A top lawyer at CBS has been fired after she wrote on Facebook that she is “not even sympathetic” to victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing,” CBS vice president and senior counsel Hayley…
Veteran TV anchor Ted Koppel told Fox News TV host Sean Hannity he is bad for America. In an interview that aired on CBS’ “Sunday Morning,” Hannity asked Koppel, “You think I’m bad for America.” “Yeah,” Koppel answered. “You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts,” Koppel continued. .@seanhannity:…
Even though Israel does not have a formal Constitution, like the United States does, freedom of expression is inherent in our Basic Laws. In 2014, Freedom House ranked Israel as having the only free press in the Middle East. Four other countries — Algeria, Kuwait, Lebanon and Tunisia — were ranked “partly free.” Yet a…
Sumner Redstone was the mogul who never wanted to retire. For years he held on to his media empire with the same tenacity he used in clinging to the windowsill of a burning hotel in 1979. But Redstone, who celebrated his 92nd birthday last May with a party thrown by his girlfriends at the time,…
Media mogul Sumner Redstone had resigned as CBS executive chairman, a move that comes amid heightened questions about the 92-year-old billionaire’s physical and mental health. CBS shares were up 3.6 percent in after-market trading, while those of Viacom Inc, where Redstone is also chairman, rose 6.3 percent. Viacom did not issue a statement on Redstone…
It’s hard (and probably not kosher) to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. That’s largely the problem with CBS’s “The Dovekeepers,” airing March 31 and April 1. The filmmakers based this disappointing limited edition series on the best-selling Alice Hoffman novel of the same name, which chose to interpret the tale of…
The tragic death of Bob Simon in a car crash in New York last week has brought much attention to his remarkable career as a foreign and “60 Minutes” correspondent. For a significant part his life — over 20 years — he lived in Israel. It is there where we met, developed and continued a…
Watch the Leader of the Free World make fun of himself, his critics, Fox News and lots more in a hilarious “Colbert Report” appearance. In the following clip, Obama walks on the set “unexpectedly” (he was due to show up a few minutes later for widely advertised interview) and announces that he’s going to do…
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