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Since its official launch in 2013, Fusion has aimed to be a haven for sweet millennial clicks and a place for journalists to make a lot of money while practicing “post-text” journalism. You can debate whether it’s accomplished either of those things, but one thing that can’t be debated is that no one is actually…
Call from Oklahoma: I don’t know what’s going on in this world right now. Obama’s a Muslim and that’s all I’ve got to say. C-SPAN’s Steve Scully: Obama is not a Muslim, but thank you for making your comment. Call from Michigan: We need to get rid of every Muslim out of the country [sic],…
Fast-growing millennial publisher Mic has the luxury of starting from scratch with its six-month-old video strategy. That means betting heavily on Facebook. On Tuesday, Mic released the eighth episode of its debut video series, “Flip the Script.” Hosted by Mic senior editor Elizabeth Plank, the show tackles problematic cultural trends and stereotypes in snappy, three-to-seven-minute episodes….
The best series finales ever “Newhart,” “The Last Newhart,” 1990 “Newhart,” in which Bob Newhart played a Vermont innkeeper, though amiable, was less memorable than its predecessor, “The Bob Newhart Show.” And, indeed, the show was, in its final minutes, dismissed as ancillary to “The Bob Newhart Show,” when Newhart woke up to his “Bob…
Gawker has uncovered new details today concerning the at-times brutal three-year custody dispute between Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly and ex-wife, Maureen McPhilmy. In one instance, court documents say, O’Reilly violently attacked McPhilmy and dragged her down a staircase by the neck. According to a “source familiar with the facts of the case,” O’Reilly’s 16-year-old…
On “The O’Reilly Factor” last night, Megyn Kelly shamed host Bill O’Reilly for daring to criticize Pam Geller’s absolutist version of free speech, saying that he was “catering to the jihadis.” The pair were discussing the shooting of two Islamic extremists in Garland, Texas, on Sunday when O’Reilly echoed Donald Trump and claimed that Geller…
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CNN took a great deal of heat on Saturday evening for going all-out in its White House Correspondents’ Dinner coverage at the expense of ongoing protests in Baltimore. That general consensus of mockery continued Monday evening when Jon Stewart dedicated two full segments to lambasting the cable news network for its programming choices. “Once again,…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. If you think the widening chasm between the rich and the rest spells trouble for American democracy, have a look at the growing gulf between the information-rich and-poor. Earlier this year, a Harvard economist’s jaw-dropping study of American’s beliefs about the distribution of American wealth became a viral video. Now…
Today, Hillary Clinton embarked on a “surprise” tour of Iowa, which started at a community college in the eastern town of Monticello. There, she spoke to a small group of supporters, and inadvertently triggered what may be the most embarrassing video we see all campaign season when MSNBC caught sight of a mob of reporters…