Dale Evans, staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal, made it known to his editor Monday that under no circumstances would he “debase himself and his profession” trying to find an angle on why the S&P 500 was up or down on any given day. The declaration took place behind closed doors, but colleagues sitting halfway [...]

Following the high ratings of its 24/7 coverage of the death of Michael Jackson, CNN announced it will launch a news channel devoted entirely to the coverage of celebrity deaths. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said the new cable channel will be known as CNN/RIP. “Because of our coverage of Jackson’s death to the exclusion of [...]