British police are examining whether Guardian newspaper staff should be investigated for terrorism offenses over their handling of data leaked by Edward Snowden, Britain's senior counter-terrorism officer said on Tuesday.
Bit by bit, the media narrative around the travails of Obamacare and its main enrollment vehicle, HealthCare.gov, is starting to look up. Or to put it more precisely, it is no longer so crushingly negative.
Publisher Ernest Hancock embraces all of it, faithfully conveying every talking point in the right-wing echo-chamber (e.g. Syria intervention = World War III) with smarts and style. It’s a damn fun read. freedomsphoenix.com
Palin recently canceled a NBC interview with Matt Lauer over the failure of MSNBC to discipline host Martin Bashir for saying that someone should defecate in Palin’s mouth after she compared federal debt to slavery.
Just as historical accounts in the old Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin would edit out any references to Leon Trotsky, so CBS News is editing out any references to its former news reporter and anchor Dan Rather in its “coverage” of the November 22, 1
MARCH AGAINST MAINSTREAM MEDIA is more than just a protest. It is an attack against the credibility of the mainstream media in an attempt to steer its viewers away from its lies and towards alternative media sources. There are too many important thin
“People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife used to be a lesbian?)
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The correspondent for a disputed “60 Minutes'’ segment about the attack last year on the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, apologized on the air Friday morning.
The detention of the partner of a former Guardian journalist has triggered fresh concerns after it emerged that a key reason cited by police for holding him under terrorism powers was the belief that he was promoting a “political or ideological cause
When Americans see a picture of President Obama in his office, on the phone or in some other function, the natural conclusion is that it was taken by a member of the press, that it captured the president’s real day-to-day duties.
Comedian Russell Brand was invited to appear on MSNBC's Morning Joe yesterday, ostensibly to talk about his controversial world comedy tour Messiah Complex.
After his MSNBC appearance challenging the talking heads of mainstream media generated millions of views on YouTube in a display of just how much the public craves real information, Russell Brand is now back on air exposing the situation and Syria an
At about the 5:30 mark, Brand decides he's had enough goofing around and seizes control of the show, demonstrating to the "journalists" how professionals conduct interviews and deliver news.
This week we saw how NSA Director General Keith Alexander called on the government to find a way to stop the free press from being . . . well . . . a free press and publish Snowden documents. This follows statements from Sen. Feinstein and
Former governor refuses invite to go on 'shambolic' Piers Morgan Live show
Spat started after Morgan sent joke tweet claiming the former Alaska governor believed Jesus celebrated Easter
A veteran Washington D.C. investigative journalist says Homeland Security confiscated her confidential files during a raid of her home leading her to fear a number of her sources inside the federal government have been exposed.
During the Oct. 16 episode of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," host Kimmel held a "kids table" segment on the government shutdown. And the segment has now raised all sorts of problems.
Some CNBC and Fox Business News reporters have come out against the $13 billion settlement JP Morgan has negotiated with the Justice Department to settle claims over faulty mortgage products sold in the run-up to the financial crisis.
This interviewer Jeremy Paxman is even a more apathetic a-hole than Piers Morgan. - The revolution itself may not be televised, but on last night's edition of the BBC's Newsnight, viewers may have witnessed the start of one.
The fatal flaw of this gathering, says this breathless correspondent, is that it includes (gasp) libertarians! "...take the stage with the representatives of this political movement? Why? The loss is much greater than the gain."