The Financial Times reports that a drop in ad sales at the New York Times caused the left-wing newspaper’s profits to collapse 54% in the second quarter of this year. The Times netted only $9.2 million this quarter compared to
You would think that a major U.S. Senate campaign caught referring to an ethnic group as financially “very tight” would thrill a media that loves nothing more than political scandal mixed with race. Well, not when it’s a Democrat campaign.
Married movie star couple Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz joined director Pedro Almodovar to denounce Israel’s campaign of self defense in Gaza. THR reports that in an open letter published in a Spanish newspaper, the trio denounced Israel’s Gaza campaign
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has hatched a plan to turn 15 major thoroughfares into walking neighborhoods. The Los Angeles Times used San Pedro’s Gaffey Street as one example. Gaffey is one of those wider-than-wide Los Angeles boulevards that handles
Over at National Review, Eliana Johnson got hold of a confidential campaign plan for Michelle Nunn, the Georgia Democrat running for the U.S. Senate. Nunn is one of the two or three hopes Democrats have of actually picking up a
According to Twitter and Google, an NBC journalist reported that he or she had personally witnessed an Israeli drone attack and fire on a hospital in Gaza. The eye witness report was at first included in this NBC News article,
If you are curious as to why the mainstream media so quickly lost interest in the still-ongoing story of our Southern border crisis, it has everything to do with public opinion and little to do with competing stories in the
Despite both “Lucy” and “Hercules” opening better than expected ($44 million and $29 million, respectively), Nikki Finke notes that it wasn’t enough for the weekend to even tread water. Compared to this same weekend last year, the box office was
— I’ve heard all the complaints, even from friends I respect, about the popular AMC series “The Walking Dead,” and wholeheartedly disagree with every single one. The series isn’t perfect, but for four seasons now it has delivered addictive storytelling
Though no title did well enough to lift the box office out of its stunning summer slump, in their weekend debuts, both “Lucy” and “Hercules” are doing better than expected. Scarlett Johansson’s “Lucy” easily snatched first place with a $43
BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith announced the firing Benny Johnson Friday night after an internal review found 41 separate instances of plagiarism in the viral politics editor’s posts. “[W]e had no choice other than letting him go,” Smith wrote in a
As my colleague, senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak pointed out, Friday afternoon, CNN made a huge deal of Israel rejecting a “cease-fire deal” based on CNN’s made-up premise that there was some sort of a deal. Pollak writes quite correctly that
As is always the case with anything involving former-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, our unbiased, objective, not-at-all-liberal media couldn’t wait to mock her impeachment case against President Obama — but not everyone is laughing. According to reporting from The Hill, The
UPDATE: BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith has announced Johnson’s termination, stating that a review of over 500 posts unearthed 40 instances of plagiarism. “We are deeply embarrassed and sorry to have misled you,” Smith writes. “Benny’s editors — I, Katherine Miller,
“Lucy” reminds me a lot of “Brainstorm” (1983) and “Dreamscape” (1984), two films from my high school days that reran endlessly on HBO. Both tried to paper over unwieldy concepts by throwing bucketfuls of cutting-edge special effects at a dull
There’s no way for me to explain why director Brett Ratner’s “Hercules” completely won me over without what revealing what might be a fairly big spoiler. Those familiar with Steve Moore’s source material, “Hercules: The Thracian Wars” won’t be surprised.
— Looks like the Cartoon Network is more interested in courting controversy than laughs. Other than portraying Jesus in a highly offensive way (that has zero to do with his skin color), the trailer is a terrible stereotyping of
Youth, beauty, fame, wealth, chic, her own career, a musician husband and two small children… Twenty-five year-old Peaches Geldof had everything popular culture tells us is important but still went down the same tragic path as that of her mother,
Anti-LGBT attitudes are terrible for people in all sorts of communities. They linger and oppress, and we need to stamp them out, ruthlessly. — Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 24, 2014 — The New York Times Josh Barro is openly calling
Ironically what the Zionist pigs are doing to Palestinian Arabs today is exactly what Hitler and the Nazi’s did to them #FreePalestine — Cupcake Crew (@CupcakeCrewNYC) July 23, 2014 — On its website, the Cupcake Crew describes itself as a
— — Based on the erotic novels of E.L. James, “Fifty Shades of Grey” stars Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson as his lover and bondage partner-in-training Anastasia Steele. The movie opens on Valentine’s Day. Fade In: HEROINE: Enlighten
The Hollywood Reporter is surprise Sony bumped “The Amazing Spider-Man 3” a full two years, from 2016 to 2018, but they have to be in the minority. By charging ahead with the threequel of a dying franchise, Sony risked losing
Over the years I’ve seen Hollywood openly come out en masse to support Roman Polanski, a man who drugged, raped, and sodomized a 13 year-old girl before fleeing from justice. When it comes to openly supporting Israel, however, The Hollywood
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Summer 2014 is shaping up to be the worst in 8 years thanks to the worst year-over-year decline in three decades. With only 6 weeks of summer remaining and middling titles like “Hercules,” “Teenage Mutant
Dear @MicheleBachmann, on behalf of all fact checkers, I urge you run for president in 2016! http://t.co/KTr2quoRnW — Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 23, 2014 — Glenn Kessler, the objective, unbiased, not-at-all-liberal fact-checker for the Washington Post, took to Twitter Wednesday
