Day February 20, 2005

Hunter S. Thompson, the counterculture author of “Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” has committed suicide, the Associated Press reported. He was 67. Thompson invented gonzo journalism, and influenced countless writers and…

So why are so many bloggers, as well as major media, so utterly focused on the Gannon affair? Ah well, a bit of sleazy sex always gets our media buzzing in mock horror. Meanwhile John Negroponte, a man who at the…

A sign. I got so hooked on listening to podcasts in rental cars with mp3 CD players that I went to a car audio shop yesterday to see what the aftermarket had to offer. When I told them I’d want…

CyberJournalist.net reports that podcasting has doubled the number of online listeners WNYC’s On the Media reaches, in just four weeks. On the Media, WNYC’s nationally-broadcast NPR media analysis show, now has a podcast audience that rivals the number of individuals…

As 55 people died in Iraq on Saturday, the holiest day on the Shiite Muslim religious calendar, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said that much of Iraq was “functioning quite well” and that the rash of suicide attacks was a sign…