s ethics.

The entire above-the-fold of Drudge Report is devoted to anti-Gingrich stories, which continue on scrolling.

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated whom Newt Gingrich is said to have asked for an “open marriage.” It was an ex-wife, not his current wife.

Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.

Should journalists report things they happen to overhear in a public place?

Obama 2012 online ad buy on the Des Moines Register’s homepage today

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

Savage has offered Gingrich one million dollars to drop out of the race and Beck has said that he’d vote for Ron Paul as a third party candidate rather than supporting the former Speaker.

Christiane Amanpour, who’s losing audience share for ABC’s “This Week” Sunday show, may be on her way back to CNN.

A stark account of how American journalism has changed over the last half century.

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

Treating entertainment as entertainment is one thing. Treating it as news and education is another.

Doug Feith’s replacement is prettier and softer spoken.

The Associated Press is trying to fight Twitter rather than engage it.

Chelsea Clinton’s hiring as an NBC personality is another hit for the meritocracy myth.

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

Andy Rooney, best known to recent generations as the cranky old man at the end of “60 Minutes,” has died at 92.

“I would never let anybody write something for me,” Matthews says. “Why do you think I’m like that? It’s amazing to me that you think I’m some lightweight, glib bullshit artist that has somebody do his work for him. The writing is the hard part, the composition.”

Spencer Ackermann previews “The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The Next 72 Hours.”

A cute protest sign based on a blog quip has created a minor internet sensation.

Rick Perry has gotten the most and best coverage thus far in the campaign. President Obama has gotten mostly negative coverage.

Rupert Murdoch’s publishing empire is being rocked by a second scandal, this one a scheme to inflate the circulation figures of the Wall Street Journal.

Andy Rooney made his last appearance as a regular commenter on “60 Minutes” last night but says he’s not retiring because “writers don’t retire.”

Can someone who doesn’t look like a GQ model make it in politics anymore?

Is quoting President Obama without fixing his grammar “racist”? Some say it is.

Paul Krugman chose to mark the the 10th anniversary of September 11th with an odd blog post.

America’s journalists are far more liberal than America.