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“Funny, right?” she says, smiling. It was her job to rip out the news as it came into the newsroom and hand it to the men in charge. It went on like that for a while. Even when she finally scored a position in the White House press corps, she knew where she stood….
If you want to make a YouTube video of someone reacting to something, you’ll have to go through the Fine Bros. Variety reports that Rafi and Benny Fine, who’ve built a YouTube empire on interviewing kids, teens, and old folks about various pop-cultural phenomena, have set up a new venture called React World….
LOS ANGELES — Now it’s The Fine Brothers who are having to react. The duo behind the hugely popular “React” videos is licensing the brand to other creators, and #TeamInternet is divided. Or maybe just a little confused about what the deal actually means for them. The YouTube duo’s five-year-old Entertainment’s REACT channel, which has…
Al Jazeera America’s employees didn’t see it coming. They thought they had more time. The cable news channel was always a gamble. Everyone knew that — the anchors, the producers, the engineers. And in retrospect, the channel was probably doomed from the get-go. But the business plan called for seven to ten years of huge…
Reddit Releases First Original Series, Moves Toward Video Content Creation Entertainment, social networking and user-provided news website Reddit released its first original video series called “Cyborg Nation” on Wednesday. By Tyler MacDonald | Nov 05, 2015 05:00 AM EST article start img_article start Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian used ideas taken from Reddit users to help…
Al Jazeera America will close by April 30th, AJAM CEO Al Anstey announced Wednesday. The network said, “The decision by the AJAM board was driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace.” The network captured a lot of media attention…
Executives of Al Jazeera America (AJAM) today are holding a meeting at 2 pm Eastern Time to tell their employees that the company is terminating all news and digital operations in the U.S. as of April, 2016, resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs. The announcement marks a stunning and rapid collapse of what, from the…
paging_filter Al Jazeera, which made a massive investment in covering the United States less than three years ago, is slamming the brakes on its American operation. Al Jazeera America, a cable news channel that debuted in August 2013, is shutting down. Employees were informed of the decision during an all-hands staff meeting on Wednesday afternoon….
I Consider a simple and deceptively important question: What exactly is the Republican Party, anyway? One possible answer to this question — more commonly held than one might expect at first blush — is that the Republican Party is a group of people very loosely bound by little more than an arbitrary shopping list of…
The week before Thanksgiving saw some of the most overtly xenophobic, militaristic and fact-free media proclamations since the weeks in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Glen Greenwald appeared on CNN over the weekend to call out the cable news network for its role leading the beat of war drums. “Reliable…