The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/2 include the divorce of the Daily Beast and Howard Kurtz, lefty dirty tricks and Facebook, a sick webcam hacker and a disgruntled company hacker, social media and marriage, hoax
Late Thursday afternoon, about 24 hours after Daily Beast columnist Howard Kurtz published a false Daily Beast column accusing openly-gay NBA star Jason Collins of not being completely forthcoming about a past-engagement to a woman, Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown
Media writer Howard Kurtz made a huge error Thursday in a now-retracted Daily Beast column titled, Jason Collins’ Other Secret. In it, Kurtz accused the active NBA player, who came out as gay in a self-penned Sports Illustrated cover article
After 80 years in print, Newsweek announced last year that it would merge with the Daily Beast and become an online only magazine. According to Businessweek, last year, Tina Brown’s Newsweek/Daily Beast (she is founder and editor-in-chief) was set to
The Daily Beast had quite a scoop, today. Contrary to what the Obama campaign’s “Fight the Smears” website alleged back in 2008, Obama was once friendly with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and did hold a political fundraiser in his living
A wave of anti-abortion legislation that has made North Dakota the most Pro-life state in the nation has led Tammi Kromenaker, director of the Red River Valley Women’s Clinic in Fargo, to dig in her heels. The sole abortion provider
Howard Kurtz is the media’s most diligent watchdog, just ask him. His weekly CNN program, “Reliable Sources” and his regular column at The Daily Beast, are supposed to serve as bellwethers for the most important media stories of any given week. As
On April 6, The Daily Beast lamented the fact that the NRA has won the day on the current gun control battle, but they claimed that the current victory will be short lived–“Wayne LaPierre may have won the week…but the
On last Friday’s “The Situation Room” on CNN, Wolf Blitzer allowed commentator and activist John Avlon to attack Sarah Palin without disclosing to the viewers that Avlon is a co-founded the anti-Tea Party group No Labels. Blitzer introduced Avlon as
A revealing and sycophantic profile of Fox News’ Shepard Smith appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, and it explored the anchor’s mad love for Rachel Maddow and skepticism over the Catholic Church’s policy toward women. One aspect
I knew I’d end up using the “Frum” category sooner or later, even though the default, and proper, response to David Frum is to ignore him until he goes away. I’m reminded of Iowahawk’s rule about captioning every New Yorker
A raging gun battle with mad-dog killer Chris Dorner erupts at Big Bear Lake in California. Two officers down, and the killer’s fate is still unknown at the moment of this writing. But the media has its priorities. Howard
Lloyd Green, who writes for the Daily Beast, noted how ferociously Breitbart News has gone after Karl Rove for trying to anoint Establishment candidates in Republican primaries who may hold values antithetical to those held by the “Jacksonian” conservatives who make
TINA BROWN, EDITOR NEWSWEEK/DAILY BEAST: I mean, he’d be impeached by now for drones if he was W. Bush. MAHER: Impeached? No. BROWN: Yeah, don’t you think? I mean, don’t you think… MAHER: Impeached for… BROWN: Well, I think… MAHER:
Yesterday, I hopped over to CNN/Newsweek/Daily Beast staffer David Frum’s twitter feed when I heard that he was spreading the lie that gun rights advocates had heckled the father of a Newtown massacre victim. Of course, that claim was quickly debunked and several high
Tuesday morning, many in the media went all in with a sanctimonious attack against gun-rights supporters, whom they accused of heckling Neil Heslin, the parent of a six-year-old boy murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre. The only problem is that it was all
What kind of media reporter never makes the media angry — unless he’s being publicly accused of selling his soul for a scoop long past the date anyone would care about it? Howard Kurtz is a media reporter, right? I
Liberal Fox News Contributor and Daily Beast columnist Kirstin Powers on the Obama-Hillary Clinton “60 Minutes” interview:
Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tony nominee, Oscar nominee, film director, and reformed liberal, David Mamet, penned a lengthy warning today about Obama’s gun control push for the Daily Beast: The Left loves a phantom statistic that a firearm in the hands
David Mamet’s piece at the Daily Beast is chock full of wonderful observations: But where in the Constitution is it written that the Government is in charge of determining “needs”? And note that the president did not say “I have
A little of what Hot Air’s Allahpundit might describe as Blue on Blue violence. Apparently, HuffPo’s Vicky Ward was negotiating for a “Vanity Fair” interview with Jill Kelley, one of the women swooped up in the Petraeus scandal. She refused
As we’re seeing with the politics surrounding Rev. Louie Giglio, the media is using the issue of homosexuality as a way to to redefine morality in order to score points against the Right. In the case of Giglio, we had
According to a credible source with inside knowledge of the matter, the actual reason Andrew Sullivan and the Daily Beast are parting ways at the end of this month has nothing to do with some high-falutin’ “duty to try and
Columnist for the Daily Beast, Buzz Bissinger on Piers Morgan Tonight: “I don’t care what the justification is that you’re allowed in this country to own a semi-automatic weapon – much less a handgun. But what do you need a
As the House refused to pass the pork-laden $60 billion Sandy Relief Bill, the official Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy Twitter accounts immediately began to attack the Republican Party for not passing it, instead of the fact that the
