Sharyl Attkisson appeared on “The O’Reilly Factor” Monday night and told Bill O’Reilly that she thinks she knows who hacked into her computer. I think I know. But I’m just not prepared to go into that. We’re continuing our investigations.
On Monday, NSA leaker Edward Snowden did a live online chat with The Guardian (UK). Asked whether the debate over surveillance was panning out as he thought they would, Snowden answered: Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media
No one who watched the mainstream media coverage surrounding the Supreme Court deliberations about same-sex marriage needs a Pew study to tell them how horribly biased the coverage was. The only surprise is that the margin of stories favoring same-sex
The title is borrowed from Edwin Fadiman’s 1970 book. But the concern it expresses goes back almost two thousand years to the Roman poet, Juvenal. He became known as the first to use the term, Quis custodiet ipros custodes?, which literally
Last month, CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson said that she believed her computer had been compromised and that the matter was under investigation within CBS News. Through a series of tweets released Friday, Attkisson reported that an internal CBS investigation
Since the NSA and PRISM scandals broke, sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have been soaring. The story of an all-seeing, all-knowing state is suddenly relevant again. Yet long before Orwell focused his literary imagination on official propaganda, he attacked the deceptions
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/11: secretive team of NSA hackers and spies targets China, social media is full of narcissists, social media forces mainstream media to cover Turkey protests, Julian Assange appealed for secret
Chris Cillizza, the author of the Washington Post’s “The Fix” political blog of record for those seeking conventional D.C. thought, thinks the Washington Nationals had the worst week in Washington last week even even after there were more revelations about the
Speaking in San Jose, CA on Friday morning, President Barack Obama repeated the false claim, circulated by the mainstream media and the left, that insurance rates in California had fallen as a result of Obamacare with the state’s implementation of
Well, if it is Thursday, there must be a new Obama scandal. But one thing is for damn sure: whatever that scandal is, you can bet the American mainstream media will be playing catch up and not having the glory
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on Tuesday that the mainstream media’s hysteria over his conservative beliefs and refusal to play by Washington’s rules were signs that he was championing the right issues. Appearing on Mark Levin’s show, Cruz said the
The people pushing Comprehensive Immigration Reform don’t want you to hear a diversity of voices on the topic, hoping instead to crush debate as they ram their legislation through Congress. This is especially true with black Americans, among whom the
Though it regurgitates one of the media’s persistent false memes about Andrew Breitbart, Slate‘s tribute to Breitbart, in the form of a vignette by New Yorker stalwart George Packer, is an otherwise fitting celebration of the life and work of a new media pioneer and
Last Friday, the Democratic National Committee sent out a memo to reporters and declared that the word of the month for May to describe the GOP’s reaction to the Obama administration’s scandals was “overreach.” The memo highlighted at least seven stories
On Sunday’s Global Public Square on CNN, host Fareed Zakaria presented a version of the same argument percolating through much of the mainstream media: that our economy is succeeding thanks to government. Zakaria did allow that the private sector had led the
Sarah Palin showed on Saturday she never forgets her roots, saying she was honored to address high school graduates in a small town in Washington that helped her father 49 years ago when his station wagon broke down on his
James Comey, who is President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the FBI, is causing frissons of excitement in the mainstream media. His admirable reputation as a whistleblower in the George W. Bush administration is also being greeted as a welcome
Attorney General Eric Holder will go on a public relations campaign this week in an attempt to convince the journalism community and First Amendment advocates that his Justice Department did not attempt to chill and target journalists. Mainstream media organizations
Just over a month after the NRA won the the day when the Senate voted down a proposed gun control package on April 17, the New Republic declares the NRA isn’t as strong as you might think and gun ownership
Dennis Miller may have manned a faux news desk on Saturday Night Live, but he knows shoddy journalism when he sees it. And, sadly, that’s precisely what Miller has watched over the past five years as the mainstream media continues
It is difficult to interpret President Barack Obama’s speech Thursday on U.S. terror policy as anything more than an attempt to distract from the damaging recent revelations about the Benghazi terror attacks. The president is attempting to re-connect to his
Not really. The IRS had little interest in 501(c)(4) political activities until the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform. That law barred dedicated political-advocacy groups from soliciting and spending soft money–funds that aren’t subject to tight federal campaign-contribution limits and are used
In response to Dems Still Trying to Make IRS Scandal About Citizens United: At the Wall Street Journal, Justice Department veterans David Rivkin and Lee Casey discuss how Citizens United loomed large in the Left’s imagination, even as the IRS scandal was
Friday night the documentary Hating Breitbart opened in limited theatrical release and via Video On Demand services. It also became available for download at Rotten Tomatoes and iTunes. Written and directed by Andrew Marcus, Hating Breitbart follows the late, great
Donald Trump never does anything in half measures. The outspoken real estate mogul and reality show star used his Twitter account today to implore movie goers to check out the new documentary on late Internet mogul Andrew Breitbart. Director Andrew
