Yeah, journalism has gotten so frivolous. Not like back in the serious old days

This 1981 beauty is part of a feature on the “Worst TIME Covers” on Time.com. But seriously, what do you think? Love ‘em or hate ‘em? Update: An alert reader points out that one of the reporters on the cat cover story was, get this, Maureen Dowd.

Clyde Prestowitz is now a blogger, and a globe-trotting one at that

Trade warrior turned globalizationeer Clyde Prestowitz was just in my office this morning, telling about his travels. He had a nice story about being in Doha over the weekend, reading the Gulf Times, and finding that almost every story had something to do with the decline of the dollar. It was only later that he [...]

Sarah Lacy, Mark Zuckerberg and the Most Important Story in the Whole World

I’m afraid that I’ve let distractions like Emperor’s Club Client 9 and the Fed’s new Term Securities Lending Facility keep me from writing until now about the Most Important Story in the Whole World–journalist Sarah Lacy‘s troubled Q&A with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg at the SXSW Interactive Conference Sunday. It started with a bunch of disgruntled [...]