You gotta love “The Hollywood Reporter’s” opening sentence: You can’t blame director James Bobin for being slightly giddy these days. The Muppets is one of the best reviewed movies of the year (“We have a 97 percent rating on Rotten
– Question: During yesterday’s Cain presser media asked the presidential hopeful if he was willing to submit to a lie detector test. Given that media loves to place the burden of proof on the accused rather than forcing the accusers
So the hippies are still marching in the streets and ostensibly protesting Wall Street bankers and the unequal distribution of wealth, yet still finding time to defecate on police cars (and vandalize others). They are doing all of this while
From AP: “One media watcher says it seems that breaking the rules is considered heroic inside Rupert Murdoch’s empire. A publisher at the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has resigned over a cut-price circulation deal.” The “media watcher” expert that the
During an appearance on MSNBC’s “Maddow” show, host Rachel Maddow wonders if the tea party movement was only effective because people on the left feared violence from them. Bill Maher seems to agree. Maher: “If a brick came through Rupert
THR: A “Millionaires March” Tuesday is scheduled to visit the homes of five of the city’s wealthiest residents to protest the December expiration of a tax on the Big Apple’s richest individuals. NEW YORK – Occupy Wall Street protesters are
First Media Matters, now this. Two Chicago professors at a Catholic University have been caught using school resources to attempt to shut down a “Tea Party” jobs fair that was being held one block away from President Obama’s birthday fundraiser.
From FoxNews: David Brock, chairman and chief executive of Media Matters for America, told a news website earlier this year that his nonprofit is now moving to “sabotage” FOX News because it says the network is now the “de facto
From Fox Business: First of a three-part series David Brock, chairman and chief executive of Media Matters for America, told a news website earlier this year that his nonprofit is now moving to “sabotage” FOX News because it says the
Anders Behring Breivik’s manifesto, penned before his horrific mass murder in Oslo, contains 1,500 full pages of text, yet the New York Times has not asked readers to pore over it and help them find information relevant to their coverage
IMDB News: Alec Baldwin has called on Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron to resign over his handling of the ongoing News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been at the centre of claims reporters at his
The FBI opened an inquiry late last week into Rupert Murdoch‘s media empire amid allegations that British reporters tried to access cellphone messages and records of Sept. 11 victims. Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.), among the members of Congress who
Surely the most spectacular moment in the hearings on Tuesday occurred when Robert Murdoch’s young 42 year old wife, Wendi Deng, got up and slugged an intruder throwing a paper plate full of shaving foam at her husband, according to
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets072011.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Pejman Yousefzadeh and Elizabeth Blackney to discuss the Gang of Six plan to settle the budget deal and what
Rupert Murdoch ATTACKED at Hearing! A young leftist just attacked Rupert Murdoch at the hearing. Live Feed Here. Murdoch Attacked– His wife does a nice job slapping the attacker. [youtube iGiDxmXeH64 nolink] The Guardian reported: 4.58pm: The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg
Larry Flynt recently wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post lambasting Rupert Murdoch. In this piece, Flynt paints a stark contrast between his publishing practices and Murdoch’s regarding privacy: Murdoch “did not just cross the line – he erased it,”
Media Matters is currently engaged in a massive effort to make the News of the World phone hacking scandal the biggest thing since Watergate. The goal, of course, is to tarnish anything associated with Rupert Murdoch so that it eventually
Chris Matthews on Rupert Murdoch. I’ve never seen a media entity talk so much about its competition.
Media Matters is a propaganda outfit. Their 501(c)(3) status is a scam. They’re paid operatives whose donors really hate Fox News — so much so that Media Matters violates their own “standards” when deciding what is or isn’t worthy of
Britain has gone completely mad over the Rupert Murdoch/News of the World hacking affair and the contagion is spreading to America fast. I knew things were bad when I spoke yesterday to a normally reliably conservative US talk radio show.
LONDON (AP) – News International announced Thursday it is shutting down the News of the World, the best-selling tabloid at the center of Britain’s phone hacking scandal. James Murdoch, who heads European operations for the paper’s parent company, said the
The call to disallow Media Matters use of a 501(c)(3) status is growing, most recently with this in-depth article from the Washington Times: What the news coverage has ignored is his use of tax-free funds for his organization, Media Matters
“The assassination of an unarmed human being while surrounded by his own relatives is something abhorrent. Assassinating him and sending him to the depths of the sea shows fear and insecurity, (and) turns him into a much more dangerous figure.”
In the wake of Tucson, we’re all supposed to be employing a New Tone. In fact, failure to do so is considered grounds for being hounded off the air, at least that’s the standard the shills at Media Matters have
