Although the book title “Confessions of an American Media Man” isn’t quite as enticing the juicy tell-alls of a dangerous mind, that’s an American journalist for you (an Amherst and Princeton one at that).

Apparently, writing ability no longer is what gets you a byline in a magazine or newspaper.

Much of what has been said about the internet since its inception has been overwhelmingly positive. It provides unparalleled opportunities for constructive collaboration and has remedied some of the chief concern over corporate media ownership.

We’ve all been told about the perils of posting scandalous photos of ourselves and our friends on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. Happy memories from a night on the town, we’re told, can quickly lead to jobs not offered and livelihoods not made.

It comes as no surprise that fashion magazines are awash with advertising images of models with bodies so tiny they seem to belong to children. Marc Jacobs’ latest campaign, featuring Dakota Fanning, takes the fashion world’s obsession with infantility to the next level.

As YouTube continues with its various legal battles, we’ve all been wondering what new system will legally replace it. Well, Joost might be this device.

In a career that is as prestige-based as Law, perception matters, and more and more what drives that perception is what students say on internet message boards.

The blogosphere and mainstream media have been abuzz this week with James Cameron's 90-minute documentary on the discovery of Jesus' bones, to air this Sunday on the Discovery Channel.

And to think, it all started out with such an innocent rumor. Gawker Media's Kotaku, a blog on video games and related media, reported on a rumor yesterday.

It’s one thing that celebrities have taken over magazines like People and newspapers like the New York Post. That’s fine. I like my fix of celebrity gossip where I can get it. But where is the line?

As FishbowlNY says, maybe it's time for the Edwards campaign to get off the Web. Their campaign headquarters in the virtual world of Second Life was "griefed," or attacked.

Did you catch the hilarious parody song from last Sunday's Academy Awards with Jack Black and Will Ferrell? Well, if you didn't, you probably won't.

VH1's new reality series about the high fashion Wilhelmina modeling agency, aplty named The Agency, is guilty pleasure TV at its best -- or worst. It's hypocritical, catty, and mortifying for the agents.

Two kid-centric media giants, Disney and Nickelodeon, have recently launched new online interactive social networks that target the 14-and-under crowd with games and customization — and placate parents with secure, kid-safe chat functions.

Tonight was round two of our classroom interviews. Choire Sicha sat down with us; he’s the “Managing Editor” of Gawker, but he doesn’t really like the title. After an 18 month hiatus, Sicha returned to the position after writing for the New York Observer.

Things can’t be that bad, right? I mean, here! Look! One union was able to reach a deal between workers and owners of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette just hours ago! So, that means everyone’s happy, right? Not if you look at the fine print on the contract.

The New York Sun wants to shine all by itself. The broadsheet hopes to launch a national political blog with a hometown spin.

Net Neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. However, activists fear that telecom companies may also use this power to discriminate between traffic types, charging tolls on content from some content providers.

The BBC News’ profile of Perez Hilton offered some rather scathing commentary on his blog. While the piece mostly functioned as a basic profile of Perez, I couldn’t help but notice Briggs’ description of his commentary.

I’m not sure the last time a middle-aged man with fuchsia pink hair, an inane sense of fashion, an alter-ego, and a blog following in the millions was a remote definition of "normal," average or routine – but hey – this is America.