Reporting, Rape Culture, and Race: In the Media, Men Are Slaves to Their Own Sexuality

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The report of an 11-year-old gang-rape victim churns up issues of men’s portrayal in the media.

The 10 at 10

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Time-telling, Pacific tsunami wave patterns, and perfect Olympic bodies.

One Small Step for the ‘Buffalo Beast,’ One Step Backward for Blogs

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Ian Murphy’s prank call to Gov. Scott Walker jeopardized not only the Beast’s reputation, but that of “alternative” outlets nationwide.

Men Don’t Take Megyn Kelly Seriously

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Should women wear frumpy pantsuits if they want to be taken seriously?

The 10 at 10: January 7

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Sexist Happy Meals, super grandparents, and QBs ranked by marketability: the 10 at 10.

The 10 at 10: January 3

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Oh, how time flies. Men age, fish die, and the Star News rights a wrong 50 years too late: the 10 at 10.

You Could Be the Next Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek

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As one of the last print-based newsweeklies on the market, Newsweek may represent an era of journalism that’s going the way of the broadsheet. (Don’t know what a broadsheet is? Exactly.)

Hunter S. Thompson Writes a Cover Letter

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It would be foolish to think Hunter S. Thompson would have followed any of the conventional rules of job-finding etiquette.

Man of the Day: Anderson Cooper

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Anderson Cooper is moving to daytime. Well, sort of. The intrepid host of CNN’s nightly Anderson Cooper 360 has just signed another deal with CNN for an hour-long daytime talk show, to air in the fall of next year. He will continue to host the nightly show as well. “It’s fun and interesting to work [...]

"Cyberpunk Tabloid Journalism Comes of Age"

Steve Jobs as Darth Vader. Al Gore as a sex-crazed poodle. Rupert Murdoch as a West Side Story gang member. These are among the baffling (though extremely entertaining) animations produced by Next Media, an animation company that has begun distributing its syndicated animations of twisted news stories to legitimate news sources for nearly a year [...]

Requiem for an F-Bomb

Does having kids mean you must surrender your license to curse?