What Happened With Lou Dobbs
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.
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
The controversial CNN anchor's abrupt exit took even his staff by surprise. Lloyd Grove and Rebecca Dana on the relief, sadness and job scramble at the studio.
October 24: The Week in Viral Videos
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From a news anchor blunder to a hula-hooping first lady and a naked Russian show model, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
CNBC Gets Punked on Climate Change
Ready for another hoax? The week after the Balloon Boy frenzy, CNBC and Reuters both reported on a fake press by The Yes Men, a group which claimed the Chamber of Commerce would no longer oppose cl...
Don Imus' Second Act
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.
With a strong debut on Fox Business Network, Don Imus is back in ring and talking about race again-and Al Sharpton's "monitoring" the situation. But one top media buyer is balking: "I don't get the concept of radio on TV."
Cloudy With a Chance of Mortgages
Jonathan Wald is former Senior Vice President at CNBC as well as former Executive Producer of Today and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York.
Want a movie that tells the true story of the financial crisis? Forget that documentary by Michael Moore. Try Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
5 People Who Guessed Wrong on the Economy
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A year after the fall of Lehman Brothers and the economic collapse, The Daily Beast calls out five big names who misread the nation's financial health-and the one who actually had it right.
The American moment can be summed up in one word: rage. From anger over bonuses and bailouts for the corporations who wrecked the economy to frustration with rising unemployment and exploding deficits, media personalities who can harness America's simmering discontent are in high demand. Who are the players vying for the role of America's demagogue in chief?
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.
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.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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.
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