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
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews’ ratings collapsed last week, falling behind even Headline News’s (HLN) Jane Velez-Mitchell. On May 1, Matthews’ Hardball earned a sparse 83,000 viewers, a distant fourth place, in the important 24-54 demographic. In his 7PM slot, Matthews fell
After CBS News reporter and “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan admitted her report on the September 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was “wrong,” she took a leave of absence. That was back in November. Now the
New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich may have realized after writing This Town that if you make 90% of the Washington, D.C.-No Labels-St. Albans permanent political class uncomfortable, then 90% of America will probably appreciate you. Appearing on Breitbart News Sunday on
The authors of Game Change, who allowed the former campaign aides on John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign to attack former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, will head Bloomberg News’ new political vertical. John Heilemann and Mark Halperin were MSNBC contributors who, as
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will focus on the four crucial foreign elections that will directly impact America. Fox News contributor
A French “thinker” writes a book about global poverty and, predictably, The New York Times goes limp in the knees. All out was the putsch last week by the Gray Lady’s opinion staff to promote the book aimed at toppling
Luke O’Brien, writing for the left-wing Politico, details at great length the story of how The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown blew through $100 million of other people’s money (Barry Diller’s and Sidney Harman’s) on what amounted to a Tina Brown
Wednesday night, Susan Page, the Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today, tweeted out a photograph of a group of people she described as the “past 21 presidents of the White House Correspondents Association.” This is certainly not a photograph that
In the interest of time (I’m nearly a half century old and have fewer years ahead than I’ve already swallowed up), I do my best to avoid black holes: what I call “time-suck” stories that are so murky and slippery
Chris Lehane, the Clintonista recently outed as the author of the infamous “vast right-wing conspiracy” (VRWC) memo, took to the pages of the left-wing Politico to do what every leftist does when discovered as an extremist: He doubled down. Lehane
Politico, doing its usual water-carrying for the Obama administration, has published a piece defending Secretary of State John Kerry as attacks have come fast and furious for his remarks likening Israel’s future to apartheid. Even the title of the piece,
Shortly after the government released gross domestic product (GDP) data showing that the U.S. economy grew by only 0.1% in the first quarter of 2014, the host of Marketplace Morning Report, David Brancaccio, called the GDP report “ancient history” because
A new website has debuted that intends to claim the counterculture for conservatives. Liberty Island magazine (libertyislandmag.com) intends to “challenge the cynicism, nihilism, and stifling political correctness of popular culture today” with a web-based venture featuring creative writing, short stories,
On Monday, Matt Sledge of the Huffington Post added his name to those who support the recent disbanding of the NYPD unit tasked with understanding and mapping the communities within which jihadis hide. In his article, Sledge uses a piece by
CNN’s documentary about Chicago was sold to viewers as an “unscripted” look at the Windy City. But internal emails seem to tell a different story, showing that CNN producers coordinated heavily with the office of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, even
During an April 28 interview on The Lars Larson show, Fox News’ Juan Williams told a story about his wife’s car being stolen and her saying, “I wish I had a gun.” Williams said that his wife “went to the
The truth is supposed to set you free, right? Not according to the Obama administration, which two journalists have recently accused of having a “chilling” effect on reporting in Washington, D.C. Sharyl Attkisson left CBS after 20 years because she
For a year or so, House Budget Committee Chairman and possible 2016 presidential candidate Paul Ryan has been making trips to the inner city to help understand urban poverty and how the federal government can help fix it. The trips
Time columnist Joe Klein tore into CNN, that it is “such an embarrassment to our profession that CNN has gone into the toilet the way it has.” Appearing in New York with PBS’ Jeff Greenfield, Klein said that with Time
Deadline reports that CNN’s “Chicagoland” got killed in the ratings. Despite an appearance from First Lady Michelle Obama, the finale of the eight part series collapsed to a new low for CNN’s pro-Rahm Emanuel documentary. “Chicagoland” managed to grab only
During his weekend media program “Reliable Sources,” CNN’s Brian Stelter apparently chose to ignore the biggest media scandal and story of the week: the revelation that CNN aired what amounted to an eight-hour public relations video for Democrat Chicago mayor
Former Clinton spokesperson Chris Lehane, the author of the original right-wing conspiracy memo, pens a piece in Politico lamenting that there is more conservative media than ever before. Lehane points to investigations on Benghazi, the IRS scandals, and the Solyndra
In a nearly 1,700 word story aimed at revealing the “extreme” union policies of Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker, The New York Times also put in a few good words for Walker’s Democrat opponent. But even after spending paragraph after
The Associated Press, in what seems like an attempt to write a U.S.-bashing article, notes breathlessly that in 2013, almost 3,000 Americans either renounced their citizenship or terminated their permanent residency in the U.S. Those 3,000 people comprise less than
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, in asking former British Prime Minster Tony Blair about the war against al Qaeda, David Gregory argues that it was the US and UK response to 9/11 and the 7/7 London attacks that made Islamic extremism
