Journalism

Don’t ask a question when you may not like the answer. CNN anchor Chris Cuomo learned that lesson the hard way Thursday, as Twitter users proved all too willing to point out examples of biased and unethical behavior by the “Cuomo Prime Time” host. The trouble began for Cuomo after...

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell got into a heated exchange with The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper while being interviewed about his false claims about the election results and the claim that Donald Trump will return as president. Klepper spoke to Lindell at a MAGA Frank Free Speech Rally in New Richmond,...

Writer Frank Bruni apologized to readers and to Senator Ted Cruz in his final opinion column for The New York Times on Thursday. His offense, he wrote, was contributing to what he called "the toxic tenor of American discourse." Bruni took on the role of opinion writer for the paper...

CNN host Chris Cuomo set himself up for humiliation on Thursday when he dared a critic to name examples of times he denied facts that didn’t align with the network’s liberal agenda as viewers quickly brought receipts. A Twitter account with roughly 300 followers mocked Cuomo by saying the CNN...

The claim: Planes were not used in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and killed thousands of Americans. Two decades later, conspiracy theorists are still claiming the attacks didn't happen the way they did. On...

The claim: Photos show an 11-year-old boy arrested for hacking a Swiss bank and transferring $75 billion into his father's bank account. In the days before Father's Day, social media users shared a series of photos that claims to show a teenage boy who stole billions for his father. A...

Scoop isn’t one of Woody Allen’s finest movies but it’s an entertaining diversion that moves along at a decent pace. The 2006 mystery is one of Allen’s ‘London movies’ and it stars his latter day muse Scarlett Johansson alongside Allen himself, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane and Charles Dance. Ian McShane...

Max Rushden is joined by Archie Rhind-Tutt, Sid Lowe, Philippe Auclair and Jonathan Wilson to discuss Germany’s win over Portugal, France’s draw with Hungary, and Spain’s point against Poland. Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.

“I thought that review was judgmental and talked about me as if I were an idiot and not a journalist and not somebody who has written bestselling books and award-winning articles,” said the (for the record) bestselling and award-winning writer Nancy Jo Sales on the Femsplainers Podcast, in what was definitely the most revealing interview I encountered last week. Sales, probably best known for her work in Vanity Fair, has written a book, Nothing Personal, about online dating culture, following on from her documentary, Swiped, and 2015 Vanity Fair feature on the subject. In all of her takes on this issue, Sales concludes that these apps are bad for women, and she bases this at least partly on her own experience: “I realised this is really not fun in the way sex is supposed to be. A lot of it is bad for women. The guy doesn’t know you or care about you,” she said in the interview.

Two members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) have resigned, criticizing the inner workings of the group that votes on the Golden Globes as a “toxic environment” that continues to undermine professional journalism. In a letter to HFPA president Ali Sar and other group leaders on Thursday, as reported...

Two members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the body that organises the Golden Globes, have resigned, denouncing the organisation as “toxic” in a letter obtained by the LA Times. In their letter, Wenting Xu and Diederik van Hoogstraten said that “staying inside the association is no longer tenable...

Jonathan Freedland and Prof Sarah Binder discuss why two Democratic senators are proving a thorn in Joe Biden’s side. President Biden is facing some barriers in passing his rather ambitious agenda, namely senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Both are refusing to toe the party line on abolishing the filibuster and on issues such as voting rights. So, which side is most likely to win out?

Season 3 episode 17 is going to be airing on Monday, July 5, and we can already tell you that this is an incredibly important hour of TV. After all, this serves as the big introduction to the upcoming All American: Homecoming spin-off show! Whatever happens here is going to directly carry over to the new series when that airs in the 2021-22 season.

Xbox Game Pass is a boon to Square Enix's new shooter IP Outriders, and the publisher says player counts are beyond expectations. — Outriders is outperforming Square Enix's expectations and the company is satisfied with the game's reception on Game Pass. Releasing a new IP like Outriders on a service...

The theatre behind a Broadway production featuring Bruce Springsteen says it’s now able to welcome audience members who received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Jujamcyn Theaters had previously said audience members wishing to attend “Springsteen on Broadway” needed to be immunized with vaccines approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, leaving those who received AstraZeneca on the sidelines.

Miley Cyrus and Brody Jenner’s ex, Kaitlynn Carter, is expecting her first baby with boyfriend Kristopher Brock. The “Hills: New Beginnings” star introduced the information on Instagram Thursday, with a shot of Brock and Carter’s shadows, which confirmed the couple holding arms and the truth star’s rising baby bump. The...

Richard B. Stolley, a journalist who left an indelible imprint on two of the most influential American magazines of the 20th century, obtaining a copy of the Zapruder film footage of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination for Life in 1963 and later building a newsstand juggernaut as the founding editor of People, died June 16 at a hospital in Evanston, Ill. He was 92.

There have now been 108,218 confirmed cases in the Lancashire County Council area since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest government data released today (June 19). Meanwhile, the total across Lancashire, including Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, now stands at 140,412. On Tuesday (June 9), it was...

The advertising boycott of GB News shows Britain can no longer take basic democratic values for granted, the Culture Secretary has warned. Writing for The Telegraph, Oliver Dowden said a "vocal Twitter minority" was targeting the "free and diverse media" and the "right to dissent". The Cabinet minister pledged: "We...