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For journalists, it was the best of popes and it was the worst of popes. News outlets were often negative when Pope Benedict visited the United States in 2008, calling him an “enforcer,” “God’s Rottweiler,” and “very conservative.” Not so this time around ...

An anti-Western propaganda network is reportedly letting go a quarter of its workforce. But this time it’s not MSNBC. On Tuesday, The Guardian reported that falling oil prices are forcing the Qatari emir to cut expenditures. So rather than cut his funding ...

After waxing disingenuous about how they respect and encourage athletes of all different races, backgrounds and viewpoints to express their political opinion regardless of what it may be, ESPN’s Jemele Hill and Michael Smith used a significant portion of ...

While appearing on a show hosted by someone famous for once wearing tampons as earrings, ESPN’s Jemele Hill discussed the endorsement struggles of black tennis star Serena Williams with MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. Harris-Perry noted that white tennis st ...

Say this for ABC, CBS and NBC: they’re nothing if not tenacious. The networks have been diligent, even relentless, in their efforts to ignore the Planned Parenthood scandal, proving that when they circle the wagons around an ideological comrade, they stay ...

In his zeal to smear the NYPD, ESPN writer JA Adande made an analogy on Twitter, the stupidity of which burned with the undying strength of a thousand suns. Adande posted this gem comparing the football players in San Antonio who assaulted a referee on th ...

Example #547,282 why a modern liberal arts BA has all the inherent honor and usefulness of a fake phone number scrawled on a cocktail napkin: Michael Todd Landis writing on George Mason University’s History News Network proscribing language we are allowed ...

My apologies for the minor coronaries and intestinal discomfort the headline of this piece undoubtedly caused. However, I promise it’s not all bad. In a move that will most certainly result in the purge of the ESPN films department, the “4-letter network” ...

ESPN suspended Curt Schilling from the Little League World Series for his tweet comparing the number of extremists in Islam today to the number of Nazis in Germany in the 1940s. Now ESPN has suspended Curt Schilling for the rest of the Major League Baseba ...

The Hollywood Reporter ’s calling it “yet another unconventional media move for the president.” You might call it a frivolous distraction for a POTUS faced with an anemic economy, an angry electorate and a foreign policy more or less embodied by the feckl ...

Viewers looking forward to the season finale of Mr. Robot on USA Network last night were disappointed to find a rerun of last week’s episode. The network postponed the final episode until next week because “The previously filmed season finale of Mr. Robot ...

Ronda Rousey is as smart as she is tough, and she’s a hero for how she foiled a reporter’s attempt to turn her into a feminist icon on any terms other than her own. In an interview this past weekend with Yahoo’s Bianna Golodryga, Rousey touched on why she ...

ESPN is the latest on the dump Trump bandwagon. The network is pulling its July 14 ESPY Celebrity Golf Classic from Trump National Golf Club over Donald Trump’s comments about Mexican illegal immigrants last month. The only surprise here is that it took E ...

If nothing else, the media’s triumphalism over the SCOTUS gay “marriage” decision proves they’re sore winners. True, they deserve a victory lap –  they and their pals in the entertainment industry made this constitutional and civilizational abomination po ...

Happy Independence Day, or, as the left might call it this year, “Original Sin Saturday.” July 4 th is when we celebrate the birth of The United States. But, whereas you commemorate the inception of what Lincoln called “the last best hope of earth,” liber ...