For the cynicism and lack of moral courage that have been so evident in the campaign wouldn’t suddenly vanish once Mr. Romney entered the Oval Office. If he doesn’t dare disagree with economic nonsense now, why imagine that he would become willing to challenge that nonsense later? And bear in mind that if elected, he would be watched like a hawk for signs of apostasy by the very people he’s trying so desperately to appease right now.

The truth is that Mr. Romney is so deeply committed to insincerity that neither side can trust him to do what it considers to be the right thing.

From today’s Krugman piece on Romney, economics and dishonesty.

Today, however, an Academy spokesperson rephrased the statement for CNN’s report: “We would love to have Sacha Baron Cohen at the Oscar show,” the spokesperson said. “We have expressed [to Cohen] that we don’t like our red carpet to be used as a promotional stunt. We’re waiting to hear from him. We’ve put the ball in his court.

“We don’t like our red carpet to be used as a promotional stunt.” This “Academy spokesperson” is straight up fucking with everybody, right? (via dceiver)

People!

Social TV is a cross-functional effort at NBC News,” said Osborn, who leads a team of three. “To tell stories at scale across all platforms takes a lot of coordination. To make this happen, we bring together teams from editorial, marketing, ad sales and technology to help foster community around the programming that we distribute to a mass audience on television.

Ryan Osborn, senior director of social media at NBC News. I spoke to Ryan about how NBC News views social TV and what the network is doing to embrace this old but new concept.

Read what the Peacock Network is doing at Digiday.