Paul Boutin has been documenting the intersection of pop culture and technology for more than a decade. Formerly a senior editor at Wired, he is now a freelance writer who often appears in Slate, Wired, and Valleywag.

Today in the news news: BusinessWeek tells employees that it is "reorganizing," in the sense of "you are fired"; China is tired of showing stupid American movies; and television, surprisingly, will only be getting worse.

ATLANTA: Court TV, the network long associated with the OJ Simpson trial and other sensational crime programming, is rebranding and changing its name in 2008 in an effort to better align its branding with its expanded programming.

No matter how you feel personally about Wal-Mart, you can't accuse them of making stupid mistakes.

The day may come when the "news" is an all-out battle of competing political factions, each trying to insinuate its position into the mind of the populace by using the media as a giant host, just as viruses use the human body.

New York: The Associated Press is revising the way it edits and distributes stories in a transition designed to tailor its structure to the faster-paced 21st century media world.

Rumors are in the air this morning of big job cuts to the news divisions of NBC and MSNBC, as Jeff Zucker hacks up his old colleagues and saves the company a sweet $20-40 million.

Now that obesity rates have stalled, healthcare comms pros need to use new outreach tactics

Admit it. When the weather's cold outside and you're home alone, you've had a few daydreams about MILFs.

VH1's Save the Music Foundation, a charity that works to provide new and used instruments to public school music programs, decided that a splashy New York party would be a great way to leverage its 10th anniversary celebration for fundraising and publicity.