It's official; Brian Kilmeade is the luckiest of Fox's Friends. While Gretchen Carlson was stuck in the studio talking about news and stuff, Kilmeade got to go to Waco, Texas and play golf with none other than Former President George W. Bush on behalf of Patriot Golf Day. Since most of us will never get to hit a few with a president, feel free to pay Kilmeade back by critiquing his swing in the comments.
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By Ryan Chittum Chris Roush has a brief interview posted with Alan Murray, who heads up The Wall Street Journal's digital operations, including WSJ.com. I've long been a fan of the Journal's leaky paywall approach. They've got pay figured out ...
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Is this what Glenn Beck was talking about when he said that "a lot of universities are just as dangerous with indoctrination of our children as these terror groups are in Iran or North Korea"? Harvard undergrads woke up today to an inspiring alumni column from President Barack Obama emphasizing the importance of an undergraduate education-- and, unfortunately for Beck, "public service."
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YouTube's ability to monetize user-uploaded video content has increased substantially over the last year, with the Number 1 online video site serving ads against two billion videos a week, according to the New York Times. That's an increase of about 50 percent over last year.
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There's been plenty of negative news coverage about youth lately. Parsons student plunges to death after night of binge drinking. Paris Hilton arrested for cocaine....
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow took the 30 Rock elevator up a couple floors last night to be a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.Now in the lead guest seat, a show of how far she's come in the mainstream non-cable news entertainment world, Maddow talked about the "bad name" for the next phase of Iraq and her busy month of travel for work - that saw her ratings decline.
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Ardi Rizal is the two-year old Indonesian boy who became world famous due to the sadly hilarious (or hilariously sad?) video of him chain smoking that went viral. Well the coda to this weird and wonderful story is, in fact, a happy ending. With the help from the government of Indonesia, and an intensive intervention program, the toddler has given up smoking! And the world healed just a little bit.
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Why does once-mighty Digg have a new design and a new CEO? Nick Denton's Gawker Media provides an answer, via a handy chart.
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Meg Whitman is the Republican candidate currently running for Governor of California. She is also the former President and CEO of eBay, a job that reportedly led her to acquire roughly a billion dollars! How do we know this? Well a part from being reasonably informed and reading the papers, there is a new campaign video put out by California Working Families that features the song by Travie McCoy that tells us that she is a Billionaire, in an attempt to portray her as being out of touch with the common person. But is it effective?
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Hey, who wants to see the best tennis fight of all time? This one features a wildly-gesticulating young man arguing with an equally-excited older woman during the Djokovic vs. Petzschner match. The shouting match in of itself, is extreme for the US Open.
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Last week, Paris Hilton was arrested after Las Vegas police found a bag of cocaine in her purse. Though Hilton claimed ownership of the rolling papers, $1,300 in cash and several credit cards that were also in the bag, she told the police that neither the bag nor the cocaine were hers. But Hilton’s Twitter
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• MSNBC's 9pmET host Rachel Maddow had more viewers in the A25-54 demographic and total viewers than 8pmET host Keith Olbermann did on Wednesday. If Maddow is able to sustain the lead, it would be the first month ever she's finished ahead of Olbermann.
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As the debate over whether or not President Obama is a Muslim has gone away, it has been replaced with the debate over whether or not the form of Christianity that he practices is a mainstream one. One of the biggest proponents of the belief that it is not has been Glenn Beck who has been challenged over his comments from the likes of Bill Press as well as Robert Gibbs. Yesterday on his show, Beck responded to Gibbs.
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“An event that is also a magazine…a magazine made out of Internet.”
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A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent...
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