The Daily Caller is one of the most freewheeling conservative outlets in online media. Its reporters have leveled unsubstantiated allegations of prostitution against Senator Bob Menendez, falsely accused a New York Times reporter of posing nude for Playgirl, and even questioned the race of a black Washington Post reporter. These stories raise an interesting question: What wouldn’t the Daily Caller publish? Today one of its contributors learned the answer: Absolutely anything critical of Fox News.

On July 11 of last year, I arrived to work at the MailOnline newsroom in New York City and saw Keith Poole, our managing editor, standing outside smoking a cigarette. Even from a hundred yards away, it was clear that Poole—a generally pleasant Englishman who was the managing editor of the Daily Mail at the time—was agitated. It didn't take a detective to figure out why.

Red Bull is famous for selling orange-tinted poison, but over the past few years it has become increasingly well-known in certain circles for hawking a product much less profitable than energized swill: music, and writing about music. This week, a writer found out what happens when a brand dipping its toes into culture writing gets frightened by its own act of mild journalistic aggression.

Over the past week, Fox News has aggressively rebutted accusations that its star host Bill O’Reilly lied about his whereabouts during the Falklands War in 1982. But after a new report challenged O’Reilly’s recent claim that he was present at the violent suicide of a Lee Harvey Oswald acquaintance in 1977, the network declined to defend him. Is Fox blinking?

Ruth Shalit, the infamously bad journalist with whom the '90s-era media had a very deliciously tortured relationship, is back.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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:

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:

Who controls today’s Republican Party? Some point to the billionaire Koch brothers. Others have nominated Fox News chief Roger Ailes. According to a pair of recent reports, however, the most influential person in GOP politics is a reclusive 48-year-old named Matthew Drudge—the blissfully closeted proprietor of the Drudge Report.

Jan. 29, 2015: "This Is What One Woman Learned from Reading BuzzFeed for a Day"

Mitt Romney just told America that he will not run for president in 2016, which is confusing, because the Daily Beast and friends were just yelling the opposite.

Here is a sentence written by professional newspaper columnist Richard Cohen, a man paid to analyze politics, and published today in the Washington Post, America's most respected political news outlet: "I am an ardent supporter of Israel, but I am also an American: Do not insult my president!" Well done, everyone.