Caity Weaver · 09/24/12 09:22AM

Katie Couric's revelation of her bulimia struggles steals the spotlight during Monday's talk show chat with Demi Lovato.

Village Voice Media's Last Ditch Effort to Save Itself Will Probably Fail

Hamilton Nolan · 09/24/12 09:20AM

Village Voice Media, owner of the Voice and a dozen other alt-weeklies across the country, has decided to try a nifty trick: it's cleaving itself in two. Executives from the company are "buying out" all of the papers, putting them into what is technically a new, standalone company. And VVM's main profit center, hooker ad site Backpage.com, is going to be left in its own separate company, controlled by VVM bosses Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey. This is a weird gambit.

Louis Peitzman · 09/23/12 09:18PM

Will Hillary Clinton run in 2016? Bill has "no earthly idea" — wink, wink.

"Mandy Patinkin, Holla," Is the New Angelina Jolie's Leg

Rich Juzwiak · 09/23/12 09:05PM

While accepting her (well-deserved) Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama, Claire Danes addressed her Homeland costar this way: "Mandy Patinkin, holla." It feels real memey, but maybe that's just because this year's Emmys are duller than the Oscars, during which a person's leg stole the show. That's where we are. How to succeed on television tonight: "Holla." Brilliant. No one will care about this at all in five seconds!

Louis Peitzman · 09/23/12 07:01PM

Sorry to ruin your weekend, but a newborn giant panda cub died today.

CNN Found Libyan Ambassador's Journal and Used It as a Source, Prompting the State Department to Call Them 'Disgusting'

Taylor Berman · 09/23/12 01:48PM

Last Wednesday, Anderson Cooper used parts of deceased Libyan Ambassador Christopher Stevens' diary as a tip for a story on "Anderson Cooper 360." During an interview with John McCain, Cooper said "a source familiar with Ambassador Stevens' thinking told us that in the months before his death he talked about being worried about the never-ending security threats that he was facing in Benghazi and specifically about the rise in Islamic extremism and growing al Qaeda presence." That source, apparently, was Stevens' journal, which CNN discovered amongst the rubble in the U.S. Consulate three days after the attack that killed Stevens.

Rick Perry Was a Terrible Candidate Because He Had a Sleep Disorder, Says New Book

Taylor Berman · 09/23/12 11:18AM

Remember Rick Perry's presidential campaign? Me neither. But at one time the Texas Governor was the GOP frontrunner. Then, through a combination of gaffe-laden debates and behind-the-scenes disorganization, his campaign imploded. James Carville went so far as to call it "the worst presidential campaign/candidate in American history." In an except from his new book, Texas Tribune reporter Jay Root, who spent months following the Perry campaign, gives an explanation for Perry's cringe-worthy debate performances and general campaign mismanagement: he was just very sleepy.