Alec Baldwin's MSNBC talk show, which debuted in October, is already being suspended for two weeks following an incident yesterday in which Baldwin was heard to call a paparazzo a "cocksucking fag." Baldwin denies using the word "fag," but he apologized nonetheless for his outburst in a statement posted to the MSNBC website:

Yesterday, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote that "people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex" when thinking about interracial relationships. That got us wondering: What else does Cohen think might make people gag?

The New York Times has long been considered the top of the media food chain, the final stop in a journalism career. No mas. In recent weeks, the Times has been leaking talent left and right. Who do they have left that they really need to hang on to?

New York Times media robo-reporter Brian Stelter is leaving to join CNN as host of Reliable Sources, its Sunday media news program. New York TV viewers will now find it even harder to escape the Stelter-Shupak power combo.

Cotton-topped ladies man Richard Cohen hilariously poses as a "liberal" columnist at the Washington Post, despite being... how can we put this gently... a power-worshiping bigot. Don't take our word for it. Please, read the paragraph he wrote today.

News Corp's first quarterly results since the company spun off its profitable half are in. They suck, just like everyone knew they would.

Today CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes retracted its bombshell report about security failures during the September 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The embarrassing retraction, announced on CBS This Morning by Lara Logan, came nearly a week after The Washington Post challenged the veracity of one of 60 Minutes’ sources, a security contractor named Dylan Davies, and hours after the New York Times revealed that Davies supplied FBI investigators with a very different story.

The Onion’s print edition, currently distributed in Milwaukee, Providence, and Chicago, will cease production on December 12. Founded by two University of Wisconsin juniors in 1988, the paper once reached 17 markets across the United States, including Los Angeles and New York City.

Time magazine notes on its new cover that New Jersey governor Chris Christie is fat. [Time]

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This morning marked the official start of the long-anticipated U.K. trial of two former News of the World editors (and a few other peripheral individuals) for several criminal charges of conspiring to obstruct justice, hacking a murdered child’s cell phone, and interfering with a police investigation. Predicted to last around six months, the trial will place the News Corporation and its Australian owner, Rupert Murdoch, under even more glaring scrutiny. Here’s what you need to know.

A New York Times reporter discovered that Bill de Blasio tweeted a year ago about dropping off his daughter Chiara at Santa Clara University for her freshman year. De Blasio’s campaign manager Bill Hyers responded: “I thought the @nytimes had some class.” Feud!

Actress and Thighmaster spokesperson Suzanne Somers has penned a fiery op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in which she warns everyone about all the bad things the Affordable Care Act will do to retirees. The rant already has three corrections.

Today, New York Times editor-turned-cranky-columnist Bill Keller's column consists of a long back-and-forth with crusading anti-imperialist Glenn Greenwald. The "must read" portion is not about the NSA, but about Times conservo-nerdlinger David Brooks.

Fox News’ abuse of reporters is legendary. But their treatment of Matthew Flamm, a media reporter for Crain’s New York, should be flagged for eternity for its absurdity. As first reported by NPR’s David Folkenflik (and noted in The Washington Post), the channel’s PR team planted a fake tip, using a fake email address—but using a real Fox News producer’s name—about Bill O’Reilly anchoring election coverage of the 2008 primaries, for the sole purpose of humiliating Flamm.

BAZONGADONGA: Rick Berke, a top editor at the New York Times, is leaving the paper to become the new executive editor of THE POLITICO, where he will be free to pursue the horse race political coverage that the Times allegedly loathes.

The American Magazine Conference in New York was briefly evacuated yesterday after a noxious smell filled the conference room. Turns out it was just a copy of National Review.

You could say Condé Nast invented the Millenial-centric media internship: menial, subservient, under- or unpaid, yet intoxicatingly close to the reigning powers of New York City’s culture industry. Now they’re killing it off.

Two weeks ago, the AP published a news story alleging serious misconduct by a Virginia gubernatorial candidate. The story was wrong; the AP pulled it after less than two hours. The AP has now fired three journalists as a result. This is insane.

Last week, 20 year-old New School student Rachael Sacks wrote a brash Thought Catalog essay that showed her to be a pompous rich girl full of self-regard. She quickly became the subject of a global media firestorm. In the end, Rachael Sacks may turn out to be more mature than we thought.