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
Politico’s new editor, Susan Glasser, is coming in with a management style that results in a steady stream of editors and writes headed for the door, a report says.
Last Friday, Washington Post fact-checked Jonathan Gruber’s congressional testimony about Obamacare subsidies. After looking at the evidence the Post awarded his explanation two Pinocchios. That’s not a bad outcome given the facts; however, the Post missed something which really should
There’s nothing quite like the fury of a cornered political hack. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a remarkable press conference on Monday afternoon where he blamed the media for creating the air of paranoia and racial tension currently hanging heavy over the Big Apple.
The head of news website Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, has announced some big changes for the site coming in 2015.
Mayor Bill de Blasio lost his cool during a press conference in New York City this afternoon, blasting the media for dividing the people of New York. “What are you guys going to do? Are you going to keep dividing
Four years ago a deranged man shot into a crowd of people in Tucson, Arizona. Within hours the leading voices of the Left identified the real culprit. It wasn’t the mentally troubled man who pulled the trigger: It was Sarah Palin and the “climate of hate” created by the Tea Party. After this weekend’s shooting of two police officers, the Left seems to have collective amnesia about the “climate of hate” argument.
The New York Times is opening a new London bureau, reports say. The move will coincide with the closing of its Paris office. The Old Gray Lady has taken offices in the Bloomsbury district in London, The Guardian reported on
Let’s cut to the chase: we all remember how the entire left and its vast media apparatus rose up as one to blame the Tucson shootings on conservatives in 2011. The process began during breaking-news coverage of Jared Loughner’s rampage,
Fox News contributor and foreign affairs analyst Lisa Daftari delivered a stern message of condemnation for nations that implement Sharia Law during a speech at the Iranian Women’s Organization’s (IWO) annual gala at the Beverly Hills Hotel last week. Daftari also reprimanded
In a tweet from its official and verified account, the unbiased, objective, not-at-all liberal CBS News described Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio as “infamous.” — Arizona’s infamous Sheriff Joe takes his battle against Obama’s immigration plans to court http://t.co/RxwGG4bUVUpic.twitter.com/tXKUl2XEgD — CBS
Across America, customers of the DISH TV Network have lost access to the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network. Difficult negotiations between TV channels and TV carriers are a familiar feature of the new-media environment, but in this
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 war on cops in America and
Yesterday, Al Sharpton said he would be holding a press event today to express “outrage” over the assassination of two NYPD officers by a man claiming to have done it in retribution for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael
Comedian Bill Maher delivered his long-anticipated and controversial speech at the University of California Berkeley winter commencement on Saturday–and it turned out to be a rather conventional liberal address. Though much debate surrounded Maher’s views on Islam, he largely avoided the subject, instead telling
Peggy Noonan’s praise for the Obama administration’s new Cuba policy has one particularly ugly paragraph that demands its own response. (I posted an initial criticism of her overall column on Friday, and this one paragraph has bothered me for the better
While the media isn’t even clear if this was a first, Barack Obama took questions from only female reporters during today’s White House press conference. The Hill reports: Obama took questions from mostly print reporters, including McClatchy’s Lesley Clark, BNA’s
When Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan made “the case for Barack Obama” in 2008, she put his foreign policy at the top of her list: “He has within him the possibility to change the direction
The shocking news Wednesday that Governor Peter Shumlin (D-VT) has abandoned plans to introduce his long promised single-payer health care system to the Vermont Legislature in 2015 was a huge victory for conservative new media. As observers on the ground in Vermont
On December 10, Pew Research released a poll showing Americans want gun rights, not gun control. On December 17, the Huffington Post responded by saying pollsters need to reword poll questions so gun control comes out on top. PEW asked,
Mediaite, the cable watchdog whose motto is “We watch cable news so you don’t haveto,” has released a list of its Top 9 Rising Stars of Cable News. Citing the desperate need for “fresh facesand new ideas,” Mediaite looked to
Andrea Mitchell apparently disagrees with her own network’s polling services after dismissing a poll that shows that Americans agree with the CIA’s advanced interrogation tactics. Mitchell was on her MSNBC show on Tuesday, December 16, when the topic of the
After failing at the ratings game on cable, left-wing cable news network MSNBC plans to take its “progressive sensibilities” to a series of some 14 new Internet-based shows on topics ranging from the gay lifestyle, to politics, to journalist navel
Jeb Bush’s recent announcement that he will “explore” a presidential run in 2016 has led Time to pronounce the “one issue that will complicate his campaign” is Common Core. “Common Core now represents a kind of shorthand among Republicans,” writes
Radar Online reports that “CNN chief Jeff Zucker wants to add game shows to his channel’s programming, according to a new leaked Sony email.” Zucker, who headed NBC before joining CNN, approached Sony television executives in late October to propose
The early news was that no more than 100 layoffs and/or buyouts were expected at the New York Times before the end of the year. A statement released by the Newspaper Guild Tuesday claims that the number is closer to
