Big Journalism

In a sharply-worded editorial published Wednesday morning, the editors of the National Review (NR) have called on House Speaker John Boehner to promise the conservative movement and the American people he will not go to conference with the Senate’s “Gang

Alexis Levinson of The Daily Caller reported in a piece published late Tuesday that “several Republican congressmen have voiced support for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants” over the beginning of the month of August. She suggested that four GOP

Kathleen Parker shot to fame in 2008 with her attacks on then-vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Immediately afterwards, a columnist practically no one had heard of became a mainstream media darling. This would be followed by Parker’s humiliating failure co-hosting

President Obama is enjoying the August recess with an extended vacation at a home owned by a millionaire in Martha’s Vineyard. He is also using this time to rub social elbows with big shots in the same mainstream media charged

Late Wednesday morning, the New York Times website crashed. This was verified by the Times. Speculation as to why is running from heavy traffic to a cyber-attack: —- The New York Times Web site is experiencing technical difficulties. We expect

Funny, I don’t remember CBS having a problem repeatedly identifying Todd Akin as a Republican during the 2012 election. But CBS This Morning couldn’t quite bring itself to identify Jesse Jackson Jr. as a Democrat in its Wednesday report about

Tuesday, Oprah Winfrey’s non-apology apology to Switzerland received all kinds of media attention. What didn’t receive much media attention, though, is the fact that in that same statement, Winfrey backpedaled away from her claim that she had been a victim

(AP) Longtime political columnist Germond dead at 85By BEN NUCKOLSAssociated Press WriterWASHINGTONJack W. Germond, the portly, cantankerous columnist and pundit who covered 10 presidential elections and sparred with colleagues on TV’s “The McLaughlin Group,” has died. He was 85. Germond

Two reporters are dead after the Egyptian military began a violent crack-down on protestors this morning in Cairo. XPress, a United Arab Emirates newspaper, reported via Twitter that one of its journalists, Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, had been shot dead: #XPRESS

Ha’aretz, Israel’s leftist daily newspaper, is so desperate for attention that it decided to promote its new website with a racy video showing a couple in many different sexual positions while the male complains that things are getting boring. This

CNN host Piers Morgan said he did not want to see all the women in America armed with guns in a spirited debate on Piers Morgan Tonight with Breitbart News author A.W.R. Hawkins on Tuesday. Hawkins told Morgan that there were

Real estate mogul Donald Trump said via Twitter on Tuesday that Huffington Post blogger Jason Linkins, the author of a recent hit piece on him and two GOP lawmakers, is “a lightweight dope who gives false information.” As Breitbart News

With hardly any scrutiny or skepticism, the mainstream media allowed one of the most powerful persons in the world to attack a powerless sales clerk as a racist. And now that this anonymous sales clerk has branded Oprah Winfrey a

During a speech about civil rights before the American Bar Association Monday, Hillary Clinton botched the name of Medgar Evers, calling the civil rights icon “Medgar Evans.” Normally, no one would care, but today’s mainstream media is merciless at using

The media push to protect and promote Hillary Clinton is well underway. The idea here is not just to ensure that she faces no damaging primary opposition, but that she steamrolls any Republican who dares try to stop her. Our

CNN’s Carol Costello hosted Dale Ho, an ACLU lawyer who heads the voting rights division. It was a one-sided discussion in which Ho was allowed to spew all his talking points against North Carolina’s new voter integrity laws because Costello

You have to give it to Politico and Media Matters. What a genius stroke to team up for an Orwellian attack against CNN that accuses the network of a “detectable rightward shift.”  Though David Brock, founder of Media Matters, has

Republican establishment adviser Ana Navarro has worked for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), No Labels co-chair and failed GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, and is close to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeb Bush. Like other advisers to these candidates, Navarro

Al Jazeera America (AJA) is set to launch on August 20 but if you have Time Warner cable you won’t have the chance to see Soledad O’Brien, David Shuster and all the other failed retreads AJA has hired.  As Michael

New York Times reporter Peter Baker tweeted some news yesterday that signals the shift in influence from old media organizations to new media entities:  WH briefing room chgs: Real Clear Politics, Yahoo News to get seats. Sharing seats: MediaNews, Daily

Like the American progressive media establishment, Britain’s media has been beset with charges that liberal stories and research are promoted while conservative leaning stories and sources are eschewed and a new study claims to confirm the accusation. The new study

Note: This same article is published at Big Hollywood using a different headline. Lee Daniels, director of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” can’t seem to keep his charges of racism straight. I always thought that a sure sign of racism was

A Swiss sales assistant caught in the middle of Oprah Winfrey’s media racial firestorm claims that she’s tired of being bullied and lied about by the powerful billionaire and cable network owner. Speaking anonymously, the sales clerk Oprah has publicly

With streaming television becoming more and more popular, and providers like Aereo making an end-run around cable and satellite providers, a lot of attention is being paid to the future of bundled cable. In a world of growing choices and

TV By the Numbers reports that on Thursday night, CNN hit the kind of lows the network had likely hoped were behind them. In the all-important 25-54 demo, CNN’s primetime hit the second lowest numbers of the year with a