Bill O’Reilly sat down with Trayvon Martin‘s mother, Sybrina Fulton, Thursday night to discuss the Wednesday arrest of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed her teenage son. Martin was walking through a gated community in Sanford, Fla. in late February when he was shot to death by Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watch volunteer. […]
Roger Ailes made a jaw-dropping comment about CNN’s Soledad O’Brien during a college lecture on Thursday night. The Fox News chief was speaking to journalism students at the University of North Carolina. In the question-and-answer segment of the talk, he referred to O’Brien as “that girl that’s named after a prison.” Ailes was referring to […]
Keith Olbermann told David Letterman on Tuesday that he “screwed up really big” in deciding to join Current TV. It was Olbermann’s first television appearance since his ugly firing from the network on Friday, after a little less than a year there. Since then, the battle between the anchor and his former bosses has played […]
Bill O'Reilly questioned the outrage against Trayvon Martin's shooter and whether the slain teenager was innocent on his Tuesday show. Martin was unarmed when he was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in February. His death and the failure of local police to investigate Zimmerman took the country by storm last week. Reports about Martin's school record have fueled more outrage, drawing criticism for distracting from the heart of the case.
Joe Oliver appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word on Tuesday night to defend his friend, George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch member who admitted to killing Trayvon Martin. And things got very intense. "I'm stepping forward for George because this was not a racial incident," Oliver said. "I'm stepping forward for George because of how it has it ignited all the racial tensions that we've had here for years. I understand everything that everyone is out there marching about because I've experienced it myself. And I wouldn't put myself on the line like this if I didn't know in my heart that George Zimmerman was in a life-or-death struggle."
In a bizarre turn of events, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell interviewed an empty chair on his program Monday night, after scheduled guest Craig Sonner reportedly fled from an MSNBC studio in Orlando just moments before the show began. Sonner represents George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watchman who shot and killed 17-year-old Florida resident Trayvon Martin in February. His appearance on O'Donnell's program would have been just the latest in a string of high-profile media interviews over the past several days, as he's attempted to shift the narrative surrounding the case. In previous conversations, Sonner has continually insisted that the shooting was motivated not by race, but was instead a matter of self-defense -- though the attorney has declined to answer several questions about the specifics of his client's defense.
CNN announced Wednesday that it is suspending Roland Martin in the wake of the pundit's controversial Super Bowl tweets. The Washington Post's Erik Wemple posted this statement from the network: “Roland Martin’s tweets were regrettable and offensive. Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated. We have been giving careful consideration to this matter, and Roland will not be appearing on our air for the time being.”
Steve Jobs told Rupert Murdoch that Fox News was a “destructive force in our society,” according to the blockbuster biography of the late Apple CEO. Poynter was the first to uncover Jobs’ blunt words about the network in Walter Isaacson’s new book. Isaacson writes that, after speaking at a News Corp. retreat, Jobs unloaded on […]
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes has given one of his typically candid interviews to Newsweek. The interview was published Monday. For a man who first made his name as a media guru for Richard Nixon, Ailes is often surprisingly forthcoming about Fox News and his opinions. In previous interviews, he has called NPR executives “Nazis” […]
Ready for a channel devoted to nothing but “The Simpsons?” Don’t laugh, it is one idea News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey threw out when speaking Tuesday at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media Communications & Entertainment Conference in Beverly Hills. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/simpsons-channel-fox_n_962782.html Article Courtesy of The Huffington Post
In the weeks after “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Taylor Armstrong’s husband Russell Armstrong’s suicide, new information about their relationship and evidence of physical and verbal abuse continue to emerge. In July, Talyor first confessed that the couple’s recent split had been prompted by ongoing violence she suffered at the hands of her husband. […]
Last summer, Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly came to believe that his wife was romantically involved with another man. Not just any man, but a police detective in the Long Island community they call home. So O’Reilly did what any concerned husband would do: He pulled strings to get the police department’s internal affairs unit […]