It’s no secret — I love breaking news. And the stories behind getting the story. A new book tells just that: “Breaking News: How the Associated Press has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else.” AP has been covering news since 1846, so there’s a lot to tell in this 432-page hardcover book. I’m adding it [...]

Fox News makes you stupid: … the survey respondents who seemed to know the most about what’s going on — who were able to identify major public figures, for example — were likely to be viewers of fake news programs like Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”; those who knew the least [...]

The 32 people killed Monday in the Virginia Tech massacre: Ross Alameddine, 20, of Saugus, Mass., was killed in French class, in Room 211 of Norris Hall. A friend described the sophomore English major as “imaginitive, intelligent, compassionate and most of all hysterically funny.” Friends said Alameddine often kept a quote set on his instant [...]