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 Palin Will 
 Headline 
 Gridiron 
 Dinner 

Former Alaska governor accepts invitation to speak at group's winter dinner

Nov 6, 09 5:10 PM CST
feud? what feud?

 White House 
 Warns Dems 
 to Avoid Fox 

Strategist reports intimidating phone call after appearance

Nov 6, 09 4:50 PM CST

 Man Pops Question 
 During Gay Marriage 
 Hearing 

See, Kanye, this is an interruption the crowd actually liked

Nov 6, 09 2:15 PM CST
WATCH THE VIDEO


 Jon Stewart 
 Channels 
 Glenn Beck 

Appendicitis attack is obviously part of a larger conspiracy, Jon says

Nov 6, 09 12:41 PM CST

 NFL Scores Ratings Touchdown 

Recession keeps people on couch on Sunday

Nov 6, 09 7:41 AM CST

 Appendicitis Takes Beck Off Air 

Fox host has appendix removed, out indefinitely

Nov 4, 09 6:09 PM CST
OPINION

Beck's Silent Red Phone
Is 'a Hotline
to Nowhere'

Host's willful nonsense is the 'new ignorance'

Nov 4, 09 6:01 AM CST

 Martin, Baldwin to Host Oscars 

March 7 broadcast will be third for Martin, first for Baldwin

Nov 3, 09 6:51 PM CST

 How the Onion 
 Writes Headlines 

New book Our Front Pages explores the evolution

Nov 3, 09 1:02 PM CST

 Beck Rates 
 Health Reform 
 as 9/11 Attack 


9/12ers are girding for this year's national catastrophe

Nov 3, 09 8:09 AM CST
HYPE VS. REALITY

 Rihanna's ABC Interview a Bust 

Source says she gives no details on beating by Chris Brown

Nov 3, 09 12:19 AM CST
NEWSroom MELTDOWN

Editor Gets Punchy Over Article—Literally

'2nd worst story' ever pushes vet Post hand to violence

Nov 2, 09 3:59 PM CST


 Leno: 'I Take 
 95% of Blame' 
 for Bad Press 

He talks The Jay Leno Show, NBC, David Letterman, and more

Nov 2, 09 10:31 AM CST
Simon Dumenco

When News Is for the Rich, Newser Is
Robin Hood...

...and founder Michael Wolff is in jail

Nov 2, 09 9:46 AM CST

DVRs Aren't Killing TV, They're Saving It

Turns out nearly half of viewers don't skip commercials

Nov 2, 09 5:57 AM CST
watch it

 'Drunk' Ewoks Storm 
 Today Show, Blogosphere 

Halloween segment turns into fun-size free-for-all

Nov 1, 09 3:50 PM CST

Cheney on Plame Leak:
I Can't Recall

VP comes up blank on specifics in newly released interview

Oct 30, 09 6:02 PM CDT

NY Anchor Yanked Amid Wife-Beating Charges

Dominic Carter calls case 'misunderstanding' as wife retracts story

Oct 30, 09 3:42 AM CDT

 Radio Station Fined $16M  For Fatal Contest 

Mom died of water intoxication in effort to win Wii for her kids

Oct 30, 09 3:37 AM CDT

 Shot Fired at Dobbs' Home 

Bullet struck siding but didn't penetrate

Oct 29, 09 2:20 PM CDT
Rush isn't buying

 Swine Flu 
 Crisis Is Fake 
 —Just Like 
 AIDS in Africa 

Those dang Africans are just fishing for relief cash, says Limbaugh

Oct 29, 09 8:37 AM CDT

Couric's Halloween Costume: Aaden Gosselin

Jon & Kate Plus 8 kids are so used to spotlight, mom doesn't even mind

Oct 29, 09 8:32 AM CDT

 White House, Fox News 
 Reach a 'Truce' 

Analysts skeptical about how long it'll last

Oct 28, 09 7:11 PM CDT

 Michelle: Beware 'Cute' Men 

First lady talks mentoring, and dating, in 'Women of the Year' issue

Oct 28, 09 3:58 PM CDT


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

9
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

13
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

24
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

20
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

15
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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