Markets in Assassination? Everybody Panic
It's been a few years since the last media scare about prediction markets. So we were overdue for this week's handwringing about Augur, digital currencies, and assassinations.
Category Archives: Media
Don Jr’s Girlfriend Fired By Fox News For Showing Nude Male Pics At Work
A blistering report in Huffington Post is all but incontrovertible proof that even if former host and current Donald Trump Jr. girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle's departure from Fox News was voluntary, the network couldn't be happier to see her gone. Last week , I wrote that while Guilfoyle ostensibly left Fox News to spend more time with her boyfriend, credible reports claimed that she had been pushed out.
Conservative pro-Trump activist calls for feds to investigate Bill Shine
Donald John Trump Meadows threatens to force a vote on Rosenstein impeachment Republican feels 'victimized' by Twitter 'shadow banning' GOP senators surprised to attend Trump's tariffs announcement MORE who founded the conservative activist group Judicial Watch, is urging the Department of Justice to investigate former Fox News president and current White House communications official Bill Shine. Klayman, who also founded the organization Freedom Watch, wrote in a letter Thursday that Shine, who joined the White House last month as deputy chief of staff for communications, should be investigated for his reported role in covering up allegations of sexual misconduct at Fox News.
Pro-Trump Judicial Watch Founder Calls for Bill Shine Investigation:…
Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch, a conservative activist group, penned a letter to federal prosecutors requesting the Department of Justice launch an investigation into Shine, the ex-Fox News president who allegedly served as the henchman for ousted CEO Roger Ailes . "As a strong supporter of President Trump, I am deeply disturbed that Mr. Shine, who has had a questionable past and background, is now serving in an influential position in our government," Klayman wrote in the letter released Thursday.
Court Rejects Challenge to Relaxed TV-Station Merger Rules
From AT&T and Time Warner to the hot pursuit of 21st Century Fox and Sky, media mergers are in full swing. Why now? WSJ's Amol Sharma answers all your questions about the forces driving media deals.
Trump criticizes FCC for moving to block Sinclair-Tribune Merger
President Donald Trump came to the defense of Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed merger with Tribune Media, days after the Federal Communications Commission raised "serious concerns" about the deal and began legal proceedings to challenge it on grounds the companies had misled regulators. In a tweet, Trump said Tuesday it was "so sad and unfair" that the FCC, an independent agency, did not approve the merger, a $3.9 billion transaction that would create a conservative television giant that originally hoped to reach roughly 70 percent of U.S. households.
.com | Trump lashes out at ex-lawyer Cohen, says taping of client ‘perhaps illegal’
Washington US President Donald Trump lashed out at his former lawyer on Saturday, saying Michael Cohen may have acted illegally in secretly taping their discussion about a payment to hush up an alleged affair with a Playboy model. Trump's early-morning tweet was his first direct reaction to a New York Times report on Friday that the FBI had seized the recording during an April raid on Cohen's office amid an investigation of possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
Agency uncloaks filing for wiretap
President Donald Trump's administration has disclosed a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser who was at the center of accusations by Republicans that the FBI had abused its surveillance powers. Democrats in February rejected the claims by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that law enforcement officials had improperly obtained the warrant, accusing them of putting out misinformation to defend Trump and sow doubts about the origin of the Russia investigation.
Trump lashes ex-lawyer, says taping of client a perhaps illegala
"Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer's office - almost unheard of," Trump tweeted Saturday US President Donald Trump lashed out at his former lawyer on Saturday, saying Michael Cohen may have acted illegally in secretly taping their discussion about a payment to hush up an alleged affair with a Playboy model. Trump's early-morning tweet was his first direct reaction to a New York Times report Friday that the FBI had seized the recording during an April raid on Cohen's office amid an investigation of possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
Trump finds it ‘inconceivable’ lawyer would tape a client
Donald Trump said Saturday he finds it "inconceivable" that a lawyer would tape a client, as the president weighed in after the disclosure that in the weeks before the 2016 election, his then-personal attorney secretly recorded their discussion about a potential payment for a former Playboy model's account of having an affair with Trump. FILE - In this April 26, 2018 file photo, Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York.
Trump’s jab over a secret Cohen tape prompts a return poke from his ex-fixer’s own lawyer
President Donald Trump took a shot Saturday at his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a secretly recorded conversation with him in 2016, tweeting that a lawyer taping a client is "perhaps illegal," before assuring Twitter followers that "your favorite President" did nothing wrong. Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, quickly fired back, hurling a tweet at the president, and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in a show of worsening relations between the president and his former attorney.
“Judge Throws Out New York Climate Lawsuit”
"Judge John F. Keenan of United States District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote that climate change must be addressed by the executive branch and Congress, not by the courts. While climate change 'is a fact of life,' Judge Keenan wrote, 'the serious problems caused thereby are not for the judiciary to ameliorate.
Trump was taped talking of paying for Playboy model’s story
In this April 26, 2018, file photo, Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer secretly recorded Trump discussing payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with him, The New York Times reported Friday, July 20. The president's current personal lawyer confirmed the conversation and said it showed Trump did nothing wrong, according to the Times.
Ever heard of ‘deep fake’ technology? The phony audio and…
Michael Cohen Taped Conversation With Trump About Buying Rights to Playmate's Story - Conversation took place in September 2016, according to people familiar with the matter - Michael Cohen taped a conversation in person with Donald Trump in which the two men discussed buying the rights Senate GOP attempts to wave Trump off second Putin summit - Senate Republicans are attempting to dissuade President Trump - from holding another summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin anytime soon. - Many GOP senators regard Trump's meeting with the Russian leader in Helsinki earlier this week as a political disaster.
NYT’s Maggie Haberman Hammers Trump For Extending Invite To Putin
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman slammed President Donald Trump on CNN's "New Day" Friday for extending a White House invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Haberman said the president's team doesn't seem to be behind his decision to invite Putin to Washington in the fall, mentioning there's a sense of grave dysfunction within the executive branch.
Nets Turn a Blind Eye to San Francisco Allowing Illegals to Vote
Which would you say was more important, The Brady Bunch house going up for sale in Los Angeles or San Francisco giving illegal aliens the right to vote? Well, for ABC's World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News , it was the former. On Thursday, San Francisco began a campaign to register illegal immigrants so they could vote in school board elections.
James Comey: ‘All who believe in this country’s values…
"This Republican Congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the Founders' design that 'Ambition must ... counteract ambition.' All who believe in this country's values must vote for Democrats this fall," Comey tweeted.
Cardi B leads MTV Vma nods with 10; Beyonce, Jay-Z nab 8
MTV announced Monday, July 16, that the rapper received ten nominations at this year's MTV Video M... . FILE - This undated file photo shows a photo of Dr. Richard Strauss.
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Fair and Balanced Opinion at the New York Times
"Democratic Socialism is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And "social democracy"-a term that better fits the beliefs of ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all-is a politically dying force.