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
Conservative icon and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh believes Jon Stewart may be leaving The Daily Show because he knows that the country is going to get even more fed up with Democrats. Limbaugh said that he was looking at
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush may find out that Wall Street money will not buy him the love of GOP primary voters like it does mainstream media elites who are rushing to cast him as the 2016 frontrunner. As soon
MSNBC morning program co-host Mika Brzezinski was chided by her “Morning Joe” co-host, former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough for being “so smug about mocking somebody as Jews are being gunned down in the streets of Paris and being attacked across Europe.”
A new report from the group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) finds that in 2014 freedom of the press saw a “dramatic decline” as wars, terrorism, high-handed security measures, and the rise of radical governing parties have grown all across the globe.
Primarily a media and culture writer, Carr was one of the most established brands at the most established publication, yet he approached his topics earnestly and with markedly less cynicism than most of his mainstream media peers. A perfect illustration of that is the exceptional 2600-word obituary, “The Provocateur,” he penned after the death of Andrew Breitbart.
David Carr, a media columnist for the New York Times who sought to understand conservative media, died suddenly on Thursday night after collapsing in the Times newsroom. Carr was both a critic of, and a friend to, conservative new media, and was one
From the New York Times: David Carr, who wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government in his Media Equation column for The New York Times, collapsed at the office and died at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital on
From CNN Money: As NBC’s fact-checking continues, two accounts from Williams’ younger days could also invite scrutiny. As a reporter for WCBS-TV in New York in 1989, Williams traveled to Berlin to cover the demolition of the Berlin Wall. The
Vox has discovered media bias but claims the real victims are Muslims.
CNN President Jeff Zucker said there would be room at his reeling network for comedian and fake news personality Jon Stewart, who announced this week that he is leaving The Daily Show. “Sure. If he wants to come, we’d like to talk
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams may have been suspended without pay for six months for stretching the truth, but at least he’s found a new ally in actor Charlie Sheen.
After NBC announced that it had suspended Nightly News anchor Brian Williams without pay, executives have quietly begun to scrub the anchor’s name from the show’s broadcast as well as the website and social media.
Journalists in post-Gaddafi Libya are being threatened and even murdered “with impunity” for doing their job, according to a report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The media isn’t overly interested in certain Obama college records he’s opted to not release, but they somehow found enough curiosity to look into Republican Scott Walker’s time in school—even going so far as to find teachers willing to discuss his grades.
Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon, who covered riots, Academy Award-nominated movies and wars and was held captive for more than a month in Iraq two decades ago, died in a car crash on Wednesday. He was 73.
Jon Stewart announced Tuesday that he will be leaving The Daily Show he has hosted on Comedy Central since 1999. The reaction from the media has been a gushing geyser of praise and, occasionally, an acknowledgement that his comedy mostly appealed to the far left.
A recent article in the Huffington Post about alleged “Islamophobia” gives us a good look at how hard the left is working to give proof to their false claim that “Islamophobia” even exists.
Jon Stewart announced Wednesday that he will step down from the his “Daily Show” hosting duties sometime this year or early next. The unbiased, objective, not-at-all liberal media is already deep in mourning. With Stewart gone, the media know they
The flaw of Brian Williams, and of most of the press that “gets ahead” in their profession, is that they see gut wrenching, often heroic, activity, and they want to be heroes going through sacrifices in the story as well, but without actually getting involved. But by attempting this action, they alter the real story.
ADDED: CNN’s Jake Tapper is reporting that a dispute over parking might have had something to do with the murders. Full police report. The police are looking into whether the murders were “hate-motivated” and say that Hicks is cooperating
He went from whistle blower to convict, then from man to woman, and now Chelsea Manning is set to debut as a contributing writer to The Guardian U.S.
The Drudge Report claims that Savannah Guthrie is the leading candidate to replace NBC’s Nightly News anchor Brian Williams if he is ultimately fired.
There’s a bigger point here: the same people Dan Rather once derided as idiots in “pajamas” have completely reshaped the mainstream media. Were it not for those nefarious Snidely Whiplashes of the keyboard, Brian Williams would still be anchoring the nightly news while stumping for Jay Leno’s old job.
Here’s a crisis communications primer for suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams, whose career is now in mortal jeopardy.
It’s not surprising that the legal defense team of Boston Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev would play up his youth and “vulnerability” to save him from the death penalty, but it’s downright amazing to watch the media swoon over him.
