CNN chairman Chris Licht announced Wednesday that Kaitlan Collins will be the new anchor of the struggling network’s 9 p.m. primetime spot. For the 31-year-old, the promotion is a fulfillment of her many ambitions — and a total own of…
The coverage of Jordan Neely’s death on the New York City subway displays, yet again, the media’s tendency to overstate the relevance of race. The mainstream media’s obsession with race has been clear to any casual consumer of news in…
The past five weeks have seen a flurry of media activity, clearly coordinated, against the right-of-center U.S. Supreme Court. First, the outlet ProPublica began publishing a series of pieces “exposing” the well-known fact of Justice Clarence Thomas’ long-running friendship with…
Last Friday, I attended the Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala, a sprawling and swanky affair featuring many fine presentations, a surprise Dierks Bentley mini-concert for the country music enthusiasts (yours truly among them), and an extravagant post-dinner fireworks show over…
The obsession over group identity has been a conspicuous centerpiece in the Left’s political messaging and policy of recent years. Last Wednesday, in his final splash as a CNN anchor, Don Lemon had a heated exchange with GOP presidential candidate…
So the stories are everywhere. Rupert Murdoch fired Tucker, per the Los Angeles Times. But in all of the chaos, make no mistake. No less than New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democrat leader, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — the…
Twitter pseudo-elites are crying because their blue check mark has been taken from them, and they’re offended that, like the plebes, they must pay for the privilege of being verified now. Whatever is smaller than the world’s tiniest violin is…
Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media,” in the style of outlets in Russia and China. Despite protest from NPR bosses, the designation is fully accurate and deserves application to other government media funded by American taxpayers. In…
Posted on YouTube eight months ago and entitled “We Are CNN,” the video crams a lot into four minutes. A tight shot of a TV camera lens. An off-screen voice counts down: “Four … three …” A huge microphone, a…
Eye-rollingly typical of the Left. Over there — where else but in the New York Times? — was this headline: A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in…