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James Warren at Poynter MediaWire noted that last week, Bernie Sanders picked up the endorsement of the Communications Workers of America, a 600,000-member union that includes 26,000 members of the NewsGuild – representing “journalists at The New York Tim ...

What's been implicit in TV commercials for years—that American husbands are feckless wimps—has now become explicit...  Tuning in to watch a simple Sunday Night Football game, we were treated to a Kia ad. Wife at the wheel as the family pulls into a c ...

Speaking to a Wall Street crowd at the UBS Global Communications Conference on Monday, CBS chief executive Les Moonves gleefully cheered Republican 2016 contenders going after one another in the primary contest: “We love having all 16 Republican candidate ...

Many products long not advertised on television now are commonly promoted during ad breaks. Writer Danielle Campoamor would like to add one more type of commercial to that list. “Why is it that I never see an ad for abortion services?” wondered Campoamor ...

Rupert Murdoch is in a pickle, and the famously abrasive lefty writer Matt Taibbi is loving every minute of it. In a Tuesday article for Rolling Stone, Taibbi portrays Murdoch as “desperate… because he senses his beloved audience of idiots” abandoning Fox ...

Word on the street is that ESPN is planning to lay off "200 to 300" employees in the coming months. The go-to euphemism surrounding the impending layoffs, according to Variety's Brian Steinberg, is "the changing media landscape," ...

UPDATE: Tide reached out to us and informed us that this commercial was a fan-made submission. They gave this response to MRC Culture: P&G Statement:  Many people like to share creative ways on how Tide fits into their lives.  This is one example of t ...

Appearing on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, former Meet the Press moderator David Gregory shared the inside story of his 2014 ouster from NBC: “Things happen in television news, we know that. It's a tough business....it’s just that it was handled in w ...

You wish he had named names... On today's Morning Joe,  Joe Scarborough flatly stated "I do blame it on cable news" for "people wearing uniforms being a lot less safe today than they were before Ferguson." So just which cable netw ...

Two weeks ago, cable and broadcast giant Comcast announced that its NBCUniversal unit would invest $200 million in Vox Communications, thereby "creating a partnership to help the television giant better connect with younger audiences." Based on ...

The morning after Al Sharpton was exiled  to the Sunday morning desert from his evening show, and not long after Ed Schultz and Alex Wagner were relieved of their hosting duties, Joe Scarborough has profusely thanked NBC News honcho Andrew Lack for making ...

"Al Sharpton is leaving MSNBC's weekday dayside lineup, and moving to Sunday mornings," Politico's Alex Weprin reported shortly after 7:30 Eastern this evening at CapitalNewYork.com. The activist-cum-TV host's last Politics Nation ...

A coalition of 53 press and open government organizations has “once again” urged President Barack Obama and the people in his administration “to stop practices in federal agencies that prevent important information from getting to the public.” According t ...

CNN has hired a conservative commentator.  Me. Yes, you read that right. For the past few days of the mania surrounding the Fox presidential debate I have been holed up at CNN’s New York headquarters, emerging before cameras periodically to stand up for t ...

There soon will be sixteen Republicans officially seeking their party’s 2016 presidential nomination, but New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman probably would replace “officially” with "nominally." In a Sunday post, Sherman suggested that many of ...