Clinton: Mistrust Iran? Of Course
On Charlie Rose Monday night, Hillary Clinton laid out the many reasons why the U.S. shouldn't trust Iran, before explaining President Obama's new, let's-get-real attitude toward the country: "We d...
Top Talkers' Sham Truce
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.
The peace between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly is nothing more than a forced armistice. Lloyd Grove on why the slapfest will soon be back on-and why the two cable-TV megalomaniacs are essentially the same.
How MySpace Blew 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.
In 2005, Rupert Murdoch was hailed as a visionary for snapping up MySpace. Today, as Facebook and Twitter fuel a historic uprising, MySpace announced its second round of layoffs in a week. Lloyd Grove on what went wrong.
Requiem for a Tough Guy
Kurt Andersen is the author of two novels, the critically acclaimed bestsellers Heyday and Turn of the Century. His new book is called Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America. He is also host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program Studio 360, editor-at-large for Random House, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and writes for film, television and the stage.
A Vietnam vet with a wicked sense of humor till the day he died of cancer last December, my friend Bob Nylen wrote a memoir, just published posthumously, that will blow your mind.
'Conversations with Frank Gehry'
Pritzker prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, who is featured in a new collection of interviews by Barbara Isenberg, talks to Charlie Rose about the importance of collaborating with clients. Full i...
Would My Father Have Voted for Obama?
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.
You get asked a lot of odd questions when you go on a book tour. And give even stranger answers. Did I ever tell you about the time I collaborated with Proust? Or was an adviser to William Howard Taft?
The Week in TV
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From a spine-eating mutant on Fringe to American Idol's Rat Pack throwback to a prime-time presidential press conference, here's what you missed-and shouldn't have-this week in television.
How to Monetize the News?
Appearing on Charlie Rose, Associated Press CEO Tom Curley takes aim at 'people' (people at Google, perhaps?) who are building businesses 'on our back, on our good work.'
Kissinger: Don't Rely on Europe
Think Europe will be assisting the U.S. militarily in Afghanistan, especially after such a cozy meeting of the G-20? Henry Kissinger sure doesn't. Source: Charlie Rose
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.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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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