Big Journalism

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi asked one of the more salient questions about the Weiner affair: “what the hell do you have to do to be disqualified from high-level politics in this country?” In a short piece titled “Electing Anthony Weiner

Buoyed by a big news month and left-wing competition in the form of an MSNBC incapable of anything approaching news gathering, CNN beat the “Lean Forward” channel for the third straight month and lifted its viewership considerably over last year.

This year’s bad news for MSNBC has only gotten worse. The “Lean Forward” network has struggled in the ratings since the Boston Marathon bombings exposed the network’s glaring weakness when it comes to news gathering. MSNBC had hoped to turn

It is hard to tell who is using who, but to see the GOP Establishment become so useful to the New York Times’ ongoing jihad against conservatives is more than a little troubling. Or maybe it is worse; maybe the

TV Newser: Al Jazeera America continues to staff up, adding correspondents to report from 12 U.S. news bureaus. Al Jazeera America will have correspondents in Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, Seattle,

After a salacious gossip site (not the mainstream media) broke the news that disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner had been sexting with Sydney Leathers, a 23-year-old Democrat operative from Indiana, everything changed. Not just with the fate of Weiner’s potential comeback,

On Monday evening, Meghan McCain, upcoming star of “Raising McCain” on Pivot, tweeted out some serious self-pity: As McCain will never be accused of curing cancer, the world will have to take her word for it. Although, for what it’s

Reports are now emerging that Cumulus and broadcasters Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity will be parting ways. Media outlets have misreported the split as a slight to Limbaugh and Hannity. That simply isn’t the case. The Cumulus split with Limbaugh

Today’s big Anthony Weiner/media story is that Van Meter, the reporter behind the April New York Times Magazine cover profile credited with giving the disgraced ex-Congressman a real chance at a political comeback, is quoted as saying that, although he

Al Sharpton claims he has briefed Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Hillary Clinton on the Supreme Court’s recent Voting Rights Act decision. The MSNBC host took to the Huffington Post to criticize Bill O’Reilly for speaking out against black on

Cable News Network has announced they will produce a documentary film about presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to be released in movie theatres before airing on their network in 2014.  CNN told Politico that documentary filmmaker Charles Fergueson has

Doug Curlee, a San Diego reporter, admits in a Monday editorial that “San Diego news media reporters, editors, producers and writers pretty much knew who and what Bob Filner is and has been.” But except for talking about it over

In December of 2009, Politifact, a left-wing website that poses as an objective fact checker, awarded former Alaska governor Sarah Palin its “Lie of the Year.” Politifact claimed that Palin’s use of the term “death panel” to describe the rationing

CNN’s Carol Costello is practically speechless. The BBC actually sent me a news alert. The New York Times described the moment as “breathtaking.” So what did Pope Francis say that sent shockwaves through the left-wing media? Oh, just something that

After a humiliating episode last week wherein he broke down on the air talking about himself and the persecution of American racism he has personally faced, the wealthy, powerful, and famous Don Lemon of CNN returned to the subject Saturday.

Using his verified Twitter feed early Monday morning, CNN political director Mark Preston wrote that he was “psyched” David Chalian was joining CNN as the supervising producer of CNN’s upcoming “Crossfire” reboot. In August of last year, Chalian was fired

CNN host Don Lemon is a “turn coat mofo” according to MSNBC analyst Goldie Taylor.  Heard Lemon remarks. There is nothing I can say. Yet. I just have to wonder. Exactly which America does he live in? But if I

Bob Schieffer, on his weekly Sunday commentary on CBS, sliced and diced New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner for his latest scandal, calling Weiner a  “new age flasher who has traded the traditional raincoat . . . for a digital

Democratic strategist Paul Begala, appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, called the current power struggle within the GOP “Neanderthals fighting with Cro-Magnons.”  Begala gloated, “I checked, party identification — the percentage of Americans who call themselves Republicans — all-time

Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew doesn’t exactly have the best reputation for honesty, having misled Congress about President Barack Obama’s debts, and having claimed–falsely–that Obama’s budgets were stalled in the Senate because of a Republican filibuster threat. On Sunday,

On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m EDT, host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will discuss “Fast Terry,” a new movie about Terry McAuliffe’s false promises and shady

The advancement of the black community in America stalled and has actually regressed ever since Democrats took that community under their wing in the 1960’s.   As the decades have passed, it’s become apparent Democratic social policies are not advancing

Chris Hayes, the fresh-faced MSNBC host who recently tried to pass the late former segregationist Democrat George Wallace off as a Republican, and who used Memorial Day 2012 as an occasion to reject the idea that U.S. troops are heroes,

On July 11, the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life released the results of a survey in which the American public was asked whether different occupational groups contributed “a lot” to society’s well-being. The results clearly showed Americans’ respect

The saga of the “Racist and Proud” anti-Zimmerman hoax has resulted in a retraction from both the New York Daily News and the photo was eventually pulled from the Daily Mail. The hoax resulted in an Austin, Texas woman having her life