NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out, Twitter Erupts
April, 29, 2013 9:57 am | Comments On #MediaNBA player Jason Collins came out Monday, becoming the first openly gay male athlete in a professional sport.
"I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay," Collins, a member of the Washington Wizards, wrote in an op-ed in Sports Illustrated. "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation."
If the intention was to get people talking, Collins was certainly successful. Reaction to the history-making announcement was swift and intense as social media sites like Twitter erupted minutes after the NBA center went public with the news.
Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, a friend from Collins'...
Read MoreNY Times Revenue Declines; Will Offer Newly Priced Digital Subscriptions
April, 25, 2013 6:22 am | Comments On #MediaThe New York Times Company said it will offer digital subscription plans at different price points in order to meet consumer demand.
The announcement was paired with a lackluster earnings report for the media giant, which saw revenue fall 2 percent to $465.9 million during the first three months of the year. That missed Wall Street's projections; analysts had predicted revenue of $470.5 million, according to Thomson Reuters.
Earnings per share also fell as the company struggled with lower ad revenue. Earnings for first quarter fell...
Brian Stelter Says NY Times' Pan of His Morning TV Book 'Was an Anomaly'
April, 23, 2013 4:19 pm | Comments On #brian stelter, GMA, new york times, Television, TodayOn Monday, bloggers had a field day when the New York Times published its review of New York Times reporter's Brian Stelter’s book, “Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV,” a day before it was to be released. The Daily Beast called it "scathing."
“I read it. I thought it was an anomaly,” Stelter tells TheWrap.
Ed Bark's review surely would not have gotten as much pickup if it wasn’t for the fact that Stelter is a media reporter...
Read MoreHacked AP Tweet of Fake White House Attack Sends Stocks Skidding
April, 23, 2013 11:42 am | Comments On #AP, Barack Obama, fake tweet, hack, hacked, MediaA hacked, fake tweet from the Associated Press sent markets briefly sliding Tuesday before the world's oldest and largest news agency confirmed it was bogus.
The AP had two accounts, @AP and @AP_Mobile, shut down after the tweet, which falsely claimed that there had been two explosions at the White House and that President Obama was injured. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 145 points between 1:08 p.m. EDT and 1:10 p.m. after the tweet, the Wall Street Journal reported. But it has since bounced back, well into positive territory.
The...
Read MoreNews Corp. Settles Lawsuit Over Hacking, Shine Acquisition for $139M
April, 22, 2013 5:08 pm | Comments On #Media, News Corp., news corporation, rupert murdochNews Corporation has settled the class-action lawsuit filed against the company on behalf of its shareholders, agreeing to a $139 million payout.
The suit, filed against the directors of News Corporation, consolidated multiple complaints about the 2011 acquisition of television production company Shine Limited and the phone-hacking scandal surrounding News Corp.'s tabloid "News of the World," which led to the paper's folding. The suits were consolidated because they involved the same basic complaint, that the oversight of the company was inadequate.
Shareholders had complained that News Corporation paid too much for Shine, which had been owned by Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of New Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch.
Also read: New News...
Read MoreFox News' Brian Kilmeade Argues Against Political Correctness, Endorses Racial Profiling (Video)
April, 22, 2013 2:37 pm | Comments On #boston bombings, brian kilmeade, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, fox and friends, Fox News, Media, Pete Hegseth, videoFox News' anchor Brian Kilmeade was joined by a guest on "Fox & Friends" on Monday morning to discuss how "political correctness" -- and not racially profiling criminal suspects -- is impeding law enforcement's ability to prevent terrorism.
"Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses," Pete Hegseth, CEO of Concerned Veterans for America, said.
"I don't know that we're equipping our youth to sort of draw distinctions," he continued. "Not necessarily based on faith or race, or anything like that, but based on threat signs."
Also read: Jim Carrey and Fox News' War of Words Rages On (Video)
But the entire...
Read MoreYahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Breaks Silence on Controversy Over Work-From-Home Policy
April, 19, 2013 1:15 pm | Comments On #CEO, Google, marissa mayer, Media, YahooYahoo CEO Marissa Mayer broke her silence on the company's controversial new policy against working from home while speaking at the Great Place to Work conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.
"I need to talk about the elephant in the room," Fortune reports she said as an image of a purple elephant, labeled "WFH," appeared on projection screens in the hotel auditorium housing a crowd of human resource professionals.
Also read: Yahoo Names Google Executive Marissa Mayer CEO...
Read MoreBoston Bombing Suspects' Aunt: How Not to Meet the Press (Video) (Update)
April, 19, 2013 11:54 am | Comments On #boston bombings, CNN, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Maret Tsarnaeva, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Television(Updates with parents also saying sons were framed, rebuke from congressman)
As reporters scrutinized the lives of the Boston bombing suspects, a woman who said she was their aunt berated reporters and said her nephews may have been set up. Later, the suspects' parents joined in claims that they had been framed.
Few of us would be as poised as we might like to imagine if news cameras were suddenly in our faces. And Maret Tsarnaeva was reeling from allegations that her nephews, one dead and one on the run, carried out the worst domestic terror attack since 9/11.
But she still came off as argumentative and condescending at a time when others are pleading for understanding.
"You guys, I wish you were lawyers like me, because when I listen and speak..." she told reporters at one point, before the...
Read MoreBoston Bombings: Fox News Highlights Suspects' Chechen Roots, CNN Cautious (Video)
April, 19, 2013 9:13 am | Comments On #boston bombings, chechnya, CNN, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Fox News, Jennifer Griffin, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, TelevisionA Fox News correspondent noting the Chechen background of the Boston bombings suspects described "a very, very brutal place and group of people," while CNN said the mens' ethnicity might be totally irrelevant.
The different approaches came after days of news organizations going too far in their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation. The suspects' background was scrutinized because of what it might say about their motives. But that raised the possibility of widespread stereotyping, just as 9/11 spawned violence against American Muslims and people mistaken for Muslims.
The suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told reporters that all Chechens were being judged because of the actions of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who remains at large, and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died overnight.
"He put a shame on our family....
Read MoreBoston Bombings: Homegrown Terror or Sleeper Cell? Cable News Divided
April, 19, 2013 7:24 am | Comments On #boston bombings, chechnya, CNN, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, Fox News, Television, terrorism, watertown(Update: The surviving suspect has been captured, and authorities now say the suspects were not involved in the 7-Eleven robbery.)
The manhunt for the surviving Boston bombing suspect is still on, but it isn't too early for cable news talking heads to speculate about whether the attack was carried out by two brothers or if they were part of a broader group.
One brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died last night after hours of violence that included the brothers robbing a 7-Eleven, killing an MIT police officer, severely wounding another officer, and committing a carjacking, authorities said.
Police are searching for the other brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. The brothers were living in Cambridge, just outside Boston, but several news outlets said they had ethnic roots in Chechnya. A man who...
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