CNN is a troubled network in flux, a network that wants to do better; and while it is always fun to point and laugh at a Titanic full of too many unethical people go down, it would be better for
Jack Bauer hasn’t been around to save the day for some time, but the heroic lead from Fox’s 24 is back–sort of–this weekend. Olympus Has Fallen finds a disgraced Secret Service agent (Gerard Butler) doing whatever it takes to rescue
Ted Turner’s son, Teddy, recently appeared on the Steve Malzberg show for a visit and when the topic turned to CNN, his dad’s cable TV network, he didn’t hold back. The network is “pretty much to the left,” Teddy Turner
The Atlantic’s Elspeth Reeve sounds angry. In a Wednesday post at the Atlantic Wire, Reeve tore into Fox News’ chief Roger Ailes for the sin of agreeing to an interview with the Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz. Thus far, this is
Has “stalking” become the new gold standard of investigative reporting for left-wing journalists? In the rough-and-tumble world of politics and media, family should be off limits–unless, of course, they have deliberately inserted themselves into the public discourse. This is an honor-code rule
The President’s predictions of doom and gloom if the sequester cuts took place seems not to have convinced most Americans. A Fox News poll released today found 49 percent of respondents labeled the cuts a “good thing” while just 37
Creighton and Cincinnati tip-off in Philadelphia Thursday in the NCAA tournament, but next year it will be Creighton rather than Cincinnati that makes the trip there to play Villanova in Big East action. Creighton won the $60 million lottery over
Color of Change has seen enough of Fox’s long-running reality show COPS. The group, co-founded by 9/11 truther Van Jones, is urging the network and sponsors to abandon the series. It claims one of the original reality shows on television
Among all 94 ad-supported cable channels, Fox News primetime placed fifth last week. MSNBC placed 22nd, HLN 32nd, and CNN 33rd. Current TV did not place dead last this week. It placed second to dead last before VHI Classic —
White House Press Secretary Carney said that “credit is due” to President Bush for sending American troops into Iraq in 2003 which led to the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
Last week White House Press Secretary Jay Carney appeared on Fox News with Jenna Lee and faced questions over the cancellations of the White House tours that had been blamed on sequestration cuts. When Lee asked why the Easter Egg
As we saw during their fevered push to re-elect President Obama in 2012, the media still have plenty of power. But this is mainly due to the media working harder than ever before to coordinate with one another on that
The long standing nonpartisan White House Easter Egg Roll tradition is President Obama’s latest victim of his Sequester Scare campaign. A memo giving notice that the event could be canceled due to across-the-board mandatory budget cuts was circulating in Capital
Pew Research has a new State of the Media 2013 report which finds that MSNBC’s output contains far more opinion than news. This chart shows the balance at all three cable networks: The methodology Pew used was to survey stories
When I first read the Entertainment Weekly headline “Where’s the Love? The Sudden Death of the Hollywood Sex Scene,” I was skeptical. All we hear is that Hollywood is a cesspool of sex, drugs an violence. Then I tried to think
FOX San Antonio.com: Last night’s Town Hall drew a very outspoken crowd on a controversial topic, immigration reform. Both sides on the issue argued over such topics as amnesty, jobs and crime. Then things got heated. Many for immigration reform
The always controversial ‘Jesus Piece’ rapper, who famously called for a boycott on Fox News 11 and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin, recently paid homage to President Obama by having a picture of the president’s faced tattooed on his chest.
When Fox News Host Jenna Lee asked Jay Carney why the White House will host its donors for the Easter egg roll while canceling tours for regular people Carney snapped But when Lee’s asked about the Benghazi attacks Carney seemed
Throughout the late-thirties and forties, 20th Century-Fox released a series of charming Technicolor musicals. While no classics emerged — no “Singin’ In the Rain” or “Bandwagon” — crowds were pleased in droves by the fluffy boy-meets-girl stories set in soundstage
In response to White Smoke Rises From Sistine Chapel: A New Pope Has Been Chosen: The LA Times reports: Jorge Mario Bergoglio was named the 266th pope Wednesday, succeeding Benedict XVI as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman
The Oklahoma House passed The Special Reserve School Resource Officer Act by a 68-23 vote on Tuesday, Fox News reports. The measure would allow public school districts to choose if they want to allow armed teachers. “Our children are grossly
In all of cable — all 94 ad-supported cable channels measured by Nielsen, Fox News placed fourth in primetime. By comparison, MSNBC placed 24th, HLN was 29th, and CNN hit 33rd. Current TV was dead last.
USA Today sportswriter Jeff Gluck (@Jeff_Gluck) displayed he does not know too much about conservative politics when he wrote an article on Wednesday that seemed to imply Sarah Palin had used the word “strategery” either seriously or because of a
Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin blasted NASCAR commentator Michael Waltrip on Wednesday for wrongly mocking her during last Sunday’s NASCAR telecast on Fox for words Palin never said or have been associated with her. After Palin re-tweeted the Breitbart
On Tuesday Fox News’ Bill Hemmer got into a heated exchange with Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)…
