President Biden on Friday issued an apparent repudiation of Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who recently denied the Holocaust and has for weeks been making other antisemitic comments, as well as of “political leaders” who amplify such voices, a reference to former President Trump. “I just want to make a few things…
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Lachlan Murdoch to be deposed by Dominion lawyers as part of lawsuit against Fox News
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch is set to be deposed early next week by lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems as part of the company’s defamation lawsuit against the cable news giant. Murdoch, the eldest son of Fox News owner and founder Rupert Murdoch, is scheduled to face questions from Dominion’s lawyers on Monday in Los Angeles,…
Chris Cillizza, HLN live programing among CNN cuts: reports
Journalist Chris Cillizza and a number of staffers at HLN are among the employees affected by sweeping layoffs and job cuts being implemented by CNN this week, according to multiple reports. Cillizza, a former Washington Post reporter who wrote a blog on politics for CNN.com and appeared frequently on the channel’s various shows to give…
Masked Ye goes on antisemitic tirade on Infowars: ‘I see good things about Hitler’
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, went on an antisemitic rant during a Thursday appearance on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars program, including praise for Nazis and Adolf Hitler. “You’re not Hitler, you’re not a Nazi, you don’t deserve to be called that and demonized,” Jones told Ye, who was appearing on his…
Cable news sees November election ratings boost
All three of the major cable news companies saw jumps in viewership this month compared to last November, thanks largely to the midterm elections. Fox News finished the month marking four straight months ahead of MSNBC and CNN combined across total day and primetime, averaging 1.5 million total viewers – up slightly from the previous…
Washington Post to end Sunday magazine
The Washington Post will cease production of its Sunday magazine and eliminate a number of editorial positions associated with the product. Executive Editor Sally Buzbee wrote in an e-mail to staffers on Wednesday the move is part of the Post’s “global and digital transformation,” the outlet reported. Several of the 10 magazine staffers who were…
Conservative host Mark Levin labels McCarthy GOP opponents the ‘five boneheads’
Conservative radio host and media personality Mark Levin is coming out in defense of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as he mounts a bid for the Speakership. “But there’s another reason the House Republicans have yet to vote for their leaders,” Levin said on his show this week. “They’ve yet to do it because of five boneheads in…
Don Lemon rejects idea CNN was ‘ever liberal’
CNN anchor Don Lemon pushed back on suggestions that the network has had a liberal bias in years past or has changed its editorial strategy under new CEO Chris Licht. “The word on the street is that you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore,” Late Night host Stephen Colbert told Lemon during the anchor’s…
Judge rules Nunes defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal can proceed
A judge in New York has ruled that a defamation case brought against NBCUniversal by former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) can proceed. In a 22-page decision, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel wrote Nunes’s attorneys had “plausibly allege[d] actual malice” in the case, Reuters reported, noting the justice did not make a determination about the merits…
Washington Post hires writer to launch climate advice column
The Washington Post is rolling out a new product it is calling a “climate advice column,” as part of a larger effort to expand its efforts covering climate change. The newspaper announced on Monday it had hired Michael Coren, formerly a deputy editor at Quartz who led the outlet’s climate coverage, as its “Climate Coach,”…