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Ten years ago when Fox News was riding high in the ratings with Glenn Beck talking about Nazis and Bill O’Reilly dividing the nation into “pinheads and patriots,” I thought I would never see a cable channel that was as dangerous a political tool. I was wrong. Fox News 2020 is so much worse as evidenced by the Monday night shows of Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.
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That it took team owner Dan Snyder and others who opposed the name change this long to start to understand how wrong the team’s name and logo are in today’s multicultural America speaks directly to the massive amount of work that still needs to be done in education, protest, media and social change when it comes to depictions involving persons of color.
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One of the reasons Lincoln Project ads are so resonating with voters is that just as Trump connected at a gut level in 2016 to the anger of millions of Americans who felt they were being disrespected by people in power, so is the Lincoln Project speaking viscerally to the outrage millions now feel about Trump’s reckless, dangerous presidency.
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It is time for everyone in the fields of medicine and public health to stand up and directly speak medical truth to Mr. Trump’s political power before more Americans die. It should have happened months ago.
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What a time for Donald Trump to lose his groove. The media gods who so blessed his candidacy four years ago have turned on Trump with a vengeance in recent months.
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Putting Michael Pack in charge of the U.S. Agency for Global Media offers President Trump a taxpayer-funded propaganda machine.
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The reality of the networks having less to offer and the premium cable and streaming series offering more is what worries most about the effect the pandemic is having on TV. This further divides us into haves and have-nots: two Americas at a time when we can ill afford one more schism.
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Brandon Scott finished strong in the final days of the Democratic mayoral primary overtaking Sheila Dixon for a variety of reasons. But one of the biggest was the way almost all parts of his media effort worked in tandem to offer voters a clear notion of who the candidate was and what a vote for him would mean.
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I am aware of the argument that says people talking about race on TV changes nothing. But such media conversation is a necessary step in getting to social change, and TV is providing a major platform for it in the wake of George Floyd's death.
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Don't tune out cable news TV. The troubling images on our screens day and night are history, and we all need to bear witness to it. That is the least we must do as responsible citizens.
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Why we are seeing more physical attacks on the press this weekend than we did in, say, 2015 in the uprising in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore?
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CNN showed burning cars and said it was scene from Baltimore. But it wasn’t.
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In a dramatic and troubling TV moment, viewers watching CNN early Friday saw correspondent Omar Jimenez, a former WBAL-TV reporter, taken into custody while he was filing a live report from the streets of Minneapolis.
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COVID-19 has changed me a viewer. I now go looking for shows that speak to the big questions of life and death. Here are four that have offered some answers for me.
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Yvonne Orji, who was born in Nigeria and grew up in Laurel, will have her HBO comedy special “Momma, I Made It!” air June 6. The special includes a stand-up comedy routine with footage weaved in of Orji’s trip to her home country of Nigeria to celebrate her Nigerian-American upbringing.
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Effects of CBS Viacom merger and COVID-19 felt in Baltimore as 27-year veteran Mike Schuh is out at WJZ.
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Jasmine Norton never thought that she would be a chef—let alone one with the potential of being a household name.
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This is how the largest social media platforms in this nation have allowed our shameless, truth-hating president to hopelessly pollute our information ecosystem - the latest with lies about television host Joe Scarborough.
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Socially conscious true-crime docuseries can be powerful voices of righteousness, morality and potential agents of change. I put “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” debuting Wednesday on Netflix, squarely in that category.
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Baltimore Police Officer Gregory Parker will appear on the new Fox television show "Ultimate Tag" on Wednesday at 9 p.m.
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Oprah Winfrey announced her Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation will donate money to organizations dedicated to helping undeserved communities in Baltimore; Chicago; Nashville, Tennessee; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Kosciusko, Mississippi, where she was born.
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Who has the best TV and social media ads down the home stretch of Baltimore's Democratic mayoral primary?
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A Westminster native will appear on the NBC show "Songland" on Monday, May 18 at 10 p.m.
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The Tribune rates Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan's most memorable television commercials.
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The question is why in the world is PBS airing a one-sided, celebratory film of Clarence Thomas from a controversial filmmaker nominated by President Trump to lead the United States Agency for Global Media. Yes, PBS.
