The self-described “Most Trusted Name in News” needs a ratings life line. So CNN, a network completely in denial about its growing liberal bias, is reaching out to another network for help – one with a track record of liberal
HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher: “The grown-up answer to our massive national problems is “Identify them scientifically and prioritize.” The Republican answer is “There isn’t a problem, and anyone who tells you different is a liar who hates America.
Ever wonder why the vast majority of politically charged entertainment content favors left of center arguments? Wonder no more. Between Jan. 1, 2011, and July 20, 2012, employees at the seven major media conglomerates — Comcast, Disney, News Corp., Time
On his show HBO’s Real Time, Bill Maher claimed there is a racist message within a pro Romney Republican National Committee ad.
Bill Maher is in a bragging mood these days. The liberal comedian, whose HBO series “Real Time with Bill Maher” returns with fresh episodes tonight, tells Politico he won’t apologize for his hard-hitting jokes. He doesn’t have to serve up
On HuffPost Live, HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher on President Obama’s drug policy: “This is one area where Obama has been such a dismal failure and a liar.”
The pro-Obama super PAC known as HBO aired its latest advertisement Sunday in an hour-long spot called “The Newsroom: Season 1, Episode 8.” The ad tackles the Weinergate scandal as part of a parable about the decline of journalistic standards,
Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom” on HBO mocked Andrew Breitbart, Big Government, and the Anthony Weiner story as tabloid journalism.
It’s Thursday, and that means USA Network’s two best currently running series have new episodes: “Burn Notice” and “Suits.” Here are some thoughts on the shows, which you can watch beginning at 9 p.m. EST tonight. Halfway through its sixth season, “Burn
Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama, “The Newsroom,” has been resoundingly criticized not only by conservatives for peddling false memes about the Tea Party and against American exceptionalism, but also by liberal publications like The New Yorker, which called the show “insufferable.”
A man reported to have the world’s largest penis was flagged for additional screening as a potential security threat by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials in the San Francisco International Airport earlier this month. Jonah Falcon, the subject of an
HBO’s much maligned new series “The Newsroom” may have received the all-clear for a second season, but it won’t have many of the writers who helped craft the initial 10 episodes. The Hollywood Reporter: According to HBO, the Aaron Sorkin
The central political topic of the fourth episode of HBO’s “The Newsroom” by Aaron Sorkin? Gun control. “I’ll Try to Fix You” begins in Jeff Daniels’ anchorman character Will McAvoy’s office with Wade, an Assistant US Attorney, informing McAvoy (who
Comedian George Lopez Saturday night during his HBO special: Mitt Romney “ain’t going to get” the Latino vote because he’s “a f–king Latino and he won’t admit it.”
George Lopez went political on his live HBO special “It’s Not Me, It’s You” last night. He joked that Mitt Romney was a closeted Latino since his father was born in Mexico but saved his harshest words for famed Arizona
Like The West Wing, The Newsroom is penned by liberal activist and TV producer Aaron Sorkin. Who is writing it? According to Sorkin’s writing team, the George Soros-funded, extremist website Think Progress is doing the heavy lifting for team Sorkin.
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It’s not HBO, it’s the USA Network. HBO routinely plays to its progressive fan base – and critics – with politically charged programming like “Real Time with Bill Maher” and “The Newsroom.” USA Network has something far different in mind
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Sen. Mike Lee understands HBO’s “The Newsroom” blends fiction and reality. But the Tea Party favorite isn’t happy with the ratio of truth to creative license in this past Sunday’s episode. [Lee] complained to HBO recently after the lead character
There was a time when everyday Americans trusted Dan Rather for their objective news. He was considered a voice of the people, a challenger to the established authorities. Then he broadcast a falsified report on President Bush’s time in the
No one actually believed Aaron Sorkin when he said he didn’t have an ideological ax to grind in making his new HBO series “The Newsroom.” But the level of vitriol against the right on the series, in just three initial
The network that gave us such fair and balanced projects as “Game Change,” “Recount” and “The Newsroom” is scrapping plans for a Fox News film because it “could never be seen as objective.” It’s a shame the network doesn’t use
Deadline.com Now HBO has done a secret deal for an Untitled Roger Ailes Project. It’s based on the upcoming manuscript by media writer Gabriel Sherman who has written two cover stories for New York magazine on Ailes and Fox News, including his mammoth article “The Elephant In
Discourse is something that is always changing, but not necessarily evolving. I think of television footage I’ve seen of one of my heroes, William F. Buckley, engaging in discussions with people from the other side of the aisle like Saul Alinsky, Huey
I readily enjoyed the first episode of HBO’s latest series, “The Newsroom,” and looked forward to seeing what show creator Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter behind “The West Wing” and “Moneyball,” had in mind for episode two. For the uninitiated, “The
