By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 11/01/12 7:06pm

Times Style

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Public Editor Margaret Sullivan Takes Nate Silver to Task

Margaret Sullivan, The New York Times public editor, is not amused by golden-boy statistician Nate Silver’s latest antics.

This afternoon, the FiveThirtyEight blogger and Times writer challenged Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough to a 21st century type of duel. The terms? If Barack Obama wins, Mr. Scarborough will have to pay up. If Mitt Romney wins, Mr. Silver will pay. The wager? A $2,000 (it was raised from the original $1,000) donation to the Red Cross. The method for laying down the challenge? Twitter, of course. It is 2012, after all. Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/19/10 8:35pm

Suspensions

Keeping With Protocol, MSNBC Suspends Scarborough for Campaign Contributions

Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” will face suspension after admitting to making eight separate donations to Republican candidates, Politico reports. The news comes two weeks after NBC President Phil Griffin handed down a similar punishment to Scarborough’s colleague Keith Olbermann after that anchor acknowledged contributions, in his case to liberal candidates. Read More

By Molly Fischer 11/18/09 7:57pm

Cooling Ratings for Morning Joe

Morning Joe’s mix of “hard news, politics, [and] intellectual rigor” looked like a good bet a year ago, but now it’s “struggling to hang onto viewers,” reports Felix Gilette. And its ratings woes come at a pivotal moment for NBC Universal:

Currently, teams of bankers are combing over every detail of the company’s books in Read More

By Felix Gillette 11/18/09 12:01am

Morning Joe, Piping Hot a Year Ago, Steadily Loses Steam

Joe Scarborough held up a copy of The New York Times. It was Monday, Nov. 16, and earlier in the morning The Times had published a piece about Newsweek, which had recently laid off 13 staffers. Quarterly ad revenue at the newsweekly was down 48 percent versus last year. That said, according to The Times, Read More