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Top 20 Most Useless College Majors: Journalism Is #1

The Daily Beast posted an article recently titled, “20 Most Useless College Majors.” The journalists who wrote the story concluded that a B.A. in journalism is the most useless degree of all. According to the report, data from the U.S.

Tina Brown Unveils New Newsweek

Yawn. The new cover features United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the magazine’s special edition, “150 Women Who Shake the World.” Brown, who previously captained Vanity Fair and the New Yorker magazines, took over the flailing news-weekly in

A Tale of Two Publishers: Tina Brown and Arianna Huffington

An interesting article comparing the success and pathways of the Daily Beast’s Tina Brown and Arianna Huffington. The same day that Huffington’s $315 million deal with AOL was announced,Media Week’s Brian Morrissey reported that Tina Brown’s merged Newsweek-Daily Beast had

Credit Where It's Due: Kristen Powers On AZ Blame

After ripping Kirsten Powers two weeks ago forcing an apology on Twitter, Kirsten Powers has penned a piece over at the Daily Beast that dissects the missed opportunity for President Obama in his healing hands speech/pep rally: But there was

Economists and Traders Say QE2 Won't Work

[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets111510.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed In today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the wild swing of commodities, a QE2 revolt from investors and economists,

Howie Kurtz Leaves Sinking WaPo, Joins 'Daily Beast'

From Politico: On the eve of Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast’s turning two years old, Brown took to the site’s pages Tuesday to announce some big news: Howard Kurtz is joining the Beast as Washington bureau chief. Funny, Kurtz was

Slow Ticket Sales: A Classic Case of Media Bias

Most of the time media bias is difficult to prove. Whatever the story might be, it’s not often possible to prove how the same material would have been handled if the party labels had been reversed. So the claim can

Biden Defends Israel

The Daily Beast: On Charlie Rose, Vice President Joe Biden lent strong support to Israel’s blockade of Gaza, saying they have “a right to know whether or not arms are being smuggled in.”

Goldman's Fall From Grace

Big Government Contributor, Charlie Gasparino gives his take on the SEC charges against Goldman Sachs at the Daily Beast: John Paulson is an interesting guy: He was one of a handful of hedge-fund managers who bet the mortgage-bond market would

Why Obama's Going to Have to Raise Taxes on the Middle Class

It’s time for your weekly dose of markets and politics with Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your new home for Conservative

Marcia Clark: Polanski Defense Based on Lie

Polanski’s grounds for dismissal center around the former prosecutor inappropriately advising the judge about how to send Polanski back to prison. But the former prosecutor, David Wells, now tells Clark that “I lied” in the movie about advising the judge,