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Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 Stories

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 Stories

The United States Navy Loves Michael Bay’s ‘Last Ship’ Judging from this Los Angeles Times article, director Michael Bay’s longstanding and positive relationship with the American military is paying off in a large way for his new TNT series “The

Politico: No Scandal Behind Disappearance of IRS Emails

Politico: No Scandal Behind Disappearance of IRS Emails

Politico, the left-wing site that has nevercome across a Republican scandal it didn’t flog to death (3 Scott Walker stories in 5 hours) or a Democrat scandal it wanted anything to do with, assured its readers Thursday that there is

Poll: Faith In Media Hits Record Low

Poll: Faith In Media Hits Record Low

A new Gallup poll shows that six years of the Obama Administration has taken as tough a toll on the news media as it has the Obama Administration. Just as the non-stop incompetence and neverending bad judgment of the White

NBC Pays Chelsea Clinton Big Bucks To Not Appear On-Air

NBC Pays Chelsea Clinton Big Bucks To Not Appear On-Air

As we learned last week, Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former-president Bill Clinton and potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, is earning $600,000 per year from NBC News. The AP reports that the former First Daughter has not been on the air

Minority Report: Los Angeles Acquires Two Spy Drones

Minority Report: Los Angeles Acquires Two Spy Drones

According to LA Weekly, the city of Los Angeles has acquired two used unmanned spy drones from Seattle. Technically, they are called Draganfly X6 drones. They are about 3 feet long, weight 3.5 pounds, and are basically helicopters with video

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 Stories

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 Stories

New Amazon 3D SmartPhone a Disruptor? Not at $200 Amazon is way-way-way late to the SmartPhone business, which means that CEO Jeff Bezos had one job yesterday, and that was to dazzle.  As is the case with anything from Amazon,

Yahoo Defiant About War On Women Hiring Practices

Yahoo Defiant About War On Women Hiring Practices

After Yahoo revealed that only 6% of its employees are black and Hispanic and women are outnumbered by the men who represent 85% of its tech workers and 77% of its leadership, the company released a defiant and unapologetic statement:

Ratings, Programming Woes Affect CNN's Upfront AdBuys

Ratings, Programming Woes Affect CNN's Upfront AdBuys

No longer able to compete as a news outlet, left-wing CNN has shifted its focus to documentaries like “The Sixties” and reality entertainment programming like “Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown.” Overall ratings have continued to tumble at the network, though, and

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 Stories

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 Stories

‘The Last Ship’ Premieres Sunday on TNT The Great Adam Baldwin,who can’t seem to star in anything that doesn’t rise to the level of a cult classic (“My Bodyguard,” “Firefly,” “Full Metal Jacket,” “Chuck”) co-stars in a brand new TNT

New York Magazine: Dana Milbank Heritage Smear Fake But Accurate

New York Magazine: Dana Milbank Heritage Smear Fake But Accurate

New York Magazine’s “Science of Us” vertical admits that Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s Tuesday attack against the Heritage Foundation is riddled with inaccuracies but still insist he was right.  In a post titled “Real-Life Muslims Like Saba Ahmed Pose an Existential

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 Stories

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 Stories

Netflix Streams TV Shows and Bad Movies In Ultra HD 4k Netflix just added the full  “Breaking Bad” series, “Smurfs 2,” and “Ghostbusters2” to their Ultra HD 4K streaming service.  Doesn’t this seem like overkill as far as picture quality?

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 Stories

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 Stories

‘Movie Stars Have Become an Endangered Species’ Writing for Variety, Peter Bart declares the movie star an endangered species about 10 years after the rest of us figured that out: Summer blockbusters make studios happy, but they make stars nervous. That’s

Time Warner CEO Blasted For CNN Bias at Shareholders Meeting

Time Warner CEO Blasted For CNN Bias at Shareholders Meeting

Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes was blasted for CNN’s left-wing bias at Time Warner’s annual shareholders meeting Friday. The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond reports that Bewkes was confronted by shareholder Justin Danhof of the Free Enterprise Project of

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Superhero News: DC Release Schedule, ‘Amazing Spider-Man 3’ Delayed to 2017 According to Nikki Finke’s first scoop in her reboot, below is the DC film release schedule through 2018. The company is about 7 years behind Marvel but there’s no