Kevin Costner Attempted to Guard Whitney

Oprah Who? Twitter Is the New Confessional

Goodbye, Oprah’s couch; hello, Twitter. You want to say you’re sorry in this day and age, tweet it. God forbid you pick up the phone and call someone.

It took lobbyist Hilary Rosen half a news cycle yesterday to apologize for sticking her foot in her mouth the night before on CNN by saying Ann Romney, a mother of five who has suffered from breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, “never worked a day in her life.”

When asked by Wolf Blitzer later in the day what she had to say to Romney, Rosen did not say she was sorry. When Wolf called her on it, Rosen seemed to think the electronic version was enough: “Well, I assume that Mrs. Romney saw my apology this afternoon, but, if not, I apologize.”

Take a look at:  Ann Romney’s Body Language Analysis

Next Issue (Sadly) Fails to Revolutionize Magazines

Let’s start by talking about the good parts of Next Issue, the new Netflix-style subscription app that houses some of the best magazines from Conde Naste, Hearst, and TimeInc’s stables, including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Elle, Time, and Sports Illustrated.

As I’ve said before, centralizing the mag-reading experience is totally sensible. There’s absolutely no need for there to be one app per magazine. I’m very happy that Next Issue is attempting to create a one-stop shop for my reading pleasure.

Republicans Love Diet Dr. Pepper. But Why?

A recent study from National Media Research Planning & Placement identified particular brands that resonate also political lines, such as Diet Dr. Pepper’s strength with Republicans. But: why?

How Police Forensics Saved A Novel

Trish Vickers is an author, who writes her novels by hand. Trish is also blind. When she recently discovered that she’d written 26 pages with a dry pen, she and her family took the manuscript to the local police to see if they could help recover what she’d written