President Trump kept cable news on a ratings roll in 2018. But online streaming services continued to cut into audience levels for general entertainment cable networks such as USA, FX and Lifetime, according to year-end data from Nielsen. While consumers have grown accustomed to time-shifting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writers and editors at Slate have voted nearly unanimously to green-light a strike, escalating tensions between the digital publication and its newly unionized employees.Slate's editorial employees authorized the potential strike by a vote of 52 to 1, according to a spokesman for the Writers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
President Trump and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at a ceremonial swearing-in event at the White House on Monday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalistic books delving into President Trump's relationship with Moscow are two a penny. To better understand the Russia scandal, try reading books that explore Russian history. Or 'Crime and Punishment.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
If things had gone differently for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former attorney who on Tuesday pleaded guilty to several federal felonies, he'd be headed on a book tour instead of facing sentencing. Cohen, who for years worked as Trump's "fixer," shopped a book called "Trump Revolution: From... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
President Trump has one word to describe former White House staffer and fellow reality-TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman: “Lowlife.” Manigault Newman says in her upcoming book, “Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House,” that the president used racial slurs on the set of his reality... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
During his brief, comic stint as White House press secretary, Sean Spicer had a special, up-close view of President Trump. In his memoir, "The Briefing," he portrays a president who may seem foreign to many Americans. In Spicer's telling, Trump has a "deep vein of compassion and sympathy." He is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence stand behind President Trump after he signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Wednesday to end the separation of migrant families at the border. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
To the editor: Given today’s incivility, Christians may ask themselves, “What would Jesus do?” if confronted with appointees in the Trump administration. Certainly Jesus wouldn’t ask White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave a restaurant because of President Trump’s policies and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
President Trump’s immigration policies, L.A.’s homeless crisis, the women’s movement and the culture of food were just a few of the topics covered during the first day of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the USC campus. The 23rd annual festival, which celebrates reading and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The publication of former FBI director James Comey’s upcoming book about President Trump has been brought forward to tomorrow (Tuesday 17th April) to coincide with the US, after attracting widespread publicity over the weekend. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since President Trump took office, California has been the epicenter of the resistance, home to countless protests, marches, impromptu airport rallies and, of course, commentary of various kinds on Facebook and Twitter. But it’s all been done at a distance, because Trump has avoided California.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the U.S. passed the first anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration, four books debuted on our hardcover nonfiction list, each taking a critical view of the current political moment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
PW' editorial director Jim Milliot examines Macmillan's resolution to stand firm against threats from President Trump, and 'PW' publishes Macmillan CEO John Sargent's letter to staff on the matter. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book industry hasn’t produced a must-read adult book in years. Then came Henry Holt's just-released Michael Wolff title, which dominated the news cycle last week thanks in part to the angry reactions from its subject: President Trump. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the media released some choice bombshells from Michael Wolff's forthcoming White House tell-all, 'Fire and Fury,' the book has skyrocketed to #1 on Amazon and its on-sale date has been moved up—to the tune of infuriated tweets from President Trump. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, during questioning at a congressional hearing Tuesday, sidestepped questions about whether President Trump’s vitriol toward CNN was factoring into the Department of Justice’s review of a mammoth media merger. AT&T is trying to buy Time Warner Inc. — which owns... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday issued an order blocking major parts of President Trump’s newest travel ban, suggesting it violated immigration law. The decision from U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu stops the administration’s travel restrictions nationwide before they were... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson indicated that President Trump’s tensions with CNN should not factor into the federal government’s blessing of AT&T’s proposed $85-billion purchase of Time Warner Inc., which owns the cable news network. “I don’t know what the relevance is of CNN... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg supports the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. He published a note late Wednesday, joining other business leaders in asking President Trump and Congress to protect from deportation those qualified undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]