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Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump delegate Peter Thiel has defended his legal attack against Gawker Media by claiming the company “routinely published thinly sourced, nasty articles that attacked and mocked people.” At the same time, he has insisted that reporters should not be alarmed by his role in destroying an independent media outlet. “It’s…
storytext “Today” show co-host Billy Bush had no immediate comment about his role chatting with Donald Trump on a vulgar 2005 videotape revealed Friday. Angry comments piled up on Bush’s Facebook page from viewers who were disgusted by the contents of the tape, in which Trump brags in graphic terms about being able to grope…
Media The Online Video View: We Can Count It, but Can We Count on It? close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, left, spoke at Advertising Week about the company’s recent video miscalculation mishap. Credit Michael Nagle/Bloomberg ONE OF THE great promises of online videos was the potential to measure precisely how effective…
Media Facebook Apologizes for Overstating Video Metrics close story-meta-footer close story-meta Facebook apologized on Friday for an error in the way it measured video viewership, a miscalculation that greatly overstated how much time, on average, its users were spending watching videos. The incorrect numbers were displayed to partners, including advertisers and publishers, for more than…
WASHINGTON ― Glenn Beck’s website The Blaze is coming apart, suffering from a lack of editorial direction, staff attrition and internal discord, according to sources inside the news outlet. The site, which Beck launched in 2010 to serve as the conservative counterpart to The Huffington Post, has dropped from 25 employees on its editorial side to…
With a new tool, The Marshall Project has turned the internet into a tipline By Benjamin Mullin • September 30, 2016 Last updated by Benjamin Mullin September 30, 2016 a id=”dcl_comment_link” class=”comment_count” href=”#disqus_thread”> Comments a class=”comment_count” href=”#disqus_thread”> Comments Last month, Tom Meagher was on vacation in Prague when he got an email from a tipster….
Washington Post columnist and former New York Times ombudsman Margaret Sullivan wrote a scathing piece last week indicting Jeff Zucker, CNN’s president and Donald Trump’s previous television mentor at NBC, for his rise as a politician. She acknowledged that all the networks obsessively covered him and gleefully celebrated the ratings bonanza his candidacy created, but without…
the oppressor and the oppressed Oh dear, there is trouble in the Fox News family again. Megyn Kelly appears to be equal parts amused and appalled by how much time Sean Hannity spends on his knees for Donald Trump, so after the first presidential debate, she tooooootally Mean Girl-ed him during Fox News coverage of…
Verizon is pushing for a $1 billion discount off its pending $4.8 billion agreement to buy Yahoo, several sources told The Post exclusively. The request comes on the heels of the web giant getting bludgeoned by bad news in the past few days. Yahoo revealed two weeks ago that it had been hacked in 2014…