The owner of Sports Illustrated said it had chosen a new company to publish the magazine, a deal that could settle some of the recent friction at the storied publication and continue the print edition. Authentic Brands Group, which owns the intellectual property rights to Sports Illustrated as well as to celebrities like Marilyn Monroe […]
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“Bloodbath”-Gate: Yes, Trump Meant the Auto Industry. At First, Anyway
Still, maybe he only meant an economic bloodbath. In fact, that’s just typical Trump bluster—built as usual on lies. The Biden economy as we all know reeled from inflation in 2022 and 2023, and that overwhelmed the narrative. Beyond that, the 289,000 jobs gained per month during Biden’s term is the highest for any president […]
Read MoreWhat Must Nelson Peltz Do to Get Some Respect?
At age 81, with over four decades of dealmaking and corporate cage-rattling under his belt, Nelson Peltz would seem to have pretty much everything. He’s a billionaire. Until the hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin came to Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Peltz had the largest property tax bill in town, with an oceanfront estate estimated to […]
Read MoreGerald M. Levin, Time Warner Chief in a Merger Debacle, Dies at 84
Gerald M. Levin, a “visionary” media executive, as he was often described, who became C.E.O. of the world’s largest media company, Time Warner, and an architect of its merger with America Online, widely considered the worst corporate marriage in American history, died on Wednesday. He was 84. Jake Maia Arlow, a grandchild of Mr. Levin’s, […]
Read MoreHow the Media Whitewashes the Trump-MAGA Threat—Revealed by an Insider
Over the weekend, The New York Times published a news analysis titled, “The Biden-Trump rerun: A nation craving change gets more of the same.” This has become a constant refrain in the press: One of the candidates is running on an explicit set of promises to destroy American democracy, yet the press keeps calling this […]
Read MoreWhy We Never Got a “Murrow Moment” With Trump
Murrow understood that McCarthyism was bigger than the actions of a single senator, as he explained near the end of his March 9 broadcast. McCarthy, he said, “didn’t create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it—and rather successfully.” The roots of that fear, Murrow believed, could be traced to a public that had forgotten […]
Read MorePhysical media is having a moment
For as long as humans have made stories, songs, and other forms of self-expression, we have also endeavored to find new and theoretically better ways to share those efforts with others. Cave paintings, illuminated manuscripts, wax cylinders, vinyl, laserdisc and so on — each new medium brings its own unique set of assets and challenges. […]
Read MoreEverybody Hates the Supreme Court’s Disqualification Ruling
But while he agreed with the final outcome, he also found plenty of fault with how the court got there. The justices dismissed, for example, the idea that the election clauses in Article 1 and 2, which allow states to hold elections for federal offices, also allow them to apply disqualifications under the Fourteenth Amendment. […]
Read MoreBiden Needs to Stop Hiding
Hersey had been granted a short interview with Truman, a self-taught lover of history who revered Plutarch’s Lives, biographical sketches of great Greeks and Romans. Instead of asking the predictable reporter questions, Hersey used his time to appeal to Truman’s obligation to history. The result: Hersey was soon allowed to roam the Truman administration for […]
Read MoreHow U.K. Media Is Covering Kate, Princess of Wales, After Her Abdominal Surgery
After a week of often hysterical speculation about her well-being, there were suddenly two plausible pieces of evidence that Catherine, Princess of Wales, was on the mend: a photo of her in a car driven by her mother and a confirmation by the British Army that she would attend a military ceremony in June. But […]
Read MoreThe Right-Wing War on Abortion Has Nothing to Do With Babies
This is the crux of the whole damn thing: It doesn’t matter what a person wants the autonomy for! She can want to use her bodily autonomy to conceive through in vitro fertilization with her husband of 15 years, or she can want to use it to take Plan B after a one-night stand, or […]
Read MoreA Year of Republicans Lying About Abortion
As Brian Beutler pointed out in his Off Message newsletter, this was worthy of alarm bells: “The question of whether elites, particularly center-right elites, choose to abide fascism is central to the survival of democracy.” In a later post, Beutler dove deeper into Dimon’s rhetoric, and found evidence that whatever ties that might have bound […]
Read MoreIs the Media Enabling Trump to “Usher in a New Era of Fascism”?
This week, former MSNBC journalist Mehdi Hasan launched a new digital media company called “Zeteo,” which is Greek for “to seek.” Hasan intends this as an answer to the failings of the mainstream media, which he says is enabling Donald Trump’s effort to “usher in a new era of fascism in the United States.” We […]
Read MoreWill AI porn transform adult entertainment – and is that a good thing?
The advent of AI is bringing about seismic changes in the world of adult entertainment, sparking a host of legal and ethical questions. Since the advent of the internet in the 1990s, “adult entertainment has been overtaken by two business models”, said The Washington Post. First it was Pornhub, a free site supported by ads, […]
Read MoreMotorTrend+ Streaming Service Dies And Content Moves To Discovery+ And Max
MotorTrend+ Streaming Service Dies And Content Moves To Discovery+ And Max | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Warner Brothers will keep the content, but the streaming service itself will no longer be available 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> MotorTrend+ is going away but don’t worry too hard. The remaining users still on the platform will […]
Read MoreFox’s Steve Doocy Shreds GOP Biden Probe for Having “Zero Evidence”
Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]
Read MoreFox News Panel Erupts in Chaos Over “Zero Evidence” in Biden Impeachment
Screenshot So despite what Cooper said Tuesday evening, it is actually critical to talk about Gaza in any analysis of Michigan’s results. Talking about Israel’s bombing of Gaza—and how Biden is backing that bombing—is the actual politics of the issue. “I think sometimes as we’re talking about this issue, we are centering President Biden, we […]
Read MoreBill Ackman Is Going to Help Save Journalism
But Business Insider never made any allegation of intent on Oxman’s part in its reporting. The word “intent” appears nowhere in the publication’s articles. The reporters simply described the use of improperly cited or copied text without ascribing any motive to it, such as fraud or deceit. It is possible to accidentally plagiarize text or […]
Read MoreBill Ackman’s 77-Page-Long Case Against Himself
But Business Insider never made any allegation of intent on Oxman’s part in its reporting. The word “intent” appears nowhere in the publication’s articles. The reporters simply described the use of improperly cited or copied text without ascribing any motive to it, such as fraud or deceit. It is possible to accidentally plagiarize text or […]
Read MoreThere Will Never Be Another Magazine Like Vice
Stories about the end of Vice tend to lump it in with other failing digital media brands. And it’s true that Vice suffered from the same ailments facing companies like BuzzFeed and G/O (formerly Gawker): an ad market that’s been in a long slump, social media traffic to news sources cratering, and overpaid, incompetent leadership. […]
Read MoreVice Made the Fatal Mistake of Trying to Grow Up
Stories about the end of Vice tend to lump it in with other failing digital media brands. And it’s true that Vice suffered from the same ailments facing companies like BuzzFeed and G/O (formerly Gawker): an ad market that’s been in a long slump, social media traffic to news sources cratering, and overpaid, incompetent leadership. […]
Read MoreThe Brokered Convention That Could Break the Democrats
As Brian Beutler pointed out in his Off Message newsletter, this was worthy of alarm bells: “The question of whether elites, particularly center-right elites, choose to abide fascism is central to the survival of democracy.” In a later post, Beutler dove deeper into Dimon’s rhetoric, and found evidence that whatever ties that might have bound […]
Read MoreIs Ofcom on collision course with GB News?
Ofcom is investigating the prime minister’s controversial appearance on a GB News Q&A show, highlighting the media watchdog’s ongoing battle to regulate the right-wing TV channel. “People’s Forum: the Prime Minister”, which aired on 12 February, resulted in more than 500 complaints related to bias being sent to Ofcom. Rishi Sunak took questions from 100 […]
Read MoreThe Democrats Are Blowing the 2024 Election
As Brian Beutler pointed out in his Off Message newsletter, this was worthy of alarm bells: “The question of whether elites, particularly center-right elites, choose to abide fascism is central to the survival of democracy.” In a later post, Beutler dove deeper into Dimon’s rhetoric, and found evidence that whatever ties that might have bound […]
Read MoreTrump Quietly Edits Fox News Story That Was Apparently Too Mean to Him
On Wednesday, the former president shared altered screenshots of a Newsweek story to his Truth Social account, omitting a lede reference to the outcome of the 2020 election (which Joe Biden won), while cutting a line about the “81-year-old” Biden being seen as too old to run for president. Trump is 77 years old. And […]
Read MoreWatch: Tucker Carlson Explains Why He Gave Putin a Pass on Navalny
The claim in the documents went like this: Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which at the time employed Hunter, paid both him and his father $5 million in bribes. It would appear that a tall tale was told. “As alleged in the indictment, the events that Smirnov first reported to the […]
Read MoreWhat Tucker Carlson Said About Alexei Navalny and Putin Killing People
The claim in the documents went like this: Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which at the time employed Hunter, paid both him and his father $5 million in bribes. It would appear that a tall tale was told. “As alleged in the indictment, the events that Smirnov first reported to the […]
Read MoreTwitter Files’ Matt Taibbi Says Elon Musk Sent Him Unhinged Messages
“When I interpose—cause I’m not a Nikki fan, and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.’ I interposed,” he added, seemingly forgetting the definition of the word “interpose,” which per Merriam-Webster means to put oneself […]
Read MoreOne NYT Opinion writer vs gender-affirming youth care
Opinions are ubiquitous. Everyone has one. The New York Times opinion columnist Pamela Paul is full of them, as her job demands. Since joining the Times’ Opinion pages in 2022, Paul has received formidable resistance from the trans community for a series of columns that have been called a “long line of … transphobic opinion […]
Read MoreTrump Is Posting His Own Fake News—Under an Actual News Outlet’s Name
Pilip’s loss, meanwhile, comes after months spent skirting the limelight rather than courting it, avoiding media presence and refusing debates with the seasoned politician until just five days before election night, when she finally faced off against Suozzi to lackluster reception. “I can explain why she didn’t want to debate, and I can explain why […]
Read MoreLiberals Still Have a Chance to Save the Administrative State
The answer to that big question will depend on Justice Brett Kavanaugh. During oral arguments, Kavanaugh channeled a 46-page Harvard Law Review article he had published in 2016, two years before President Donald Trump nominated him to the Supreme Court. The crux of the piece, which was titled “Fixing Statutory Interpretation,” was that existing Chevron […]
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