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Report or Resist? Slate Hosts Panel Discussion on How to Cover Trump
Joe Concha of The Hill reports the liberal website Slate will host a panel discussion at New York University five days after Donald Trump's inauguration to struggling in public with “how the news media can and should proceed to cover” the president-elect. CNN media correspondent and Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter will moderate the liberal panel, titled "Not the New Normal." This is the first…
January 14th, 2017 1:39 PM
Character Suffers from Gender Identity Crisis on NBC’s ‘Emerald City’
Emerald City has only aired twice, and we’ve already seen demonic rituals and gruesome murders. This week, we’re introduced to a new topic: a character suffering an identity crisis, namely their gender.
January 14th, 2017 12:57 PM
CNN's Gupta Highlights Physician Who Opposes ObamaCare
A week after filing a report focused on a "lifelong conservative" who supports ObamaCare and worries about losing health insurance if it is repealed, CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Friday went in the other direction as he filed a report predominantly about the views of physicians who make a case against ObamaCare and complain that it has harmed the system.
Although the segment,…
January 14th, 2017 12:20 PM
Will This Be TV’s Most Fawning Obama Special?
A Smithsonian Channel special calls President Obama the greatest orator in U.S. history. The Smithsonian Channel may lap the mainstream media in its adoration of outgoing President Barack Obama. The channel is set to debut The Obama Years: The Power of Words on Feb. 27. The new special will, according to the web site, honor “the greatest writer and orator the White House has ever known.”
January 14th, 2017 12:15 PM
Slate Boss Salutes Irresponsibility: ‘I’m Glad BuzzFeed Published It’
Critics from across the media spectrum have slammed BuzzFeed for publishing something they failed to corroborate, a 35-page dossier of smarmy allegations against Donald Trump that was assembled by a firm hired to do opposition research on the GOP candidate. But on CBS Saturday morning, Slate editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg saluted BuzzFeed’s decision to disseminate the anti-Trump hit piece: “I’m…
January 14th, 2017 9:44 AM
Bozell & Graham Column: Hollywood vs. the 'Fascist' Election Result
The ad that takes the celebrity cake appeared In the January 11 edition of The Washington Post. Page A-5 carried a full-page advertisement. The top half had large capital letters, saying "No! In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America!"
"The presidency of Donald Trump is illegitimate," reads the ad copy in bold letters. "By any definition, Donald Trump is a fascist. He has…
January 14th, 2017 7:16 AM
NY Times' Rutenberg Bewails ‘Outgunned’ Media in Age of Trump
The New York Times a saw a rough road ahead for Trump cabinet choices. Meanwhile, media reporter Jim Rutenberg documented the latest go-round of Trump vs. the mainstream media, which Rutenberg claimed were “Outgunned, Outmaneuvered and in Need of a Game Plan.” And his NY Times colleagues provided a backhanded compliment, saying the president-elect’s social media wasn’t all “anger and spittle.”
January 13th, 2017 5:12 PM
Whoops! Cosmo Calls Brit Hume 'She' In Preferred Pronouns Article
Well, that’s embarrassing! In an article about preferred pronouns, Hearst Media Senior News Editor Megan Friedman misgendered political correspondent Brit Hume. The faux pas only added to the already ridiculous nature of the story.
January 13th, 2017 4:09 PM
Sanders Groupie Brzezinski Begs to Join Senator on Nationwide Tour
On Thursday morning, Mika Brzezinski was all too happy to be having Senator Bernie Sanders on Morning Joe. Not once, but twice during the 7 a.m. ET hour segment, she explained to Joe Scarborough that he had better not interrupt her or cut into the blocked off time that was set aside for Senator Sanders because of how excited she was to have him on the show. Not only that, but she also told her co…
January 13th, 2017 3:27 PM
CBS to Obama: Country ‘Deeply Appreciates’ Your Restraint on Trump
CBS This Morning on Friday previewed Barack Obama’s “final network interview as Commander-in-Chief,” touting a clip in which journalist Steve Kroft hails the President’s restraint in criticizing Donald Trump. Kroft initially prodded, “You have to admit this is one of the strangest transitions in history.... Can [Trump] run an improvisational presidency?”
January 13th, 2017 3:19 PM
American Univ. Prof: 'Russian Meddling' Must Mean 'A New Election'
Here we go again. A month ago, Robert Baer, a leading coddler of Iran who is an "Intelligence and Security Analyst" while pontificating at CNN, contended that alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election meant that the nation needs "to vote again." Now The Hill has given space to Chris Edelson, an assistant professor of government in American University's School of Public…
January 13th, 2017 3:15 PM
Celebs Raise Money for Progressive Groups in Inaugural ‘Love-a-thon’
On Inauguration Day, a group of celebrities will perform a “love-a-thon” event to raise money for several progressive organizations.
January 13th, 2017 2:00 PM
Behar Baits Biden to Bash Trump on 'The View'
Friday’s special guest on ABC’s The View was Vice President Joe Biden. Like ABC does with every Democrat guest, instead of asking critical questions, the panel split half their commentary into praising Biden and the other half into baiting him to slam Republicans. Host Joy Behar was the most frequent instigator though fellow host Whoopi Goldberg tried three times to get Biden to agree that Trump…
January 13th, 2017 1:53 PM
Carlson Hammers Ex-DOJ Spox Who Says Trump Presidency Is Illegitimate
On Thursday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson confronted former Obama Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller for suggesting that Donald Trump’s presidency is illegitimate and the election was not “fair and square.” Such debates have been catalysts for drawing eyeballs to Carlson’s eponymous FNC show and his promotion to 9:00 p.m. Eastern. That being said, this particular one didn’t…
January 13th, 2017 1:35 PM