One of the questions I hear the most, as the editor of a site covering the cable news industry, is a tricky one: Why doesn’t Fox News do anything to rein in Tucker Carlson? Carlson’s rap sheet of journalistic miscarriages gets longer by the day. He used junk science to undermine Covid vaccines; he repeatedly […]
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A Connecticut jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay millions in damages to eight families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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Kanye West made anti-Semitic comments in an interview with Tucker Carlson, but they were edited out before the interview aired on Fox News.
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Margaret Sullivan, who fell in love with journalism in part because of the Watergate reporting of the Washington Post, brought her career at the Post to an end in August, shortly after the 50-year anniversary of the break-in that ended Nixon’s presidency. Sullivan, whose storied career in journalism took her from top editor of the […]
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Two people were shot outside the Long Island home of Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee in the race for governor of New York, on Sunday afternoon. Suffolk County Police confirmed to Mediaite that detectives are investigating a shooting that wounded two people outside Zeldin’s home in Shirley around 2:20 p.m. Sunday. They were transported to […]
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Ah, the perils of live punditry. The hosts of Fox & Friends Weekend learned the hard way this Sunday why it’s best to know what you’re talking about before you go on air. In an early morning segment, they defended Kanye West — whose unlikely support for Donald Trump has made him a bonafide celebrity […]
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MSNBC anchor Alex Witt issued a disclaimer to a comment made by an expert guest on air regarding the classified documents former President Donald Trump hoarded at Mar-a-Lago. Former CIA officer and FBI agent Tracy Walder appeared on MSNBC Sunday to help analyze a new report from the New York Times revealing Trump sought to […]
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A panel of Fox News pundits unanimously destroyed denials from Herschel Walker in response to a raft of allegations he encouraged a former girlfriend to get multiple abortions.
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Kanye West’s Twitter account was locked on Sunday after he posted a shocking threat against Jewish people. “The account in question has been locked due to a violation of Twitter’s policies,” a Twitter spokesperson told Mediaite on Sunday. West posted the tweet in question shortly before midnight Saturday. “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when […]
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Stephen A. Smith took to Twitter to clarify apparent revelations about his sexual life that went viral last week during an appearance on Jake Paul’s podcast.
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