Yesterday, NBC News ran a story that threatened to send fervent election-watchers into a downward spiral. Using data provided by TargetSmart, reporter Adam Edelman and the NBC News Data Analytics Lab said that Republicans were outpacing Democrats in early voting, which is now ...read more

In the transcript of Glenn Simpson's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, the Fusion GPS co-founder references someone whose name has gone largely unmentioned in the Trump-Russia scandal so far, but whose connections to the President are fascinating: Adam Schiff ...read more

Donald Trump continued his despicable assault on the press on Wednesday during a rally in Florida. The Republican presidential nominee singled out NBC reporter Katy Tur, again, in another one of his "dishonest media" rants at the Miami event.  Trump accused the press, ...read more

"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was..." In the final days of July, 2009, I made the decision to torch my history almost entirely. I was standing in the middle of the Astoria apartment I had shared my wife at the time, an apartment she had already ...read more

It was somehow inevitable that Miami would be ground zero for the communicable disease that wiped out the United States. And so here we are, with Telemundo now issuing this ominous little breaking item: Yesterday during an interview on Meet the Press, President Obama said ...read more

"It was a surreal end to what will go down as a surreal episode in American history, and a somehow fitting one. On a literal level, it’s the story of a woman who, for reasons still unknown, lost it in a very public way. But as a metaphor, oh boy. Grabbing the place reserved ...read more

Here's what you should be reading this Friday morning instead of making your plans to rush out the door early when no one's looking: 1. Sean Gone? If this is true, it's a very big deal and incredibly unexpected. Drudge is reporting that Megyn Kelly's new Fox News time-slot ...read more

Back in 1997, after a few years out west working for KCBS, I was approached by NBC-owned WTVJ in Miami about the possibility of returning to my hometown. During negotiations with the station over a producer position, I went into pretty good detail about my reservations when ...read more

By Chez Pazienza: It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that somebody at NBC was going to lose a job over the galactic fuck-up that led to a severely edited 911 call from Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman making air. Well, late last week NBC -- after undertaking what it ...read more

I'm always amazed at just how stupid and gullible the rarefied within our culture think the rest of us are. I'm talking specifically about those we've inexplicably elevated to the rank of "celebrity" -- although the definition could easily be broadened to include a good portion ...read more