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martha macCallum
Mar 6, 2023: NPR: Fox News stands in legal peril. It says defamation loss would harm all media
Yet Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum also were deeply concerned about the loss of viewers and deliberated about how to win them back, evidence uncovered by Dominion's attorneys and separate reporting by the New York Times' Peter Baker show.
Yet Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum also were deeply concerned about the loss of viewers and deliberated about how to win them back, evidence uncovered by Dominion's attorneys and separate reporting by the New York Times' Peter Baker show.
arwa mahdawi
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Dec 24, 2022: The Guardian: Is Elon Musk going to turn into the same sort of joke that Trump has become?
I hate it when I have to do this but here goes: I was wrong. I was very, very wrong. Back in October, when Elon Musk’s $44bn acquisition of Twitter was finalized, I predicted that the social network would become a lot nastier but ultimately keep chugging along. I assumed Musk had a couple of brain cells and a little self-restraint; I assumed he wasn’t going to drive away Twitter’s advertisers by making erratic business decisions; I assumed he was going to be at least somewhat sensible. After all, he did have $44bn on the line. |
Musk’s cult-like fans haven’t entirely lost faith in their leader yet, but it’s getting a lot harder for him to keep up his image -Arwa Mahdawi |
Amanda Marcotte |
September 2, 1977: Amanda Marie Marcotte was born in El Paso, Texas.
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April 29, 2023: Salon: "You're welcome over here": Mike Lindell extends job offer to Tucker Carlson
As Salon writer, Amanda Marcotte, pointed out this week in her commentary on Carlson's firing, "little is known about why, exactly, Tucker Carlson left his hosting gig at Fox News, except that the Monday morning announcement was startlingly abrupt." Sept 17, 2021: Salon: Amanda Marcotte: Occupy Wall Street set the tone: A decade later, how protests against inequality made the GOP worse
Nov 11, 2015: The Other McCain: Amanda Marcotte: College Kids Are ‘Under Assault From Reactionary Forces’ Marcotte asserts that “young people — particularly young women and people of color” are being “victimized” by, inter alia, the university’s decision (later reversed) to end health-insurance subsidies for graduate students and the cancellation of the university’s contracts with Planned Parenthood: |
January 30, 2007: John Edwards's 2008 presidential campaign hired Marcotte as its blogmaster, saying that while Edwards was "personally offended" by some of Marcotte's remarks about the Catholic Church, her job as their blogmaster was secure.
April 16, 2015 - Slate
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April 17, 2018
Ep: 4-49 Amanda Marcotte - Troll Nation: How the American Right Devolved Into a Clubhouse of Haters
Ep: 4-49 Amanda Marcotte - Troll Nation: How the American Right Devolved Into a Clubhouse of Haters
Sept 17, 2021: Salon: Amanda Marcotte: Occupy Wall Street set the tone: A decade later, how protests against inequality made the GOP worse
Jan 19, 2023: Amanda Marcotte: Salon: "Gas stoves!" freak-out is the least convincing fake Republican outrage ever
lisa may |
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Mar 23, 2015: The Wrap: KROQ Personality Lisa May Breaks Silence on Being Fired From ‘Kevin & Bean Show’
Former “Kevin & Bean Show” KROQ traffic reporter Lisa May took to “Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” to open up about her recent firing, which was similar to Rosen’s split with “The Adam Carolla Show.” |
Longtime Los Angeles radio personality Lisa May has joined the KLOS morning program, “The Heidi & Frank Show”. May has been an L.A. morning radio fixture for 24 years, as part of “The Kevin & Bean Show” on KROQ. She has also been a traffic reporter on various L.A. stations, including ABC7, KLAC, KMPC, KNX, KPCC, KPWR, KHWY, KGIL, KMGX, and KACE. In addition to her radio career, May has done ADR (automated dialogue replacement) for such television shows as Alias, Nip/Tuck, Brothers & Sisters and Mistresses. |
jane mayer
Jane Mayer
As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, he trails Joe Biden by thirty percentage points among female voters. As part of his campaign, Trump has been doing all he can to showcase female stars in the Republican Party, from nominating Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court to naming Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former Fox News host and legal analyst, his campaign’s finance chair. Guilfoyle, however, may not be an ideal emissary. In November, 2018, a young woman who had been one of Guilfoyle’s assistants at Fox News sent company executives a confidential, forty-two-page draft complaint that accused Guilfoyle of repeated sexual harassment, and demanded monetary relief. The document, which resulted in a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement, raises serious questions about Guilfoyle’s fitness as a character witness for Trump, let alone as a top campaign official. --Jane Mayer; The New Yorker; The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle's Departure from Fox 10.1.20
kayleigh mcenany
July 11, 2023: Daily Beast: Confider #71: Fox News vs. TPUSA, Mark Levin Meltdown, and Megyn Kelly Rises
Months after fully severing ties with CPAC, Fox News appears to have distanced itself from another major conservative powerhouse: Turning Point USA. In years past, the cable network maintained a close, nearly symbiotic relationship with the Charlie Kirk-led MAGA student group, with Fox News stars regularly appearing at TPUSA events and Fox Nation livestreaming the entirety of the org’s Student Action Summit and Americafest events, including an All Access Live broadcast in 2021 hosted by Fox stars Kayleigh McEnany and Pete Hegseth.
Months after fully severing ties with CPAC, Fox News appears to have distanced itself from another major conservative powerhouse: Turning Point USA. In years past, the cable network maintained a close, nearly symbiotic relationship with the Charlie Kirk-led MAGA student group, with Fox News stars regularly appearing at TPUSA events and Fox Nation livestreaming the entirety of the org’s Student Action Summit and Americafest events, including an All Access Live broadcast in 2021 hosted by Fox stars Kayleigh McEnany and Pete Hegseth.
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May 10, 2023
Kayleigh McEnany will be subbing for Tucker this week because Liars of a feather stick together (Or something like that). Her motto as Trump Press Secretary was "A reporter's job isn't to ask questions, it's to praise the president for doing a great job." One of the first things McEnany said when she became Trumps Whitehouse Press Secretary was "I will never lie to you" which turned out to be the first of hundreds of lies yet to come....and a tradition she proudly continued as a contributor for Fox News. |
britt mchenry
Apr 17, 2015: Newsmax: ESPN Slammed for Suspending Reporter Over Towing Tirade
Two journalists came to the defense Friday of ESPN reporter Britt McHenry, who was suspended for a week after a video surfaced with her making derogatory comments to a towing company clerk.
Two journalists came to the defense Friday of ESPN reporter Britt McHenry, who was suspended for a week after a video surfaced with her making derogatory comments to a towing company clerk.
Apr 17, 2015: Washington Post: Why do so many ESPN personalities get suspended?
On Thursday, the Disney-owned network rung up another: reporter Britt McHenry, who got a week in the penalty box after a security camera caught her abusing a cashier at a tow-truck compound in Arlington, Va. McHenry, a former sportscaster at Washington’s WJLA (Channel 7), lost her cool after her car was towed from a parking lot. “Lose some weight, baby girl,” was one of the kinder things McHenry said to the employee in the security video, which drew a wave of social-media outrage when it leaked onto the Internet.
On Thursday, the Disney-owned network rung up another: reporter Britt McHenry, who got a week in the penalty box after a security camera caught her abusing a cashier at a tow-truck compound in Arlington, Va. McHenry, a former sportscaster at Washington’s WJLA (Channel 7), lost her cool after her car was towed from a parking lot. “Lose some weight, baby girl,” was one of the kinder things McHenry said to the employee in the security video, which drew a wave of social-media outrage when it leaked onto the Internet.
Apr 17, 2015: Daily Beast: Hey, Let’s Shame the ESPN Anchor Now
True to form, a day or two later, a shiny new model rolled onto the outrage lot in the form of ESPN reporter Britt McHenry, who was universally excoriated for berating an employee at an impound lot.
True to form, a day or two later, a shiny new model rolled onto the outrage lot in the form of ESPN reporter Britt McHenry, who was universally excoriated for berating an employee at an impound lot.
eduardo medina
Feb 7, 2023: Poynter: Hundreds of newspapers drop the comic Dilbert after its author’s racist comments
I found this to be a rather interesting passage from an Eduardo Medina story in The New York Times:
Darrin Bell, the first Black artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, said that despite the cancellations of “Dilbert,” Mr. Adams’s remarks showed a growing tolerance in the United States for racist behavior.
“‘Scott Adams is not unique in his disgrace,’ Mr. Bell said. ‘His racism is not even unique among cartoonists.’”
--2.27.23; Poynter
Darrin Bell, the first Black artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, said that despite the cancellations of “Dilbert,” Mr. Adams’s remarks showed a growing tolerance in the United States for racist behavior.
“‘Scott Adams is not unique in his disgrace,’ Mr. Bell said. ‘His racism is not even unique among cartoonists.’”
--2.27.23; Poynter
akash mehta
Jan 31, 2023: Nieman Lab: New York Focus, the Empire State–centered newsroom, aims to hold Albany accountable
“The Dean Baquet shoutout … we nearly fell out of our seats,” Akash Mehta, the editor-in-chief of New York Focus, told me recently.
Mehta co-founded New York Focus with editor-at-large Lee Harris in 2020 after months of freelance reporting on the state budget negotiations and its impacts at the start of the pandemic as a freelancer. Before that, Mehta had worked in local and state politics — serving on his local community board, interning for local legislators and for electoral campaigns. He considered himself civically engaged, and it wasn’t until he started working as a journalist that he fully realized how confusing state politics could be.
“The Dean Baquet shoutout … we nearly fell out of our seats,” Akash Mehta, the editor-in-chief of New York Focus, told me recently.
Mehta co-founded New York Focus with editor-at-large Lee Harris in 2020 after months of freelance reporting on the state budget negotiations and its impacts at the start of the pandemic as a freelancer. Before that, Mehta had worked in local and state politics — serving on his local community board, interning for local legislators and for electoral campaigns. He considered himself civically engaged, and it wasn’t until he started working as a journalist that he fully realized how confusing state politics could be.
kevin merida
Feb 29, 2023: Brett Stephens: New York Times: How to Destroy (What’s Left of) the Mainstream Media’s Credibility
The executive editor of The Los Angeles Times, Kevin Merida, says he’s amenable to allowing his staff members to participate in some causes on which they report, blurring the line between social activism and journalism. Objectivity, says another editor quoted in the report, is news “through the lens of largely white, straight men.”
The executive editor of The Los Angeles Times, Kevin Merida, says he’s amenable to allowing his staff members to participate in some causes on which they report, blurring the line between social activism and journalism. Objectivity, says another editor quoted in the report, is news “through the lens of largely white, straight men.”
Demarco morgan
May 15, 2023:
👉ABC News correspondent Gio Benitez, who identifies as gay, has been promoted to a permanent co-anchor on the weekend edition of “Good Morning America.” ABC News President Kim Godwin announced in a statement to the network’s news division. ABC News has also found the new anchors for GMA3, the early afternoon spinoff of Good Morning America. Kim Godwin said that the hour will be led by anchors Eva Pilgrim and DeMarco Morgan, joining Dr. Jen Ashton, the chief medical correspondent for ABC News. GMA3 had been without a permanent anchor team since December, when T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach were fired after a tabloid revealed that they were in a personal relationship.
👉ABC News correspondent Gio Benitez, who identifies as gay, has been promoted to a permanent co-anchor on the weekend edition of “Good Morning America.” ABC News President Kim Godwin announced in a statement to the network’s news division. ABC News has also found the new anchors for GMA3, the early afternoon spinoff of Good Morning America. Kim Godwin said that the hour will be led by anchors Eva Pilgrim and DeMarco Morgan, joining Dr. Jen Ashton, the chief medical correspondent for ABC News. GMA3 had been without a permanent anchor team since December, when T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach were fired after a tabloid revealed that they were in a personal relationship.
rupert murdoch
March 3, 2023: Daily Beast: Steve Bannon Vows to Go Nuclear on Fox News in His CPAC Speech
Though conservative mega-pundits Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity publicly remain some of Trump’s biggest boosters, a rift has opened between the former president and Rupert Murdoch, the owner of his former favorite network. In February, legal filings revealed texts between Carlson, Hannity, and Murdoch in which they repeatedly called Trump’s baseless election fraud claims “crazy.” Murdoch’s vast right-wing media empire has recently heaped glowing coverage on Trump’s presumed primary rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Though conservative mega-pundits Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity publicly remain some of Trump’s biggest boosters, a rift has opened between the former president and Rupert Murdoch, the owner of his former favorite network. In February, legal filings revealed texts between Carlson, Hannity, and Murdoch in which they repeatedly called Trump’s baseless election fraud claims “crazy.” Murdoch’s vast right-wing media empire has recently heaped glowing coverage on Trump’s presumed primary rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Feb 28, 2023: Media Matters: Fox News is Republican propaganda, according to Rupert Murdoch
But the second story, buried within the filings, may prove even more devastating to Fox. Dominion, in documenting Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s direct oversight of the network, revealed numerous cases in which the Fox News co-founder brazenly used its resources to aid the Republican Party. These include a report that Murdoch shared ads then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign planned to run on the network with then-President Donald Trump’s White House, as well as his repeated and explicit instructions to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to use the network to help GOP Senate candidates win their elections.
But the second story, buried within the filings, may prove even more devastating to Fox. Dominion, in documenting Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s direct oversight of the network, revealed numerous cases in which the Fox News co-founder brazenly used its resources to aid the Republican Party. These include a report that Murdoch shared ads then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign planned to run on the network with then-President Donald Trump’s White House, as well as his repeated and explicit instructions to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to use the network to help GOP Senate candidates win their elections.
