Dennis Kucinich made his official debut as a Fox News contributor on Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor.” The left-wing ex-congressman probably startled many supporters when he announced that he was on the Roger Ailes payroll on Wednesday, but he appeared eager to chat when O’Reilly introduced him. “Wow, what a conversion!” O’Reilly joked. “Congressman, how did that […]
Oprah received mainly positive reviews for the first part of her much-hyped interview with Lance Armstrong on Thursday night. The interview, in which Armstrong readily admitted to using a whole host of banned drugs during his cycling career, seemed to captivate the attention of most of the media. Newspapers had running blogs on Armstrong’s revelations. […]
“60 Minutes” went after an interview with Lance Armstrong, but lost to Oprah Winfrey. Armstrong is widely expected to confess to using performance-enhancing drugs in an interview with Oprah on Monday. When asked to comment on the reports, Armstrong said that he “told her to go wherever she wants” and will “answer the questions directly, […]
NEW YORK –- Time Warner Cable pulled the plug on Current TV just hours after news of the cable channel’s sale to Al Jazeera became official. “This channel is no longer available on Time Warner Cable,” read an on-screen message where Current TV used to be found. Al Jazeera took a major step into the […]
CLEVELAND – A week in the life of a NFL team is stuffed into a half hour in a new Travel Channel reality series starring the Cleveland Browns. ‘NFL Road Tested: Cleveland Browns’ gives you a taste of the preparations for gameday from the players you see on the field to the men and women […]
*Tracee Ellis Ross is tired of pretending she likes the show, “Reed Between the Lines.” Ok, that’s not what she said, but she is leaving the terribly scripted so-called BET comedy. Her departure comes shortly after joining the cast of NBC’s fall pilot, “Bad Girls,” a show about women in federal prison. The show wasn’t […]
Earvin “Magic” Johnson added yet another pillar to his ever-growing business empire on Wednesday evening, officially launching his “Aspire” cable network. Distributed via Comcast, FAVE TV and Time Warner Cable networks, Aspire will feature an array of original programming centered on music, comedy, inspirational shows, documentaries and short films, according to a press release. The […]
CNN and Fox News were left with egg on their faces on Thursday, as they got the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Obama’s health care law wrong — and even managed to make Obama initially think his health care law had been partially overturned. The trouble started early for CNN. Congressional correspondent Kate Boulduan read […]
Time Warner executives are allegedly thinking of potentially replacing the president of CNN Worldwide, the New York Post reported on Friday. CNN has experienced an onslaught of grim news in recent months, hitting record-low ratings among total viewers and in the coveted 25-54 age demographic. In April, the network experienced its overall lowest rated month […]
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 […]
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.