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
Holocaust survivor-turned-presidential tailor Martin Greenfield once mistook then-Clinton Senior Adviser GeorgeStephanopoulos for a small boy when fitting Clinton for a made-to-measure suit, according to a Daily Beast excerpt published on Friday. “What did I know? He looked like a little
On Thursday, two top editors of the liberal The New Republic magazine quit over a dispute with the magazine’s new owner about the publication’s future. The next day, nearly the entire Washington-based staff resigned in support of the editors. Now,
On November 26, Politico Magazine (PM) ran a column suggesting police get the benefit of the doubt when accusations of “excessive force” are made, but “blacks and other minorities… [get] alleged police abuse.” PM argues that this is largely forgotten until “a
After music magazine Rolling Stone made a public apology for getting its blockbuster college gang rape story wrong, the media critic of The Washington Post said that the UVA hoax revealed a major case of media bias. On Friday, November
Three former editors of The New Republic — Hendrik Hertzberg, Peter Beinart and Andrew Sullivan — have joined more than a dozen of their fellow TNR veterans in protesting the “destruction” of the magazine at the hands of owner Chris
A shake-up has occurred at the liberal The New Republic magazine as the top two editors, Franklin Foer and Leon Wieseltier, have quit, and the publication’s new owner has announced that magazine will be moved to New York City. The 100-year-old,
This article was originally published in the Daily Mail. A media investigation into the allegations of rape featured in Lena Dunham’s recently-released memoir has refuted the claims of sexual assault made by the Girls creator. The writer, actor and director
Slate writer Amanda Marcotte ripped into Breitbart News over an investigative piece published Thursday that calls into question Lena Dunham’s story of being raped as a 19 year-old by a campus Republican named Barry. Responding to a tweet from Bloomberg
On Thursday, the Huffington Post ran one of its patented subtle headlines regarding the grand jury decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner. “HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER,” the website blared, featuring a
Progressive New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall wrote on Tuesday that Democrats’ embrace of Obamacare’s redistribution scheme has angered and alienated working-class and middle-class Americans. “Even though midterm elections favor Republicans, the 2014 results show middle and working-class dissatisfaction
In journalism, timing is everything. Consider the latest edition of The Atlantic magazine. The December issue is, sensibly enough, on newsstands now. “Martin O’Malley ought to be a Democrat’s dream candidate,” begins a story by political correspondent Molly Ball. “In
A Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that the decision by the Ferguson grand jury to not indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown is more popular than President Obama. By a 48-45% margin, those polled agreed
The media has six hard and fast rules that dictate how the children of politicians should be handled. Anyone confused by the media’s standards on this issue simply haven’t been paying attention. 1. Any unknown Republican staffer who says anything
According to Breitbart Texas’s managing editor Brandon Darby, the Ferguson protests and riots have been a roaring success for the institutional left. He told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that in Ferguson and across the nation, the institutional
Ever ready to fan the flames of racism, MSNBC was at it again on Monday with a guest who blamed the rioting in Ferguson, Missouri on “systemic” American “white supremacy.” During the Monday broadcast of “The Reid Report,” The Nation
**UPDATE: Like the New York Times, Bloomberg Politics published all of Darren Wilson’s address information (specific street, city, state) except for his exact house number. The rage and frustration boiling behind the decision to publish the address information of
CNN’s “One Day of Gun Violence” is an interact map intended to give readers the chance to see how “gun violence” rears its head on an average day in America. The map lists “83 incidents” that took place on July 12,
For the past several years, National Public Radio earned a reputation for anti-Israel bias–so much so that even some liberal supporters began mocking it as “National Palestinian Radio.” That sad tradition continued Monday on NPR’s Morning Edition, in a report
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 new of the week.
Chuck Todd, the new host of NBC’s long-running Sunday political show “Meet The Press,” gave a long interview to Salon.com in which he professed to hate the ratings game, is distressed when news people become the news, and confessed that
USA Today proclaims the aftermath of the shooting of a black teen in Ferguson, Missouri is a “defining moment for race relations in USA.” Sadly, the paper also gave space for one protester to call for murder to be committed for
A crowdfunding campaign advertising itself as the Ferguson Legal Defense Fund has been running a campaign since October that boasts a goal of raising $250,000 for protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, seeking “money for jail, bail & life.” Protesters have been
Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy, a blog hosted by the Washington Post, revisits the story of the Pilgrims at Plymouth and how instituting private property rights saved the community from ruin. There is much to be thankful for on
With the smoke from the riots in Ferguson, Missouri still thick in the air, CNN made an effort to explain conditions in the nation today and decided that a new book has the right idea. America is suffering from “racism
