Media, entertainment and tech companies held their own in the top 25 ranking of overpaid CEOs in 2022 by nonprofit As You Sow. Live Nation’s Michael Rapino ($139 million pay package) topped the list, which also included Netflix, Paramount Global and Warner Bros Discovery, as well as Charter, Apple and Alphabet.
Overall CEO pay has been front and center this year during a season of record labor unrest from writers and actors to auto workers. We won’t know 2023 pay for most companies until next spring.
The shareholder advocacy group’s ranking of S&P 500 companies, its tenth, is particular as it starts with pay, data that’s been out for months, and calculates what it calls overpay by measuring compensation against three metrics: total shareholder return; the number of shares that are voted against a CEOs pay package at the annual meeting; and the ratio of CEO pay to median worker...
Overall CEO pay has been front and center this year during a season of record labor unrest from writers and actors to auto workers. We won’t know 2023 pay for most companies until next spring.
The shareholder advocacy group’s ranking of S&P 500 companies, its tenth, is particular as it starts with pay, data that’s been out for months, and calculates what it calls overpay by measuring compensation against three metrics: total shareholder return; the number of shares that are voted against a CEOs pay package at the annual meeting; and the ratio of CEO pay to median worker...
- 11/15/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
In light of the revelations about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ unreported gifts from a right-wing megadonor Harlan Crow and his wife Ginni Thomas’ involvement in the attempts to overturn the 2020 election, many Democrats in Congress are calling for court reform, including Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who appeared on Meet the Press and called the Supreme Court a “fact-free” and “ethics-free zone.”
Discussing the issue of ethics on the court, Whitehouse dismissed the idea of having justices make an upfront ethics pledge. “Because if you try to do it on the...
Discussing the issue of ethics on the court, Whitehouse dismissed the idea of having justices make an upfront ethics pledge. “Because if you try to do it on the...
- 5/28/2023
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Clarence Thomas doesn’t seem to realize why a Supreme Court justice regularly accepting lavish gifts from a GOP megadonor, and then failing to report those gifts, is such a big deal.
“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,” the conservative justice said in a statement responding to a damning ProPublica report detailing how billionaire Harlan...
“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,” the conservative justice said in a statement responding to a damning ProPublica report detailing how billionaire Harlan...
- 4/7/2023
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Even the word “Washington” can be immediately political and polarizing for some these days. There’s no doubting that we live in an age of divisive politics, but one issue that all can surely agree on is the annoyance of loud commercials.
There was a time when ads on every TV source could be much louder than the actual content people turned on their sets to watch. That was before 2010, however, when Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-r.I.) introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (Calm) Act, which regulated how loud commercials on broadcast TV.
However, the television industry has undergone an enormous transformation in the intervening years. Today, commercials that play alongside ad-supported streaming are increasing in volume once again, and Eshoo and Whitehouse are reintroducing a modernized version of their bill that would restrict the volume of streaming ads as well.
“I authored the Calm...
There was a time when ads on every TV source could be much louder than the actual content people turned on their sets to watch. That was before 2010, however, when Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-r.I.) introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (Calm) Act, which regulated how loud commercials on broadcast TV.
However, the television industry has undergone an enormous transformation in the intervening years. Today, commercials that play alongside ad-supported streaming are increasing in volume once again, and Eshoo and Whitehouse are reintroducing a modernized version of their bill that would restrict the volume of streaming ads as well.
“I authored the Calm...
- 3/31/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
For most of the last decade, the strategy of Hollywood studios and content creators in combating piracy has been in securing the cooperation of Internet companies and related actors in the ecosystem.
Earlier this year, MPA Chairman Charles Rivkin signaled a new level of cooperation with Google, after years in which the search giant was pilloried for not doing enough to combat copyright infringement.
More recently, a focus has been on the largest domain name registry, Verisign, with lawmakers querying the company on why it has declined so far to join an initiative to identify and eventually disable egregious infringing websites. Such agreements are referred to as “trusted notifier” arrangements, in which a registry or registrar is provided with accurate information about illegal website content, eventually leading to the disabling of the sites.
“Verisign serves as the registry for almost half of all domain name registrations,” the lawmakers wrote in...
Earlier this year, MPA Chairman Charles Rivkin signaled a new level of cooperation with Google, after years in which the search giant was pilloried for not doing enough to combat copyright infringement.
More recently, a focus has been on the largest domain name registry, Verisign, with lawmakers querying the company on why it has declined so far to join an initiative to identify and eventually disable egregious infringing websites. Such agreements are referred to as “trusted notifier” arrangements, in which a registry or registrar is provided with accurate information about illegal website content, eventually leading to the disabling of the sites.
“Verisign serves as the registry for almost half of all domain name registrations,” the lawmakers wrote in...
- 9/13/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Two years after the January 6 insurrection, a plurality of Americans say the most important issue facing the country is the threat to democracy. That threat is not just rioters at the U.S. Capitol, a coup plot by an outgoing president, court rulings limiting voting rights, or politicians denying verified election results. The threat is also something less dramatic but more insidious — an unregulated campaign finance system that allows billionaires to control the political system using secret pools of anonymous cash, otherwise known as dark money.
This week, America got...
This week, America got...
- 8/28/2022
- by David Sirota
- Rollingstone.com
The hard right’s takeover of the Supreme Court is real, and is having real consequences. But despite that leaked decision that would overturn Roe, this takeover isn’t just about abortion, and it’s not just about the Supreme Court. In fact, Trump-appointed judges at all levels of the judiciary are remaking nearly every aspect of American law, from voting rights to environmental regulations, police accountability to LGBTQ and women’s equality.
There are also a lot of these judges. In four years, the Trump administration put a record...
There are also a lot of these judges. In four years, the Trump administration put a record...
- 5/21/2022
- by Jay Michaelson
- Rollingstone.com
The climate crisis is here, and heartbreak is all around us. The early promise of dramatic action from President Biden is sinking in the old mud bog of fossil-fuel politics. Meanwhile, despite 40 years of warnings from scientists and the decline in the cost of clean energy, carbon pollution is still increasing and the world is heating up as fast as ever. The final sentence of last February’s U.N.’s latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Ipcc) report on the impacts of that warming is stark and unequivocal: “Climate...
- 4/20/2022
- by Jeff Goodell
- Rollingstone.com
The world’s greatest deliberative body skipped the deliberations on Monday afternoon and rushed to make daylight saving time permanent. The bill cleared the Senate without a hearing or debate — just a unanimous voice vote. “Let me make it clear to anybody who’s watching that they just saw this measure pass,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-r.I.), one of the bill’s co-sponsors, crowed from the Senate floor. “We have just passed the bill to end the return from daylight saving time.”
The urge to end the biannual clock switch...
The urge to end the biannual clock switch...
- 3/16/2022
- by Kara Voght
- Rollingstone.com
President Joe Biden on Tuesday described Russia’s occupation of separatist-backed territory in eastern Ukraine as “the beginning of an invasion,” while announcing sanctions on Russian sovereign debt and the nation’s wealthy elite.
“We’ve cut off Russia’s government from Western financing,” Biden said in address from the White House, speaking of the sanctions against Russian sovereign debt. “It can no longer raise money from the West and can not trade in its new debt on our markets or European markets, either.”
Happening Now: President Biden provides an update on Russia and Ukraine.
“We’ve cut off Russia’s government from Western financing,” Biden said in address from the White House, speaking of the sanctions against Russian sovereign debt. “It can no longer raise money from the West and can not trade in its new debt on our markets or European markets, either.”
Happening Now: President Biden provides an update on Russia and Ukraine.
- 2/22/2022
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Washington — In the fall of 1981, a young conservative lawyer named John Roberts, fresh off a Supreme Court clerkship, arrived at the Justice Department at the start of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Hired as a special assistant to the attorney general, Roberts focused on voting rights, and in particular the battle underway in Congress over the reauthorization of parts of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That included Section 2 of the law, which gave voters a tool to fight discriminatory voting laws and rules in the states.
As Roberts settled in at DOJ,...
As Roberts settled in at DOJ,...
- 7/9/2021
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Washington — In the last week of May, Senate Democrats arrived at a cavernous room in the Hart office building and settled in for a presentation from Marc Elias, one of the leading election lawyers for the Democratic Party. Elias had spent the last year locked in legal combat with Donald Trump’s campaign and various allies of the former president’s who had sued to change voting laws and tighten ballot access before the 2020 election. The lawyering showed no sign of slowing down in 2021, as Elias filed more suits across...
- 6/11/2021
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Washington — Dark money, that torrent of anonymous cash unleashed by groups with mind-numbingly generic names such as Americans for Prosperity or Patriot Majority, is an ugly fixture of American politics, a weapon used to win elections, confirm (or defeat) judges, and pass (or defeat) legislation. Once dominated by ultra-wealthy conservatives like the Koch brothers, the dark-money racket is now embraced by Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives alike. President Joe Biden benefitted from an estimated $145 million in untraceable cash spent to help elect him in 2020, a sum more than ten...
- 2/3/2021
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
This article was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration.
Americans won’t be getting a Green New Deal as a late Christmas present, or even a carbon tax. Barring a Democratic sweep of a Senate runoff election in Georgia, Republicans will hold on to the Senate, effectively eliminating the odds of large-scale climate legislation passing anytime soon.
The last time Senator Mitch McConnell led Republican senators under a Democratic president, he rebuffed President Barack Obama’s attempts at bipartisan cooperation and stuck...
Americans won’t be getting a Green New Deal as a late Christmas present, or even a carbon tax. Barring a Democratic sweep of a Senate runoff election in Georgia, Republicans will hold on to the Senate, effectively eliminating the odds of large-scale climate legislation passing anytime soon.
The last time Senator Mitch McConnell led Republican senators under a Democratic president, he rebuffed President Barack Obama’s attempts at bipartisan cooperation and stuck...
- 12/3/2020
- by Nathanael Johnson
- Rollingstone.com
A thought experiment: What if we lived in a world where the climate crisis directly threatened the lives of rich white guys? How different would the political debate be about cutting carbon and adapting to a superheated world?
These questions occurred to me the other day after reading an excellent new investigation into how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the top federal public-health agency, has failed to address the public-health implications of climate change, doing virtually nothing to prevent the deaths of thousands of Americans from rising temperatures and other climate impacts.
These questions occurred to me the other day after reading an excellent new investigation into how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the top federal public-health agency, has failed to address the public-health implications of climate change, doing virtually nothing to prevent the deaths of thousands of Americans from rising temperatures and other climate impacts.
- 6/18/2020
- by Jeff Goodell
- Rollingstone.com
Updated 3:50 Pm: The Senate will vote Wednesday on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, meaning that his almost-certain acquittal will take place after two key events: the Super Bowl and the State of the Union address.
Trump is to be interviewed by Sean Hannity on Sunday as part of Fox’s pre-game coverage, and Potus will deliver his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
But there had been some concern among Democrats over the timeline for ending the impeachment trial and whether lawmakers would have the opportunity to explain their votes on the floor.
Under a deal reached by leaders of both parties, closing arguments will take place on Monday, and floor speeches will take place between Monday and Wednesday.
Previously: The Senate voted 51-49 to reject the calling of new witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump,...
Trump is to be interviewed by Sean Hannity on Sunday as part of Fox’s pre-game coverage, and Potus will deliver his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
But there had been some concern among Democrats over the timeline for ending the impeachment trial and whether lawmakers would have the opportunity to explain their votes on the floor.
Under a deal reached by leaders of both parties, closing arguments will take place on Monday, and floor speeches will take place between Monday and Wednesday.
Previously: The Senate voted 51-49 to reject the calling of new witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump,...
- 1/31/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The long day of impeachment trial coverage ended with a brief moment of suspense — just how will Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-tn) vote on whether to call witnesses and extend the proceedings. At just after 11 p.m. Et, he answered: No.
That raises the likelihood that Democrats will come up short in their efforts to convince enough Republicans to compel witnesses in a vote on Friday, and that the trial will come to a close with a final decision on President Donald Trump’s acquittal or removal later in the day.
On cable news channels, commentators treated Alexander’s announcement as the beginning of the end of proceedings.
“It’s a cover up,” reporter Carl Bernstein said on CNN. “That is what the Senate has now done. They have covered up what the President of the United States has done in his grievous actions when they had the ability to find out more.
That raises the likelihood that Democrats will come up short in their efforts to convince enough Republicans to compel witnesses in a vote on Friday, and that the trial will come to a close with a final decision on President Donald Trump’s acquittal or removal later in the day.
On cable news channels, commentators treated Alexander’s announcement as the beginning of the end of proceedings.
“It’s a cover up,” reporter Carl Bernstein said on CNN. “That is what the Senate has now done. They have covered up what the President of the United States has done in his grievous actions when they had the ability to find out more.
- 1/31/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Washington — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a goliath-sized influence machine in the nation’s capital. From its imposing Beaux Arts headquarters a block north of the White House, it has spent $1.5 billion on lobbying over the last two decades — more than any other interest group — to push lawmakers and government bureaucrats to take a more business-friendly tack. And here’s the kicker: The Chamber has done so while revealing almost nothing about who funds it operations and who its most important members are.
Now, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-ri...
Now, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-ri...
- 7/10/2019
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Iatse president Matt Loeb is hailing Tuesday night’s election returns as “a victory for working people all across the country,” saying that “Iatse-supported candidates won in almost every state where we competed.”
One of those winning candidates was Democrat Katie Hill, who unseated Republican Steve Knight in a tight congressional race in Southern California. Iatse’s political action committee contributed $5,000 to her campaign, but it also gave $1,000 to Knight, who conceded the race today.
The vast majority of its Pac’s nearly $450,000 in campaign contributions went to Democrats, but it also gave $2,500 to incumbent Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, who narrowly defeated Democratic challenger Scott Wallace in the race to represent Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district. It also gave $2,500 to the campaign committee of Bob Goodlatte, the outgoing Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, who did not seek re-election.
“Last night’s results were a victory for working people all across the country,...
One of those winning candidates was Democrat Katie Hill, who unseated Republican Steve Knight in a tight congressional race in Southern California. Iatse’s political action committee contributed $5,000 to her campaign, but it also gave $1,000 to Knight, who conceded the race today.
The vast majority of its Pac’s nearly $450,000 in campaign contributions went to Democrats, but it also gave $2,500 to incumbent Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, who narrowly defeated Democratic challenger Scott Wallace in the race to represent Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district. It also gave $2,500 to the campaign committee of Bob Goodlatte, the outgoing Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, who did not seek re-election.
“Last night’s results were a victory for working people all across the country,...
- 11/8/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court battle has turned into one of the most contentious nominations in our nation’s history. President Trump’s nominee has been accused of past sexual assaults and of being dishonest before the Senate.
Despite testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote on September 28th. Following an unaccountably incomplete investigation by the FBI, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle, setting up a final vote this weekend.
On Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) delivered...
Despite testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote on September 28th. Following an unaccountably incomplete investigation by the FBI, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle, setting up a final vote this weekend.
On Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) delivered...
- 10/5/2018
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Matt Damon went off the rails Saturday night, perfectly capturing Brett Kavanaugh for the cold open of Saturday Night Live's Season 44 Premiere. The show spoofed the Supreme Court nominee at Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing ... and it was spot on. Damon guzzled water, contorted his face and had full-on agita. Senators Chuck Grassley (Alex Moffat), Diane Feinstein (Cecily Strong), Amy Klobuchar (Rachel Dratch), Thom Tillis (Mikey Day), Cory Booker (Chris Redd), John Kennedy (Kyle Mooney...
- 9/30/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Update, with video A perfectly wigged and furiously shouting Matt Damon made for an appropriately sputtering and sobbing Brett Kavanaugh for Saturday Night Live‘s season premiere cold open tonight.
“I went to Yale!,” Damon said repeatedly as SNL re-created this week’s Senate hearings. “I worked my butt off to get here! I lifted weights! Every day with Tobin and Pj and Squee and Donkey Dong Doug and had a couple thousand beers along the way.”
The sketch gave just about everyone on the SNL cast a chance at the Senate – Kate McKinnon, of course, was Senator Lindsey Graham, Chris Redd was Cory Booker, Pete Davidson was Sheldon Whitehouse, getting the chance to introduce to SNL the concepts of boofing and Devil’s Triangle. Ex-SNLer Rachel Dratch returned to play Sen Amy Klobuchar, recreating the dueling Do You Drink Beer? moment. A cardboard cut-out of Alyssa Milano played Alyssa Milano.
“I went to Yale!,” Damon said repeatedly as SNL re-created this week’s Senate hearings. “I worked my butt off to get here! I lifted weights! Every day with Tobin and Pj and Squee and Donkey Dong Doug and had a couple thousand beers along the way.”
The sketch gave just about everyone on the SNL cast a chance at the Senate – Kate McKinnon, of course, was Senator Lindsey Graham, Chris Redd was Cory Booker, Pete Davidson was Sheldon Whitehouse, getting the chance to introduce to SNL the concepts of boofing and Devil’s Triangle. Ex-SNLer Rachel Dratch returned to play Sen Amy Klobuchar, recreating the dueling Do You Drink Beer? moment. A cardboard cut-out of Alyssa Milano played Alyssa Milano.
- 9/30/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Washington — Not 24 hours after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss graphic allegations of sexual assault, a hearing that was every bit as gripping and infuriating and historic as Anita Hill’s testimony 27 years earlier, senators returned to Capitol Hill to determine the fate of President Trump’s newest Supreme Court nominee. Four Democratic senators — Kamala Harris of California, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island — walked out of the hearing room Friday morning in protest.
- 9/28/2018
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Moments before the Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to vote on whether or not to recommend Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, and just minutes after Sen. Jeff Flake (R-az) announced he would support Kavanaugh’s nomination, Flake was confronted inside an elevator on Capitol Hill.
The senator was pelted with questions about the urgency to advance the nomination from a barrage of angry and disappointed women and men holding camera phones up to capture his reaction. “I need to go to the hearing,” Flake told them.
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The senator was pelted with questions about the urgency to advance the nomination from a barrage of angry and disappointed women and men holding camera phones up to capture his reaction. “I need to go to the hearing,” Flake told them.
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- 9/28/2018
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court got underway Tuesday, with Democrats protesting the process and at least one of the Republicans serving on the committee already having made up his mind.
“Judge Kavanaugh, I’m proud of you,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) said during his opening remarks Tuesday,. “ I know how good you are. I know you deserve this position. I’m proud of the president for nominating you. And frankly, I wish you the best, because we’re going to confirm you.”
Hatch’s prepared statement was frequently interrupted by shouting protesters, who were dragged out of the hearing room. He also accused some of his Democratic colleagues on the committee of grandstanding to the TV cameras in the early going Tuesday. “We have folks who want to run for president, who want their moment in the spotlight,...
“Judge Kavanaugh, I’m proud of you,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) said during his opening remarks Tuesday,. “ I know how good you are. I know you deserve this position. I’m proud of the president for nominating you. And frankly, I wish you the best, because we’re going to confirm you.”
Hatch’s prepared statement was frequently interrupted by shouting protesters, who were dragged out of the hearing room. He also accused some of his Democratic colleagues on the committee of grandstanding to the TV cameras in the early going Tuesday. “We have folks who want to run for president, who want their moment in the spotlight,...
- 9/4/2018
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Active Measures Super Ltd Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Jack Bryan Screenwriter: Jack Bryan, Marley Clements Cast: John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Michael McFaul, Sheldon Whitehouse, Steven Hall, Michael Isikoff, John Podesta, Jeremy Bash, James Woolsey, Evan McMullin Screened at: Dolby24, NYC, 8/9/18 Opens: August 31, 2018 In the concluding scene of Spike Lee’s terrific new […]
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- 8/26/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Watching Jack Bryan’s explosive documentary “Active Measures,” about Russia’s espionage program and the effect it had on the 2016 U.S. presidential election, could be likened to watching a 21st century version of Watergate.
The film, debuting at Hot Docs film festival in Toronto Monday features archival footage and a bevy of interviews with key Washington figures including former CIA director James Woolsey, former United States Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, former F.B.I. special agent Clint Watts, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Via these interviews “Active Measures” constructs a powerful argument as to how Soviet modern warfare tactics – “active measures” — shifted the 2016 U.S. presidential elections and weakened Western democracy. The film also meticulously documents Trump’s problematic financial relationship with the Russian oligarchy that began decades ago.
“Russians have a particular type of mark who they go after,” explains one of the film’s interview subjects, senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
The film, debuting at Hot Docs film festival in Toronto Monday features archival footage and a bevy of interviews with key Washington figures including former CIA director James Woolsey, former United States Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, former F.B.I. special agent Clint Watts, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Via these interviews “Active Measures” constructs a powerful argument as to how Soviet modern warfare tactics – “active measures” — shifted the 2016 U.S. presidential elections and weakened Western democracy. The film also meticulously documents Trump’s problematic financial relationship with the Russian oligarchy that began decades ago.
“Russians have a particular type of mark who they go after,” explains one of the film’s interview subjects, senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
- 4/30/2018
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
Washington — The party scene surrounding this year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner is a tad scaled back from the Obama era, but that didn’t matter to United Talent Agency.
For the third year in a row, it is hosting one of the most-anticipated pre-parties, the Celebration of America’s Journalists at Georgetown eatery Fiola Mare, with Mediaite as co-host.
Jay Sures, the co-president of UTA, says that “we are seeing that the intersection between politics, entertainment, and news is stronger than ever before, and we want to be at the center of that.”
UTA represents journalists such as Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd and Don Lemon. The agency bolstered its broadcast and news division in 2014 with the acquisition of N.S. Bienstock, with clients such as Anderson Cooper and Robin Roberts, and more recently acquired speakers agency Greater Talent Network.
The UTA party usually draws a mix of news personalities...
For the third year in a row, it is hosting one of the most-anticipated pre-parties, the Celebration of America’s Journalists at Georgetown eatery Fiola Mare, with Mediaite as co-host.
Jay Sures, the co-president of UTA, says that “we are seeing that the intersection between politics, entertainment, and news is stronger than ever before, and we want to be at the center of that.”
UTA represents journalists such as Jake Tapper, Chuck Todd and Don Lemon. The agency bolstered its broadcast and news division in 2014 with the acquisition of N.S. Bienstock, with clients such as Anderson Cooper and Robin Roberts, and more recently acquired speakers agency Greater Talent Network.
The UTA party usually draws a mix of news personalities...
- 4/27/2018
- by Ted Johnson
- Variety Film + TV
President Donald Trump is facing widespread criticism for his tweet Thursday night suggesting that global warming doesn’t exist — and worse yet, that perhaps it should exist.
“In the East, it could be the Coldest New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay Trillions Of Dollars to protect against,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Bundle up!”
The tweet came in the midst of the president’s holiday vacation to balmy Florida, where he escaped the freezing temperatures that have...
“In the East, it could be the Coldest New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay Trillions Of Dollars to protect against,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Bundle up!”
The tweet came in the midst of the president’s holiday vacation to balmy Florida, where he escaped the freezing temperatures that have...
- 12/29/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
ABC News reporter Mariam Khan issued a clarification and deleted a tweet Thursday that falsely suggested Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse had downplayed accusations that fellow Democrat Al Franken groped and kissed a woman without her consent. Khan stated in her initial tweet: “.@SenWhitehouse tell reporters: “You guys need to find something more interesting” when asked about Franken allegations.” After the tweet went viral, she tweeted again: “”I must clarify. It appears @SenWhitehouse made this comment in passing *before* he was directly asked about the Franken allegations.” Also Read: Leeann Tweeden: Al Franken's Behavior 'Reminded Me of the Harvey Weinstein Tape'...
- 11/16/2017
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Minnesota Senator Al Franken and David Letterman discuss the immediate threats of climate change – and the hulking beauty of the former Late Show host's beard – in new web series "Boiling the Frog." The six-part project, created in part with National Geographic docu-series Years of Living Dangerously, is available to stream via Funny or Die.
In the first clip, Franken guides viewers through a "thought experiment" to illustrate the rationale of climate change deniers. "Say you go to a doctor and the doctor says, 'You have got to stop smoking and go on a diet.
In the first clip, Franken guides viewers through a "thought experiment" to illustrate the rationale of climate change deniers. "Say you go to a doctor and the doctor says, 'You have got to stop smoking and go on a diet.
- 7/10/2017
- Rollingstone.com
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