What's in the Fabloids
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Tom Cruise talks to ashtrays, the Beckhams get micro-pigs, and Angelina's adopting-without Brad's consent, say the tabloids. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
What's in the Fabloids
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Fergie and Josh Duhamel are shocked by a stripper's allegation, Angelina may be sleeping with women, and Kate Gosselin has another epiphany. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
10 Worst Political Scandals
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
Alan Grayson called a Fed lobbyist a shocking slur-the latest outrage in a year packed with sex and wackos. Mark McKinnon savors Sanford's steamy emails, Bachmann's battiness and more.
What's in the Fabloids
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Oprah hits the bottle, Brad and Angelina wed in secret, and the Octomom and Jon Gosselin are ready to start dating. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
That sound of teens collectively sighing and crying throughout the country is the reaction to the reported break-up between Robert Pattison and Kri...
10 Craziest Media Hoaxes
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As young Falcon Heene's would-be balloon flight has proved to be an orchestrated hoax, we look back at other instances of stories the media flubbed.
Letterman's Immaculate Confession
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.
By avoiding bumbling euphemism in his big announcement last week, David Letterman has perfected the art of disclosure, argues The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana.
Morning Joe v. Glenn Beck
Samuel P. Jacobs is a staff reporter at The Daily Beast. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and The New Republic Online.
Joe Scarborough called on conservatives to distance themselves from Glenn Beck-who's punching back. Samuel P. Jacobs asked the GOP's heavyweights to take sides. Mitt Romney did, sort of. The rest hid.
Send Joe Wilson Home
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono. McKinnon is co-chair of Arts & Labs, a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today's rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and creative digital products to consumers.
Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon wants the congressman who shouted at Obama out of office and out of his party-and he's donating $1,000 to his opponent.
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.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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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