Nate Silver, the New York Times‘ statistical and polling guru, has ripped into Politico, suggesting that they are stupid. Silver said on Bill Simmons’ “BS Report” podcast: What’s remarkable for me is that you had some journalist for Politico who
A series of Pew Research studies has concluded that Republicans are losing the social media battle. According to Pew, 69 percent of adults who are online use social networks; 38 percent said they “like” or push material about politicians on
New CNN Chief, Jeff Zucker, gave a few moments to The Incredibly Useless Howard Kurtz. Zucker said in an interview that CNN programs need “more differentiation” and “more variety, and I don’t mean that in the entertainment sense.” With CNN’s ratings
We’ve been found out. Yes, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Joel Pollak is one of the top bidders for an hour-long “strategy session” with Obama campaign operative Sandra Fluke at BiddingForGood.com. Fluke, who rose to prominence advocating for government to force private
“Insulting.” That is what conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer termed Obama’s “plan” to prevent the federal government from falling over the fiscal cliff. But to the Old Media establishment, Obama’s insulting plan lacking in specifics was a brilliant “strategic move” that
Former NBCUniversal Chief Jeff Zucker has been hired to head up CNN. It’s a disastrous move for the network unless Zucker can somehow recapture his “Today Show” magic from over a decade ago. As I wrote earlier this week: While
The Hill published a report Wednesday that ought to warm the hearts of all fiscally responsible Republicans and, perhaps, give hope that GOP Speaker John Boehner will hold to his pledges on taxes during these fiscal cliff talks with the White
Former NBC top executive Jeff Zucker was named Thursday as president of CNN Worldwide, heading up the news media operation as it seeks to adapt to new technology platforms. Zucker will start in January as head of the 23 news
In a November 28 article, the Associated Press tried to give cover to Democrats by insisting that they are somehow divided over cuts in entitlements to help solve the “fiscal cliff” problem. But the truth is that Democrats are virtually
Talks between the White House and GOP leaders in the House of Representatives are on everyone’s mind, and solutions and ideas are coming fast and thick from many corners of Washington. But CNN thinks it has the way to fix
In an op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, liberal political analyst Juan Williams observed that Republicans have lost more power in the Senate and decides that the GOP has only itself to blame for its defeat because, as in 2010,
One of the major reasons Obama earned the Washington Post‘s 2012 endorsement was his “balanced approach” to deficit reduction. Now that he’s won, the Post is alarmed to discover he is pushing for tax increases while offering no cuts to
The New York Times, in its reprehensible campaign to vilify Israel and whitewash Hamas, has resorted to lying about terrorists Israel has killed by pretending the targets were journalists. The author, one David Carr, reported in a piece titled “Using
As we saw with the presidential election, the media is still plenty powerful when it comes to pushing an agenda and a failed president over the 50% mark. That’s not a small victory, but it might by what’s known as
In an attempt to cover for President Obama’s security failures in Benghazi on September 11, the Associated Press deemed the whole debacle merely a “PR disaster” and speculated it could all just be forgotten if Susan Rice were successfully nominated
According to multiple media outlets, former NBCUniversal head Jeff Zucker is in negotiations to take over the top job at CNN. CNN could hardly make a worse decision; Zucker’s record at NBCUniversal was overwhelmingly awful. While Zucker did a bang-up
Over the weekend, the San Francisco Chronicle announced that the gossip website TMZ was looking to launch a drone to monitor celebrities. According to the Chronicle, “Paparazzi are already using small drones on the Riviera to shoot photos of celebrities
A Chicago Sun-Times columnist is saddened by the flame out of Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., the Chicago Congressman that just resigned after a Congressional investigation into misuse of campaign funds. His story is that of a Greek hero, she claims.
Today, syndicated radio talk show host Laura Ingraham ended her relationship with syndicator Talk Radio Network. She released a statement on her website: After more than 9 years with the distributor Talk Radio Network, I decided it was time to
Well, it seems that this video on “the drug war” has really ended up kicking the brain-dead hornet’s nest. The funniest thing about it? At no point in the video do I argue for or against legalization. As a matter
During the 2012 election campaign NBC refused to allow Chelsea Clinton to appear in political ads made by a same-sex marriage advocacy group based in the state of Washington that was trying to get a same-sex marriage referendum placed on
I hear my friends in the media strain over questions about Benghazi and I wonder why. There are simple answers here. Of course, what should be mentioned first is that most of the Activist Old Media have stopped covering the
On November 26, MSNBC personality Chris Matthews linked conservatives, who are unhappy with the results of the past election, to Hitler and the Nazis. He went on to claim that white men and Mitt Romney were really working to return
The Associated Press is pushing a “study” by purported “nonpartisan” organizations claiming that Obamacare is a “good deal for states.” The AP notes that this “report” by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute says that Obamacare is good for
Time magazine named “TheProtester” its Person of the Year 2011, inspired by demonstrators in both the Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement. But the power grab in Egypt last week by Mohammed Morsi highlights just how naïve the
You can’t even eat turkey on Thanksgiving without being called a racist by our friends on the extreme left side of the aisle in America today, especially if you prefer the white meat over the dark. Just before Thanksgiving last
Just when you think Time magazine can’t make any more of a mockery of itself, they nominate Sandra Fluke, contraception advocate extraordinaire, as a candidate in their Person of the Year 2012 poll: Fluke, of course, is the condom rights
In the fall of 1997, I joined Harvard’s environmental science and public policy program. In the introductory class, co-taught with the Kennedy School of Government, we were encouraged to think of politics as a process of social learning, in which
The turmoil over the sexual abuse continues to roil the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The latest turn forced Mark Thompson, the newly installed CEO of The New York Times and himself a BBC director-general until September, to wing his way
It is no surprise that the Los Angeles Times harbors an intense hatred for Israel; this is the same newspaper that to this day has suppressed the infamous video of Barack Obama honoring PLO leader Rashid Khalidi. But the lengths
CNN has the solution for the Middle Eastern turmoil that has flared anew over the last month or so between the terrorists of Hamas and Israel: Israel should drop that whole “they are terrorists” thing and recognize Hamas as a
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, host of the network’s weekly international affairs program and author of The Post-American World, has some advice to offer on how to be a “real American”: “Part of being a real American is urging the country to
University of Texas at Austin journalism professor Robert Jensen says that Thanksgiving is a “white-supremacist holiday” that celebrates the “genocide” committed by America’s forefathers who “had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis.” In a holiday article
A new chart has debuted showing the stark bias that purported “fact checker” PolitiFact commits against Republicans and conservatives. The chart demonstrates how people on the right side of the aisle have been scolded by PolitiFact far more often and
The Hill, in its latest attempt to redirect the Republican Party toward the Left, is shamelessly plugging Chris Christie’s newfound surge among Democrats in New Jersey and New York as a testimony to his electability in 2016 as a presidential
The mainstream media, which has been instrumental in convincing Republican primary voters to back the last two moderate presidential candidates, John McCain and Mitt Romney, is back with its newest suggestion: nominate Jeb Bush! The New York Times is now
From the editors who brought you Mitt Romney snipping a gay kid’s hair, we now get the newest Obama-led anti-conservative meme: Republicans are racist for attacking UN Ambassador Susan Rice over her Libya lies. Today, the editorial board of the
The British Broadcasting Corporation will get its third chief in two months with Lord Tony Hall appointed BBC director-general by the BBC Trust. Lord Hall will take his place as the head of one of the world’s largest broadcasting services
When I first saw the headline, “The GOP’s bizarre attack on Susan Rice,” I assumed the link would take me to one of the many left-wing columnists employed by the Post. Nope. This is a full-blown Washington Post editorial (and
As we reported in September, long-time morning host Matt Lauer has seemingly worn out his welcome at NBC’s Today show. TV insiders are saying the $21.5 million-a-year Lauer is soon to be fired. Lauer’s “Q Score,” an industry popularity rating,
