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Cable news conservative Carlson launches Daily Caller

The offices of the Daily Caller evoke a long-ago era of journalism, circa 2005 or 2006, before The Los Angeles Times closed its big-city bureaus, The Washington Times fired 60 percent of its staff, and magazines from Gourmet to Portfolio shuttered for lack of revenue. A staff of 21 reporters and editors sit in blindingly white offices and a wide-open center space, cranking out content for the site’s January 11 launch. Other possible hires walk in and out of Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson’s office, past a lounge inhabited by liquor bottles and a sleeping dog, and decorated by clocks that tell the time in far-flung and random locations: Pyongyang, Jackson Hole, Washington, Honolulu.

Online News Blamed for Demise of the ‘Liquid Lunch’

As if newsroom layoffs, infotainment masquerading as news and shrinking media ownership weren't enough to shake modern American journalism to its core, the sacred...

Douglas Bruce: ‘Will Truly Educate the Citizens of Colorado’

UPDATE: Friday, 11:30 p.m. Rep. Bruce has been booted off the  State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, effective immediately. House Minority Leader Mike May's...

When All Else Fails, Douglas Bruce 86’s The Media

Back in the day, there were only a handful of reporters who could claim membership in Douglas Bruce's official "I Will Never Talk To...

Tancredo’s parting shot on immigration debate untrue puffery

Click the image to watch the video. Shortly after Rep. Tom Tancredo ended his bid for the White House this week, he posted a...

Cash In on the Democratic Convention

If you are a business owner in Colorado and you're not checking the Democratic National Convention/Denver Convention Host Committee website for Requests for Proposals,...

A Brief Look At The CORA

"It's the public's right to know!" The phrase has been spouted by reporters and paparazzi alike. But under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA),...

Framing the Debate

Cross-posted from the Rocky Mountain Chronicle. Every time President Bush holds an official press conference or makes a televised speech, I get loads of emails...

Who’s the Front-Runner?

JoeyK asked a good question about my piece about Joan Fitz-Gerald last week, which I think deserves a considered answer. I called Fitz-Gerald the "front-runner"...

The Handcuffing Begins At 3:30

The people of Colorado Springs often wonder why the rest of the world seems to think they are so, well, peculiar. Here's one sample,...