Time's Person of the Year Nominees: Ferguson Protesters, Vladimir Putin, Taylor Swift Time Magazine has released its short list for the annual person of the year award. by Kelli Serio
Lena Dunham Faces Possible Libel Action Over Her Alleged Rape At Oberlin College There are two separate controversies this week over rape stories that have been challenged by critics. Both stories involve leading U.S. universities. by Breitbart News 10 Dec 2014, 6:11 AM PDT
The New Republic Cancels December Issue Due to Internal Upheaval On Thursday, two top editors of the liberal The New Republic magazine quit over a dispute with the magazine's new owner about the publication's future. The next day, nearly the entire Washington-based staff resigned in support of the editors. Now, the magazine will miss its December issue--its first missed publication date in 100 years. by Warner Todd Huston 10 Dec 2014, 5:38 AM PDT
WaPo's Volokh: Critics of Breitbart's Lena Dunham Rape Investigation Fail to Grasp 'Basic Tenet of Journalism' Eugene Volokh, of the Washington Post blog The Volokh Conspiracy, takes to task a TIME article accusing Breitbart News' John Nolte of attempting to disprove the claim that Lena Dunham was raped. by Breitbart News 9 Dec 2014
Obama Privately Cursed Press with Obscenities Retired ABC News journalist Ann Compton told C-SPAN that Barack Obama has privately blasted journalists with obscenities when speaking off-the-record. by William Bigelow 9 Dec 2014
The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay Power Couple Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment. The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide “gay power couple.” In 2012, Hughes bought The New Republic, rescuing the flagship liberal magazine from financial peril and establishing himself as a player in Washington. At the same time, Eldridge was quietly preparing to run for Congress in upstate New York. by Breitbart News 9 Dec 2014
Time's Person of the Year Nominees: Ferguson Protesters, Vladimir Putin, Taylor Swift Time Magazine has released its short list for the annual person of the year award. by Kelli Serio 8 Dec 2014
Author: Under-Resourced Military Responsible for Dead Heroes in Afghanistan Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon met up with author, journalist Toby Harnden to discuss his best seller Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards in Afghanistan on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM radio channel 125. by Robert Wilde 8 Dec 2014
'Rolling Stone's' Failed UVA Rape Story A Major Case of Media Bias After music magazine Rolling Stone made a public apology for getting its blockbuster college gang rape story wrong, the media critic of The Washington Post said that the UVA hoax revealed a major case of media bias. by Warner Todd Huston 8 Dec 2014
Meet the New Republic, Same as the Old New Republic Reports of the New Republic’s death have been greatly understated—and more than a half-century late. A Soviet spy serving as the magazine's editor at the height of the Cold War, not Chris Hughes, killed its credibility. by Daniel J. Flynn 8 Dec 2014
Politico Mag: Police Get Benefit of Doubt, Minorities Get Police Brutality On November 26, Politico Magazine (PM) ran a column suggesting police get the benefit of the doubt when accusations of "excessive force" are made, but "blacks and other minorities... [get] alleged police abuse." by AWR Hawkins 8 Dec 2014
'Breitbart News Sunday' on SXM 125: The Rape of Lena Dunham; Obama's Racist America On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will conduct a number of interviews and talk about the most important news of the week including the collapse of Obamacare, Common Core, and the continuing resolution omnibus bill being pushed by the Republican establishment. by Breitbart News 7 Dec 2014
New Republic's Crisis Started with Leftward Shift The implosion of The New Republic, pending its move to New York and re-establishment as a "digital media" company, has consumed much of the political commentariat in recent days. The change is deeply mourned by former editors and writers for the publication, many of whom resigned in protest. However, the shift mirrors that of other publications that shifted further left in recent years, only to stumble into commercial failure. by Joel B. Pollak 7 Dec 2014
George Stephanopoulos Mistaken for 'Little Kid' Inside White House Holocaust survivor-turned-presidential tailor Martin Greenfield once mistook then-Clinton Senior Adviser GeorgeStephanopoulos for a small boy when fitting Clinton for a made-to-measure suit, according to a Daily Beast excerpt published on Friday. by Breitbart News 6 Dec 2014
New Republic Editors Fear 'Reactionary Variant of Conservatism in Its Ascendancy' Three former editors of The New Republic -- Hendrik Hertzberg, Peter Beinart and Andrew Sullivan -- have joined more than a dozen of their fellow TNR veterans in protesting the "destruction" of the magazine at the hands of owner Chris Hughes. by Breitbart News 6 Dec 2014
Top Two Editors of Liberal 'The New Republic' Magazine Quit A shake-up has occurred at the liberal The New Republic magazine as the top two editors, Franklin Foer and Leon Wieseltier, have quit, and the publication's new owner has announced that magazine will be moved to New York City. by Warner Todd Huston 6 Dec 2014
NY Times: Landrieu Losing Because White Voters Don't Like Her, Not Enough Blacks Left The New York Times has decided that there is one simple reason why Mary Landrieu will likely not win reelection to the Senate: race. by William Bigelow 6 Dec 2014
Candy Crowley Out at CNN After 27 years and more than a year's worth of rumors, CNN pulled its own Friday news dump with the announcement today that Candy Crowley is leaving the left-wing network. “[I]t is with mixed emotions, that I wanted to let you know that Candy has let us know that she has made the decision to move on, so she can embark on the next chapter of her already prolific career,” CNN chief Jeff Zucker writes. by John Nolte 5 Dec 2014