• ‘They Folded Like House of Cards’: McConnell Mocks NYT for Caving to Critics of Tom Cotton’s Op-ed

    ‘They Folded Like House of Cards’: McConnell Mocks NYT for Caving to Critics of Tom Cotton’s Op-ed

    Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday accused the New York Times of lying about the substance of Senator Tom Cotton’s controversial op-ed for which the paper later apologized after an outcry from readers and Times journalists. During a floor speech, McConnell mocked the Times for bowing to criticism of the paper’s decision to publish Cotton’s opinion op-ed, titled “Send in the Troops,” which …
  • Alison Roman accused of wearing offensive ‘Chola’ Halloween costume

    Alison Roman accused of wearing offensive ‘Chola’ Halloween costume

    Cookbook author Alison Roman is in hot water — again. The Brooklyn food writer, 34, was accused of wearing an offensive Halloween costume in 2008, weeks after she was scorned for “tone-deaf remarks” about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo in an interview. Writer Yashar Ali tweeted out photos that a source sent him from Roman’s …
  • Justina Machado gets animated for ‘One Day at a Time’

    Justina Machado gets animated for ‘One Day at a Time’

    Justina Machado didn’t even need to leave her house to shoot the “One Day At A Time” animated episode. “I did it in my living room,” Machado, 47, tells The Post about the special, “The Politics Episode,” airing June 16 at 9:30 p.m. “That was a day that everybody in my neighborhood decided they wanted …
  • NYT Opinion Editor Resigns following Cotton Op-Ed Fallout

    NYT Opinion Editor Resigns following Cotton Op-Ed Fallout

    The editor of the New York Times opinion pages resigned following a staff revolt over the publishing of Senator Tom Cotton’s (R., Ark.) op-ed calling for President Trump to use the military to put down riots in the nation’s major cities. A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher, said in a Sunday note to staff that James …
  • Tony Romo’s new contract looks ridiculous after CBS layoffs

    Tony Romo’s new contract looks ridiculous after CBS layoffs

    The Age of Reason, as Thomas Paine penned it, was in the late 1790s. Today, we are immersed in the Age of No Good Reason. Last month ViacomCBS began layoffs of 450 employees from all parts of the company. I know a few of the victims, solid news and sports folks now sweating rent while …
  • NYT Publisher Calls Cotton Op-ed ‘Contemptuous’ in Staff Town Hall, Says It ‘Should Not Have Been Published’ after Initially Defending It

    NYT Publisher Calls Cotton Op-ed ‘Contemptuous’ in Staff Town Hall, Says It ‘Should Not Have Been Published’ after Initially Defending It

    A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, told colleagues in a virtual town hall Friday that an op-ed written by Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) was “contemptuous” in tone and “should not have been published.” The comments come after Sulzberger wrote an email to his staff Thursday morning defending the publishing of …
  • NYT Issues ‘Mea Culpa’ for Running Cotton Op-Ed after Internal Revolt

    NYT Issues ‘Mea Culpa’ for Running Cotton Op-Ed after Internal Revolt

    The New York Times announced on Thursday that it would look into changing its process for commissioning and accepting opinion columns after the paper drew backlash for carrying an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.). In the op-ed, Cotton called for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to send federal troops into …
  • Abby Lee Miller reality show canceled after ‘Dance Moms’ racism accusations

    Abby Lee Miller reality show canceled after ‘Dance Moms’ racism accusations

    Abby Lee Miller’s relationship with Lifetime has come to an abrupt end. The network cancelled its upcoming “Abby’s Virtual Dance-Off” series Friday after the mother of a “Dance Moms” dancer posted on social media that Miller, who stars in that series as well, had made racist remarks to her daughter during the filming of Season …
  • NBA voice Grant Napear was unjustly fired over ‘All Lives Matter’ truth

    NBA voice Grant Napear was unjustly fired over ‘All Lives Matter’ truth

    These days you never know when you’re a goner. You never know if your career and deeds — good deeds, well-intended deeds and honest work — will be hijacked by fringe lunatics or the merely wishful to publicly paint you as what they want you to be, hope you are or read online that you …
  • Rachael Ray is doing the only live cooking show on daytime TV

    Rachael Ray is doing the only live cooking show on daytime TV

    Rachael Ray says that producing live cooking segments for her daytime talk show during the pandemic, from her home in upstate New York, has worked better than she expected. “The only transition was to let people into this space,” says Ray, 51. “This is my home, and over the years Food Network and other media …