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The One Place Anthony Bourdain Can't Go, Because of Insurance
No, not just on the best place to have pho and beer with former POTUS Barack Obama (but also yes, that too), but places where maybe the danger outweighs the opportunity. Anthony Bourdain hosts Parts Unknown, photo courtesy of CNN To clarify, Bourdain answered a question on Twitter, which he does not infrequently, with a level of[...]
video games overwatch
Some of you may have caught this opinion piece that crept up on CNN this week, in which the author posits the idea that playing videos games on a regular basis is going to help train the next mass shooter The article wildly claims that video games, VR titles especially, help train players in what it's[...]
Glamour Magazine
Expect that trend to continue in 2018, as Glamour Magazine (US publication) just named former CNN Executive Producer Samantha Barry to their vacant editor-in-chief position. Barry was an EP for social and emerging media for the cable news network, leading CNN's social teams for all of the network's bureaus.  Her teams worked in publishing, news-gathering, digital and[...]
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Presidential Election (and I wish I was joking about that one). In Joining 'Fear,' Did Lennie James Confirm Morgan's 'Walking' Death? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ2YOLPaQ8kVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: TWS16 FTWD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ2YOLPaQ8k) Star Trek Deep Space Nine Documentary is Being Delayed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSag4xknAFsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: TWS16 DS9 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSag4xknAFs) CNN Defends Their International Journalist Against Latest Trump[...]
CNN Defends Their International Journalist Against Latest Trump Attack
President Donald Trump appears to be upping his war against CNN over the last couple days, Tweeting about the cable news network twice First on Saturday claiming that CNN International is a major source of 'fake' news around the world and represents the nation poorly Then, this morning, he called for a contest to find[...]
CNN facts first
To combat the "fake news" claims the network has received from President Donald Trump and his supporters, CNN has launched a new ad campaign stressing that they are indeed working from facts and not making up stories, as the administration has accused them of doing. CNN has been one of the main targets of the president,[...]
CNN's Jake Tapper Responds To Last Night's SNL Skit
But the scene that may have been the most outlandish and disturbing was a horror spoof with Beck Bennett as CNN's Jake Tapper and Kate McKinnon as Kellyanne Conway Tapper (an admitted comic reader) and Conway have had a few epic clashes on air but last week Tapper's show, State of the Union, declined an[...]
You Can Watch Election Night Results In A Movie Theater
AMC theaters is teaming up with CNN to make a unique theater experience for their STUBS members The theater chain will be offering viewing parties for Election Night to watch results with either Republican or Democrat themed groups The Blue or Red parties will take place in 50 theaters across 25 major markets. This is believed[...]
How Comics Influenced Politics With Van Jones Part 3
And we reach the third and final part of my interview with CNN political analyst Van Jones Previously we covered his growing up with comics and how they influenced his beliefs and outlook on life Then we shifted into how comics have effected the current political environment and now in this final part we talk[...]
How Comics Have Influence Politics With Van Jones Part 2
Yesterday we ran the first part of an interview with Van Jones, a former Green Jobs adviser to President Barack Obama, a current CNN Political Analyst and a life long comic book fan Jones made new in comic circles when he compared Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the Marvel Comic's super-villain Sebastian Shaw of[...]
How Comics Have Influenced Politics With Van Jones Part 1
Awhile back we did a story about a CNN commentator named Van Jones who compared Donald Trump to Sebastian Shaw of the X-Men The story got a lot of attention including from Jones himself Now Shaw isn't a fixture in the pop culture as some other super villains like Lex Luthor or Doctor Doom, which[...]
Marge And Homer Simpson Address Divorce Rumors
In it, they take a few shots on CNN, the network that first reported the rumor. [youtube]https://youtu.be/fd4icOrzUJM[/youtube] The Simpson's responded to the rumor that Homer and Marge were going to get divorced in a video with the characters discussing the rumor In it, they take a few shots on CNN, the network that first reported the[...]
Manga And Anime Exempted From New Japanese Anti-Child Pornography Laws
But critics dismiss this, pointing at the repeated availability of extreme imagery in comic book form, at a time when Japan is in the grip of increasing legal action against child abuse. The Japan Magazine Publishers' Association had already stated that the law would be an added strain on publishing. But CNN took a camera on the streets of[...]
Six Things Americans Might Like To Know About Piers Morgan
But, taking over from Larry King on CNN in January, most people in the US only know him from judging America's Got Talent So here's some fun facts for you. 1) As editor of the Mirror, he got in trouble for buying £67,000 worth of shares in technology company Viglen, emptying his bank acount, the day[...]