Ed Schultz Suspended For Calling Laura Ingraham a ‘Right Wing Slut’

Ed Schultz has been suspended for a week from his MSNBC show for calling Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut." Schultz did not make the comments on television, but uttered the epithet on his syndicated radio show Tuesday. The ... Read >

Longtime CNBC anchor Mark Haines dies suddenly

Mark Haines, an anchor at CNBC for over 20 years, died suddenly at home last night, the network reports. Haines, 65, joined CNBC in 1989 and became the network's first Squawk Box host in 1995. Ten years later, ... Read >

Duncan dishes on Inquisitr sale, future plans

It's done and dusted- the sale of the Inquisitr is complete, and the site has officially changed hands. It would be incredibly difficult to post about this objectively, as I've personally had an eons-long by tech standards working ... Read >

And CNN’s first openly gay anchor is… Don Lemon

What, you were expecting someone else? Yes, CNN anchor DON LEMON came out this weekend ahead of his new book, Transparent. Lemon spoke to the New York Times this weekend about the additional scrutiny gay men face in ... Read >

Jim Cramer still smarting over ‘Daily Show’ burn

In a recent New York Times profile, TV stock-shouter Jim Cramer admitted he still harbors a lot of resentment over Jon Stewart for pwning the hell out of him on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Cramer took a ... Read >

FCC bureaucrat joins Comcast after helping approve NBC merger

Now that's a nice bonus for a job well done. It seems that FCC Comminsioner Meriedith Attwell Baker has left the FCC for a new job. With who you ask? Well as amazing as it might seems she is now ... Read >

Hannity slams President Obama over rapper Common’s White House invite

A poetry reading tonight at the White House has Sean Hannity's little red panties in a twist, because he says the President is yet again coming back to his "radical roots." Planted firmly on his Huffy bike, Hannity ... Read >

[Video/Hilarious] SNL’s Seth Meyers rips into Trump at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Meyers is funny, but Trump's unsportsmanlike reaction just makes the whole clip. Read >

Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington killed in Libya

Tim Hetherington, co-director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Restrepo, was killed Wednesday in Libya at the age of 41. The incident occurred in the Libyan city of Misurata, and three of Hetherington's fellow photojournalists were injured by what is ... Read >

Demand Media downplays effect of Google’s algorithmic changes

Demand Media, arguably the largest target of Google's recent algorithmic changes aimed at "content farms," has downplayed the effects of the search engine's edits on the traffic of their properties. The company concedes that eHow's traffic has been ... Read >

Newsweek owner Sidney Harman dies at 92

Sidney Harman, who purchased ailing weekly magazine Newsweek in August of 2010, has died, The Daily Beast is reporting. Harman, a "stereo equipment mogul," purchased the struggling property late last summer for a buck and the assumption of Newsweek's ... Read >

HuffPo, Aol, Arianna hit with lawsuit by unpaid bloggers

Ariana Huffington's major cash out on the Huffington Post hasn't been without incident, and the noisy group of unpaid sweatshop writers who provided much of the site's multi-million dollar content haven't shut up- they've filed a class ... Read >

CNN Suspect Detained By LAPD, Placed On 5150 Hold

The man who threatened to shoot CNN employees at one of the company's L.A. buildings was detained by LAPD officials on Wednesday night. Law enforcement officials are quick to point out that the man was not placed under ... Read >

Glenn Beck ‘transitioning off’ Fox

Controversial Fox News star Glenn Beck's days as a nightly feature at the network are numbered, according to a joint statement from Beck's flack and the conservative news network. Beck is known for his opinionated, highly emotional stance ... Read >

A clever elevator ad from McDonald’s [Video]

China is the next great consumer landscape and McDonald's is no slouch when it comes to marketing in new territories. In order to get some attention for their chicken McNuggets the company's ad agency came up with this ... Read >

[Map] Migratory patterns of Fresh Princes

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The New York Times $40M paywall taken down with four lines of code

I wonder how you explain to your bosses that the $40 to $50 million that they spent of eighteen months has been torn down in less than a couple of days with nothing more than four lines ... Read >

Triumph for consistency: AP updates Stylebook to allow “email” unhyphenated

A year after announcing the that the more commonly used "website" could replace the stuffier "Web site" per their widely adopted guidelines, the Associated Press has now updated the AP Stylebook to allow "email" to replace the ... Read >

Paywall Time: ‘The Daily’ To Erect iPad Payment System Next Week

The Daily was the first Apple App to offer in-app subscriptions, however iOS 4.3 just has arrived and following up on their promise the company is instituting a paywall with the release of that OS version. The ... Read >

New York Times Journalists Missing In Libya Since Tuesday

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for foreign reporting Anthony Shadid, reporter and videographer Stephen Farrell and photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario have all been missing in Libya since Tuesday according to a story filed on the New ... Read >

NPR CEO out after video controversy

Despite the fact no information reflecting too poorly on the public broadcasting network was revealed in James O'Keefe's recent bit of ambush "journalism" snaring NPR fundraising exec Ron Schiller, critics of public radio were probably overjoyed this ... Read >

Political prankster James O’Keefe at it again, targets NPR

James O'Keefe is a bit like Ashton Kutcher on Punk'd, if the goal of the show was to use scarelore and deceptively edited video to do damage to people who disagree with you politically rather than embarrass ... Read >