Russ Smith is a journalist and media commentator who founded the New York Press, an alternative weekly newspaper, in 1988. Known for his sharp, irreverent writing on media and politics, he contributed occasional pieces to The Weekly Standard spanning from 1997 to 2007.
AT FIRST BLUSH, Gov. Martin O'Malley's May 9 endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination seemed impulsive. After all, the 44-year-old former mayor of Baltimore, who restored Maryland to one-party-state status last November when he ousted Republican incumbent Robert…
I am the editor and owner of New York Press, a weekly newspaper distributed free in Manhattan. That automatically makes my paper a member of the "alternative" media community in the United States, but NYPress is, in truth, a very stark alternative to the world of the "alternatives." We have a rock…