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
According to Dr. AWR Hawkins, appearing on Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM Radio, gun control and knife control advocates suggest that there is no need to bear arms when confronted by an attacker; rather they suggest that you call
This weekend, I had a chance to observe the proceedings at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s spring leadership meeting from the press gallery. It was my fourth time attending the annual RJC event, though my first as part of the media.
In a March 28th column for The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf said the NRA keeps winning the gun conversation by countering the left’s shame tactics with effective persuasion. Friedersdorf began his column by pointing to the push for a “conversation about
NewsBusters has certainly set the standard for media criticism, and since its debut in 2005, Noel Sheppard has been a mainstay pointing out the media’s left-wing bias to great effect. But now Sheppard is gone, felled by lung cancer at
Television and Hollywood live and die by their “Q Scores,” that measurement of a TV personality’s popularity. But if TheWrap.com’s new report is correct, the top five most-hated TV newscasters all work for MSNBC, CNN, and CBS. The website reports
Huffington Post editor Willow Bay was named director of the University of Southern California’s journalism school on Wednesday. Starting in June, Bay will take over the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, overseeing programs dedicated to reporting and public relations. The former
Breaking from its more collaborative selection process, Ohio State University’s provost invited MSNBC host Chris Matthews to be the school’s next commencement speaker. This choice has not garnered student approval. In its announcement, OSU called Matthews a man “with remarkable depth
CNN dismissed complaints that the network was not covering last week’s shocking arrest of Democrat Leland Yee, the California state senator who was arrested for alleged arms trafficking and bribery, and falsely asserted that it does not give attention to
From January 1st to March 24th, Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center looked at every story that was on ABC, CBS, and NBC’s nightly news programs. The total amount of airtime all three networks spent on the results of Obamacare was
Piers Morgan capped off his last appearance as host of CNN’s Piers Morgan Live with yet one more anti-gun diatribe, a host of anti-gun Tweets, and a defiant claim that his constant attacks on the U.S. Constitution is proof he
After three-plus disastrous years, CNN’s Piers Morgan ended his embarrassingly low-rated “Piers Morgan Live” as we all knew he would — with a boorish anti-gun rant. After spending his full and final hour covering the missing Malaysian airliner, the left-wing
On Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 10AM to 1PM, co-hosts Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will discuss the disastrous Obamacare law days before the original March 31 signup deadline, the
OK then, Nate Silver. Don’t take my advice. Why not go and do something really stupid, like kiss goodbye to integrity, pay Danegeld to your tormenters, and humiliate one of your innocent writers? Oh. No. Wait. You already did. If Silver still
Ever wondered how it would feel to be dropped from a helicopter into a swirling mass of crazed, genetically modified oceanic whitetip sharks in the middle of a USS-Indianapolis-style feeding frenzy? Just ask Nate Silver. He’s been living the nightmare
According to the editor of a Washington state newspaper, the Columbian is being targeted by a proposed tax of $150,000 for running a series of unflattering articles about a state senator. Editor Lou Brancaccio claims that Sen. Don Benton, the
The world of political news was captivated by Thursday’s report of the arrest for gun trafficking of a famously anti-gun California state senator. Yet while most other news outlets reported the incident, Politico, an outlet that supposedly leads the nation
As CNN struggles to regain its once robust position as ratings leader, the cable network is initiating another round of layoffs at its Atlanta headquarters. The Atlanta headquarters employs 450 people, but breaking news today indicates that 16 are being
At some point in the media’s ongoing coverage of Pope Francis, one would assume they would start to get a clue about how Catholicism works. So far, one would be mostly wrong in doing so–especially as regards the Catholic view
Nate Silver’s predictions for the 2014 midterm elections have made many a fair-weather liberal friend turn on him. The FiveThirtyEight proprietor struck a particularly damning blow against newly-minted critic Paul Krugman in a wry column noting how rapidly Krugman turned
Ron Fournier, usually a dependable Barack Obama acolyte, has attacked the President in the National Journal this week for his apparent indifference to Vladimir Putin’s motivations as he seizes Crimea. Fournier writes: On a playground or in a bar, the
On March 26th the National Journal argued that the NRA “used one tweet to derail” Obama Surgeon General nominee Vivek Murthy. That “one tweet,” sent by Murthy in 2012, described guns as “a health care issue”–which is a re-emerging gun control
According to Pew, year-over-year numbers show that the business of left-wing cable news is in trouble. The cable news viewing audience overall declined for everyone, but MSNBC lost 24% of its primetime audience. CNN dropped 13%. Fox only lost 6%.
The Conversation’s John Hayward already hit on the left-wing Politico’s use of “Creationism” as a straw man to lobby in favor of Democrats and powerful teacher unions and against the rights of underprivileged children to get a shot at decent
When CNN’s Chicagoland debuted, the first episode of the multi-episode “documentary” was a ratings disappointment. But as subsequent episodes have debuted, that disappointment has grown, with each episode playing to fewer and fewer viewers. As Breitbart News noted, the first
For all the talk of CNN turning its obsessive coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner into “big” ratings, the network still got crushed by Fox News last week. You can double your ratings, but two times zero is still zero.
