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
During CNN’s 8th annual New Year’s Eve telecast from New York City with anchor Anderson Cooper and comedienne Kathy Griffin, the cable newser featured a segment from Havana, Cuba, and, while the network expressed hope for renewed relations between the US and Cuba, anchors made no mention of the Castro regime’s arrests of pro-democracy activists this week.
The New York Times couldn’t be any more clear on where it stands with regard to the deteriorating relationship between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD. They don’t appear to take issue with a single thing de Blasio has said or done during the controversy. The NYPD, on the other hand, can’t seem to do anything right, according to the Times.
Deadspin summarizes the situation bluntly: “Vox repeatedly crapped the bed in 2014.” This is followed by a list with 46 examples of corrections to Vox stories. As you’ll see below, Deadspin left out a few.
The Sacramento Bee published an editorial Wednesday in which it criticizes California Republican Kevin McCarthy, Majority Leader in the U.S. House, for defending Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) over allegations that he addressed a gathering associated with white supremacist David Duke in 2012. (Scalise has apologized quickly, though it is not clear whether he knew about the group’s beliefs or if he even addressed the group at all.)
According to an FBI warning published at The Intercept, the same hackers who systematically dismantled Sony Pictures will next turn their awful but undeniably prodigious talents to the news media. No specific news organization is named. The intended target will
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – In a generally overall down year for the cable news genre, Fox News remained the dominant ratings force in 2014, while CNN made some meaningful demo strides relative to a sagging MSNBC.
The editorial boards of two major newspapers, USA Today and the Chicago Tribune, have called on House Majority Whip Steve Scalise to resign his post in House GOP leadership after Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy came out in a last-ditch bid to save Scalise on Tuesday.
We seem to have a trend here: I’d go so far as to call it a “narrative.” Police officers are denounced as racist killers, an invading army occupying black neighborhoods.
In a bizarre rejoinder to Breitbart’s report revealing that Michigan has more food stamp recipients than students, Washington Post blogger Philip Bump published an article Tuesday that, despite its best attempts, ended up supporting and confirming Breitbart’s original reporting—even as it revealed Bump’s own ignorance.
Less than two weeks after police raided opposition media linked to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s arch-nemesis Fethullah Gulen (who is currently in a self-imposed exile in the United States), Erdogan said Turkey has the freest press in the world.
Another year, another blow-out. For the 13th consecutive year Fox News didn’t just beat its left-wing counterparts at CNN and MSNBC, Fox News actually grew its primetime news demo (viewers aged 25-54) by 3%. Meanwhile, CNN lost 1% of that
How bad was 2014 for MSNBC? So bad, the left-wing cable news network lost the 2014 ratings war to CNN. Yes, that CNN. According to Deadline, MSNBC is hemorrhaging viewers, especially in the all-important news demo (viewers aged 25-54): [T]hrough
Playing “Twilight Zone” with a missing airliner and spreading lies to gin up riots in the predominantly black, working class city of Ferguson did absolutely nothing to stop CNN’s freefall in the ratings. Under Jeff Zucker, 2014 was nothing short
While there are plenty of concerns to go around within the media industry as a whole, MSNBC President Phil Griffin and his network seem to have earned a prominent position in this New York Times look at those in the “hot seat.”
Background: Bill Maher has forged his reputation on an outspoken brand of progressive views that blurs the lines between comedy and outright prejudice. He speaks often about freedom of speech, to the point where he even defended Donald Sterling’s right to privacy after his racist remarks were publicized. But that’s why he’s featured here.
Paragraph after paragraph of Walsh’s latest at Salon asks: what’s the matter with white people?—except for Joan Walsh, of course.
Out of 20 crazy politicians, GQ could find only three Democrats who it felt were qualified enough to be labeled “crazy.”
The annual report for the Committee to Protect Journalists reveals that at least 60 journalists around the world were killed during 2014. The highest occurrences of deaths took place in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, and the fifty-day conflict between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
On Sunday, social media and pop culture news website Mashable jumped to report on the massive protest near the Washington Redskins stadium in Washington D.C.
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 conduct a number of interviews and talk about the most important news of the week including UKIP leader Nigel Farage being named the Times of London “Man of the Year,” the ongoing war on cops taking place throughout the country, and the War in Afghanistan.
In what may be the silliest argument for not seeing The Interview, Vox’s Max Fisher argues that seeing it actually helps Kim Jong-Un.
In April of 2013, bowing to pro-illegal immigrant activists, the Associated Press announced that it would ban the use of “illegal immigrant” in its reporting. But despite the attempt to change the media culture, the term persists—sometimes even in Associated Press articles.
Now that The Interview has finally been released, the nation’s top film critics are weighing in with their thoughts on the controversial film.
This Reuters headline makes it sound as though there is good news for the left-wing CNN: “CNN’s Original Series Help Network Draw Younger Primetime Audience In 2014.” The truth, however, as is the usually the case when the left-wing media
The Huffington Post closed out the year on a humiliating note after the left-wing online publication was forced to admit Tuesday night that it hadn’t properly vetted a source who claimed to have witnessed the fatal police shooting of Antonio
