BROOKLYN, NY — White firefighters’ criminal pasts are often ignored when it comes to hiring decisions, a former New York Fire Department official said yesterday in Brooklyn Federal Court. The sworn deposition by Patricia Kavaler, an assistant commissioner for personnel for the FDNY, was entered as evidence in a case where Black firefighters are trying […]
Fox News political analyst Juan Williams went on the Sean Hannity show to discuss the current debt crisis. Williams, who many describe as a moderate, defended President Obama from Hannity’s verbal assaults. Hannity, who is a Republican, claimed that Obama has been the “worst ideologue to ever live in that house on Pennsylvania Avenue.” He […]
NEW YORK- Dan Cooper, a former executive for Fox News, is claiming that Fox News had a “Black Ops” squad that would illegally obtain records for “enemies” of Fox News. The UK Telegraph reports: He first alleged that the records were obtained by researchers in the “brain room” in 2005 in an article on his […]
In light of the News Corporation scandal, Rupert Murdoch has been called almost every name in the book. Some have even characterized him as the devil himself. Media outlets, Fox News adversaries and liberal pundits alike have taken advantage of the media tycoon’s tumultuous fall. Certainly, the bias and somewhat racial-innuendo reporting of Murdoch’s Fox […]
It appears the Rupert Murdoch, News Corp scandal is not only stirring controversy in the U.K., as it has now spilled into American media. On his CNN show “Reliable Sources,” Howard Kurtz condemned Fox News, which is owned by News Corp, for not covering the scandal in which its sister company is being investigated for […]
Rebekah Brooks, former News International chief executive, was arrested by British police Sunday for allegations of corruption and phone hacking. Brooks is the 10th person to be arrested in connection with an investigation of phone hacking at the News of the World, a British tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch’s news conglomerate News Corporation. News Corp. […]
WASHINGTON — The FBI will investigate Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Fox News parent company and owner of several newspapers world wide including the New York Post for possibly hacking into the phones of 9/11 victims. The Wall Street Journal reports (The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp): The Federal Bureau of Investigation has […]
The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi recently told El Khabar, an Algerian newspaper, that his father’s administration is in negotiations with the French government about support of rebels who have worked to oust Gaddafi’s government since February. “Our envoy to (Nicolas) Sarkozy said that the French president was very clear and told him ‘We […]
LONDON — The British newspaper, News of the World, has been shut down. The paper, owned by NewsCorp’s Rupert Murdoch, is stopping its presses due to a recent phone hacking scandal. Reuters reports: “News International today announces that this Sunday, 10 July 2011, will be the last issue of the News of the World,” read […]
According to Salon.com, Fox News host Eric Bolling apologized for racist insults he directed towards President Obama, contending he “got a little fast and loose with the language.” He went on to say that he was sorry if his remarks were interpreted as disrespectful. Bolling went on a mini-rant while criticizing the president’s meeting with […]
Fox Business host Eric Bolling mocked President Obama this past weekend in coded language claiming that he had “hoodlums” in the “hizzouse.” The words are known as a slang way of saying house popularized by rapper, Snoop Dogg. Bolling said it in the context of an upcoming visit to The White House by the President […]
America’s biggest right wingnut Glenn Beck will be going off the air by the end of the month. FOX News has confirmed that the contentious commentator will be taking his bilious brand of bull elsewhere within the next thirty days. Mediaite reports: RELATED: Glenn Beck’s Top 10 Racist Quotes Mediaite has learned that Glenn Beck’s […]
