The chairman of the FCC is warning of potential action over a comment that Jimmy Kimmel made on his monologue about the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It’s the latest example of Brendan Carr‘s attacks on the content traditional broadcast networks, even though the agency has expressly said that its authority over programming…
When Robert Redford was promoting the movie The Candidate in 1972, he went on a mock whistle-stop tour through Florida, drawing larger crowds than actual presidential candidates got that year. The actor would emerge from the back of the train, flash a “V” for victory sign and, in a Bill McKay way, tell them, “I…
Editor’s note: Ruth Vitale, who previously held executive posts at Paramount Classics, Fine Line Features and New Line Cinema, is CEO of CreativeFuture, a nonprofit coalition of more than 500 companies and organizations and nearly 300,000 individuals devoted to promoting the value of creativity in the digital age. In 2013 I stepped away from a three-decade career…
On the same day that portions of the infamous Epstein Files were finally delivered under duress to Congress and the White House pulled every trick in the book to distract, the incarcerated and pardon seeking Ghislaine Maxwell may have just provided Donald Trump with the vindication he has sought about his relationship with the deceased…
Gavin Newsom wants to fight “fire with fire” when it comes to Donald Trump and attacks on American democracy, but HBO and Bill Maher just want Laura Loomer to stop talking and posting. Good luck. “It has come to Defendants’ attention that after Plaintiff needlessly filed her deposition on the public docket as part of…
More than 2,300 members of the Writers Guild of America West and East, including no shortage of heavy hitters, have signed the union’s open letter decrying the Trump administration’s “recent threats to the free press.” “We are members of the Writers Guild of America who speak with one voice to decry the dangerous and escalating…