Bill de Blasio, 11/29/11

New York City Public Advocate

While the legality of Mayor Bloomberg's midnight raid on Zuccotti Park is subject to conflicting opinions, there can be no doubt as to whether or not the media have been treated in an acceptable manner. They haven't.

Joseph A. Palermo, 11/28/11

Associate Professor of American History, California State University, Sacramento

Ross Douthat is out of his league this week. His piece "evaluating" the presidency of John F. Kennedy is so thoughtless and partisan it doesn't deserve its high perch in the nation's "paper of record".

Amy Neumann, 11/29/11

Writer, speaker and social media consultant for nonprofits and businesses

The magic of Twitter lies in just that -- the ability to connect with like-minded people in big and small ways, all over the world. And someone who knows all about that is Twitter's own Claire Diaz Ortiz.

Carl Rogers, 11/29/11

Creative Director, Grey New York

In an age where digital advertising budgets are soaring, where Apple is embedding messaging in apps and where 'integrated' is the buzzword on every agency's lips, could it be that one of the most traditional forms of advertising could quietly make a comeback?

Mitch Joel, 11/29/11

President, Twist Image

Business books, blog posts, magazine articles, Tumblr feeds, newspaper articles, TV news segments and yes, even tweets, have been written about what it takes for both individuals and brands to be successful on Twitter. Allow me to sum up some of the more commonly-held recommendations for Twitter success.

Marty Kaplan, 11/28/11

Director, Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School

It'd be a new day for democracy if political ads were required to include a disclaimer: "The scary music, Photoshopped pictures and misleading sound bites in this ad are tricks intended to manipulate you."

Elena Haliczer, 11/28/11

Product development for HuffPost Social News

We're excited to team up with Facebook to bring you the latest in HuffPost Social News: The Huffington Post Social Reader.

Craig Newmark, 11/28/11

Founder, craigslist and craigconnects.org

Recently, Jeff Jarvis held an event on restoring fact-checking to the news business. Here's my very brief attempt at getting my head around what happened and what's happening with big deal fact-checking.

Richard (RJ) Eskow, 11/27/11

Consultant, writer and Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future

David Addington. Paul Wolfowitz. Ed Meese. It's a Rogue's Gallery of government officials gone wild, a motley crew of the short-sighted, the benighted, and the nearly-indicted. Or, as CNN calls them, "experts."

David Tereshchuk, 11/28/11

Media Critic, Multimedia Journalist, Author: "The Media Beat"

Here's my offering for story of the year -- it's hardly been noticed at all in western media, least of all in American news outlets.

Dan Ehrlich, 11/26/11

Journalist and Broadcaster

The answer is not press controls, but stricter laws, both national and international, to police illegal activities from intrusive and threatening paparazzi to phone hackers working for the media.

Justin Cox, 11/28/11

Justin's first novel is called Ritualistic Keyboard Annihilation

I'm the editor of Davis Patch, and although I was not on the receiving end of Lt. Pike's now-famous pepper spraying, the maneuver has made things pretty busy in this town.

Alison van Diggelen, 11/28/11

Host, FreshDialogues

Days before the Global Climate Talks in Durban, South Africa, NBC's Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw delivered a strong message in Silicon Valley for climate skeptics.

Jason Salzman, 11/28/11

Bigmedia.org

Skip this if you're one of those people who doesn't want to read about the latest outrageous comments on right-wing talk radio, because... they're just the latest outrageous comments on right-wing talk radio.

Michelangelo Signorile, 11/27/11

Editor-at-large, HuffPost Gay Voices

I wonder if Chait would think it "unreasonable" for black pundits to be disillusioned with a white president inviting a supporter of Jim Crow laws to speak at the inauguration. So why is pandering to homophobia still treated as something we should accept?

Gary Hart, 11/26/11

Teacher, author, and lecturer

Today's political journalists think the world would work much better if political leaders would simply govern the way the journalist thinks they should. Tom Wicker knew that his job was not to govern: his job was to provide a conscience for those who governed.

John Lundberg, 11/27/11

Writer, Poetry teacher

Chrysler's latest ad, which premiered during this past week's football broadcast, went out on a limb, featuring a poem by former Michigan poet laureate Edgar Guest.