Tucker Carlson Plans Rightie News Site

(NEWSER) - In the battle for the blogosphere, left-leaning sites are clobbering their conservative counterparts, thanks mostly to the Huffington Post, David Kaplan writes for paidContent. Liberal sites attracted 6.4 million unique visitors in April, to 4.8 million for conservative sites. Of those, 5.6 million were Huffington Post hits, trouncing the second-place Drudge Report’s 1.7 million. More»

David Brock is manic, systematically influences liberal media: Tucker Carlson

(NEWSER) - The right-leaning Daily Caller last night published the first in an investigative series about Media Matters for America, alleging that the liberal media watchdog is in bed with the Obama administration, as well as a number of media organizations and bigwigs, and that founder David Brock systematically attempts to influence the media. One memo states that Media Matters "intends to spend nearly $20 million in 2012 to influence news coverage," according to the story. Brock himself declined to comment. More highlights from the extensive article, which is bylined by Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson and three other authors and was culled from multiple sources, including internal Media Matters memos: More»

Anne Sinclair will run new site

(NEWSER) - Well, this is one way to stir up attention for your new website: Hire Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife as its editor. It seems Anne Sinclair will head up the Huffington Post's new French edition, the New York Times reports, as she is listed as editorial director on an invitation to the news conference introducing the venture. New York's Daily Intel blog notes that Sinclair was once a "Barbara Walters-type television journalist" in France; she hosted an interview show from 1984 until 1997. More»

Dana Milbank and Dave Weigel take themselves to task

(NEWSER) - Political pundits are in the business of making predictions—usually secure in the knowledge that no one will remember when they mess up. “We’re not always wrong,” writes Dave Weigel of Slate . “But we’re wrong enough.” He and Dana Milbank of the Washington Post both chose this week to look back over their year in botched punditry. The highlights include: More»

Says 'Parentlode' too close to 'Motherlode'

(NEWSER) - It’s a battle of the mom blogs—though in both cases, the woman behind them is the same. The New York Times is suing the Huffington Post over the latter’s “Parentlode” blog , saying the name is too similar to the Times’ “Motherlode.” Both blogs have had the same boss: Lisa Belkin left the Times this year and started Parentlode last month. According to the Times, she “clearly intended” for readers to conflate the two blogs, Reuters reports. More»