How bad is this winter? So bad that the New York Times has an entire editorial entitled "This Winter Has Gotten Old," which includes the phrase, "We are depressed. But as the comic strip "Garfield" once put it..." (This paragraph could also have begun, "How bad is the New York Times editorial board?")

Dylan Byers, the dumbest media reporter alive, has typed up some thoughts at The Politico about, as his headline puts it, "Why the Bill O'Reilly charges aren't sticking." Aren't they? Or at least, isn't their "sticking" or not "sticking" in some way related to the work of a media desk such as The Politico's?

After a year of missteps and black eyes, the very expensive experiment that is First Look Media has a positive moment in the spotlight: Citizenfour, a film based largely on the crew's Edward Snowden reporting, just nabbed an Oscar.

Today Matt Drudge tweeted a few things about Neil Patrick Harris, who is hosting tonight’s ceremony for the 87th Academy Awards.

Yesterday, MSNBC announced the cancellation of Ronan Farrow Daily and The Reid Report, both of which had consistently posted low ratings in their respective daytime slots. The news marked yet another low point in the liberal cable channel’s failed attempts to raise ratings. According to The Daily Beast, it was also president Phil Griffin’s first move in a longer campaign to dampen the channel’s liberal ideology. Is MSNBC really trying to shed its progressive image?

There are thousands of newspapers of all types in the United States of America. Not infrequently, they publish very bad editorial cartoons. Hey, here's a new one.

Well-spoken cherub Ronan Farrow's news and politics show is over—MSNBC has cancelled Ronan Farrow Daily along with Joy Reid's The Reid Report. Thomas Roberts' strong jawline has been called up from his Way Too Early show to anchor a straight news broadcast from 1–3 p.m.

Under the chandeliers of NBC's glittery Rainbow Room, a who's-that of New York society celebrated the newest iteration of the New York Times Magazine (now on better paper stock!) last night. The party appeared to be 1 percent celebrity (Lance Armstrong, Martha Stewart, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem), 8 percent miscellaneous media, and 91 percent advertisers. Maureen Dowd held court near the front of the room, wearing a lacy see-through dress.

Days after Jon Stewart announced his retirement from The Daily Show, months after Colbert bid adieu to his eponymous Report, America is left wondering: who will satiate our nation's burning need for hard news served with a side of laffs? Will it be John Oliver, king of the internet? Or Larry Wilmore, whose show I've heard is quite good? Or will it be the new satirical news offering from the funniest website on the internet (The Huffington Post)?

Frank Bruni's New York Times column today consists of Frank Bruni talking to his old college teacher talking about how times have changed, at college. Frank Bruni himself has not changed recently.

NBC has an exit strategy for Brian Williams' contract, according to Page Six, in the form of a "morals clause." The clause is apparently standard for employees of NBC News. It reads:

Following Brian Williams' suspension from NBC News earlier this week, new questions have emerged about the disgraced anchor's time with Navy SEALs, his account of Pope John Paul II's 1979 visit to his college, and his coverage of the Berlin Wall's dismantling.

Gawker has learned that Mic’s news director Jared Keller has been fired.

Mic.com, the news and opinion website aimed at millennials, has a very millennial problem: Its director of news, Jared Keller, appears to have plagiarized at least 20 passages from at least eight different news sources over the past several months.

Matt Drudge is considered an influential figure within the Republican Party.

Here's something fun to consider: Does Bill Simmons fancy himself as the LeBron James of Boston? According to a source, the Grantland honcho, who has lived in Los Angeles since 2002, was telling friends over dinner last night that he's "toying" with the idea of moving back to his hometown.

For more than a decade, NBC News anchor Brian Williams told a grand tale to his viewers, interviewers, and talk-show hosts about riding in an Army helicopter over occupied Baghdad when it was struck and forced to land by a rocket-propelled grenade. Earlier this week, after the helicopter’s crew members told Stars & Stripes that Williams was in a completely different aircraft that was not struck by anything, he admitted his story was a complete fabrication. The anchor framed this particular fuck-up as anomalous, but a barrage of new reports suggest exactly the opposite: That even his apology is tainted with misinformation. You are likely watching the slow implosion of a universally popular newsman’s 34-year career.

BuzzFeed chief of staff Ashley McCollum has published a memo—apparently prompted by a pair of leaks to the Wall Street Journal—indicating that the rapidly growing media company will terminate employees for leaking information to the press:

Anyone taking a stroll down by the water in Williamsburg today might have noticed a swarm of police cars, ambulances, black SUVs and SWAT team personnel. What was all the fuss in the middle of the day? Joe Biden was at Vice.

Good news! Benny Johnson, who was fired from BuzzFeed last July for systemic plagiarism and later hired by National Review, has a brand new job: