The alleged NSA leaker whose real name is ‘Reality Winner’ was back in the news this week when certain details of her initial interview with the FBI were shared with the press.

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Eric Bolling, Sr. was, as we recently noted, dropped from the Fox News network. Tragically, his 19-year-old son has been found dead, presumably a suicide.

TMZ reports:

The son of former Fox News Channel anchor Eric Bolling has committed suicide, TMZ reports.

Sources told the website that 19-year-old Eric Chase Bolling, Jr., took his...

Eric Bolling started at FOX covering business news but quickly climbed the ladder of success, first as a guest host on the O’Reilly Factor and then to the center chair on The Five. This year, he was given his own show called the FOX News Specialists. Now it’s all over.

We covered...

Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros’s attempt to keep secret the fact that her 2016 book on feminism was written by a man has failed.  A judge ordered that the case be unsealed.  Tantaros is also suing Fox News for sexual harassment.

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

A New York federal judge has decided...

Eric Bolling has been suspended from FOX News, as we mentioned in a recent post: FOX News Suspends Eric Bolling for Allegedly Sending Lewd Texts

The whole thing is based on a report from the Huffington Post by Yashar Ali which used multiple anonymous sources. Now Bolling is suing Ali.

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What in the world is going on at the FOX News channel? In the past year, Megan Kelly and Greta Van Susteren left the network. Roger Ailes was forced out and Bill O’Reilly left when it looked like he was going to face an investigation.

Eric Bolling has now been suspended over...

Now former Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Jason Chaffetz shocked many when he abruptly announced he’d be quitting Congress before the end of his term.

In a recent interview, Chaffetz insisted his decision was personal, that he was disappointed by...

Fox News has fired Bob Beckel again. I’ve lost count how many times these two have had a falling out. This time, though, the network fired him “for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee.” From Variety:

Fox News’ human resources department was made aware of a complaint about what one...

Roger Ailes, who founded and built news powerhouse Fox News, died today at the age of 77. No one has released a cause of death. His wife released this statement via CNBC:

In a statement to Drudge Report, his wife Elizabeth Ailes said, “I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that...

On his Fox News show last night, Tucker Carlson ripped Mika Brzezinski for quoting, on yesterday’s Morning Joe, unflattering things that Kellyanne Conway allegedly said about Donald Trump in private, off-the-air conversations.

Tucker cited Mika as an example of journalists who have “degraded and humiliated themselves” out of their anti-Trump “hysteria.” Tucker:...

During today’s Morning Joe discussion of the ouster of Bill O’Reilly at Fox News, Joe Scarborough asked, “Do they remake over the entire network? Is anybody else in the [Murdoch] family’s crosshairs right now?”

Replied New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters: “I think you have to look at somebody like Sean Hannity,...

Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News career now swims with the fishes.

The conventional wisdom is that after the NY Times exposed a history of sexual harassment  settlements, and two new accusers came forward, advertisers “fled” the show, forcing the hand of News Corp and the Murdochs.

That conventional wisdom is only partially correct —...

A growing pile of sexual harassment allegations resulted in Bill O’Reilly’s departure from Fox News. Up through Tuesday night, O’Reilly’s spokesperson was assuring reporters he would return to the network April 24th.

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Singer Joy Villa turned heads when she wore a pro-Trump gown at the Grammys in February. Today she told Fox & Friends that she lost many friends because of the dress. From Fox News:

Joy Villa’s life has changed tremendously since the singer donned a pro-Trump dress at the 59th annual...

On Wednesday night, Virgil Bernero, the mayor of sanctuary city Lansing, Michigan, told Tucker Carlson that if his police force were to enforce immigration laws, it would be seen as an “occupying force.”

An incredulous Tucker responded, “people come into your country illegally, your job is to enforce the laws as a...

Monday, it was announced that the best show on Fox News was getting axed. After a ten-year run, Red Eye will be no more. Not because the show wasn’t popular, but because the network wants more live news. At 3 AM.

From Matt Welch at Reason:

On Monday afternoon, without any real...

When Donald Trump sent out his series of tweets about alleged “tapping” of his phones and/or Trump Tower by Obama, the instant media reaction was that Trump made the allegation without presenting any proof.

As if proof were needed at the time of an accusation for a media that has put Trump...