by | Jan 5, 2025

At CNN, the biggest annual tradition is its several-hours-long New Year’s Eve celebration. It used to star prime-time news anchor Anderson Cooper and one of his bosom buddies, comedienne Kathy Griffin, whose schtick mainly involved saying and doing supposedly outrageous…

by | Jun 7, 2023

Chris Licht, who was named CNN’s CEO last May, was on a mission to pull the network out of the hole into which it had fallen. His plan for doing so was to distance CNN from the reputation it had…

by | Apr 27, 2023

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…

by | Apr 26, 2023

What are the odds that Fox would oust Tucker Carlson and CNN would oust Don Lemon within one hour of each other? That should set off an antitrust investigation. But of course they do not ignite antitrust concerns — because…

by | Apr 24, 2023

As a business proposition, Monday morning’s earth-shattering announcement that Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News comes off as the dumbest thing since, well… Maybe tying Bud Light’s brand to a transgender attention grabber? I dunno. Here was Fox News’…

by | Apr 24, 2023

Unreal. In a seriously self-inflicted wound, Fox News has, according to a sudden flood of stories, parted ways with host Tucker Carlson. Here is the headline from the Daily Caller — the site cofounded by Tucker: Tucker Out At Fox…

by | Feb 21, 2023

For a woman running to be a sex symbol, 64 ranks as past her prime. I essentially said as much a week or so back in writing about Madonna’s complaints about “ageism” even as she dates twentysomething men and buys…

by | Feb 17, 2023

I’m probably going to date myself with the reference in the title, but then again the Louis Prima song it references is way before my time anyway. But as this is a Five Quick Things, two things are necessarily true…

by | Sep 1, 2022

This column isn’t about that horrific speech Joe Biden gave Thursday night. Probably the less said about that low point in American history, the better — though at some point we as a nation are going to have to address…

by | Feb 8, 2022

The comparison between an NFL locker room and the newsroom at a cable news channel might not seem particularly appropriate, but for our purposes here, it’ll suffice. Because what we know about CNN is those guys are just like the…

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