New Deckchair for the Titanic: Ex-BBC, NYT Tapped to Lead Divisive CNN

August 31st, 2023 11:44 AM

Publicly revealed on Wednesday, WarnerBros. Discovery tapped former BBC Director-General and former CEO/president of The New York Times Company to lead CNN as it continues to struggle not only with ratings, but improving its image from the days of the Jeffrey Zucker-led circus that lived for spewing venom at Donald Trump and the GOP writ large.

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Media Slam Dunks Soccer Star For Telling LeBron to Lay Off Politics

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March 1st, 2021 12:49 PM

Zlatan Ibrahimovic found out you don’t tug on Superman’s Cape, and you darn sure don’t tell LeBron James to lay off the politics. A Swedish soccer player on the Milan team and considered one of the greatest strikers ever, Ibrahimovic suggested the SJW James stick more to sports and less to the political, drawing an avalanche of blowback from James and his media posse.

Microsoft President Suggests ‘Blocking Content’ in a 'Safe Browser'

March 26th, 2019 2:23 PM
In the wake of the terrible terror attack in New Zealand that left several dead, tech companies are looking at censoring more content as a response. Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote a blog post on March 24 that called for a stronger approach to how tech companies deal with content they disagreed with on their platforms.
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Media Compare Alleged Serial Rapist R. Kelly to Kavanaugh, Trump

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March 7th, 2019 8:00 AM
Not content to just drag Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s name through the mud in that ridiculous witch hunt during his confirmation hearing in the fall, liberals are still determined to sully his name at every possible opportunity. The latest example is comparing the Supreme Court Justice to R. Kelly, a Grammy Award winning singer who was arrested for sexually abusing multiple underage girls and women.

BBC's Savile Report Goes Easy on New NYT Co. CEO Mark Thompson; Times

December 20th, 2012 1:55 PM
A report into the British Broadcasting Corporation handling of the Jimmy Savile child-sex abuse scandal was released Wednesday, and the upper management of the BBC got off lightly, though the management culture of the BBC came in for criticism. One prominent member of that management: Mark Thompson, who served as director-general of the BBC for eight years until earlier this year, when he…

NYT's Controversial CEO Mark Thompson Has Blasted Rupert Murdoch, Crit

December 7th, 2012 5:58 AM
When he was director general of the BBC, controversial new New York Times Co. chief executive Mark Thompson "launched a scathing attack on Rupert Murdoch's media empire, warning that BSkyB [Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting Group]" was too powerful and threatened to "dwarf" the BBC. He also accused Sarah Palin of misleading the American public by using the phrase "death panel" when discussing…

Mark Thompson Update: Fresh Questions on When NYT CEO Found Out About

December 3rd, 2012 3:56 PM
Patrick Goodenough of CNSNews reported Monday morning on new developments in the Mark Thompson controversy, concerning what the New York Times Co.'s new chief exeuctive knew about accusations against BBC star entertainer Jimmy Savile, when Thompson was head of the BBC: "Emails Raise New Questions About When NY Times CEO Learned of BBC Child Sex Scandal."

Keeping Tabs on Mark Thompson, the New York Times Co.'s Controversial

November 29th, 2012 9:06 PM
The New York Times has aggressively covered lurid scandals involving its perceived ideological opponents, from questioning what Pope Benedict XVI knew about the sex abuse and coverup in the Catholic Church, to the phone-hacking committed in Rupert Murdoch's tabloid empire. But when it comes to a pedophilia scandal and coverup that has been brought into the New York Times Co.'s own backyard, the…