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
Richard Engel and his NBC News crew were briefly detained in Crimea. Engel documented the ordeal on Twitter. Detained by pro russian militia in crimea. Questioned for an hour or so. Not allowed to move or phone. Then released. #ukraine
From what I can glean from this Politico report, Brandon Ambrosino is a gay writer who doesn’t think in the way the left-wing media demands gays think. For that sin, Ezra Klein is getting blasted for hiring Ambrosino as a
In a wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine, Five-Thirty-Eight’s Nate Silver mocked New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as a “hedgehog” who “only knows one thing.” When asked to describe what a hedgehog is, Silver pointed to Friedman specifically and
On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress that it would be a “mistake” to insist that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state as a condition of a peace agreement. That statement was a complete reversal of recent
One of the new hires for Ezra Klein’s startup Vox news website turns out to be a gay, Christian who is sometimes politically moderate. Naturally, left-wing extremists, like Media Matters, are outraged that Klein would hire such a person and
Eleanor Clift, the former Newsweek reporter whose bias was once made legendary by the Media Research Center when it invented the Eleanor Clift Award “for Clinton Worshipping,” has taken to the Daily Beast to fiercely defend her idol, Hillary Clinton, as ethical
Remember Gabriel Sherman’s book, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News–and Divided a Country? Perhaps neither the author nor the title rings a bell. If so, that’s not a surprise, because Sherman’s
Fox News hit a first place ratings finish with its coverage of the explosion at a building in Harlem on Wednesday, beating CNN, the network famously number one for its breaking news coverage. CNN is still struggling to get its
President Obama’s approval ratings have been cratering in the one place where his approval ratings matter most, the United States. MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow wanted to find the one place in the world where Obama is still loved. He found that
On March 5, Pope Francis gave an interview to the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera in which he was asked a question concerning civil unions as a legal alternative to marriage. It’s worth reading the entire thing (click here for
During her appearance this week on CNN’s soon-to-be-canceled “Piers Morgan Live” Chelsea Handler tore into host Piers Morgan for being a terrible interviewer. It all started when Morgan ignored her during a commercial break to goof off on Twitter. —
National Public Radio’s David Greene (host) and Tamara Keith (reporter) double-teamed on a story on Wednesday’s Morning Edition about President Barack Obama’s summit to address the pay gap between men and women. The premise of the story was the false statistic—debunked
In one fell swoop, a March 11th column in The Christian Science Monitor was used to criticize the NRA’s lobbying for gun rights, the “notion that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to own a gun as a tool for
Joseph Williams was a White House correspondent for Politico until racial comments about Mitt Romney and a retweet of a lewd joke about Ann Romney got him the boot. He might have had a shot at a new media job
Disgraced writer Joe McGinniss, who may have condemned an innocent man and stalked and smeared a former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee with lies that he himself admitted were based on no factual evidence whatsoever, died Monday. However,
In the aftermath of CPAC, journalists who enjoyed the festivities have been reporting on their experiences at the Annual Breitbart CPAC Party at the Breitbart Embassy in Washington, D.C. From Chris Moody of Yahoo News: The most impressive party this
Via her verified Twitter account, CBS investigative news reporter Sharyl Attkisson announced Monday that she has resigned from CBS. — I have resigned from CBS. — Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) March 10, 2014 — Although Politico received no comment from Attkisson
As part of our on-going effort to bring breaking news and events to our readers, Breitbart News will be live broadcasting from The New York Meeting this evening beginning at 5:30 EST. Mallory Factor, a professor, Fox News contributor, and author of Shadowbosses, hosts the monthly
Only a few months ago, Matt Yglesias slammed General Electric as “evil.” Now, three months later as he prepares to launch a new website with former Washington Post writer Ezra Klein, he is thrilled to announce that GE is funding
During Saturday night’s annual Gridiron Club event, two high-profile Democrats — John Kerry and Charlie Crist — took vicious swipes at CNN, the third-place cable news channel currently suffering a noticeable ratings and quality collapse under the leadership of CNN
ABC News’s Jonathan Karl mocked Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) belief that Obamacare could be repealed while President Barack Obama is in office if the law and the president should get even more unpopular. Cruz, who tried to defund the Obamacare
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wowed the beltway elite and even Democrats during Saturday’s annual Gridiron event, showing why the Ivy Leaguer has confounded and been vilified by many with whom he shares the same intellectual pedigree. The annual D.C. roast
On March 9th NBC’s Bob Costas dismissed criticism of his having armed guards while disparaging “gun culture” by saying his guards were NBC and NFL security, not “personal” bodyguards. He did this while being interviewed by Fox News’s Howard Kurtz,
Breitbart News Sunday will have a special CPAC wrap-up show on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7 PM EST to 10 PM EST. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) won the CPAC straw poll that opened with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
National Public Radio’s national political correspondent, Mara Liasson, told Weekend Edition on Sunday that Republican criticism of the Obama administration on the Crimea was misplaced since, arguably, it was their own inaction when Russia’s Vladimir Putin invaded Georgia in 2008 that
