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New York Times Film Critic Curses ‘Eddington’ Director for Mocking BLM
Stephen Colbert wouldn’t touch it. Nor would Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers or Jimmy Kimmel. “Saturday Night Live?” As they say in New York, fuhgeddaboudit!! It’s Black Lives Matter (BLM), the hard-Left group that had a cultural moment following George Floyd’s death.
CNN's Blackwell Is Upset Trump Admin Is Ending Race-Based Farm Grants
CNN’s Victor Blackwell had two crazy takes as he hosted Saturday’s First of All. First, he claimed that the National Portrait Gallery not featuring a painting of a black, female transgender Statue of Liberty was some great affront to history, and secondly, he lamented that the Department of Agriculture is ending race-based farm grants.
PBS Warns Of 'Institutional Capture' As Columbia Settles With Trump
Even by its own standards, the weekly Friday news recap featuring PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks was especially tone-deaf and unintelligent. The trio would have you believe that Columbia University settling with the Trump administration is both a threat to universities…
Connie Chung Melts Down Over Skydance Merger, Demands Censorship
Former CBS Evening News co-anchor Connie Chung surfaced on Friday afternoon’s CNN News Central to pitch a series of unhinged rants over Skydance Media’s impending purchase of CBS’s parent company Paramount Global. Chung declared it “the end of CBS as I knew it,” claimed CBS News won’t have minorities like her, insisted “honest, unbiased, fact-based journalism” would no longer happen…
FCC Approves Skydance Purchase of CBS News’s Parent Company
Late Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it had “approved Skydance’s $8 billion acquisition of Paramount Global and its subsidiaries, including the ultimate parent company of the CBS network of owned and operated broadcast television stations, by granting a series of applications that transfer FCC licenses and authorizations.”
TIME Magazine Excluded Conservative Podcasts on Top 100 List
TIME magazine correspondent Eliana Dochterman represented bias for the company on Wednesday when an article titled “How We Chose the 100 Best Podcasts of All Time” was published and did not include one conservative podcast.
CNN Thinks Enforcing Civil Rights Is ‘Fascism’ and ‘Extortion’
If you watched Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN NewsNight, Ana Navarro and Keith Boykin would have you believe Donald Trump is “extorting” Columbia University and running a “fascist” operation from the White House. But let’s get serious. What actually happened at Columbia is not a criminal shakedown, it’s accountability. When a university accepts billions in federal funding, it has a…
Daily Show's Kosta: CBS Caved To 'Authoritarian' In Dumping Colbert
The Daily Show’s Michael Kosta proved two things on the Monday edition of his Tennis Anyone podcast, so named because in his previous life, Kosta was a professional tennis player. First, apparently everybody has a podcast, but more importantly, the late night shows have an oversized view of their own self-importance, as Kosta demanded CBS take a loss on Stephen Colbert’s show…
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IT’S (D)IFFERENT: CBS Evening News Plus Whines About TX Redistricting
With the Texas Legislature in a special midterm redistricting session that is likely to end with a gain of around 5 House seats for Republicans, you can expect the legacy media to sound all manner of alarms signifying that that is routine under Democrats is an existential threat to Democracy when Republicans do it. CBS Evening News Plus has taken an early crack at redistricting.
Evening News Coverage of Hulk Hogan's Death is Mixed, At Best
Pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan passed away today and evening news coverage was mixed, at best. The legacy networks played up Hogan’s racial incident and politics while mostly minimizing or outright omitting his role in the lawsuit that resulted in the bankruptcy of Gawker.
NPR Panicking Over CA Hospital’s Cuts to Gender-Affirming Mutilation
On All Things Considered on Tuesday, NPR was able to take some time out of their busy schedule crying about cuts to their government funding to worry about cuts to another program just as undeserving of taxpayer dollars: “gender-affirming” mutilation of minors. Affiliated reporter Megan Jamerson of KCRW reported on the spreading fear as Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announced it…
Amanpour Upset US Won’t Pay UN-Ordered Climate Reparations
On Wednesday, PBS’s Amanpour & Company featured eponymous host Christiane Amanpour interviewing and lamenting to Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change Ralph Regenvanu that rich countries will ignore the United Nations's International Court of Justice ruling that rich countries must pay reparations to poor countries over climate change.
Look Out, Libs: Company Seeking to Buy CBS Promises Ombudsman
Skydance Media — the company seeking to purchase for $8 billion Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS — said in a letter dated Tuesday to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr that, among the changes they’d make to the company, they would hire an ombudsman to ensure “viewpoint diversity” and avoid “complaints of bias.”
