Outside the Beltway

It’s time for transparency on the Republican Leader’s health.

A $787.5 million flesh wound.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

The venerable magazine is following industry trends. Is the billionaire owner a monster?

We all know the Internet broke the monopoly on classified advertising. Here’s the rest of the story.

At this point, corruption, dishonesty, and insanity are just baked in.

Argumentation without the intent to persuade is masturbation, not journalism.

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

Don’t cry for Spicer.

The press corps is already bored.

What reporters see as stonewalling may be shrewd clock management.

The prominent media critic will no longer bother criticizing CNN for not living up to the standards of the profession.

Outrage over leaks like those that Edward Snowden makes doesn’t exist when its politicians doing the leaking.

Monday, The Atlantic published and took down a sponsored article from the church of Scientology. Yesterday, it admitted it had “screwed up.”

NPR is a collection of local stations, not a single station. And it’s run that way.

Google erects some much-needed defenses in the optimization arms race.

The debate over heated political rhetoric has now led one Pennsylvania Congressman to suggest that some speech should be banned. This must stop now.

Slate television critic Troy Patterson explains how to survive the comedic “interview” segment on The Colbert Report, which almost invariably makes its celebrity guests look like nitwits.