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Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

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,

Piers Morgan, CNN Sink to Near-Record Lows

Piers Morgan, CNN Sink to Near-Record Lows

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

Lapdog That Didn't Bark: FCC Intrudes on Newsrooms

Lapdog That Didn't Bark: FCC Intrudes on Newsrooms

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

Al-Jazeera America Launches Left-Wing Docs

Al-Jazeera America Launches Left-Wing Docs

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

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Thursday's Top 5 News Items

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

NBC: Married with Child 'Alternative Lifestyle'

NBC: Married with Child 'Alternative Lifestyle'

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

WaPo: BuzzFeed's Trump Hit Contains 'Glaring Unprofessionality'

WaPo: BuzzFeed's Trump Hit Contains 'Glaring Unprofessionality'

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

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Wednesday's Top 5 News Items

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

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Tuesday's Top 5 News Items

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

'Million Dollar Baby' 10th Anniversary Bluray Edition

Ten years after the fact it still surprises me that actor/director Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby” (2004) got itself embroiled in the then-red hot national debate over assisted suicide. The story of an aging trainer running on fumes and a

Michael Dunn: The Zimmerman Media's 'Jerk Store' Trial

After being spectacularly humiliated and exposed in their hysterical, corrupt, and racist year-long attempt to lynch the Hispanic George Zimmerman as a white racist, the media is now trying to balm their gaping wounds with a contrived second kick at

NBC's Chuck Todd: Wendy Davis 'A Candidate Who's Not Ready'

NBC's Chuck Todd: Wendy Davis 'A Candidate Who's Not Ready'

On Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe,” Chuck Todd agreed that the opening of Robert Draper’s Sunday New York Times profile of Texas Democrat and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis was “very puff,” but said it “also painted the picture of

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Monday's Top 5 News Items

Woody Allen Pays for Hollywood’s Depraved Support of Child Rapist Polanski As the Oscar campaign for “Blue Jasmine” heated up, Woody Allen again accused by his adopted daughter Dylan of sexually abusing her over 20 years ago. This supposedly occurred

THR: Left & Right Oppose Comcast-TWC Merger

THR: Left & Right Oppose Comcast-TWC Merger

Paul Bond of The Hollywood Reporter reports that “Partisans Agree: Comcast-TWC Merger Is Terrible Plan” and quotes everyone from Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to Breitbart News in support of that. Franken is concerned that the merger will only further monopolize

Why the Elite Left Terrifies Me in One Tweet

Ace of Spades found this tweet from The New Republic. And it is easy to laugh at the Church Lady, killjoy, finger-wagging the left can engage in when they drop their guard. But the thought of these small-minded, super-controlling, know-betters

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Hollywood Playbook: Friday's Top 5 News Items

Ralph Waite Dead at 85: One Magnificent Actor For as long as I have been alive (and that’s a long time) Ralph Waite has enjoyed a fruitful big-and-small screen acting career. His first feature film was the 1967 masterpiece Cool