Shares of most major entertainment and media conglomerates have been hit hard amid continued fears surrounding the coronavirus, with shares of Disney, ViacomCBS, Comcast, and Fox falling below or near their 52-week lows.
The coronavirus has already hammered the travel and airline sectors as more consumers are opting to stay at home to avoid getting sick. Now the virus has claimed another economic victim: the news media and Hollywood, which are feeling the financial ripple effects of a weakening advertising market.
“I’d like to just ask, and caution that the media, we would respectfully ask the media, and politicians, and everybody else involved not to do anything to incite a panic because there’s no reason to panic at all,” Trump said.
Impotent white noise. That’s all the media are now. And it’s glorious.
Facing a firing squad of woke journalists, actor Jeremy Irons has publicly atoned for his past comments on abortion, same-sex marriage, and sexual harassment ahead of this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where the actor is serving as jury president.
Michael Savage’s Liberalism is a Mental Disorder is the most commonly stolen book at San Francisco’s public library.
“After interviewing Pete Buttigieg supporters outside without issue, one of his staffers came up to my cameraman (an African American male) and ripped off his press credential saying ‘I don’t think you’re supposed to have credentials,'” he wrote.
Traditionally, the president invites top journalists to an off-the-record lunch to talk about his goals for the State of the Union address.
ROME — The Guardian newspaper has denounced the rise of what it calls an “anti-woke backlash,” warning liberals they are losing the battle for society’s soul to conservatives.
It was Alex Marlow’s unique foresight on that fateful Friday evening in late May 2011 that made Weinergate a story at all. Marlow saw it as a cybersecurity story, not a sex scandal.
The nation’s immigration policies are built on a back-room corporatist bargain between Democrats and cheap-labor businesses, says an op-ed published in the New York Times.
DES MOINES — Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg ran away from reporters’ questions in the spin room after the Democrat debate — again.
A rapid “demographic shift” is helping to replace President Donald Trump’s base of white working-class voters with Democrat supporters, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Several media outlets reacted to the U.S. elimination of Tehran’s top general Qasem Soleimani with glowing eulogies, describing him as an “icon,” a “bodybuilder with snowy white hair” and “a dapper beard,” and a “brave, charismatic” hero “beloved” by troops.
Following a knife attack at a Hanukkah celebration in New York State, some on the left are blaming President Donald Trump.
Relected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set his sights on the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), promising a slew of changes in the mechanisms that previously guaranteed the broadcaster immunity from fiscal accountability.
You’ve got to hand it to what’s left of Time magazine: it hasn’t lost its unerring ability to put its finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, invariably managing to name a Person of the Year who sums up perfectly the madness of the age.
Pelosi raised her glass and toasted the press as the “guardians of democracy” after unveiling the articles of impeachment on Tuesday.
Business Insider reports 7,700 people lost their media jobs this year, which is more — a lot more — than the 5000 who lost their media jobs over the four years between 2014 – 2017.
Boris Johnson has spent this election treating Donald Trump’s friendly overtures with about as much enthusiasm as Prince Andrew fending off a cheery call from his old mate Jeffrey Epstein.
Actor and left-wing activist John Cusack retweeted a video montage of MSNBC hosts and commentators excoriating socialist senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (D-VT). The tweet featured the hashtag “Boycott MSNBC.”
President Donald Trump appeared publicly on Tuesday, squashing conspiracy theories that he had suffered severe health problems.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is questioning the accuracy of Clint Eastwood’s forthcoming film, Richard jewell, based on the mainstream media’s inaccurate reporting of Richard Jewell, a man who was defamed after risking his own life to save innocent people before a bomb went
This month marks the tenth anniversary of Climategate — the biggest scandal in the brief, ignominious history of “climate science”. So naturally, the left-wing media has commemorated the occasion with a series of articles and a documentary which could all have been titled: ‘Move along, nothing to see here.’
Audrey and Richard McIntosh are fighting to change the Title IX process in higher education after their son was expelled from college.
Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr., President Rodrigo Duterte’s top diplomat, replied “fuck you” to a reporter on Twitter on Wednesday for sending him the text of a law that requires him and all public officials to adhere to high standards of “professionalism.”
The Jewish Chronicle has taken the extraordinary step of dedicating its entire front page to a plea to gentile readers not to back Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn in Britain’s upcoming snap election.
The chairman of the Democratic National Committee tried to change the subject when he was asked on Spanish-language TV about Latino gains in President Donald Trump’s economy.
Mark Cuban has an idea of how to lower the level of partisanship in the country today: Have the government make a law mandating fact-checks on news opinion.
President Donald Trump celebrated the successful mission that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Friday but joked that the wounded canine unit that was part of the mission got more media attention than he did.
While crisscrossing the country giving speeches, raising money, and rallying his father’s supporters for 2020, Donald Trump Jr. also picked up a love of political meme warfare.
Where is the courage? You sure won’t find it within the “Resistance.” In September of 2018, we were treated to a rather incongruous Op-Ed by “Anonymous,” published in, of all places, the venerable New York Times.
The Guardian newspaper announced it is changing its style rules to reflect that it is not “climate change” but a “climate emergency.”
The federal government’s immigration policy must benefit ordinary Americans, not just American investors, citizenship chief Ken Cuccinelli told reporters on Wednesday.
“Wow! Hunter Biden is being forced to leave a Chinese Company,” Trump wrote on Twitter after Hunter Biden’s attorney confirmed Sunday that he would step down from the board.
People magazine’s annual list of “Women Changing the World” includes Democrats Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy Klobuchar and Oprah Winfrey, soccer star Megan Rapinoe, and actress-activists Brie Larson and Evan Rachel Wood.
Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh slammed the NBA, the media and Democrats for the tack each have taken regarding China and a willingness kowtow to the communist regime regarding protesters in Hong Kong.
The change in U.S. policy in Syria that triggered a media storm on Monday involves the redeployment of fewer than 25 troops from the Turkish border to elsewhere in Syria, a State Department official was quoted as saying.
On this weekend’s broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group,” syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan, author of “Nixon’s White House Wars,” reacted to allegations targeting President Donald Trump regarding potential wrongdoing involving former Vice President Joe Biden, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic
The disgraced New York Times is spreading the fake news Brett Kavanaugh accuser Debora Ramirez has seven people who can back up her assault claim.
