Really, can it get any worse? Can once-proud media organizations sully themselves any more? Andrea “NBC News, Washington” Mitchell married to Alan Greenspan. Christiane Amanpour married to former Clinton Administration mouthpiece Jamie Rubin. Speaking of Clinton hacks, James Carville and
In 1979 David Halberstam’s book, The Powers That Be, claimed that the major media had “stopped following the news and was now making the news. “An account of the rise of the modern media as an instrument of political power,”
Also on part one of Monday’s show: Farrakhan’s Obama revelation.
Mediaite: Classic sketches like “Debbie Downer” and “Bronx Beat” ended up as web-only extras — along with a funny sketch lampooning the Times Square bomber. All funny — except the Times Square bomber sketch had been leaked to Politico’s Patrick
MSNBC: President Barack Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, NBC News’ Pete Williams reported late Sunday night. Kagan, 50, served as the Dean of Harvard Law School
The New York Times: All it took to reinvigorate a 35-year-old comedy show was the presence of an 88-year-old woman.
UPDATE: Here’s the new link to Ebert’s post. When the story broke involving five high school students sent home by school administrators for daring to wear the American flag on Cinco de Mayo, the once universally-beloved film critic Roger Ebert
Well, surprise, surprise. The Media Research Center released a study yesterday that says by a margin of twelve to one, the coverage has been heavily negative: ABC, CBS, and NBC all are ripping Arizona’s immigration law. Anyone who follows this
The Washington Post: A Marine lieutenant calls his hometown station, saying he is coming home early from a combat tour of Iraq and Afghanistan and wants to surprise his wife — with the cameras rolling. But because Lt. Denver Edick’s
The case of Too Much Media, LLC (Plaintiff) v. Shellee Hale (Defendant), decided by the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division on April 22, 2010, is not a decision that should cause alarm among those who are engaged in,
Did MSNBC’s prime time clean-up hitter go crazy in the locker room last week? That’s the story bouncing around the web and even the New York Times. Olbermann has denied derailing the Donny Deutsch train, but he admits doing nothing
It looks like the end is near for the dinosaurs formerly known as the news divisions of the Big Three — at least two of them anyway. Hard on the heels of layoffs at CBS came a serious ax-wielding at
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com MRC: NBC’s [Andrea] Mitchell played clips from two left-wing comedians, as she asserted: “It’s now gone beyond protest to threats of a boycott, as Arizona becomes a laughing stock to some.” Viewers then
—– —– When you consider the fact that these are the only types of jobs our “economy” is creating today… Nice to see SNL go after a real sacred cow for a change. Like a stopped clock they can’t help
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Hot Air Pundit: This is sickening, I assure you, if this was Bush, NBC would have found some protesters for the story…NBC Mike Viqueria: “All that matters is
As you can see from this photograph, I can’t quite reach Sarah Palin. This is a group shot of Sarah with my fellow Tea Party Express-ers in Boston. I’m on the left in the back row next to a man
NBC Chicago: Following the collapse of his family’s bank, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias said he has renewed vigor to win President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. The Democrat’s voice cracked with emotion as he talked Friday about the collapse of
Along with the usual cable suspects, ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC were sporting so much green yesterday that I thought I it was St. Patrick’s Day and that I had awakened from a Rip Van Winkle-like coma after sleeping for
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Fox News: The infidelity-promoting website AshleyMadison.com, which touts the slogan ‘Life is Short. Have an Affair,’ normally reaches viewers on cable television in the early hours of the morning. But Pop Tarts has
The Atlantic: Today, it’s an astonishing, even eerie, scene: the icon of modern American conservatism, whose rise to political prominence was galvanized by the cultural rebellion of the 1960s, fighting off an attack-at-gunpoint by the quintessential modern American rebel. But
The Atlantic Online has a video up today of an unearthed TV episode featuring Ronald Reagan and James Dean acting together, unseen for decades. Edited from “The Dark, Dark Hours” episode of General Electric Theater, which aired live from Hollywood
In my book Red Hot Lies, I dedicated chapter one to the media’s gullibility, and worse, in enabling the global warming industry. Media service to weather or climatic panics goes back more than a century. One particularly amusing anecdote is
