Author: Dominick Mastrangelo

Don Lemon out at CNN

CNN host Don Lemon says he has been fired by CNN. “I am stunned,” Lemon said in a message posted on Twitter on Monday, saying his agent had informed him of his firing by CNN president Chris Licht. Developing

Tucker Carlson and Fox News part ways

Tucker Carlson has parted ways with Fox News, the network said on Monday. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the network said in a statement. Carlson’s last show was Friday, the network said. Fox said it would air a new program called…

GOP senator criticizes Fox News interviews with Trump 

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has not been pleased with a number of interviews Fox News hosts and pundits have conducted with former President Trump in recent weeks. “In recent weeks I’ve watched 3hrs of FOX interviews of Trump All I hear is history,” Grassley wrote in a tweet on Sunday night. “Why hv hannity tucker…

Fox News faces new legal threat from Smartmatic 

Fox News has settled a blockbuster case brought by Dominion Voting Systems, but the network’s legal headaches are not over yet. A separate lawsuit from voting systems company Smartmatic similarly accuses Fox of maliciously giving Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani a platform to air false claims about the 2020 presidential election. But unlike Dominion, Smartmatic…

BuzzFeed News shutting down

BuzzFeed is shutting down its news division. In a memo to staff obtained by CNN, BuzzFeed Chief Executive Jonah Peretti said the company would lay off about 15 percent of its workforce as part of that shuttering. Peretti called the decision “deeply painful,” in his memo and cited “a tech recession” and “a tough economy” as…

Fox News and Dominion reach last-minute settlement

Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems have agreed to a blockbuster settlement over the network’s coverage of former President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. The settlement comes after months of courtroom fighting between the two parties, in what had been widely seen as a precedent-setting moment for defamation law that…

Judge delays Fox News vs. Dominion trial by one day

A judge in Delaware said late Sunday he would delay by 24 hours the beginning of a blockbuster trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News. “The Court has decided to continue the start of the trial, including jury selection, until Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.,” Superior Court Judge Eric Davis…