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I had never heard of Citizen Vigilante, Uwe Boll's new film starring Armie Hammer, until a few days ago. That's when I read that this movie has been effectively banned in Germany and the United Kingdom. Something about it encouraging violence against migrants. But then Elon Musk made Citizen Vigilante available to watch for free on his X (formerly Twitter) platform. Something that would avoid the censorious thought police and let the people see and decide on their own. Which only made the German and British governments even more furious. Rush Limbaugh called it the "Streisand Effect": trying to keep...

During a recent podcast appearance with a host from MSNOW, California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized conservative media outlets. Newsom suggests that the right has an entire system of media that creates narratives and carries talking points for Republicans. He then claims that liberals have nothing like that. This is laugh-out-loud ridiculous. Liberals have the entire media, with the possible exception of FOX News, which Newsom uses repeatedly to make his asinine point. Outlets like CNN, MSNOW, the traditional networks, and all of the major newspapers frame the news in ways that try to give the Democrats an advantage every single...

The Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has warned that corporate mergers approved by the Trump administration – including a pending deal that would put two of America’s largest news outlets under the control of a family sympathetic to the president – could be undone by a future administration. “After 2028, we’ll have new players in Washington, and everyone who’s engaged in this merger frenzy right now is aware of that,” Warren said in an interview. “The deals that are being cut today are occurring in the shadow of a coming political tsunami of anger against these giant corporations that think they...

One of Australia's biggest TV presenters, Karl Stefanovic, will reportedly leave his job amid backlash over his podcast project after an interview with British far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Stefanovic became a household name as the long-time host of breakfast programme Today, but local media say Nine Entertainment is negotiating his exit from the network. For years Australia's highest-paid news presenter, Stefanovic in January launched his own independently produced podcast in which he sat down with a string of controversial figures. This week's interview with Robinson was pulled offline within hours as viewer and advertiser fallout grew in Australia. Nine -...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D–Calif) wants "federal money for subsidies for movies to be made in Hollywood. For over 100 years movies made in Hollywood have entertained the world. Lately, though, more and more movies are being made in other states and countries where costs are lower. It's not fair. I've drafted legislation that will help offset the higher California costs by providing more federal support for this historically vital industry." "Critics say the high cost of making movies in California is our own fault," Schiff observed. "They say that corruption and incompetent government are self-inflicted wounds. Well, Spencer Pratt said...

The BBC has been slammed after it emerged two asylum seekers who appeared on an episode of Question Time had been coached by charity campaigners. In the episode, filmed on December 5 in Dover, the audience featured two men who had crossed the Channel in small boats. The BBC previously told GB News that all those on the panel were informed "the day before the show that there would be people in the audience who had been through the asylum system". Now, it has been revealed the two men were placed in the audience and coached beforehand by the migration...

The board chair of Rocky Mountain PBS is facing intense backlash after a social media post attributed to him wished a debilitating medical crisis on President Donald Trump on his birthday. Bob Greene, identified on the Rocky Mountain PBS website as “Chair of the Board,” allegedly wrote that he hoped Trump would suffer “a stroke” for his birthday, leaving him “unable to walk or speak.” The inflammatory remark was flagged by Libs of TikTok, which posted that Greene “says he hopes Trump has a stroke for his birthday leaving him unable to walk or speak” and asked PBS for comment....

Ever since his firing from 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley has been on a personal press tour, bellyaching about CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss wrecking - in his belief - one of the last bastions of truth in the news media. Nothing could be further from the truth. From the infamous Rathergate - where former CBS News anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes used forged documents in a hit piece about President George W. Bush’s National Guard Service to correspondent Lesley Stahl dismissing President Donald Trump on Hunter Biden’s laptop – even editing out his responses – the long-running show...

Yesterday afternoon I wrote this:I suspect that tomorrow the real work of demagoguery will begin and we'll start seeing thousands of voices echoing whatever Bernie Sanders has to say about it. Tonight is the calm before the storm.As it turned out, we didn't have to wait until today for the ritual denunciations of Elon Musk to begin. The Globe and Mail in Canada was already on it with this article:The Globe and Mail @globeandmail · Follow Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate himThe article makes the case that it's not Musk's wealth...

Scott Pelley, a veteran of 37 years at CBS, denounced Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for "interfering with my freedom to report the news the way I see fit. Her demand that I include both sides of contentious issues broke faith with the essential DNA of the '60 Minutes' program. For decades we were routinely allowed to determine what we reported rather than be compelled to give any attention to ideas or information we thought was out-of-line with our version of the truth." "For my candor, I got fired by '60 Minutes' executive producer Nick Bilton," Pelley complained. "I have to say...

The once-venerable news program “60 Minutes” is in a state of tumult these days, to put it lightly. The show’s parent network, CBS News, has undergone drastic changes under the new leadership of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss — and “60 Minutes” has been no exception to the general overhaul as Weiss tries to make the network more centrist. (Both CBS News and “60 Minutes” had long been accused of veering to the far left.) Among a litany of smaller changes, the biggest changes that Weiss has been making to “60 Minutes” have largely been with the staffing. The most notable of...

President Donald Trump reportedly walked out of a weekend interview with NBC News anchor Kristen Welker — some of which aired during Sunday’s broadcast of “Meet the Press.” The interview was recorded in Wisconsin on Friday, and NBC News anchor Gabe Gutierrez revealed during a broadcast on Saturday that Trump abruptly ended the interview — after giving Welker nearly an hour of his time — as the two clashed over her questions about election integrity. WATCH: “As for that interview, Kristen and the ‘Meet the Press’ team conducted it here in Wisconsin inside a barn at the request of the...

I like to picture him shrieking, but Scott Pelley almost certainly delivered the line with confidence. “She’s murdering ’60 Minutes,’” Pelley said of his insurgent new boss, Bari Weiss. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that. She has no qualifications for her job.” The assertion came in what turned out to be a very-not-public grilling Pelley gave his other new boss, Nick Bilton, the executive producer Weiss hired to run 60 Minutes. “You have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’...

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CBS News has parted ways with longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi after declining to renew her contract. The split comes months after Alfonsi clashed with CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss over a segment about conditions inside El Salvador’s CECOT prison involving deported migrants and President Trump’s administration. The Trending Politics report laid out the contract decision and the internal fight that preceded it: Alfonsi’s deal expired over the weekend, and CBS chose not to renew it after nearly two decades with the network and more than a decade on 60 Minutes. The exit followed a high-profile fight over a CECOT...

Hardly anybody is still alive today who has personal memories of the Hollywood Blacklist of the immediate post-World War II period, let alone of the rabid Communist agitation that took place in the film colony before and during the war. But all of us have lived through an era, now decades long, during which the Blacklist has been repeatedly condemned and its so-called victims celebrated. As Lloyd Billingsley writes in his richly informative new book, Hollywood Party: Stalinist Adventures in the American Movie Industry, it took scarcely any time at all after the Blacklist collapsed in 1960 for a new...

Lupita Nyong'o is not the only actress discovering how brutal modern franchise fandom can become after a major casting announcement. From fantasy epics to superhero reboots, Hollywood’s newest leading women are increasingly being forced to survive online backlash before their films even reach production. Now Milly Alcock has found herself at the center of that same cycle following her casting in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Alcock has spent the last several months absorbing waves of online hostility despite reportedly being one of James Gunn’s top choices for Kara Zor El. Industry insiders following the DC reboot process noted early that...

Drew Carey criticized Spencer Pratt’s run for Los Angeles mayor in a blunt social media post. The "Price is Right" host waded into the political waters with a Threads post and encouraged LA residents to think again before June primaries. "Anyone who votes for, or endorses Spencer Pratt for Mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their a--," Carey wrote. "I understand being angry/unsatisfied, but at least get behind someone competent and not some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass." He added, "F--- this guy already." Representatives for Pratt and Carey did not immediately respond...

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey is shaping up to be the biggest movie of the year, and right-wing voices are furious at it. “Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey,” wrote Elon Musk on X. Musk, alongside hundreds of right-wing culture warriors algorithmically boosted on his platform, have spent the past few weeks fuming over the news that Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o is playing Helen of Troy, and that transgender actor Elliot Page might be playing Achilles. One right-wing influencer described the casting of Page as Achilles as “the final straw to ruin Homer.” Another pundit, in a post that received...

Former NBC Sunday Night Football sideline reporter Michele Tafoya is dominating the early Republican primary race for Minnesota’s open 2026 U.S. Senate seat. A Quantus Insights survey conducted May 6-8 among 663 likely Republican primary voters puts Tafoya at 52 percent, a staggering 43-point lead over her closest competitor. Former basketball player Royce White sits at 9 percent, followed by Adam Schwarze at 4 percent and Tom Weiler at 2 percent. More than a quarter of likely GOP primary voters, 27 percent, remain undecided, leaving room for the field to shift before primary day. Still, the size of Tafoya’s advantage...