Today, Fox News let go of their long-time host Bill O’Reilly. According to media reports a slew of sexual-harassment claims scared off “O’Reilly Factor” advertisers in droves. For most of his career, O’Reilly was staunchly against LGBT rights. After the Supreme Court ruled against DOMA and Prop 8, he insisted “I don’t buy into the…
Fox’s Megyn Kelly leaned on Ann Coulter’s new racist, anti-immigration book to defend presidential candidate Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about Hispanic immigrants, reports Media Matters for America. During his June 16 campaign launch, Republican candidate Donald Trump characterized Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists,” saying, “When Mexico sends its people … they’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” Trump…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock capable of blocking out every imaginable light source known to man, you’ve probably already heard of Fox’s latest television smash, Empire. Part drama, part musical, Empire tells the story of Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) and his Hip Hop empire co-founded with his on-again off-again love interest and co-founder…
http://youtu.be/iKU0DwR1H7M Back in the 1970s, another ‘Golden Age’ of television, the three major networks – ABC, NBC and CBS – routinely depicted characters of color, feminists, gays and other non-white-heterosexual men. But that diversity came at a price. Blacks were usually seen as drug dealers or poverty-stricken while Latinos were low-riding thugs or the hired…
dvr this Fox, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. Lee Daniels has called his hip-hop soap opera “the black Dynasty” and that’s all I needed to want to record it, but having Terrence Howard as a music mogul, Taraji P. Henson as his criminal wife and Courtney Love wandering around being insane has made me desperate to watch….
dvr this FOX, Mondays at 8 p.m. One of the most hyped and best new TV shows of the fall, Gotham is a series that serves as an origin story to the world of Batman. It’s focused on young Detective Jim Gordon, the future police commissioner and Batman’s closest compadre. Gordon is played by fierce…
Media Matters of America latest posts reveal how Family Research Council (FRC) president Tony Perkins — whose organization has been labeled an anti-gay “hate group”– has appeared significantly less frequently on CNN and MSNBC in the wake of petitions calling on the networks to stop hosting him. Perkins remains a frequent guest on Fox News. Perkins Is President…
A six-year veteran of the Chesterfield Police Department in Missouri, David Cerna, 33, has been detained and arrested after it was discovered that he had secretly been taping men and boys using a Mobil gas station bathroom then posting them to an adult Website he operated. During the course of the investigation, it was also…
Fox News is witnessing the nasty byproducts of its endless campaign to depict extreme, virulent homophobia as a normal part of mainstream Christianity, reports Media Matters for America in their latest post. It’s long been standard practice at Fox News to conflate anti-gay bigotry with Christianity. Last December, for instance, the network rushed to defend Duck Dynasty star…
dvr this On multiple Fox and National Geographic networks at various times Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a sequel to Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking PBS series that Americans watched en masse 35 years ago. Tyson, arguably America’s greatest living public intellectual, is a brilliantly charismatic host and educator, and the narrative he and his producers craft to…
