It looks as though while I was on vacation last week a few media critics were complaining about CNN’s decision to cover the Zimmerman trial over the fall of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi. Fair enough. What I reject, however, are
A new Gallup poll released Monday might help to explain why the left and their allies in the mainstream media have trained so much fire on a small (but powerful) dinghy in an ocean of left-wing media: Fox News is
Taking advantage of the fact that some 67 people were shot in Chicago from Wednesday through Sunday, CNN host Piers Morgan went on another anti-gun rant via Twitter. This time, recognizing that Chicago is a failed gun control model, he
On Saturday, CNN had an important on-air debate over whether to call the Boeing 777 crash at the San Francisco International Airport “horrifying” or not. The excuse for the debate: had enough people died to label it with that honorific?
On Sunday morning, Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN pitched a segment on whether the United States needed to cut aid to Egypt. The information on the screen was accompanied by a picture of a flag … of Syria. The Syrian
(CNN) — Survivors of the San Francisco plane crash were being treated Sunday for injuries ranging from paralysis to “severe road rash.” But they’re alive. In all, 182 people were hospitalized and 123 others walked away from Saturday’s crash landing
During in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin’s handling of NSA leaker Edward Snowden:
When it comes to breaking news on stories like Saturday’s tragic Asiana jet crash at San Francisco airport, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we’ve moved into a new era for journalism. A few years ago, the only real option for
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced through state media Friday that the country is offering asylum to NSA leaker Edward J. Snowden. A government news site announced that Maduro (pictured) was offering Snowden “humanitarian asylum.” The Venezuelan President, who recently came to power
Former Montana Governor and possible Democratic U.S. Senate contender Brian Schweitzer (D) is coming under fire after FOX Business reporter David Asman revealed on Monday that Schweitzer’s PAC may have funneled money to a shell 501(c)(4) non-profit that appears to
A coalition of over two dozen leading gay and straight activists are calling on Capital One to fire spokesman Alec Baldwin in the wake of homophobic tweets the actor made last week on Twitter. “We urge all Americans to ask
I’ve made a point of including the anti-Obama banners brandished by Egypt’s revolutionaries in every post I’ve written on the fall of the Morsi regime, because I had a suspicion the mainstream media wouldn’t be showing people that stuff. I
CNN talker Piers Morgan is already suffering from consistently weak ratings. So it’s hard to imagine U.S.-based viewers will flock to his show after reading his Fourth of July tweet. It’s not the first time Morgan has insulted a good
The ammunition that police found in Aaron Hernandez’s secret apartment reportedly matches the ammunition from the same caliber gun that was used to kill Odin Lloyd. According to search warrants CNN obtained, authorities searched Hernandez’s secret apartment and “found new
Do women’s magazines serve as a platform for serious journalism? Howard Kurtz asks Janet Reitman & Robbie Myers.
On Tuesday, Jonathan Hurt, senior advisor to Kentucky senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, admitted that his candidate’s rocky rollout — which involved no air conditioning, a toilet paper roll holding up a mic, and the wrong backdrop – might not
CNN anchor Don Lemon hosts a panel to discuss the “N” word, its history, and its resurgence to public attention from the Paula Deen controversy. Panel members include actor LeVar Burton, professor Marc Lamont Hill, and musician Wynton Marsalis.
Barack Obama showed colossal nerve on Monday, asserting that he has never interfered in the internal political affairs of Egypt and he’s not going to start now, despite the massive protests against Mohamed Morsi. Obama, who is vacationing in Tanzania,
Al Jazeera America has landed another member of the American media as Soledad O’Brien joins the foreign-owned cable network that is set to debut later this year. O’Brien formerly worked at CNN but was let go by the network last March after
According to Mediaite sources over at CNN, Fox News host Greta Van Susteran attempted to return to CNN by approaching new CNN head honcho Jeff Zucker about it. Mediate reports that she “initiated several meetings” toward that end. She worked
Gay commentator Andrew Sullivan on Sunday CNN’s Fareed Zakaria: “I would say the religious arguments are more based in fear than in the actual teachings, that they’re based upon stray texts that actually don’t mean what you think they mean.
National Organization for Marriage’s attorney John Eastman during an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” host Candy Crowley:
The Guardian says Hollywood’s silence regarding Alec Baldwin’s latest homophobic rant isn’t just deafening. It’s a sign of an industry that pays lip service to equal rights but doesn’t stand up against bullies like Baldwin. Columnist Patrick Strudwick blasted the
On Sunday’s State of the Union (CNN), Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) blamed Republicans in the House for not simply agreeing to the Senate immigration reform bill passed with a 68-32 vote last week. He said that House Republicans were worried
