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
Four journalists arrested during last summer’s Ferguson protests over the shooting death of Michael Brown filed a federal lawsuit Monday against St. Louis County police and 20 of its officers, accusing them of violating the reporters’ civil rights and unjustifiably detaining them.
Ross Douthat at the New York Times illustrates the slippery slope beneath the left’s revulsion for religious freedom laws, like the one currently generating media outrage in Indiana.
A Muslim caterer refuses to cater a pork festival. A Jewish caterer refuses to cater a cheeseburger eating contest. Believing it contradicts the teachings of Jesus, a gay Christian (think Andrew Sullivan) who runs a public relations firm refuses to
Americans for Prosperity Foundation has selected Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft to receive the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism at this year’s RightOnline conference in Washington, DC on May 1 and 2. Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow will present the award to Hoft, who recently battled health issues but has continued to be a leading small-government advocate online.
South African comedian Timothy Noah has been named to succeed Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Noah is talented and funny, and as a fellow native son of South Africa, I wish him well. Unfortunately, Noah is a mismatch for the show. Stewart would be a tough act to follow in any circumstances, but Noah lacks any obvious fluency in American politics or media, and his specialty in racial and ethnic humor suggest that his repertoire will remain limited.
Media observers are claiming that Ellen Pao’s loss in her $160 million gender discrimination claims against her former venture capitalist employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer means a dark future for women in Silicon Valley. But women already control 36 percent of small businesses, hold 50 percent of all management positions and account for 60 percent of college students. With rising economic power, women seem destined to eventually dominate Silicon Valley and much of American business.
New York Magazine, bemoaning the terrible hardships Barack Obama must endure as President of the United States, writes that the constantly jet-setting Obama lives a rough life because his hotel rooms never have a view, and he has to keep the blinds closed.
As he returns to run the NBC News Group, Andy Lack faces one of the same puzzles he tried to solve a decade and a half ago: how to make MSNBC work.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will be hosting a special Palm Sunday program discussing all of the most important recent news with a special focus on the crisis in the Middle East. Bannon will be discussing the 2016 presidential campaign, religious liberty in Indiana, the Hillary Clinton email scandal, and much more.
On March 28, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry suggested the push away from gun control and toward expanded gun rights–which means more armed, law-abiding citizens–actually puts police lives in danger.
Alex Swoyer will be joining Breitbart News Network as its newest Capitol Hill reporter, covering politics, policy, the 2016 elections, and scandals in Washington.
Google, Inc. is complaining about what it says are unfair media reports regarding the company’s business practices, including lobbying.
Despite blowback from the Anti-Defamation League and others, The New Yorker is dismissing claims that a satiric piece written by Lena Dunham is meant to be offensive to Jews or anyone else. In the piece, Dunham, whose mother is Jewish,
On Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125 from 10 a.m. through 1 p.m. Eastern Time, investigative journalist Matthew Boyle will guest host alongside guest co-host and Breitbart homepage editor Katie McHugh.
Last week, my human rights organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), scored another major victory for truth and freedom in Philadelphia. The court ruled that our ads highlighting Islamic Jew-hatred and the Nazi-Islamic alliance, which had been previously denied,
Glenn Kessler, editor of the Washington Post’s fact-check column, promised to make some changes in the wake of a Breitbart News report that showed Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats to be targeted by his fact checks. After our
Journalist Ken Silverstein thinks the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal would be a bigger story if not for the obvious partisan bias at outlets like the New York Times.
In a Wednesday article about the desertion charges filed against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, The New York Times was mercilessly ridiculed on Twitter for a passage that betrayed a breathtaking ignorance about how the military works. The lack of common sense
Breitbart News analyzed the Washington Post fact check column for all of 2015 and found that so far this year Republicans and their claims have been targeted twice as often as Democrats and their claims. A good faith search revealed
A team of Hillary Clinton “super volunteers” warned a New York Times reporter on Wednesday against using words about Clinton that they deem to be “sexist.” The group, “HRC Super volunteers,” wrote Times reporter Amy Chozick, the paper’s Hillary Clinton reporter, and
Left-wing New York Times columnist Charles Blow suffered another major credibility blow this week when his hit-piece on Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal resulted in no fewer than three major corrections: Charles M. Blow’s column on Monday misstated the origin
In the 25-54 age demo last week, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes might have delivered the worst ratings in a decade in his timeslot. Nevertheless, while he was sinking in that particular demographic, every day last week Hayes still beat CNN’s Anderson
Facebook is reportedly in talks with dozens of the world’s biggest media empires, including the New York Times and Buzzfeed, to host news content directly on the social networking site.
Breitbart wasn’t the first to report on the New Yorker using the word “uppity” to describe Hispanic Ted Cruz, but moments after our inquiry to the author (via Twitter) and the publication of our piece, the lofty left-wing outlet removed
According to Capital New York, left-wing companies like BuzzFeed and left-wing places like New York are all about trickle-down economics when they believe no one is watching. BuzzFeed is worth close to a billion — with a “B” — dollars.
