After nearly 3 years of ratings failure (to say the least), Al Jazeera America will finally be put out of its misery this April. Since its 2013 launch, not only has the left-wing cable news network failed to deliver anything
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, host and Breitbart News Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will be discussing the most important news stories of the week. He will be focusing heavily on the Republican presidential primary, the 2016 election, and the recent Iran nuke deal.
Gawker Media is coming under some well-deserved fire this week for an appalling failure of judgment and basic ethical standards. Despite the site’s professed commitment to social justice, it cruelly outed a private citizen, becoming party to a gay extortion racket in the process, for no reason other than its own vile amusement.
Stephen Hayes, of The Weekly Standard and a Fox News contributor and pundit, bombarded GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump at a press conference following Trump’s speech at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa on Saturday—controlling the media availability and yelling as he argued with Trump.
In a free society we understand, cherish and protect the right of speech. All kinds of speech. Primarily offensive speech with which we disagree. In order to remain civilized, we draw a big red line between speech and violence. This
The political scientist Wallace Sayre is quoted as saying that “academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” A bitter online fight that erupted this week between scholar Cornel West and Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates offers the latest illustration.
A universally denounced article published Thursday at Gawker.com has seemingly split the company in two, with editorial staff sharply criticizing and mocking CEO Nick Denton’s decision to delete the post.
What is it with Gawker? Are they just incompetent, or are they actually trying to get sued into bankruptcy?
When Jon Stewart announced his retirement earlier this year, he was praised by Obama’s senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer as a person who changed news for a new generation. “Jon Stewart conducted some of the toughest and most insightful interviews of the president,” Pfeiffer said.
Under a huge headline screaming “Horror at Home,” Huffington Post obfuscated the massacre of four American Marines by a radical Muslim by writing, “Motive Mystery.”
After being so frustrated by fact and science-based arguments he resorted to threats of physical violence against Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro Thursday, Friday morning Zoey Tur extended his hateful bullying campaign by publicly agreeing with a tweet that called for Shapiro
One of Israel’s most experienced and respected diplomats has attacked the Norwegian media for its “one-sided” pro-Palestine “activist journalism.” Raphael Schultz, who was sent to Norway last year, wrote in an open letter citing what he called “a large selection
Emboldened by the recent Supreme Court ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges, homosexual activists are declaring a full-court press on conservative Christians with the startling assertion that the Bible is pro-gay.
A feminist article, by a feminist journalist in an archly pro- feminist magazine, has provoked anger from politicians and the twitterati because the accompanying illustration was not feminist enough. Nicola Sturgeon and others have attacked the image as “cringeworthy,” “crass” and
Garrett asked President Barack Obama a real question. And the Iran deal demands more questions than his colleagues have cared to ask, thus far. Why, for example, is Obama going to the UN Security Council before going to Congress, as promised?
After 46 years, the liberal Washington-based magazine National Journal will end its print edition and refocus as an Internet-only publication.
Media Matters, the progressive media watchdog, published a defense of Planned Parenthood Tuesday night. Unfortunately for Planned Parenthood, the evidence they offer proves Planned Parenthood’s clinics were intentionally seeking to profit from the harvesting and sale of fetal organs. In
Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman has outlined a new content policy that many users fear marks a new era of censorship on the platform.
Launched on Monday, a press release about Campbell Brown’s news site highlights initial stories about a search-and-rescue pilot for the Coast Guard who became a second-grade teacher at a charter school in Newark, NJ; a column about the necessity of addressing the relationship between educational inequality and income inequality; and an investigative piece that focuses on “the forces and scare tactics behind the opt-out movement” in Montclair, New Jersey.
Media reporter Johnny Dollar created the verb “Zuckered!,” as a way to help explain the ongoing collapse of CNN as a legitimate news organization. And Zuckered! is also the only way to explain the ongoing collapse of Chris Cuomo as
HBO’s Bill Maher blasted CBS White House reporter Major Garrett as a “huge a***ole” after he asked Obama a tough question at the White House during President Obama’s press conference yesterday.
Conservative-basher Nicolle Wallace has reportedly been axed from The View after just one season as a co-host. According to a Variety report, Wallace, one of the mainstream media’s favorite Republicans who has gained favor with the media elite by throwing
The same Bill Maher who bristles against political correctness and hurls obscene vitriol at every opportunity finally found someone who he believes crossed a line — that being Major Garrett of CBS News who dared ask President Obama a tough
Nicolle Wallace, the Republican strategist who earned a modicum of name recognition thanks to her mercenary willingness to back-stab conservatives (especially Sarah Palin) to the delight of the mainstream media, has again failed spectacularly (see: 2008, McCain), this time as
When Breitbart News published “Ellen Pao Out As Reddit CEO, Blames Site’s Users” recently, we received kudos from Reddit users for understanding it was Poa’s actions aimed at limiting users’ free speech in order to make the site more advertiser friendly that caused a user rebellion. But the business press continues to blame users, in articles such as the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Ellen Pao’s Ouster Shows Reddit CEO can’t Function under Mob Rule.”
The New York Times acknowledged on Wednesday that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s book, A Time For Truth, belongs on its best-seller list and gave it a no. 7 ranking in nonfiction, after snubbing it and accusing the Cruz campaign of making “strategic bulk purchases.”
