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Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly Is What Happens When Mediocrity and Whiteness Come Together
The most frustrating thing about Megyn Kelly’s new NBC show is that it exists. In the promos leading up to the premiere of Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News propagandist reveals five things we can look forward to on the show. We’re supposed to forget that while at FOX News, she was…
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Princeton Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Cancels Public Appearances Amid Fox News-Fueled Death Threats
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton and a 2016 The Root 100 honoree, has been forced to cancel all public appearances as death threats continue to roll in in response to her May 20 commencement address at Hampshire College, a private liberal arts college in Amherst,…
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Sean Hannity Is a Lying, Sick Sack of Stupid
Of all the reasons to loathe that noxious loudmouth Sean Hannity, my top choice is that the Fox News host consistently has the nerve to serve his lavish amount of stupidity with sides of hubris and sanctimony. Shortly before going on vacation, Hannity did an interview with the Huffington Post and pretended that his peddling…
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Politics Over Paycheck? The Life of a Black Host on Fox News
Black folks are, by and large, understanding when it’s time to get that paper. Whether it’s Barack Obama getting $400,000 to give a few speeches, athletes trying to sell $500 shoes—heck, even strippers on the pole—when it comes to jobs, most black people won’t bat an eye as long as it’s legal, profitable and isn’t…
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Co-Host of Fox’s The Five Fired Over Racist Remark
Beckel Couldn’t Get Employee to Pull Complaint Trump Reaping What He Sowed. Sad. Media Writers Called Out on Diversity Coverage Photographers to Conduct Racial Census ‘. . . Same Concerns Today as in the ’80s’ Black Journalists Not Creating Local Websites South Asians a Bigger Part of ‘Asian Americans’ Ron Thomas to Receive NABJ Legacy…
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Lawyer: Roger Ailes’ Death Boosts Accusers’ Case
Fox CEO’s Apprentice Program Also Promoted Diversity Dixie Statues Fight More Racial Than Ever: La. Black Legislators Walk Out After Backlash Trump Suggests Locking Up Reporters Trump, Turkish Autocrat in Cozy Meeting Mexican Journalists Demonstrate After Slaying 50 Percent at Gizmodo Group Are of Color Cosby Disputes Old Show-Biz Saying Sides to African Culture Lost…
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Roger Ailes, Former CEO of Fox News, Dead at 77
Roger Ailes, the embattled former CEO of Fox News who built the news station into the conservative media empire that it’s become, died Thursday. He was 77. “I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning,” Ailes’ wife, Elizabeth, wrote in a statement, the New York Times…
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Conservative Outlets, White House Pushed Hispanic-Teen Rape Allegations—Which Were Then Discredited
‘Dozens and Dozens of Segments on FOX News’ Sinclair Buys Tribune Media in Epic Merger Grambling J-Program Denied Re-Accreditation Medill Not Applying for Re-Accreditation Comedian Goes Where Many of Us Fear to Tread Chinese Exclusion Act Commemorated ‘America’s Growing News Deserts’ South Sudan Suspends Al Jazeera Bureau Short Takes The White House was questioned sharply…
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2 More Plaintiffs Join Racial-Discrimination Suit Against Fox News Network
A racial-discrimination lawsuit filed against Fox News continues to grow as two additional plaintiffs joined on to the now 6-week-old suit that was filed in Bronx Supreme Court in New York City against multiple defendants, including the network, parent company Twenty-First Century Fox, Fox News, Fox Business Executive Vice President Dianne Brandi, and former Senior…
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Who’s Next? Eyes at Fox Shift to Sean Hannity
Departures Take Toll on Company Loyalist Four of Color Awarded U.S. Nieman Fellowships 10 of Color Win Michigan, Stanford Fellowships April Ryan Named NABJ’s Journalist of the Year Kimbrough Removed as Dean of FAMU J-School Gala Comedian Likens Media to ‘Minorities’ Trump Confused About His Hero, Andrew Jackson Reporter Resigns After Playing Along With N-Word…