Skip to content

Featured Contributors

Big Journalism

Gary Pruitt of McClatchy new AP president, CEO

Gary Pruitt of McClatchy new AP president, CEO

(AP) Gary Pruitt of McClatchy new AP president, CEOBy ADAM GELLERAP National WriterNEW YORKGary Pruitt, a former First Amendment lawyer who heads the third-largest newspaper company in the U.S., will become the next president and CEO of The Associated Press,

'Private Citizen' Sandra Fluke May Run For Office

'Private Citizen' Sandra Fluke May Run For Office

President Obama and the media have lambasted Rush Limbaugh for supposedly insulting a “private citizen” in the Sandra Fluke affair. Obama said, “We want to send a message to all our young people being part of a democracy involves argument

Will Media Apologize For Pushing False Apple Story?

Will Media Apologize For Pushing False Apple Story?

When it broke, the Old Media was all over Mike Daisey’s story of the horrid working conditions at Apple Computer’s foreign manufacturing plants. The story had oppressed workers, pathos, and best of all, eeevil corporate greed. Daisey was well on

Media Matters Lays Low After Insider Expose

Media Matters Lays Low After Insider Expose

Over a month after the Daily Caller began exposing Media Matters’ internal workings, including funding from left-wing allies, bizarre office hijinks, anti-Semitic employees, backdoor payoffs to former lovers, and connections with the Obama Administration, the organization remains largely silent. The

Breitbart News Announces New Managerial Structure

From Politico: Two of Andrew Breitbart’s closest friends and business associates are stepping in to take over the roles he held in his eponymous media company and carry out the expansion plans he made before his sudden death earlier this

Perez Hilton Defends Obama from Bristol Palin

Perez Hilton Defends Obama from Bristol Palin

Class act Perez Hilton posted on his website yesterday that Bristol Palin was paranoid for writing an open letter to President Obama asking him to return the $1 million donation he received from Bill Maher. Palin correctly noted that Maher

Exclusive: For Allred, Publicity Gets Results

Exclusive: For Allred, Publicity Gets Results

Gloria Allred, the high-profile civil litigator who represents Sandra Fluke and who has called for the criminal prosecution of Rush Limbaugh, has built her career on representing alleged victims–mostly women, and ofte in the spotlight of the national media. Allred’s

NPR Frames ObamaCare in Racial Terms

NPR Frames ObamaCare in Racial Terms

A reminder from the mainstream, tax-supported media: if you oppose ObamaCare, that may be because you are a white racist who hates our black president. That’s the gist of Shankar Vedantam’s story this morning on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition,

Media's 'Smartest President' Fails History

Media's 'Smartest President' Fails History

Here is just one example of why many in this country look askance at President Obama. It is a minor issue, I guess, and in the scheme of things maybe not so important, but I do think it also speaks

NY Times Wrongly Accuses Arizona of Book Banning

NY Times Wrongly Accuses Arizona of Book Banning

The New York Times reports today on Arizona’s law shutting down classes in public education institutions that push for overthrowing the U.S. government, or are ethnically or racially separatist–i.e. “designed for students of one ethnic group or advocating ethnic solidarity