The Chicago Tribune company, which also owns the Los Angeles Times, is on the verge of bankruptcy. In hock to a Lebanese-Mexican billionaire, the New York Times is trying desperately to stay afloat, laying off staff even as it pays
Who is this man? To remind our readers, this fine gentleman thrust his finger in a journalists face and shouted “Get him out of here, or I’m going to jail today!” We’re pretty sure he didn’t mean he was going
Well, isn’t this just ducky: This Thursday, CBS “Early Show” co-anchor Harry Smith will go one-on-one with Pres. Barack Obama in a court-side interview. Then, Smith and his CBS Sports colleague NCAA basketball analyst Clark Kellogg will shoot hoops with
It wouldn’t be an Ann Coulter appearance without some “controversy,” especially as manufactured by the Pavlovian lapdogs of the MSM, and last week’s appearance by the author and syndicated columnist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., was
In the Wall Street Journal, Jena Pincott tries to answer Freud’s famous question — “What do women want?” — and comes up with a surprising answer: in developed countries, they want men who look more like women: Why Women Don’t
FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE OF ENTERING FEDERAL PROPERTY UNDER FALSE PRETENSES NEW ORLEANS, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Joseph Basel, age 24, Stan Dai, age 24, Robert Flanagan, age 24, and James O’Keefe, age 25, were charged in a
From the Jerusalem Post: Post poll: Obama still in single digits Just 9 percent of Jewish Israelis think US President Barack Obama’s administration is more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, according to a Smith Research poll taken this week on behalf of
Time Magazine: Andrew Breitbart sits in an Aeron chair at an iMac computer gazing out the sliding glass door of his Los Angeles home office. On the patio, a hula hoop and a portable basketball rim await his children’s return
Mark Steyn, at NRO, has this to say about Ann Coulter‘s recent Kafkaesque experience in Canada: A couple of days ago, I mentioned François Houle, the leftist apparatchik and provost of the University of Ottawa who threatened Ann Coulter with
A picture is worth a thousand words: The caption contest is now open.
Yeah, yeah, I know: you’re all broke up about it: [youtube VJ8xf4hBn6I&feature nolink] Well, try to control yourselves. After all, there are hordes of bloggers — OK, a couple — who staked their reputations on the idiotic “gotcha” of whether
Remember how, following the Fort Hood massacre, Americans were cautioned by pundits and politicians alike not to blame Islam for the actions of one Muslim? A typical mainstream media narrative went something like this excerpt from Sally Quinn‘s Washington Post
That’s a sadder-but wiser David Shuster you see in the following teaser video on “media bias” from Mediaite, responding to off-camera questions from someone named Tommy “We Got Him” Christopher. Watch in amazement as a chastened Shuster dodges, weaves, and
Bill Whittle posted this video essay on Big Journalism recently, which got us to thinking: what would today’s media make of the sentiments that animated the Declaration of Independence? You remember, this musty old thing: Not so much the famous
You can dump only so much manure on a plant before it has to thrive on its own, and the same principle applies in journalism. An initiative that lacks grass roots can wither in the sun despite liberal doses of
As the Congress and the President of the United States lurch toward reconciliation, or the Slaughter Solution, or whichever form the coming debacle is going to take, let’s take a stroll down memory lane to this memorable moment in the
Just in time for Lent and the run-up to Easter Sunday, this “illustration by Nola Lopez, photograph by Damon Winter” of Obama the Savior ran yesterday in the New York Times‘s “Week in Review” section yesterday, edited by Sam “The
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do The press finally falls out of love with Obama. In Newsweek, Howard Fineman says it’s over: The “mainstream media” are losing patience with, and even interest in, their erstwhile hero. President Barack Obama never
Like all red-blooded American boys, when Mr. Gisele Bundchen speaks, we listen up to the principal signal-caller of the New England Patriots. Yes, the man with three Super Bowl rings and babies both by the Brazilian supermodel and actress Bridget
First there was the old adage: never drink and dial. [youtube A6MJj9unI9I nolink] Then we all learned that texting while driving was a very, very bad idea: [youtube K2D3hB278Gc nolink] Now another no-no has been added to the list —
You’ll be pleased to know that the “under God” part of the Pledge of Allegiance is still legal — but just barely: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words “under
There’s an old saying that describes the fortunes of families, corporations and criminal enterprises: “From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” You know: John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Nelson Rockefeller… the other Rockefellers. Time Inc. editor-in-chief Henry Luce,
Two clips, one comment. Up to you to find the common thread. First, Glenn Beck today: [youtube ewAGXAeCXJY&feature nolink] Now, everybody’s favorite gangster movie. For copyright reasons, we can’t show you the scene in which Frankie Five Angels recants his
Time was when newspapers were as stalwart in defending the First Amendment rights of others as they were for themselves. But increasingly, some media organizations are using their constitutionally protected platforms to intimidate others into surrendering their rights. Specifically, we’re
Don’t blame us: Renegade Democrat, health-care “no” vote and therefore soon-to-be-ex-Congressman from upstate New York Eric Massa said it: Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote.
