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The New York Times, one of the wealthiest media companies in the world with annual revenues of $2.3 billion, is about to receive a major payday: $100 million over three years from Google in a deal to feature the newspaper’s content on its platforms.

CNBC announced Tuesday that it had parted ways with anchor and senior correspondent Hadley Gamble after #MeToo accusations against Jeff Shell.

Former Fox News primetime anchor Tucker Carlson announced on Tuesday that he will “soon” broadcast a show on Twitter.

Charlie Sykes, co-founder of the anti-Donald Trump publication The Bulwark, defended calling Sen. Lindsey Graham a “fluffer” on Tuesday, describing the use of the sexual — and, here, homophobic — term as “perfect.”

President Joe Biden has recently turned into a “media evader,” the Washington Post’s Editorial Board claimed Monday, ignoring Biden’s history of evading the media during the 2020 campaign cycle.

Monday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla disputed President Joe Biden’s claim of wisdom as a quality that made him a good candidate for re-election.

Brazilian Congressman David Miranda — whose career focused largely on activism for underprivileged and LGBT youth — died on Tuesday, his husband, American journalist Glenn Greenwald, confirmed.

CNN contributor Paul Begala said Monday on “The Lead” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was an unlikeable “klutz” who is “going nowhere.”

CNN host Kate Bolduan said Monday on “CNN News Central” that according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, President Joe Biden’s approval rating is “the lowest for any American president at this point in their first term.”

American Action Network (AAN), a nonprofit advocacy group with close ties to House Republican leadership, launched an “advocacy campaign” to urge President Joe Biden to negotiate on the debt ceiling.

Former Green Bay Packers star quarterback Brett Favre is calling for a boycott of Fox News in the wake of its sudden sidelining of prime time host Tucker Carlson and subsequent revelations that the media giant is working to silence him until after the 2024 election.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Monday on his show “Morning Joe” that there was “a sickness in the the state of Texas” led by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) while reacting to a mass shooting in Allen, TX on Saturday and migrants being killed by an SUV in Brownsville, TX on Sunday.

Sources say former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is gearing up to push the outlet into letting him continue his career elsewhere.

Political commentator Roland Martin said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is “sick and demented’ while discussing the mass shooting Saturday in Allen, TX.

Hollywood’s new diversity inclusion standards are “thoughtless” and “patronizing,” Richard Dreyfuss said in an interview Friday. The Jaws star further claimed the new eligibility standards “make me vomit” as he defended Laurence Olivier’s 1965 “blackface” rendition of Shakespeare’s Othello.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has had a “distinguished career in the U.S. Senate,” the New York Times editorial board said on Friday, adding, however, that she “should resign and turn over her responsibilities to an appointed successor.”

May 5 (UPI) — Several drag stars and allies will perform — live and in pre-taped appearances — on Sunday on the Drag Isn’t Dangerous Telethon.

rMay 5 (UPI) — Today has unveiled the lineup for its 2023 summer concert series.

Friday on FNC’s “The Five,” during a segment about the lack of public appearances by President Joe Biden headed into the 2024 presidential election cycle, co-host Jeanine Pirro suggested putting President Joe Biden “on a milk carton.”

Fox News anchor Bret Baier, in the days after the 2020 election, appeared to be concerned with Fox News’s election night call that President Joe Biden won Arizona, according to purported text messages between him and former network host Tucker Carlson, which the Daily Beast has obtained.

Ohio GOP U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, a businessman and immigrant from Colombia, and his family members are pushing back hard on an establishment-Republican driven smear on his background they say is “untrue” and a “disgrace.”

A UK journalist recently discovered that employees of China’s TikTok were tracking her personal data through an account devoted to her cat, without her knowledge or consent. Chinese employees of the company were attempting to determine who was meeting with the journalist by comparing her location to employee locations — even though the account didn’t have her name on it.

A plurality of U.S. adult citizens view former Fox News prime time host Tucker Carlson favorably, a recent survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

Anheuser-Busch sent a letter to wholesalers addressing the controversy surrounding Bud Light’s collaboration with transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney.

Anheuser-Busch is sending its distributors a free case of beer after sales plummeted following the beer company’s social media partnership with transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney. 

A “new level” of attack may be imminent after an alleged drone strike on the Kremlin — “the symbol of Russian power,” according to retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, who warned of a major escalation that could determine the war’s outcome.

The far-left PolitiFact, a disgraced site that fabricates fact checks to protect Democrats, was exposed as the liar it is and will always be by a Twitter “Community Note.”

Media reports on Tucker Carlson’s removal are focusing on a personal text message that supposedly horrified Fox’s corporate board — but are ignoring the obvious political differences between Carlson and Fox’s eight board members.

They can’t stop talking about Tucker Carlson, because they need to create a devil to convince themselves that they are angels.

The Writers Guild of America strike will likely last weeks as the union plans two major rallies in Los Angeles and New York for May 15. 

Far-left activists with the anti-American group Code Pink interrupted the beginning of a conversation on Wednesday between Washington Post journalist David Ignatius and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, demanding freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Ratings for Fox News have dropped considerably in the wake of popular anchor Tucker Carlson departing from the network.

The latest leaks from Fox News about Tucker Carlson — which have appeared to be set up by Fox Corporation’s board — were first obtained and written about by three New York Times reporters, two of which are MSNBC contributors.

Racism and colonialism are “built into the workings” of the Peter Pan story, according to a CNN opinion piece slamming the new Disney film despite its diverse cast and inclusion of girls in the “Lost Boys,” as it claimed switching to non-white actors “isn’t enough” to address its core issues.

Fox News’s efforts to smear former prime time host Tucker Carlson is only driving viewers away from the network and to outlets such as Breitbart News and Newsmax, Breitbart News’s Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle said during an appearance on Newsmax.

Reporters Without Borders (commonly known by its French acronym RSF) published its annual World Press Freedom Index on Wednesday, which the United Nations observed as the 30th annual Press Freedom Day.