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The bottom fell out of the Academy Awards ceremony in 2008 when only 32 million tuned in for the annual awards telecast. It was all all-time low going back to 1980 and the failure was hard-earned. Throughout the aughts, Hollywood

I cannot find the Reuters report, but CNN is reporting that the same Russian Parliament that just unanimously voted to take military action in the Ukraine now wants to pull their ambassador out of the U.S.  — CNN: Russia Parliament

**SPOILER ALERT** Most of the suspense and therefore enjoyment of Liam Neeson’s new action thriller “Non Stop” comes from trying to figure out who the villain is and why this person is doing what he or she is doing. If

The Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy reports that the 9th Circuit has upheld the right of a California high school to forbid students from wearing t-shirts with American flags. “The court points out that the rights of students in public high

‘Son of God’ Crucifixion: ‘Graphic … ‘Hard to Watch’ Capone of Ain’t It Cool News sat down with “Son of God” producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey for an extensive interview worth reading in its entirety. Something I had been

After his first full year on the job, CNN Chief Jeff Zucker has led his dying cable news network to a disastrous February 2014. When compared to February 2013  (Zucker took over in January 2013) Deadline reports that Anderson Cooper

“Godzilla is the one who knocks” I wish I could take credit for the Walter White reference, but I saw it on Twitter… — — We are in a new era of blockbusters with more intensity and edge as opposed

While the mainstream media has done its normal job of downplaying, dismissing, or defending Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis from her bio fabrications, policy flip-flops, and ethics complaints, the quiet buzz in the media is that the Democrat rising star

CNN is a cable news network in its death throes. As ratings return to near-historic lows, CNN chief Jeff Zucker is obviously making terrible decisions while in panic-mode. Just-released ratings show that CNN’s stupid, wildly hypocritical and hysterical rampage against

‘Groundhog Day’ Should’ve Won Harold Ramis a Screenplay Oscar When you are knocking around Hollywood hoping to become a screenwriter, you always ask the studios what they are looking for, and more than one development executive told me, “Something like

Harold Ramis was a god. Not THE God, but a god. That is me paraphrasing one of dozens of forever-quotable lines scripted by comedy writer/director/actor Harold Ramis, who died today at age 69. When it comes to an artistic career

CNN’s ratings are once again edging up against record lows and now that Piers Morgan is on the way out, the cable news network has two full hours of primetime real estate to plug. CNN is a failing network. Jeff

Another *Yawn* Alec Baldwin Meltdown Just when you think being rich, handsome, enormously talented, married to a beautiful young woman and the father of a new baby might help Alec Baldwin find some inner-peace and stop him from baring his

With a power vacuum and what looks to be a long struggle to see who will rule in Kiev, the Associated Press reports today on the possibility of the Ukraine being split in two. Though supposedly ousted in a coup,

A little blue on blue political squabbling to brighten up your weekend. Among many other things, Comcast owns NBC News and MSNBC. Comcast wants to gobble up Time Warner Cable. The Writers Guild of America-East opposes the merger and is

The real mystery behind the FCC’s now abandoned “study” to police American newsrooms is why the mainstream media refused to raise holy hell over it. While Obama’s lapdogs refused to bark, it was conservative media who fought for newsroom independence

Life would be so much easier for CNN, Wolf Blitzer, and the rest of the mainstream media if they would just come out and admit that they want to destroy Republicans and empower Democrats. If Wolf would just use his

Amazon Streaming Box Set for March Release This might not seem like big news. After all, Roku and Apple TV already offer a similar product that allows you to stream the Internet on your TV. What makes the news big,

“Queen Yuna” Kim might have been robbed of the Gold by Russia Thursday night, but the superstar 23 year-old South Korean figure skater (who won Gold in 2010) will always have her faith to fall back on. In 2008, while

Over at Fox News, on Tuesday night at 9 p.m., Megyn Kelly won 2.068 million viewers and 354,000 in the 25-43 age demo. At MSNBC, Rachel Maddow came in second with 906,000 viewers and 227,000 in the demo. Piers Morgan

The mainstream media’s relentless left-wing bias is maddening. This , however, is scary — not the idea that the Obama Administration is planning to place federal officials in newsrooms. Government wants to control things. That’s what they do. No, what

According to the latest report, Al-Jazeera America’s (AJA) ratings are exactly zero.  Although available in 55 million homes, no one is watching. Worst of all, AJA has had absolutely no impact on the national conversation. Nothing the cable news network

James Franco Defends Shia What’s-His-Name In a New York Times op-ed actor James Franco takes an “empathetic view” of Shia LaBeouf’s “questionable behavior.” This includes LaBeouf’s short film which blatantly and without attribution plagiarized graphic novelist Daniel Clowes. Franco seems

If CNN chief Jeff Zucker was hired to make CNN and Headline News (HLN) dumber without increasing ratings, his tenure can only be described as a wild success. As CNN moves towards weather, local crime stories, whales, Wolf Blitzer’s phony

A revealing reminder of the provincial, bubbled leftists that run our media can be found in an NBC News piece profiling Olympic gold medal skier David Wise. NBC informs us in its headline that what led Wise to Olympic gold

In his rundown of the back and forth between BuzzFeed and Donald Trump, Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple rips the left-wing site for what he describes as a “glaring unprofessionality.” This piece of “glaring unprofessionality” is nothing less than

Streaming Wars: Broadband/Cable Providers Make Netflix ‘Unwatchable’ The Wall Street Journal reports that Internet/cable providers are attempting to extort more money from Netflix and/or kill off their customer growth by making it increasingly difficult for Netflix consumers to stream: Netflix

Watch for eight-minutes as CNN’s Wolf Blitzer uses something Ted Nugent said a month ago as an excuse to beat up Texas Republican Greg Abbott on behalf of the gubernatorial campaign for Democrat abortion-extremist Wendy Davis. Blitzer even proves he

98% of Faith-Driven Consumer Not Satisfied with ‘Noah’ Variety reports more trouble for director Darren Ornofsky’s “Noah,” the $125 million Paramount tent-pole scheduled to be released next month. A religious organization called Faith Driven Consumers found that 98% of its