Netflix Plays a Sarah Palin Hashtag Game, Gets Burned
To Netflix's social media team, the trending hashtag #SarahPalinFilms was a good chance to chime in on Twitter. Now many conservatives are angry about the resulting tweet.
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Is Obama a Socialist? In 2012, Millions Went to the Dictionary to Find Out
Election-year politics evidently put some strain on Americans' vocabularies in 2012. The two most looked-up words of the year in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary were "socialism" and "capitalism," followed closely by "democracy," "marriage" and "bigotry."
After the Tucson Shootings, the Old Gun Debate Gets New Urgency
The key question Americans have to face is whether it makes sense to let the gun lobby hold more power than citizens who want to live without fear of a well-armed mad gunman going off in a crowd.
Palins Boost TV Ratings Over Thanksgiving Week
Bristol Palin helped boost the viewership for "Dancing with the Stars" when she made it to the final round, while her mother's show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska" got half a million more viewers in the same week.
WikiLeaks Latest Document Dump Yields No Surprises
Despite all the media fervor over WikiLeaks massive document dump of decades of U.S. diplomatic correspondence, the leaked material hasn't revealed anything new. But while it may not harm national security, the leak could deal a serious blow to mainstream efforts to increase government transparency.
Gawker Settles Lawsuit Over Images of Palin's New Book
Sarah Palin's publisher, HarperCollins, says it has settled its lawsuit with Gawker, which posted leaked images of pages from Palin's new book, "America by Heart." Neither company disclosed details of the settlement, but HarperCollins proclaimed itself "gratified."
Gawker Is on Shaky Legal Ground Over Sarah Palin Book Excerpts
When Sarah Palin protested after gossip site Gawker posted pages from her upcoming book America By Heart, Gawker taunted her for her lack of knowledge about copyright law. But a federal judge has ordered Gawker to take the pages down temporarily.
'Sarah Palin's Alaska' Debut Attracts Record Viewership
The new show "Sarah Palin's Alaska" attracted a record number of viewers for its debut on the TLC network Sunday night. According to Nielsen figures, 4.96 million viewers watched the show, double the average viewership for the channel's Sunday prime time shows.
News Corp. Buries HarperCollins' Earnings
Why did News Corp. bury the earnings of its book publishing unit HarperCollins? Does the media giant view the publisher as merely an afterthought -- or could Rupert Murdoch be contemplating a sale?
News Corp's HarperCollins Announces New Conservative Book Imprint
Conservative books sell -- a fact that the traditionally liberal publishing industry has learned to embrace. HarperCollins plans to join publishers Simon & Schuster, Penguin, and Random House with a conservative imprint of its own, Broadside Books.
Twitter Deletes Parody Targeting ADL's Foxman for 9/11 Mosque Views
Did the Anti-Defamation League, which opposes the construction of a mosque near the old World Trade Center site, take advantage of Twitter's terms of service to silence legitimate political speech?
Calling All Conservatives: It's a Tea Party at the Newsstand
The citizens of Red State America are hopping mad, and they're doing something about it: buying magazines. Titles for gun lovers, hunters, conservatives and Nascar fans were among the fastest-growing publications in the first half of 2010.
