ABC News President Ben Sherwood held a conference call of staffers on July 24 and told them that he felt his network’s coverage of the shooting at a Colorado theater was topnotch work, well, except for that whole smearing of
Proving that racism can be found literally anywhere by an enterprising MSNBC talking head, the single-monikered Toure of The Cycle quixotically told the show’s panel that he thought that racism lies at the root of the response to the theater
I’ve always wondered how the African American community could possibly support strict gun control considering its past and sometimes present history with government authorities. Well, at least one prominent African American, rapper and actor Ice-T, is speaking out in favor
It has been noted that Salon.com has been treading an increasingly anti-Israeli path and its recent announcement of a partnership with the controversial news site Mondoweiss.net seems another step down that road. On July 16, Mondoweiss announced on its website
The Chicago School system is rapidly collapsing. Its graduation rate is a horrid 56 percent, its finances are in tatters, and even though the Chicago Teachers Union was offered a 10 to 15 percent raise, CTU officials still want to
A big publishing story of 2010 was when stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman bought financially troubled Newsweek Magazine for $1 in the hopes of revitalizing the venerable old publication into the “thought leader” it once was. Now, since Mr. Harman’s
On a July 23 appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, Huffington Post Editorial Director and former Newsweek Editor Howard Fineman accused Mitt Romney of pandering to a “xenophobic” Republican Party, a racist party, he said, that is “afraid of
In a July 21 column in the New York Daily News, the editorial board assigns fault for the massacre in a Colorado theater. The fault is not just assigned to killer James Holmes, but absurdly to Obama, Romney, the NRA
Execs at MSNBC recently attempted to refute Sean Hannity’s claim that their host Rev. Al Sharpton “rushed to judgment” in the case of George Zimmerman who was arrested in April for the shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. During his
In what many see as a parasitic relationship, NPR is using tax dollars to hire the big lobbying firm of Navigators Global charging them with the duty of keeping the spigot of federal funds open in the face of the
National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg appeared on the July 20 episode of PBS’s Inside Washington when the discussion turned back to Obama’s attack on American businesses. Totenberg wasn’t interested in any blame being assigned to Obama. To her, the problem
BBC Chief Mark Thompson admitted openly that his network “got it wrong” in its initial dearth of coverage of the mass murder in the West Bank of a Jewish family, killed by Palestinians. When the massacre of five members of
In the wake of over a dozen murders at a movie theater in Colorado, film critic Roger Ebert rushed to decry America’s “insane” gun laws in a New York Times op-ed. Within the piece, he pooh-poohed concealed carry laws by noting
Former Google Vice President Marissa Mayer is set to rake in a million dollars a year and more than ten times that in stock options if she can stick it out for three years as the new Yahoo! chief executive.
It took four to five days for CNN and the big three networks to notice Obama told his audience at a Virginia campaign rally that business owners and other successful Americans aren’t responsible for their own success. Worse, it took
California’s Attorney General, Democrat Kamala Harris, has weighed in on the side of an immigrant, who is asking the State Supreme Court to award him a California law license. The immigrant graduated from law school despite that he’s neither a
TNT chose to ridicule motherhood, motherhood activism, marriage and large families all at once on its latest episode of the cop dramedy series Rizzoli & Isles. The episode showed once again the disdain with which traditional motherhood and marriage are
Soledad O’Brien’s panel on her CNN morning show, Starting Point, all agreed that gay advocates should attack the Boy Scouts of America for its recently renewed decision to exclude gay men from serving as scout leaders. On its July 18
For months the Chicago Tribune has been suffering the slings and arrows of local critics for having hired a web-based company called Journatic (pronounced Jer-naa-tik) to write many of its small, “hyper local” stories for its Trib Local newspapers. Critics
On July 17, Paul Farhi of the Washington Post claimed Rush Limbaugh said the super villain in the new Batman movie is a “liberal attack on Romney.” Farhi’s headline reads, “Rush Limbaugh claims ‘Dark Knight’ movie is liberal attack on
The Associated Press has a headline that states, “Perry calls on Mitt Romney to release tax returns.” The AP misrepresents Texas Governor Rick Perry’s comments about Romney’s tax returns. Contrary to the AP, Perry made no such call on Romney.
Last week, the Old Media reminded the public that the July 11 vote was the “33rd time the Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare.” Only there is a little problem with that claim. It isn’t true. The fact is, the House
Remember when the Old Media assured us that Reagan was stupid, when they told us how dumb George W. Bush was, and how dumb McCain was? Remember how they were all too stupid to know what they were talking about?
Proving that no misdeed goes unrewarded on the left, reports have it that once Microsoft and NBC News break up housekeeping and put an end to MSNBC.com in its current form, the resulting new Internet outlet will be getting a
More from President Obama, the most negative campaigner in recent presidential campaign history. This time Obama is name calling Fox News fans, saying they are “stubborn” for having the temerity to frequent the most watched cable news station on the
