Blog Profile / The Cutline
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| Archived Since: | February 16, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Photos of U.S. soldiers posing with bodies of Afghan suicide bombers spark military investigation
UPDATE, 1:50 p.m. ET: President Barack Obama condemned the conduct by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan shown in photos posing with the mangled body parts of suicide bombers, his spokesman said Wednesday. Obama is calling for a full investigation, spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One. "The conduct depicted in those photographs is reprehensible," [...]
Rebekah Brooks charged in phone-hacking case
Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International and ex-editor of News of the World, has been charged with obstruction of justice in the U.K. phone-hacking investigation. Brooks will be charged with three counts of "conspiracy to pervert the course of justice." Her husband, Charlie, will be charged with two. Four others—her personal assistant, her [...]
‘Who is Rodney King?’ ‘Who is Dick Clark?’ ‘The Titanic was real?!?’ How death, major news events expose Twitter’s generation gap
On Sunday, a few hours after he was found dead in his California swimming pool at age 47, Rodney King—a central figure in the 1992 Los Angeles riots—began trending on Twitter. News of King's death was quickly followed by a related, if disturbing, Twitter trend: "Who is Rodney King?" "Who is Rodney King?" Briauna Mariee, [...]
George H.W. Bush tears up during birthday interview with Jenna on ‘Today’
George H.W. Bush turned 88 on Tuesday, and the former president teared up during an interview with his granddaughter, "Today" show contributor Jenna Bush Hager, broadcast on the NBC morning show. "I never thought I'd get this part in chronology," the elder Bush said in the interview, taped over the weekend in Kennebunkport, Maine. "What's [...]
Woodward and Bernstein share first Washington Post byline in 36 years
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, arguably the two most famous newspaper reporters in American history, did something on Sunday they haven't done in 36 years: They shared a byline in the Washington Post. Woodward and Bernstein, who are on a mini-publicity tour surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-ins, published a joint opinion essay [...]
LinkedIn investigating hack after 6.46 million passwords reported stolen
LinkedIn said on Wednesday that it is investigating reports of an apparent hack, after millions of LinkedIn passwords were said to have been leaked online. "Our team is currently looking into reports of stolen passwords," the company wrote in a message on its Twitter feed. "Stay tuned for more." A user on a Russian Web [...]
‘Fox and Friends’ airs 4-minute anti-Obama video that looks like a political attack ad
"Fox & Friends" aired a nearly-four-minute video about President Barack Obama on Wednesday, drawing the ire of critics who say it looked, felt and sounded like a political attack ad. "We decided to take a look back at the president's first term to see if it lived up to hope and change," co-host Gretchen Carlson [...]
Wolf Blitzer spars with Trump over birther comments: ‘Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous’
Donald Trump, de facto leader of the so-called "birther" movement, called into "The Situation Room" on Tuesday for what quickly became a testy interview with Wolf Blitzer about Trump's continued skepticism over the authenticity of President Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate. Trump, in Las Vegas to host a fundraiser for Mitt Romney on Tuesday, took issue [...]
Daily Caller giving away guns to readers now through Election Day
The Daily Caller, the conservative website founded by Tucker Carlson, has launched an unusual publicity stunt to say the least: Now through Nov. 6—Election Day—the Washington, D.C.-based site will give away a handgun a week. The gun giveaway is part of the launch of a "Guns and Gear" section "devoted to Second Amendment issues and [...]
New Orleans to lose its daily newspaper
The Times-Picayune, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, announced on Thursday a plan to slash its print publishing schedule to three days a week—effectively leaving New Orleans without a daily newspaper. As part of the move, the New York Times reports that there will be "massive" layoffs at 175-year-old Times-Picayune [...]
Boy who touched Obama’s hair: Story behind White House photo is probably in your inbox
The story behind a photograph showing a 5-year-old black boy touching President Obama's hair may be coming to your inbox soon. The New York Times published the adorable back story about the photo—which has been hanging in the West Wing of the White House for more than three years—on Thursday, and it's quickly become the [...]
Hustler publishes fake explicit photo of S.E. Cupp, sparking criticism
Hustler magazine is facing some criticism after publishing a digitally altered image that depicts S.E. Cupp, a conservative talk show host for Glenn Beck's GBTV, engaged in an oral sex act. The magazine included a disclaimer with the photo, under the headline "Celebrity Fantasy," that reads: No such picture of S.E. Cupp actually exists. This [...]
Chris Matthews bombs on ‘Jeopardy!’
Chris Matthews appeared on Monday's "Jeopardy!" alongside CNN's Lizzie O'Leary and former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs in a special "Power Players" edition of the game show, taped last weekend in Washington. And the host of MSNBC's "Hardball," to put it politely, bombed. Problems started for Matthews when he requested a category in the [...]
‘Rush Babes for America’: Limbaugh launches Facebook campaign for conservative women
In an effort to counter the National Organization for Women's campaign against him, Rush Limbaugh has launched "Rush Babes for America," a Facebook page dedicated to "the millions of conservative women who know what they believe in: family, American values and not being told by faux feminist groups how to think." "I've been tired for [...]
Unabomber billboard on climate change taken down; Heartland Institute loses Diageo’s support
A billboard suggesting that those who believe in global warming are as crazy as the Unabomber was taken down less than 24 hours after it went up--but not before the group behind the ad lost another prominent backer. A quote, attributed to Ted Kaczynski, was displayed on the electronic billboard: "I still believe in global [...]
Iran news alters missile test image to include ‘Star Wars’ character
Iran's Mehr News Agency used a blatantly altered image to illustrate a story downplaying its ballistic missile test program. The Atlantic Wire first reported on the digitally enhanced image--which includes the "Star Wars" character Jar Jar Binks--after it was published Friday on the agency's website. As Atlantic Wire pointed out, Friday was also the day [...]
Rupert Murdoch spoofed on ‘SNL’: Fred Armisen plays News Corp. chief (VIDEO)
Rupert Murdoch and "Fox And Friends," Fox News' loopy morning show, were spoofed on "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday, with Fred Armisen impersonating the 81-year-old mogul. Watch a clip of the cold open above. Earlier Saturday, Murdoch--who has been using Twitter as an outlet for his unfiltered political views--lamented the medium. "Seems impossible to have [...]
Al-Qaida letter about Fox News: ‘Let her die in her anger’
In a letter outlining al-Qaida's media strategy ahead of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the terror group's top spokesman expressed disdain for Fox News. "From the professional point of view, they are all on one level—except [Fox News] channel which falls into the abyss as you know, and lacks neutrality too," al-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn [...]
News Corp. board on Murdoch’s ‘fitness’: We have ‘full confidence’ in CEO
A day after the Parliament committee investigating phone-hacking declared Rupert Murdoch "not fit" to lead a major media company, News Corp.'s board of directors announced on Wednesday its full vote of "confidence" in their chairman and chief executive. Here's News Corp.'s full statement: The Board of Directors of News Corporation met today and announced its [...]
Dan Rather on George W. Bush report: ‘We reported a true story—that’s why I’m no longer with CBS News’
Dan Rather, former "CBS Evening News" host and current star of Mark Cuban's HDNet, has been out promoting his new book, "Rather Outspoken." In an interview with Piers Morgan on Tuesday, Rather recalled the last conversation he had with George W. Bush after his controversial 2004 CBS News report on the former president's Air National [...]