After nearly 3 years of ratings failure (to say the least), Al Jazeera America will finally be put out of its misery this April. Since its 2013 launch, not only has the left-wing cable news network failed to deliver anything
Thursday morning MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough accused Israel of “what appears to be indiscriminate killing … of women and children.” Friday morning, Scarborough seemed shocked that he was criticized for accusing Israel of war crimes with no evidence to back it
After the media’s plan to use the border crisis as propaganda for Obama’s amnesty backfired, the media either stopped covering the crisis altogether or buried its coverage. This left the job to New Media outlets like Breitbart News and the
On Thursday, the media seemed to have a collective anti-Israel fit. First there was Joe Scarborough’s rant on Morning Joe on MSNBC. Then there was the White House Press Corps virtually egging the administration on to confront Israel more forcefully–even after
You often hear the media lament about how the budget and staff cuts that have hit news outlets for decades primarily affect overseas news gathering. Gone first are the foreign bureaus, correct? You wouldn’t know that looking at today’s news
***UPDATE: Weir has apologized. Worth noting that earlier this year Fox News chief Roger Ailes told me that Weir likes to attack Fox as a way to gain attention. Weir seems awfully eager to prove Ailes right. As first
After spending the last few years doing everything in his rather considerable power to re-elect Barack Obama in 2012, undermine the Tea Party, mock Sarah Palin, and water down our Second Amendment civil rights, Politico reports that MSNBC’s token Republican
Joe Scarborough, of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, claimed Thursday that he is a “100% supporter of Israel,” but that Israel’s “continued killing of women and children, in a way that appears to be indiscriminate, is asinine.” The truth, self-evident in Scarborough’s
Of late, NBC political director Chuck Todd has been launching rants both on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and his own “Daily Rundown.” Welcome to the cynical state of media today. It’s called branding – creating viral YouTube moments. It has nothing to
The Associated Press, noting the overwhelming support among Israelis for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the war effort in Gaza, concludes that the minority of Israelis who dissent are being “silenced.” It is a tired, false charge often made by
Sen. Rand Paul took a shot at MSNBC Wednesday afternoon during an appearance on The Cycle. During a discussion with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the host brought up controversial comments Paul made in 2010 during an interview with MSNBC host Rachel
Fishbowl New York reports that the opening paragraph of a New York Times article written by Carol Vogel closely resembles Wikipedia’s write up of the same subject, Piero di Cosmo, an Italian painter. (bold is mine): Wikipedia: During his lifetime,
At the Politico-owned Capital New York, Alex Weprin published a syrupy puff-profile of CNN’s Erin Burnett. Out of options and ideas, CNN chief Jeff Zucker just renewed Burnett’s contract. Naturally, the Politico piece goes to extreme lengths not to point
Late last week Daily Beast columnist Dean Obeidallah tweeted out his belief that conservatives “love seeing Arabs get killed.” Just hours after Breitbart News reported the tweet Tuesday afternoon, Obeidallah deleted the tweet in question and apologized: — I want
As July closes out, MSNBC has posted some of its worst ratings in eight years. The network came in third in total viewers and fourth in the key 25 to 54 age bracket for the month. In prime time, the
The mainstream media know their role in the Gaza conflict: to find–or create–a disaster big enough to create an international outcry that will stop the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). First, they tried using the deaths of four boys on the
Don’t buy the headlines and hype about CNN reclaiming second place. It was a pyrrhic victory. CNN’s July was abysmal. MSNBC’s was worse. Both networks hemorrhaged massive numbers of viewers. CNN lost -23% of total viewers and -32% of 25-54
Tuesday morning the Associated Press fired of a tweet mocking Congress over its support of Israel. “As much of the world watched Gaza war in horror, members of Congress fall over each other to support Israel.” — As much of
Daily Beast columnist Dean Obeidallah believes conservatives “love seeing Arabs get killed.” Using his Twitter account late last week, Obeidallah asked and answered his own question in the affirmative: — Do conservatives defend Netanyahu bc they share same values or
Environmental studies professor Roger Pielke, Jr. has quit Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog over a controversy that arose after he wrote a post denying that global warming is responsible for the increasing costs of recovery from natural disasters. Pielke, a professor
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.
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,
On Sunday, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin challenged the Washington Post to investigate President Barack Obama’s lawlessness on illegal immigration as aggressively as its reporters reported on Richard Nixon during Watergate, which ultimately led to Nixon’s resignation. “To reclaim your
Vowing to once again go around the mainstream media’s filter like she did with her pioneering use Twitter and Facebook after the 2008 presidential election, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin launched her own member-supported digital TV channel on Sunday evening.
