Nowadays when we say “media,” we don’t only mean print, radio, TV, and online. We mean all of the above — plus streaming services, podcasts, and big-time players like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Google.
As companies, not government entities, media outlets aren’t bound by the First Amendment, but they owe their power to shape and influence culture and thought to its continued existence.
The Fourth Estate and the liberal elite in this country have yet to demand that John McCain’s grimacing mug be blasted into the side of Mount Rushmore. But give them time. Meanwhile, in response to negative comments uttered recently about…
Front Page Confidential recently hailed the First Amendment bona fides of one Michael Avenatti, the media-savvy California-based attorney who’s representing adult-film star Stormy Daniels (née Stephanie Clifford), who claims, pretty convincingly, that she had a one-night stand with Donald Trump…
Attorney Michael Avenatti, the media darling who represents adult-film star Stormy Daniels, came out swinging yesterday in a federal court filing in New York. In the filing, Avenatti contends that his recent disclosure of financial records pertaining to President Donald…
Has anyone in modern U.S. history hyped their own demise like John McCain? The senior senator from Arizona has not been in Washington, D.C., since returning home to his Sedona ranch in December to fight a deadly form of brain…
Our long national nightmare is over: Stormy Daniels broke her silence Sunday about her alleged assignation with Donald Trump. During a segment on the CBS news program 60 Minutes, Daniels told Anderson Cooper that she’d been threatened by an unknown man…
In twinned stories posted over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, the London Guardian and the New York Times dropped a bombshell that reverberated on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2014, they reported, the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had surreptitiously acquired information from the personal…
Comedian Kathy Griffin appeared this past Friday on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, unrepentant and unbowed. When the host asked what she’d do differently regarding the infamous pic of her posing with a gory replica of President Donald Trump’s disembodied…
The First Amendment battle of the 1970s was the fight to publish the Pentagon Papers, but in the era of Trump, the donnybrook du jour is XXX actress Stormy Daniels’s ongoing scrap with POTUS over the right to reveal the sordid…
In his preposterous campaign for U.S. Senate, Joe Arpaio, former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, and a convicted criminal, has 1) suggested that he can read President Donald Trump’s mind 2) revived the racist conspiracy theory about Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and…
As the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots prepare for kickoff Sunday afternoon at Minneapolis’ US Bank Stadium for Super Bowl LII, local officials and activists continue to peddle the myth that the Big Game brings an influx of sex-trafficking…
