The news that broke Thursday that founder Tina Brown is parting ways with the Daily Beast likely came as a blow to some staffers and a relief to others. But what has to be deeply unsettling to all staffers is
In a press release issued Friday, National Public Radio announced one of the largest staff cuts in its history; 10% of the organization’s 840 employees will be offered a voluntary buyout. The Washington Post reports that this is due to a
According to the New York Post’s look at IRS records, although her non-profit Women in the World Foundation collected nearly $1.2 million in 2011, Tina Brown’s charity only gave away $10,000 during that same year. The foundation’s stated goal was
When the media was terrified Governor Sarah Palin might run for president, Meghan McCain was useful. As the daughter of the man who chose Palin as his running mate in 2008, the fact that John McCain’s daughter is not very
The timing could not be worse. Just three days after voters in Colorado made a fool of the “Morning Joe” host by proving that his high-profile, months-long demagogic campaign to convince the GOP to cave to Obama on gun control
According to the Atlantic, Time managing editor Rick Stengel’s decision to join the Obama administration is just the latest example of a new trend among mainstream media journalists who are making it official by joining the Obama administration. Stengel, who
Sony is not screwing around. The studio knows they have captured lightning in a bottle with AMC’s Breaking Bad, and less than two months after the final episode airs, the complete series will be released on Bluray November 26th. From
Actor Alec Baldwin unblocked me on Twitter long enough to hurl this before scurrying back behind his blocked account: — — The aging actor is apparently upset over the fact, that unlike the corrupt mainstream media, I won’t let go
The fact that CNN has lost some esteem with the American people, was apparent Tuesday night when President Obama gave a rare primetime address to try and explain his policy on Syria. Tuesday night’s ratings show once again that when
Not for days, not for weeks, but for months, Joe Scarborough and his Morning Joe panel not only pushed, begged and berated Congress to pass new gun control laws — they threatened, shamed, mocked, and laughed in the faces of
Not for days, not for weeks, but for months, Joe Scarborough and his Morning Joe panel not only pushed, begged and berated Congress to pass new gun control laws — they threatened, shamed, mocked, and laughed in the faces of
Apparently, once again with respect to Syria, the White House was caught off guard by events they are frantically reacting to instead of shaping. Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper, a White House official publicly responded to Russian President Vladmir Putin’s
In a Thursday op-ed titled “Obama and Syria: Stumbling Toward Damascus,” Time magazine’s Joe Klein, a reliable Obama defender, eviscerates the president over “one of the more stunning and inexplicable displays of presidential incompetence that I’ve ever witnessed.” Klein, obviously,
Like its predecessor, 2009’s “Star Trek,” director J.J. Abrams’ reboot of the legendary 1960s television series of the same name, starts out strong before losing its head of narrative steam in the second half. This is a small complaint, though.
After a troubled five-year run, founder and editor of the Daily Beast, Tina Brown, is reportedly on her way out at the end of the year. IAC/InterActiveCorp, Barry Diller’s parent company that owns Daily Beast, will not be renewing Brown’s
National Review editor Rich Lowry announced Wednesday that his publication will sue Newark mayor and Democrat US Senate candidate Cory Booker, the City of Newark, and that city’s police department. The dispute stems from NR’s desire to verify a story
The conventional wisdom is that when you poll “all adults” as opposed to a tighter screening for “registered voters,” Democrats generally do better. If that is the case, the latest poll from The Economist/YouGov is the worse news yet for
NPR’s Emily Kaiser tweeted out a portion of Esquire’s website Wednesday morning. Though it has since been fixed, on the twelfth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, this is what Esquire readers woke up to — the unforgettable photo
President Obama’s bungling of everything surrounding Syria is so apparent that even some of his biggest fans in the mainstream media are finding it impossible to do anything other than declare the obvious. While CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and the New
Because ObamaCare is nothing more than a wealth redistribution policy that forces the productive to pay for the non-productives’ Cadillac health plans (which include birth control), costs are about to explode. As a result, employers are desperate to cut the
No one worked harder to cynically exploit the horrific deaths of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary, turning those deaths into a victory against their political foes, than the mainstream media — not Barack Obama, not Democrat lawmakers, not Michael
In the past, Politico has gone to extraordinary lengths to carry water for Barack Obama–up to and including attacks on private citizens guilty of nothing more than supporting someone other than Barack Obama. That was vicious, but Tuesday Politico went
The Wall Street Journal’s Sam Dagher reports via Twitter that a pro-Syria regime newspaper is gloating over how Moscow and Syria pulled “the rug from under feet of Obama” yesterday after Russia took advantage of Secretary of State John Kerry’s
***UPDATE: The media is reporting that Putin is demanding America renounces air strikes before Syria will agree to turn over its chemical weapons: BREAKING: Chemical weapons checks in Syria can go ahead if US renounces use of force: Putin —
Monday night, across six television networks, President Obama publicly reversed course in his determination to launch a unilateral war against Syria. Grabbing a lifeline extended by Syria’s best friend Russia, Obama agreed to consider a proposal blundered into by Secretary
