Financial Reporter Also an Avid Stock Trader

Hamilton Nolan · 10/18/10 02:54PM

In your maverick Monday media column: conflict scandal at Reuters, J-school is worthless, media reporter play their roles, E&P cans its editors, and smart stories make the most money online, allegedly.

This is Your Mom Dancing in Church

Christopher Han · 10/18/10 02:27PM

Err... Is this part of the service? Isn't this the devil's music? Be thankful that the kid that appears into the bottom of the frame half-way through isn't you.

Eva Longoria Should Never Rap Again

Maureen O'Connor · 10/18/10 02:25PM

To promote MTV Europe's music awards, a swimsuit- and stiletto-clad Eva Longoria recorded a chest-thumping version of the kind of "rap" kindergarteners do: "Yo, I'm Eva Longoria! / This is the story-a! / Something-something-something Astoria!" Prepare to cringe.

Facebook Founder Says His Intentions Were Pure

Ryan Tate · 10/18/10 02:02PM

Mark Zuckerberg's motives are pure, and the Facebook CEO wants you to know it. Despite what you've seen in The Social Network, he's not in it for the girls, or the prestige, or the money. He's in it for love.

Hispanic Kids Look 'More Asian' to Sharron Angle

Jim Newell · 10/18/10 01:40PM

Notorious dingbat Sharron Angle, Harry Reid's Nevada Senate challenger, addressed a high school's Hispanic Student Union last week and proceeded fuck something up, right on schedule. Apparently some of the Hispanic kids looked "a little more Asian" to her. Huh?

Watch a Nerd Get Revenge on His Ex-Girlfriend on C-SPAN2

Matt Cherette · 10/18/10 01:34PM

Todd Seavey is a contributor to Proud to be Right, Jonah Goldberg's new collection of conservative essays. Seavey's ex-girlfriend, Helen Rittelmeyer, is also a contributor. Recently, they both appeared on C-SPAN2's Book TV to discuss. That's when things got weird.

Precociously Cool 9-Year-Old Willow Smith Has a Music Video

Maureen O'Connor · 10/18/10 01:14PM

Just as baby Moses floated to his destiny in a woven basket in the river Nile, 9-year-old Willow Smith arrives today in a weave of ornately-sculpted hair. Here is Will Smith's daughter's debut music video, "Whip My Hair."

Rubicon's Season (Series?) Finale: an Anticlimactic Assassination

Chris Wyman · 10/18/10 01:06PM

Last week's terrorism-punctuated Rubicon felt more like a finale than this week's, but perhaps the series is just borrowing the "just when you think you know the answers, we change the questions" mantra out of the Lost playbook.