Al Jazeera America’s inevitable collapse has begun with the elimination of all of its morning programming. Instead of producing its own programming, the basement-rated cable news network will simply re-broadcast Al Jazeera programs from its parent studio in Qatar. Also
Don’t buy the hype you might be reading at places like Grantland about “Selma’s” wide release debut at the box office this weekend. The news was not good. Far from it. Especially when compared to other apples, like “The Butler,”
Oprah Winfrey’s controversial civil rights drama “Selma” and the now-discredited Lena Dunham were the big losers at last night’s Golden Globe awards. Despite the fact both earned more than one nomination in big categories, except for “Selma’s” Best Original Song
George Zimmerman, the 33 year-old Hispanic man acquitted in 2013 for killing Trayvon Martin in self defense, was arrested Friday night for aggravated assault. TMZ reports that the charges involve a weapon and that Zimmerman is being held without bail.
In today’s edition of Political Correctness Makes You Stupid, while referring to Amedy Coulibaly, one of the Islamic terrorists killed by French police in a hostage standoff Friday, instead of describing him as black (which he was), CNN’s Chris Cuomo
After months of rumors things were finally made official Friday with the announcement that Kate Bolduam is being replaced by former Fox News veteran Alisyn Camerota as co-host of CNN’s troubled morning show, “New Day.” Although Camerota is already co-hosting
Director Ava DuVarney’s third feature film is impressive on many levels. Yet, given its potent subject matter, other than a few scenes, “Selma” is emotionally flat and uninspiring. This is especially surprising in the wake of the George Zimmerman and
About twenty-minutes into director Olivier Megaton’s “Taken 3” I had a truly terrifying experience: a “Quantum of Solace” flashback. A poorly scripted action movie can sometimes be redeemed by the action scenes. Until the dreadful “Quantum,” this had always been
CNN president Jeff Zucker told staffers Thursday that “the safety of our employees” is the reason the cable news network is not broadcasting the Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons on the air or across any of the network’s other platforms. THR
In a comment released to Breitbart News Thursday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted “Today Show” co-host Savannah Guthrie for her “lovefest” with Lena Dunham Wednesday morning. Due to her own experience with Guthrie on Tuesday, the Governor used the
The verified Twitter account for WikiLeaks, the organization founded by Julian Assange that publishes state secrets, lashed out Thursday at something called the “Jewish pro-censorship lobby” for “legitimiz[ing] attacks on “Charlie Hebdo for ‘offensive’ speech.”: — How the Jewish pro-censorship
Politico has obtained an email from CNN senior editorial director Richard Griffiths that tells staffers that the Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons are not to be shown on any CNN platform. “Although we are not at this time showing the Charlie
The Associated Press defended its decision to not publish the Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons by telling the Daily Beast that “It’s been our policy for years that we refrain from moving deliberately provocative images.” The Washington Examiner reports that policy
There are numerous reports that various media outlets, including the Associated Press and CNN, are censoring the Charlie Hebdo cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed. The image below is reportedly from a Daily Telegraph live blog. It has since been
UPDATE: A staffer from the Financial Times responds. The piece has been updated: @NolteNC It wasn’t an editorial. It was a signed opinion piece by Tony Barber. This is the FT editorial http://t.co/ZElxYYNhjR — John Gapper (@johngapper) January 7, 2015
For 6 weeks to two months Lena Dunham and her publisher Random House knowingly allowed an innocent man (we identify as Barry One) to twist in the wind under a false accusation of rape. You wouldn’t know that, though, from
In an interview with the Daily Beast, left-wing comedian and sometimes actor Patton Oswalt lashed out at his own over the ever-increasing speech policing coming from left-wing political correctness. He singles out the leftist Salon for a special skewering. For
Variety’s Todd Spangler has this mostly right. Dish Network’s Sling TV, a bundled streaming package of cable channels priced at $20 per month, is no game changer. At least I hope not (for reasons I’ll explain below). The willingness of
Drudge picked up on the fascinating fact that this is the second year in a row the prestigious Producers Guild Awards snubbed producer Oprah Winfrey and her product: a historical-based race drama. Last year, it was the historically-inaccurate “The Butler.”
After director Darren Aronosfsky’s “Noah” opened in March to a massive $44 million weekend — despite the fact it depicts God as a anti-human enviro-terrorist — anti-God Hollywood probably figured they had cracked the code: sell the movie to the
The stakes are pretty high for “Selma,” a historical biopic about the landmark 1965 civil rights march that focuses on the relationship between civil rights leader Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson. Even before it hit screens, the critically-acclaimed
According to an FBI warning published at The Intercept, the same hackers who systematically dismantled Sony Pictures will next turn their awful but undeniably prodigious talents to the news media. No specific news organization is named. The intended target will
Writer/director Richard Linklater certainly deserves credit for pulling off an audacious experiment. Filmed over 12 years using the same actors (child and adult), “Boyhood” is a coming-of-age drama unlike anything we’ve seen before. Respect all around. Hats off. The movie
Using an early book proposal submitted by Lena Dunham that contains vastly different details about her alleged rapist than what was eventually published in her memoir “Not That Kind of Girl,” Gawker claimed Tuesday to have found Dunham’s alleged rapist
You can’t accuse me of The-Original-Is-Always-Bettering director Rupert Wyatt’s remake of “The Gambler.” I’ve never seen Karel Reisz’s 1974 original with James Caan. Mark Wahlberg’s version disappointed all on its own. Wahlberg plays Jim Bennett, a literature professor and a
