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On the same day CNN CEO Phil Kent insists CNN is not a liberal news network, CNN’s Don Lemon mercilessly (and ignorantly) spent seven minutes badgering Heritage scholar Ryan Anderson, a thoughtful advocate for traditional marriage who regularly writes on

In an interview this week with Broadcasting and Cable, Turner Broadcasting CEO, Phil Kent, talked at length about the future of CNN and what he expects from Jeff Zucker, the new CNN president. What’s unsettling about the Kent interview, though,

The New Republic published a profile Monday of MSNBC President Phil Griffin in which one of Griffin’s producers labels rival cable network Fox News “Loserville.” The piece also includes a quote from Fox President Roger Ailes who refers to MSNBC as a “mean-spirited circus.”

During a March 24 appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre explained that Chicago is big on gun control, small on enforcement of existing gun laws–and he asked why NBC News won’t cover this. In fact, LaPierre

The Associated Press reports that another journalist has been murdered in Somalia.  Rahmo Abdulqadir Farah, a female journalist from Somalia was gunned down in Mogadishu Sunday night.   Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports the dangerous climate in Somalia for

On Monday, Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle broke the story that First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama are spending their spring break at a resort in the Bahamas. Breitbart’s Mike Flynn followed up with an analysis showing how this reflected President Obama’s budget priorities.

Weekly Standard Executive Editor Fred Barnes joined my and Tori Clark this morning on “Mornings on the Mall” on WMAL-FM in Washington, DC.   When asked about the current popularity of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and whether his libertarian views,

Despite continued protestations of doom over the sequestration cuts that have paralyzed all of Washington in the grips of terror over the past 25 days, President Obama somehow found it possible to commit the federal government to acquiring five new national monuments today.  He

Personally, I just love it when a Politico “reporter” lets down their guard and momentarily exposes just how biased and left-wing Politico is. Appearing on MSNBC with anchor Tamron Hall Monday, Politico reporter Lois Romano was asked to comment on

Contrary to ongoing media propaganda, the story of the current sequester cuts is not what’s being cut — be it the closing of White House tours or 149 airport control towers. The real story is that our federal government is

In the wake of dumping Ann Curry as co-host, the “Today Show” is still reeling from all kinds of bad press, an estimated $40 million loss in advertising dollars, and the end of sixteen years of ratings dominance to “Good

New Yorker Magazine has a lengthy piece about the fall of NBC’s “Today Show.” After sixteen years of ratings dominance, “Good Morning America” is now number one. Much of the blame is landing on “Today Show”  co-host Matt Lauer. Regardless,

Monday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC opened up a brand new line of attack on American’s trying to retain their 2nd amendment rights.  We’ve already grown accustomed to being called “racist” for opposing the president on gun control, tax and spend, big government,

I know that we are pretty much past the point of covering what happened at CPAC this year. I’m not here to report about a speech that someone made, what happened on radio row, or even what CPAC ‘means’ for

Big Journalism regularly criticizes media writer Howard Kurtz, but he’s 100% correct on this one. It’s the way that television critics despise Leno, and how that colors the coverage of the late-night wars. When The New York Times’ Bill Carter

A revealing and sycophantic profile of Fox News’ Shepard Smith appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, and it explored the anchor’s mad love for Rachel Maddow and skepticism over the Catholic Church’s policy toward women.   One aspect

THR: Four days into its run during the 4 p.m. hour, the show fronted by network newcomer Jake Tapper continues to come up shy of its time-slot predecessor, Wolf Blitzer‘s The Situation Room. Thursday’s outing of The Lead With Jake

In a front page story, The New York Times intimated that race was a deciding factor in how the New York Police Department determines whom to stop in it’s proactive stop and frisk policy, which has helped drive crime down to

On Sunday’s “This Week” George Stephanopoulos hosted a contentious roundtable including Jim Messina from the Obama Campaign White House, Fox News contributor Karl Rove and ABC News’ Terry Moran.  Rove was the closest thing to a conservative on the panel and he

On March 24, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre were guests on NBC’s Meet the Press. Early in the program, as David Gregory asked Bloomberg questions, it was clear that the hopes of the gun-grabbers are greatly

On March 22 ABC’s Nightline did a segment focused on how Glock handguns are the scourge of the anti-gun world.  Before the segment started, anchors teased it as being framed around America’s love for the Glock. But once it began,

For most conservatives, it’s not that MSNBC is unabashedly liberal that angers them as viewers.  Afterall, for as long as we’ve been consumers of mainstream media in America we’ve taken for granted that the elitists sitting behind desks in New York talking

MSNBC host and commentator Touré fired a clear and distinct shot at Dr. Ben Carson Friday, hammering the African-American Presidential Medal of Freedom winner for daring to challenge the Obamadoxy parroted by Touré and progressive journalists bent on supporting the

If you are about to land at a small airport, watch the reason why you might be dead in a few minutes — and it has nothing to do with anyone not paying their “fair share”: — — On the

CNN is a troubled network in flux, a network that wants to do better; and while it is always fun to point and laugh at a Titanic full of too many unethical people go down, it would be better for