LAT Journo Agrees With Parkland Student: 'Journalism *Is* Activism'

On Sunday, CNN's Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter spoke with Marjory Stoneman Douglas school newspaper co-editor Rebecca Schneid. When asked if she sees "a difference right now between journalism and activism and what you're doing," Schneid responded that "in its own right journalism is a form of activism." In a telling Twitter follow-up, Los Angeles Times reporter Matt Pearce, who should know…
Tom Blumer

Barf: Joe Scarborough Is Forcing His Music on People Again

Stop Joe Scarborough before he sings again. The smug, 54-year-old Morning Joe host created another music video on Monday, using footage of the pro-gun control March for Our Lives inter-cut with the song "Stand." The video aired at the very end of Monday’s show. Scarborough introduced: “That does it for us this morning. Before Chris Jansing picks up the coverage, we leave you with some more images…
Scott Whitlock

Blow, Sciutto Defend Liberal Parkland Students Holding ‘Nuanced’ Views

Using a debunked photo of Parkland student Emma Gonzalez ripping apart the Constitution and a Facebook post from Republican Congressman Steve King (Iowa) as cudgels, CNN Newsroom fill-in host Jim Sciutto and New York Times columnist Charles Blow rallied on Monday afternoon to defend the anti-gun, far-left Parkland students from conservative criticism.
Curtis Houck

NBC Chat With Hillary Aide Skips Clinton’s Bitter Attack on Voters

Despite devoting two full segments, totaling over 11 minutes, to an interview with former Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, on her Monday 9:00 a.m. ET hour show, NBC anchor Megyn Kelly failed to ask about the losing Democratic nominee’s recent bitter tirade against voters who did not support her in 2016.  
Kyle Drennen

Yikes! Kathy Griffin to Attend White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The media has always made a point to pit itself against President Donald Trump. And now, they’re employing Kathy Griffin’s help.  

Corinne Weaver

Of Course: Toobin Takes Shot at Trump in 'The Americans' Review

Donald Trump! So all-powerful that he can infect the minds of liberals 24/7. Much as they try, they just can't stop thinking about him. A case in point is poor Jeffrey Toobin. He wrote a review of The Americans in the April 2 New Yorker that took place in a time frame of no later than a quarter century ago.
P.J. Gladnick

Former CNN Reporter Pens Novel About Newsroom Harassment

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, media newsrooms have been hit with allegations of sexual harassment and assault again and again.  
Corinne Weaver

Facebook Responds to Claims It Gathered Android Phone Data

Android users who installed Facebook’s Messenger app on their devices may have had their call and text histories logged for approximately two years, according to a report in Ars Technica. Ars Technica reported that the issue occurred when certain Android users downloaded Messenger in 2015. Apparently, Facebook started chronicling information related to phone calls and text messages made from…
Ashley Rae Goldenberg

Celebs Celebrate Interview with ‘Powerful Bitch’ Stormy Daniels

In the midst of the utterings of doom from Hollywood, it’s interesting to see what merits a gleeful response from celebrities. The ongoing controversy over pornstar Stormy Daniels and President Trump has celebrities frolicking over the media’s salacious coverage of the story, the lawsuit, and the people involved. During Anderson Cooper’s Sunday interview with Stephanie Cliffords, otherwise known…
Corinne Weaver

The Liberal Media’s Brazen Double-Standard on Sex Scandals

The news media’s obviously insatiable appetite for scandal news surrounding Republican President Donald Trump is sharply at odds with their aversion to covering such stories about Democratic President Bill Clinton two decades ago. From March 7 through March 25, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts aired 23 reports about various allegations involving President Trump, totaling 40 minutes of…
Rich Noyes

Slimy: Kids Choice Awards Hype ‘Incredible’ March For Our Lives

It’s never too early to become a liberal activist, according to the media. On March 24, after the much-hyped March for Our Lives was over, the celebrities at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards decided to incorporate anti-gun politics into the green-slime filled event. Nothing says educational politics like celebrities -- fearing the infamous slime bath associated with the award show -- talking…
Corinne Weaver

Nets Impatient With Stormy’s ‘Tease,’ Devote 61 Minutes to Porn Star

All three networks on Monday adopted an impatient, irritated tone with Stormy Daniel’s lawyer Michael Avenatti. Good Morning America, CBS This Morning and Today hosts complained that the porn star’s 60 Minutes interview had been a boring “tease.” Despite the disappointment, these same networks still devoted a hefty 61 minutes of combined coverage to the Stormy Daniels story on Monday. 
Scott Whitlock

Parkland Students Call Anti-Gun and LGBTQ Activism ‘Linked’

Identity politics can only go so far. However, people on the left, especially people in political activism, tend to connect their sexuality with other topics. The Parkland survivors, in an interview with Yahoo Lifestyle senior editor Beth Greenfield, revealed how their work as LGBTQ activists has helped them now that they are part of the “antigun movement.”  
Corinne Weaver

Nets Cheer Gun Control Protest Becoming Get-Out-the-Vote Operation

Following adoring coverage of Saturday’s March for Our Lives gun control protest, on Monday, the broadcast networks were thrilled that the anti-gun movement was being turned into a liberal get-out-the-vote operation ahead of the 2018 midterm election. Journalists on the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows could barely contain their excitement at the prospect of the teenage activists “turning their…
Kyle Drennen