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How to fix ABC in 5 easy steps by Marc Berman Added 27 hours ago The season is only two weeks old, but ABC has sprung a leak While two weeks does not a season make, it is more than enough time to know that there are problems aplenty at ABC. Based on…
The answer was complicated, a bit too much so to explain in my rusty Chinese. Had I been honest, I would have told him that I had arrived in Hangzhou on a journey of last resort. Encased in Ziploc at the bottom of my shoulder bag was a Donald J. Trump-brand necktie with silver checks…
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine interrupted his rival, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, numerous times during Tuesday night’s debate. But on Wednesday, the Hillary Clinton campaign made sure every last lying word of Donald Trump’s running mate got out — loud and clear. According to a CNN/ORC instant poll, Pence scored a narrow win over Kaine during…
Rex Ryan (left) shares the stage with Donald Trump after introducing Trump during a campaign stop Monday, April 18, 2016, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Images) Indeed, said another black player on the Bills who requested anonymity to speak freely about tensions swirling with a combination of protests led by Colin Kaepernick and a combustible candidate:…
Earlier this week, Adult Swim’s executive vice president and creative director Mike Lazzo was accused of purposely not taking on any female creators or showrunners by anonymous employees at the network because “when you put women in the writers room, you get conflict, not comedy.” Adult Swim, according to a recent Buzzfeed report, has the lowest…
A report in the New York Times says a $916 million loss in the ’90s might have allowed Donald Trump to legally avoid paying any income taxes for almost two decades. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) This post has been updated. Dean Baquet wasn’t bluffing. The New York Times executive editor said during a visit to…
OurMine, the hacking group that has previously taken credit for hacking into the social media accounts for Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, has apparently gained access to BuzzFeed’s systems and published on its website. On a post (which has since been removed), OurMine appears to have successfully published under BuzzFeed News writer Joseph Bernstein’s byline….
U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd defended a series of policy proposals aimed at cutting the number of foreign workers at British companies after she was accused of stoking racism and anti-immigrant sentiment. Under the plans announced at the Conservative Party conference, companies would have to list the non-U.K. nationals who work for them. Banks and…
If Mike Pence “won,” it’s because he was shameless about denying reality. /header Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence during his debate with Democratic VP nominee Sen. Tim Kaine at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, Oct. 4, 2016.Jonathan Ernst/Reuters,Paneikon The vice presidential debate does not move votes, and will not move votes. People commit…
I’m writing this with a very specific kind of headache. It’s the kind you get after playing about forty minutes of Arkham VR, a game for the Playstation VR virtual reality headset. The goal of Arkham VR is to make you really feel like Batman by giving you a first-person, 360 degree view of his ugly,…