In his Friday sermon, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the country's demonstrations as the design of the "media belonging to Zionists, evil media." Is the media (Zionist or not) really in the tank for Mir Hossein Mousavi and the demonstrators who support him? The Daily Beast breaks down the media's coverage of the turmoil in Tehran. Photo: Meisam Hosseini / AP Photo
Gonzales' New Coverup
Scott Horton is a law professor and writer on legal and national security affairs for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer, among other publications.
The emerging wiretap scandal ensnaring House Democrat Jane Harman leads to a familiar face: Alberto Gonzales, who may have stifled the investigation for his own political gain.
Stop Picking on Pinch
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
Vanity Fair-among others-is blaming publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. for the downfall of the Gray Lady. Eric Alterman says at least he's going down with dignity.
Would You Pay to Read This Story?
Richard J. Tofel, general manager of ProPublica, is the author of Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism.
The Wall Street Journal makes millions from its pay website. Here are the secrets to its success-and what other papers can learn from it.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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