As reported in the NY Times on Monday, Boston is dealing with the threatened loss of the Globe by searching its collective soul and wondering what the closure would say about its city. “Boston’s not a podunk town,” the article quoted one resident saying. “It’s got to have a good paper.”

 NY1 viewers too busy, or lazy, to peruse the local papers have been able to rely on Pat Kiernan's segment In the Papers to do the job for them: every morning, the affable anchor spends a few moments looking th

Lost in the New York Times profile of rising Fox News star Glenn Beck is any mention of his out-there (in every sense) bio. Sure, Beck (who was a best-selling author and popular talk radio star before Fox lured him away from HLN) cries about how much he loves America and worries about what will happen when Marxism-under-Obama begins and FEMA opens its concentration camps.  But did you know that he is also a recovering alcoholic? The kind that won’t shut up?

Obama’s press conference last night may have marked the end of the mainstream media’s love affair with our new president -- though as the man himself said, when asked about the nation’s pride in electing its first African-American to the top job, “That lasted about a day.” Could it have had something to do with the fact that Obama bypassed the 

Stories about new forms of communication and community – from  to email to  – seem to reach some kind of critical mass in the media this week.

 In a column in Monday's New York Times,  David Carr became the latest media watcher to suggest that newspapers start charging for their content online. After citing some fallen papers (Rocky Mountain News) and some that are teetering on the edge (San Francisco Chronicle), Carr said some other ostriches could still save their necks by making people pay.