The “dirty little secret” of right-wing media is that the average age of their predominantly male radio audience is 67, just as the average Fox viewer is in his mid-60s. Now a new study from Pew shows that young voters aren’t buying what 20th century movement conservatism is selling.

Since 1975, Lake Superior State University has submitted an annual “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.”

There’s one denizen of the social networks that won’t show up among the avatars of your Twitter followers or among your friends on Facebook, though it’s there all the same — the U.S. Justice Department.

The InterWeb is full of lists these days. Seems that making lists has become the substitute for critical thinking. Plus, it appeals to readers’ sense of What’s in it for me?

Now that Fox is officially the GOP informercial network, it has lost its top spot in news channel rankings, leaving the field to MSNBC. The real upset is that CNN is in last place in a three-way race with MSNBC and HLN because Anderson Cooper, Larry King and Lou Dobbs are losing their time slots.

Individuals have to splice together an unending series of short-term projects and episodes that don’t add up to the kind of sequence to which concepts like “career” and “progress” could be meaningfully applied.

Washington Post reporters are a bunch of opinionated, biased, partisan, racist, sexist atheists (or, possibly, Wiccans) who should be thankful they have thoughtful, proactive bosses who are willing to protect them from their worst impulses.

Talk of treason: Newsmax published and then removed an article by John L. Perry, one its long-time writers, titled “Obama Risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention,’” that suggested that the military is so dissatisfied with Pres. Obama that it could be on the verge of staging a coup against the United States government.

In what is truly a sign of these sorry times, a recent survey by Sacred Heart University found that Fox News was simultaneously the most trusted and the least trusted news organization in America.

One of the perks of living in Los Angeles is that famous people whom you have never met will occasionally pick up your tab for your lunch. No kidding. It happens all the time. Why just last Thursday, for example, Drew Carey bought lunch for me and my friend, Judy Rozzelle, at Swingers, a diner on Beverly Blvd., in the Fairfax District.