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The latest edition of Politico Magazine features a profile of California Gov. Jerry Brown and his ambition–now more than three decades old–to bring high-speed rail to the state. The happy coincidence of Barack Obama’s enormously wasteful and ineffective stimulus allowed

CNN is still tinkering with its schedule, trying to find the winning formula that will bring it back to ratings prominence. The latest move in that tinkering finds CNN host Anderson Cooper losing his second prime time hour as AC360

With images of a hammer and sickle moving across the screen, opening coverage of the Sochi Olympic Games included NBC’s description of communism as “one of modern history’s pivotal experiments.” NBC’s opening video paid tribute to Russia: Russia transcends. Through

ABC’s Nightline threw a gratuitous punch at Sarah Palin in a story that had nothing to do with politics, either left or right. Rather, it was an investigation of violence into kids’ little league sports and the regrettable, all too

The New York Times editorial department passed on publishing Dylan Farrow’s letter accusing Woody Allen, her adoptive father, of sexually molesting her as a child before it was published on Nicholas Kristof’s blog in the same paper, according to Politico. 

The Washington Post recently published a quixotic editorial maintaining that the left has no deep-pocketed financiers like the right does in the much written about and thoroughly maligned Koch brothers. In its editorial, the paper laments that Democrat groups have

Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon take Ezra Klein for a spin in the latest edition of RealClearPolitics’ “Morning Commute.” The duo has posted several clips of their interview with Klein, but one this morning is particularly strange. They ask Klein

Weather blogging is the new trend for sites such as Slate, Mashable, and Nate Silver’s new FiveThirtyEight blog. Now, Gawker is looking to jump on the weather blogwagon by hiring a team of weather bloggers. In the last week of

The NRA’s American Rifleman magazine has replaced Maxim in the Alliance for Audited Media’s Top 25. According to Ad Age, Maxim’s paid circulation fell from 2.5 million to 2 million last year. At the same time. American Rifleman‘s readership jumped

The national boycott of Girl Scout cookies is inundating the group leading it. John Pisciotta, the boycott leader and director of Pro-Life Waco, tells Breitbart News his phone is “ringing off the hook.” What started at Breitbart News has now

The New York Times announced Thursday that operating profits had fallen 12% in the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to the same period a year before. Earnings per share dropped by roughly two-thirds, from $0.76 to $0.24. Total revenues were down

The CNN Bill Nye/Ken Ham, Evolution/Creationism Debate Tuesday evening omitted faith-based schools of thought that probably hold the greatest number of proponents. So, it is interesting that Ken Ham’s “Young Earth Creationism” was poised to represent “creationism” as a whole,

Though Tuesday night’s Bill Nye-Ken Ham show was billed as a debate between supporters of evolution and “creation as a model of origins,” it was in fact merely a media event designed to promote two commercial brands and one failing

Despite that the single fastest-growing TV audience in the USA is made up of Spanish-speaking viewers, CNN has shuttered CNN Latino, its Spanish-language news division. The Spanish-based news product was launched to great fanfare only about a year ago, with

The New York Times editorial board has decided that the elimination of 2.5 million full-time jobs due to Obamacare is a great thing for the country. The loss of all those jobs, the editorial board says, “is mostly a good

The Congressional Budget Office just put out a damning report that by some accounts finds that Obamacare will cost the country as many as two million jobs, but many in the mainstream media are looking to downplay the dire warnings.

Progressive Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank said on Tuesday that the explosive new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report showing Obamacare will reduce the workforce by 2.3 million full-time workers over the next seven years has “bestowed a big gift on

The New York Observer has made a huge splash with an investigative story by editor Ken Kurson on internal tensions at the New York Times. According to Kurson’s story, the Times‘ reporters have growing contempt for the “tyranny and lethargy” of the

The Nation, which foamed at the mouth with righteous liberal outrage during the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman controversy of 2012-3, has declared Woody Allen guilty of sexual assault because he and his alleged victim fit the right profiles. The verdict was

As Time Inc. prepares to separate its publishing concern from the rest of the company, hundreds of layoffs at all levels of the corporation have been announced. The New York Post has reported that upwards of 500 of its 7,800

Reacting to the news surrounding Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, Huffington Post contributor Amy Siskind asked why “CEOs of gun manufacturing companies” aren’t held to the same standard as heroin and drug dealers. On February 2nd, Breitbart News reported that Hoffman

Slate’s Dave Weigel has posted a sort of retrospective of his “friend” Ezra Klein and the whole JournoList scandal, again. It has been three and a half years since the liberal narrative machine JournoList was outed, but former member Weigel

Marisa Gerber of the Los Angeles Times has an interesting piece Tuesday about how the gentrification of the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park has forced the gangs out of what was once a notorious crime-ridden neighborhood. Normally, that would be

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s high school classmate and former senior adviser is causing a stir with the claim that evidence exists linking Christie to the now months-old bridge scandal in suburban Fort Lee. The media have been quick to

NBC’s David Gregory is annoyed at America for not giving President Obama more credit for saving the economy. During last weekend’s Meet the Press, Gregory insisted that Obama just isn’t getting enough credit for an economy that Gregory feels is