Late Wednesday morning, the New York Times website crashed. This was verified by the Times. Speculation as to why is running from heavy traffic to a cyber-attack: —- The New York Times Web site is experiencing technical difficulties. We expect
Funny, I don’t remember CBS having a problem repeatedly identifying Todd Akin as a Republican during the 2012 election. But CBS This Morning couldn’t quite bring itself to identify Jesse Jackson Jr. as a Democrat in its Wednesday report about
Tuesday, Oprah Winfrey’s non-apology apology to Switzerland received all kinds of media attention. What didn’t receive much media attention, though, is the fact that in that same statement, Winfrey backpedaled away from her claim that she had been a victim
How this one slipped through, I will never know. But in 1991 director Norman Jewison and screenwriter Alvin Sargent (adapting a hit play) teamed up for what at first looks like just another one of those slick “Wall Street” type
With hardly any scrutiny or skepticism, the mainstream media allowed one of the most powerful persons in the world to attack a powerless sales clerk as a racist. And now that this anonymous sales clerk has branded Oprah Winfrey a
During a speech about civil rights before the American Bar Association Monday, Hillary Clinton botched the name of Medgar Evers, calling the civil rights icon “Medgar Evans.” Normally, no one would care, but today’s mainstream media is merciless at using
The media push to protect and promote Hillary Clinton is well underway. The idea here is not just to ensure that she faces no damaging primary opposition, but that she steamrolls any Republican who dares try to stop her. Our
CNN’s Carol Costello hosted Dale Ho, an ACLU lawyer who heads the voting rights division. It was a one-sided discussion in which Ho was allowed to spew all his talking points against North Carolina’s new voter integrity laws because Costello
You have to give it to Politico and Media Matters. What a genius stroke to team up for an Orwellian attack against CNN that accuses the network of a “detectable rightward shift.” Though David Brock, founder of Media Matters, has
Note: This same article is published at Big Hollywood using a different headline. Lee Daniels, director of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” can’t seem to keep his charges of racism straight. I always thought that a sure sign of racism was
Lee Daniels, director of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” can’t seem to keep his charges of racism straight. I always thought that a sure sign of racism was how much rural whites love to see black people “perform.” But now Daniels
A Swiss sales assistant caught in the middle of Oprah Winfrey’s media racial firestorm claims that she’s tired of being bullied and lied about by the powerful billionaire and cable network owner. Speaking anonymously, the sales clerk Oprah has publicly
With streaming television becoming more and more popular, and providers like Aereo making an end-run around cable and satellite providers, a lot of attention is being paid to the future of bundled cable. In a world of growing choices and
TV By the Numbers reports that on Thursday night, CNN hit the kind of lows the network had likely hoped were behind them. In the all-important 25-54 demo, CNN’s primetime hit the second lowest numbers of the year with a
Your tax dollars and mine were used to smear the (red) state of South Dakota with the reckless claim that state social workers were kidnapping American Indian children and giving them to white foster parents so those white foster parents
Although polls show the American people’s opposition to ObamaCare is increasing to all-time highs, Senate majority Leader Harry Reid is making no secret of the fact that Democrats look at Obama’s signature legislation as merely a step towards putting ObamaCare
Because a media that should be in competition with one another instead protects one another, there is no mention of CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s connection to Cory Booker’s online start up in this MSNBC piece. But when you have MSNBC
The Wall Street Journal reports that food stamp-usage is on the rise and so are the number of people on the food stamp rolls. Compared to the previous May, food stamp-use jumped 2% this year, and the number of people
During Barack Obama’s Friday afternoon press conference, in response to a question about NSA leaker Edward Snowden, the president told NBC’s Chuck Todd the following: “As I said in my opening remarks, I called for a thorough review of surveillance
One of the new talking points we are seeing throughout the mainstream media is a mocking “Here we go again” attack-narrative against the Republican Congress as they maneuver to defund ObamaCare, or work to kill various parts of ObamaCare. But
One way to get a handle on how a film will do at the box office its opening weekend is the Thursday midnight screenings. Early reports show that Elysium made $1.6 million, which Variety called “modest.” This is better than
Patch is the brainchild of AOL. The idea is to have hundreds of news outlets spread out across the country; separate bureaus, if you will, where the news reported in a hyper-local way in individual communities. People from inside and
During his Wednesday appearance on Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show,’ President Obama made three factual gaffes; one of them involved the claim that cities not found along the Gulf of Mexico are. Were Obama a Republican, these gaffes would have led news
The irony could not be any more revealing. Yesterday, MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell complained about NBC producing a Hillary Clinton miniseries. Both of the NBC News stars claimed they were concerned that this could damage the firewall between
Accounting for inflation, the original “Muppet Movie” (1979) is still far and away the most successful of the franchise, including the disappointing and unnecessarily political 2011 reboot. And “nearly” 35 years later it is easy to see why. (I put
Whatever competitive advantage CNN gained over MSNBC during the month of July appears to be fading fast, at least according to the last three days. On Friday, Monday, and Tuesday, MSNBC beat CNN in “total viewers” in both total day
After the RNC said they would refuse to partner with NBC and CNN should they follow through on their announced projects about Hillary Clinton, NBC responded with the claim that their news and entertainment divisions are separate; that one division
***UPDATE: On Neil Cavuto’s show, Thursday, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes responded to the news that Megyn Kelly is moving to primetime: Generally, I don’t confirm or deny any rumors, and that is a rumor at the moment,” said Ailes,
This is how a media, that are supposed to be in competition with one another, instead covers for one another. (see photo above) The “boy” just happens to be the son of CNN chief Jeff Zucker. The story the
In the month of July, the American economy created 162,000 jobs. Most of them were part time. Moreover, that is probably not enough jobs to keep up with the average increase in population. A recovering economy regularly creates closer to
The New York Post reports that, after yesterday’s uproar surrounding the revelation that CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s 15-year-old son sat on the board of a top Democrat’s Internet start-up company, the teenager “abruptly quit” yesterday. The kid also enjoyed stock
It is no longer the media’s job to cover news. Instead, the media manufacture narratives around those they wish to elevate and those they wish to destroy. This is how the media promotes Democrats and attempts to marginalize Republicans. And
You might find this hard to believe, but forty years ago, teams of hot women on roller skates brutalizing one another at top speed on an oval track was a pretty popular sport in America. Capitalizing on the short-lived phenom
The Daily Mail reports that Cory Booker, a Democrat currently running to be the next United States Senator from New Jersey, put CNN boss Jeff Zucker’s 14year-old son on the board of his online start-up company — and awarded the
The Daily Beast reports that Walmart is a little tired of being criticized over how much it pays its employees, especially by news outlets that regularly use no-wage or low-wage interns. In an open letter to Walmart, the left-leaning Nation
Overall, the Republican National Committee’s decision not to partner with CNN or NBC for a single one of the 2016 GOP presidential primary debates is very good news. Unless, of course, you are a Democrat counting on a repeat of
In a bizarre turn of events, the hard-left Media Matters for America (MMfA) has sided with the Republican National Committee’s call for CNN and NBC to cancel their respective projects surrounding former Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential candidate
The Huffington Post reports that the Washington Post might have been forced into its fire sale this week after the threat of federal action in 2010 resulted in the drying up of a Washington Post Co. cash-cow division called Kaplan
With a new book just out detailing the salacious affair between John F, Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, this is a good time to box your compass with the new Bluray release of “Bus Stop” (1956) in order to remember that
A new report shows that cable and satellite pay TV providers lost 380,000 customers over this quarter last year. Over the last 12 months, the number of customers declined by 911,000, up from 258,000 the previous year. That might represent
