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psych
Maybe Ashton Kutcher's Behind This?
NBC's Matt Lauer, CNN's Larry King and ABC's Cynthia McFadden have all been dispatched to the Neverland Ranch to anchor programs tomorrow from the Michael Jackson corpse-viewing that Jackson's family says was never scheduled in the first place. [TV Newser]
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Comment by Queen of the Passive Aggressives: The Jacksons are officially the creepiest family ever. What type of respect is it to have an open casket for... 6 Responses | Other threads
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gossip
'Anderson Cooper's Big Fat Coming Out Party' (Updated)
What will Anderson Cooper be doing tonight? Unvogue Magazine says he'll be attending a party at the Sapphire Go-Go Lounge for their men's issue. It's been informally dubbed "Anderson Cooper's Big Fat Coming Out Party." [UPDATED: AC's denial below]:
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Comment by Richard Lawson: "Hello, we are the boy band Stark and we are here to eat your skin." 7 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Not-Secret Meeting Shrouded in Secrecy
In your flammin' Friday media column: Lola Ogunnaike's out of a job, the LAT's web editor's into a job, a WSJ writer brings da ruckus, and the secret newspaper meeting was not a secret we swear so don't ask any more about it or else: More »
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Comment by NoelleBlue: I know my F***_Yeah_it's_Friday mind has melted out of my ears when I'm giggling out loud to the phrase "Bring... 1 Responses | Other threads
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pets
Soledad O'Brien's War Against Flatulent Dogs Suffers a Setback
Back in January CNN's Soledad O'Brien, serving on the co-op board of her Chelsea building, signed the eviction notice for fellow resident Steven Lyon complaining about the "size, slobbering, shedding, drooling, gassiness and odors" of his Neapolitan Mastiff, Ugo. A Manhattan Housing Court judge has now dismissed the case. More »
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Comment by son of spam: Hey, I'm with Soledad on this one. That ain't a city dog or an apartment dog. It was originally bred... 24 Responses | Other threads
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curmudgeons
CNN's Tony Harris Doesn't Want to Read Your Stupid Comments on His 'Blog Page'
CNN curmudgeon Tony Harris has been a hold-out when it comes to his network's desperate insistence that you keep going to its various blogs while you are watching television. Today he cracked. He hates blogs.
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By John CookComment by Banjo-Sea Kitten: Usually this guy just scores an 11 on my ego meter but today I heart him. 6 Responses | Other threads
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how things work
Fox News' Clumsy Pundit Emails
All the cable news networks seek pundits willing to act like absurd political caricatures. This keeps Comedy Central in business. But it turns out Fox News is especially dumb and obvious about the practice. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Baroness: I guess Smerconish has wised up after a long career as a torture apologist, constantly excusing human-rights abuses at Abu... 17 Responses | Other threads
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cnn
D.L. Hughley's Show Canceled; D.L. Hughley Mourns
Will the bad news for America never cease? CNN has gone and canceled its highest-rated Daily Show ripoff incongruously hosted by a mediocre standup comedian, "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News." More » -
Media Crack
Job Found in Dying Media
In your optimistic Wednesday media column: Alt-weeklies stabbed by the internet, a Rolling Stone buys a website, college reporters fight The Man and win, and a job available! More »
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shouting heads
Cable News Anchors Are Incredibly Stimulated
The Stimulus Package: Obama signs it tomorrow and oh my freaking god, the cable networks will totally talk about it. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC each have their own promo; they grow increasingly insane: More »
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Comment by gladys_kravitz: All I know is that no one is stimulating me, financially or otherwise. 4 Responses | Other threads
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careers
CNN Anchor Moves Up to The Onion
Bobbie Battista was a CNN anchor for 20 years, covering everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11. What's she up to now? Reading fake news for The Onion. A step up! More »
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Comment by Mymoustache: I'm trying to remember the female Headline News anchor from the '90s who was a little older, had auburn (and... 7 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
Anderson Cooper Totally Incoherent After Inauguration
Wow, theintoxicationfatigue of the inauguration really wears reporters down to babbling idiots. Witness this wacky error reel from a single episode of Anderson Cooper's show yesterday! Amazing. Red Bull gives you wings, AC. More »
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Comment by Kissinghim: I mean, kinda sounds like he needs to knock the dicks out of his mouth. 13 Responses | Other threads
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media
What Channel Should You Watch the Inaugural On?
The Inauguration of Barack Obama is on every channel in the world, but there is a problem: nothing will "happen" for another hour or so! So which channel should you watch to kill time until change comes? More »
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By PareeneComment by bjonston: So, this might be a stupid question, but who's this Obama character? 5 Responses | Other threads
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clowns
Greta Van Susteren Leaps to Defense of Her Good Friend Sarah Palin
Fox News' Greta Van Susteren is Sarah Palin's close friend and kitchen buddy, and she's not about to stand back and let CNN slanderously accuse Palin of "falling from grace" last year. Huh. More »
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Comment by NuncioJahoovafat: Clowns is the right title for you. From what I've seen most of you are clowns, with nothing better... 14 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
The Top Ten People Who Should Be Unemployed in a Just 2009
Obviously we live in a cruel and absurd universe of well-rewarded idiocy and undeserved second chances, but if we didn't, these are the ten people you'd meet in the nu-depression's breadlines. More »
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By PareeneComment by CodePink: Those women in the LIPSTICK BUNGLE picture really have shiny legs. Holy crap, those are shiny. Are my legs supposed... 13 Responses | Other threads
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heroes
Shoe Attack Befuddles Our Dimwit President
Finally, hero president George W. Bush is speaking out on the terrorist shoe assault that shook the world to its very core. He doesn't want the attacker's violent jailers to "overreact." Our beatific leader!: More »
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Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Candy Crowley is an insufferable hen, and not to be a bore, but Jesus, give Bush a break. 29 Responses | Other threads
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john king
Magic Wall Guy Gets Own Show!
Hey, good for John King. The blue-eyed, silver-haired CNN guy who isn't Anderson Cooper, and who is famous for manipulating a giant iPhone to display election results, will get a four-hour Sunday show on CNN. Jon Klein calls him "the best political reporter of his generation," even though John King honestly just manipulates a giant fucking iPhone and talks about demographics. Media "critic" Howard Kurtz's "Reliable Source" show will be a part of this new show, as well, and we'll continue not watching CNN, because honestly it's worse than Fox, in its own way. [CNN]
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By PareeneComment by Iceland Spar: If this guy's show bumps off Fareed Zakaria GPS, I'm going to freak out. Fareed gets the best guests on... 9 Responses | Other threads
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ted turner
Ted Turner Only Wrote Book for More Chances to Bash Time Warner
Ted Turner: simultaneously a crazy old coot and a totally awesome and admirable ex-media mogul! The CNN founder is out promoting his new autobiography, which gives him a chance to go on and on and on about his pet grudge, the scalawags at Time Warner who blew up his fortune by merging with AOL. Dude, it was only seven billion. Let it go! Here he is on David Letterman talking about how CNN sucks these days, without him, Ted Turner, around. Ted, we sincerely want you to come back, you crazy, crazy wild man. It would be great for us. He was also interviewed at the Time/Life building today, where he talked about nothing but how much Time Warner sucks (and prairie dogs): More »
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Comment by miasma-protege: I can see what Elizabeth Dewberry saw in him. He not only has frank wit and the power to unclog... 2 Responses | Other threads
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sarah palin
Palin Says Fake Wardrobe Not Her Idea
Listen up, voters: It was not Sarah Palin's idea to try and fool you by wearing fancy clothes she would not normally have anything to do with! The Republican National Committee bought an opulent $150,000 wardrobe for her and seven family members before she even showed up at the convention, the former vice presidential nominee told Fox News Channel's Greta Von Susteren Tuesday night. The legendary MAVERICK was just "goin' with the flow... if that's the way they do this." She's never even been to a Saks or Neiman Marcus. Why on earth is she telling everyone this now? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by jobsworth: What's the point of taking the clothes back? Who do they go to? 15 Responses | Other threads
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ted turner
Why Rupert Murdoch Had Ted Turner Tailed
Had Ted Turner's old rival Rupert Murdoch just issued an "autobiography" written by a former lieutenant, as Ted Turner has, one suspects it would not have been embraced so eagerly by sympathetic journalists at 60 Minutes, the Times, the Wall Street Journal and even AP, which meditated whimsically on the CNN founder's chapter titles. Maybe that's because the News Corporation chairman still enjoys the blood sport of media feuds in his old age, coordinating multi-outlet attacks on relative small fry like Keith Olbermann, while Turner is in the business of moving on — and making plenty of media friends in the process. He has forgiven Murdoch for what he suspects was the hiring of private investigators to prove him insane in the 1980s, as he explains in the attached 60 Minutes clip, and put behind him the loss of $7 billion, a devastating divorceand a bad prescription for Lithium. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by BookishLookish: Did anyone else read Prisoner of X just for the dirt on Turner and Jane and the strap-on? 2 Responses | Other threads
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cnn
Anderson Cooper Blooper Ruins CNN's Magic Invisibility Technology
Boy, CNN's election-night magic hologram technology was a hit! And all for the low, low price of $300,000 to $400,000. Money is no object in these times of plenty! Today, CNN boy wonder Anderson Cooper learns how the magic was made—and then is treated to the amazing sight of his colleague Erica Hill disappearing with a snap of her fingers! Too bad CNN moved AC's laptop in the jump cut, or it would have really looked convincing. Click to watch the poor trickery of cable news in action.
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Comment by Aaron Altman: In his spare time, Anderson also likes simulation 02-500. With pain sticks. 6 Responses | Other threads
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media
Election's Biggest Losers: TV News
Every four years, for 200 years or so, American sat down to watch Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, or Tom Brokaw announce who the next president will be. Those anchors did it with authority, and the networks took their solemn duties seriously. Even when things went wrong, as in 2000, we could rely on those anchors to relate clearly and simply what was actually Going On. This year, though, was a goddamn mess. Jennings is dead, Brokaw's an ignored old man at a circus sideshow, and Rather was probably exiled to some channel only Dish Network subscribers get, or overseas. The options were CNN, the choice in 2004 of the world's most disappointed liberals, Fox News, a hideous death rattle already in progress, or MSNBC, where Pat Buchanan and Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews shout nonsense, nonstop. No one won. More »
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By PareeneComment by IlConformista: I am sorry to say that to me the biggest loser of the evening was the Comedy Central special. I... 9 Responses | Other threads
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media
CNN vote coverage marred by hologram stunt
Throughout this election, self-interested vendors of neophilia have touted tech's ability to transform old-school politics. In reality, it has put a new facade on an old building: touchscreen vote analyses and Twitter quotations are just new ways of presenting exit polls and man-on-the-street interviews Barack Obama's heralded social-networking tools? Merely an update of the ward-boss operations of old. CNN's "virtual Capitol" on election night was the ludicrous culmination of this trend. When Wolf Blitzer thanked a holographic correspondent — "Jessica, you're a terrific hologram, thank you so much" — I realized that tech is not transforming the political process; it is debasing it.
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By Owen ThomasComment by sample032: Your points are all good, but I'm going to be a pedantic prick and say that's not really a hologram... 1 Responses | Other threads
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cnn
CNN Vote Fraud Collusion Caught On Tape!
CNN is live on the scene today in the swing state of Pennsylvania, where people are very enthusiastic about getting to the polling places. They interviewed real live man-on-the-street "Ron Jones," who allows that he's so excited to vote that he's "been back a couple times." How could Matt Drudge allow this to happen? Click to watch the liberal media- African-American- ACORN- terrorist voter fraud revealed.
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Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: What about the guy with the nightstick in front of the polling location in Philly? 14 Responses | Other threads
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election
Networks So Ready To Call This Election
Network news divisions got skittish about calling presidential elections following their colossally terrible performance in 2000. In case you forgot, they all called Florida for Al Gore, then uncalled it, then called it for Bush (following in the trustworthy footsteps of Fox News!), then uncalled the whole election. Their newfound prudence was rewarded in 2004 when leaked exit polls said John Kerry had the whole thing in the bag (oops). But this year the TV guys have their swagger back. Here's a CBS News executive telling the Times why California can suck it: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by get the buttah: "Networks So Ready To Call This Election" Me too!! So much so that I can't sleep!! Ack! 14 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
Dorkfest '08: CNN's Election-Night Blogger Party
CNN just loves to hep it up on election and convention nights by "hosting" bloggers, corralling them into a blogger pen where they can feel like they might actually be part of the MSM, if only for a night. November 4th will be no different—New York dating columnist Julia Allison has already Twittered that she'll be there, unwittingly proving once again how ridiculous (and ridiculously all-inclusive) this little gathering is. After the jump, see the invite to "select bloggers" promising "wireless Internet access and small TVs... And of course, there’s complimentary food and open bar throughout the evening." More »
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By SheilaComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Also -- Julia, since you're reading this: I am still offering $120 for a topless digital photograph of you.... 10 Responses | Other threads
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saturday night live
Using SNL To Editorialize
Jim Downey was once fired from Saturday Night Live, along with cast member Norm Macdonald, for repeated "OJ Did It" jokes on Weekend Update. He eventually made his way back to the show as chief political satirist, which basically puts him near the center of both politics and pop culture this year, with his sketches, no less pointed than his OJ material, earning mention in televised debates and re-airing on cable talk shows. But the influence of Downey and his show has been artificially inflated, he tells the Observer, by fearful news networks, who would "like to make sarcastic comments about candidates , but their role as news people prevents that:" More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Artie Fufkin: Who is benefiting most from SNL's rediscovered relevance? 3 Responses | Other threads
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abu dhabi
Iraq Is So Yesterday; Everyone's Doin' The Abu Dhabi!
Everybody, quick, open an office in Abu Dhabi! The oil-rich desert metropolis is opening a new "media hub" consisting of bizarre, bubble-like office buildings, and major news outlets are rushing in. CNN is opening a whole new bureau there! And they'll be joined by the FT, the BBC, Reuters, and some book publishers. How the hell did a city that got its first paved road in 1961 suddenly become the place where news networks simply have to have their Middle Eastern headquarters? By offering reporters more cool futuristic offices, and fewer car bombs: More »
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bias
Subtle Media Sarcasm Watch
So the press was entirely shut out of Sarah Palin's magical journey through the UN today. They are making up for it by being quietly bitchy. The headlines: "Palin meets her first world leaders in New York." (You know, from first world countries like Afghanistan!) And here is the most sarcastic Associated Press lead sentence ever: More »
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By PareeneComment by Heneage: It's a good lead, but my favorite AP lead is still "Giant dog turd wreaks havoc at Swiss museum." ... 4 Responses | Other threads
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bias
Coward McCain Pathetically Losing War on Media
When John McCain goes to war, he goes to war to win. When he got shot down in Nam it was because he went back to make goddamn sure that civilian power plant got bombed. Even after the war, he was pretty sure that a few thousand more bombs would've defeated those commies. So when he went to war against the New York Times and every single major network, we were confident he wouldn't rest until 30 Rock was reduced to rubble and CNN renounced their anti-American ways. But no, he's cutting and running. Before, it was was reported that not a single reporter was going to be allowed to cover Sarah Palin's crazy UN meetings. Now, though? Oh look, CNN gets to send in one producer for a pool report. That's not change we can believe in! What's next, cooperating with the hated New York Times? Funny you should ask! More »
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By PareeneComment by bringmemyTofu: People have to be reading this stuff, right??!! They have to understand that this crap McCain has been talking about,... 10 Responses | Other threads
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rachel maddow
Rachel Maddow Beats Larry King
"Maddow's averages [on MSNBC] are more than double the final two weeks of Verdict with Dan Abrams." [TVNewser] -
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Overdose Suspected In Former CNN Producer's Death
Julie Lankamp, a former producer for CNN, was found dead in her Manhattan apartment last night. Her two-year-old daughter was also found in the home, crying over her mom's body. The Post says Lankamp likely died of a cocaine overdose; the Daily News says foul play hasn't been ruled out. Lankamp left CNN ten years ago, and most recently founded Media Melons, a media production company. She also advertised her "sexy and alluring deep voice" for voiceover work.
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Comment by imwiththebrand: The death of someone I'd never heard of has, shockingly, failed to arouse any emotion in me. I must be dead... 17 Responses | Other threads
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jeff immelt
GE Chief More 'Comfortable' With White Male Colleagues
What did the CEO of General Electric say about black people two weeks ago? The Black Corporate Directors Conference may have thought it was doing Jeff Immelt a favor by keeping his comments on race off the record, thus allowing him to speak more freely and so forth. But now that Immelt's statements to CNN's Soledad O'Brien and other conference panelists are the subject of damaging gossip, the hush-hush arrangement is keeping O'Brien and others from publicly denying anything. And that, fairly or unfairly, just lends the rumors more credence. Here's what a tipster told Jossip about Immelt's remarks: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by FactsvsFiction: ****WAIT A MINUTE**** ...some first hand facts... I happen to have heard Jeff Immelt speak SEVERAL times on this very topic -... 2 Responses | Other threads
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tucker bounds
McCain Spokesman Told Off On All Networks
Congratulations to the John McCain campaign, which has now officially been told off on all three big cable news networks! Attached is a video of MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell taking some hard swings at McCain's sacrificial spokesman, Tucker Bounds, about campaign lying Monday. Also attached: Video of Fox News's Megyn Kelly doing the same thing on right-leaning Fox News Channel. Wow. Remember when CNN did this to Bounds, so McCain cancelled a Larry King interview in a snit? Guess that won't work anymore. Bounds has become a human piñata like Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan before him, as the media hold him responsible for the crimes of his boss, who they can't get at. It's awesome to see, but still all too rare — on all the networks. Click through to watch a compilation video of Bounds getting creamed.
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By Ryan TateComment by xhack: As fun as it is to watch this douche sputter and struggle with these questions, eventually the Republican party is... 5 Responses | Other threads
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media
CNN Rave: "Least Evil" Political Team on Television
The lovable left-centrists at The New Republic look upon the middling political coverage of CNN and declare—it's good! It just may be the for-real best political team on television, Greg Veis declares. His primary justification for this claim is their use of technology, which means the stupid wall-of-tvs behind Wolf Blitzer in the situation room and the neat iPhone thing John Roberts manhandles on primary nights. The iPhone thing is a cute if needlessly flashy way of displaying useful information, yes, but in trying to expand those innovations into a claim of CNN's superiority to the hackery of Fox and MSNBC, Veis makes a compelling argument that CNN is basically everything wrong with contemporary political discourse. Join us on a trip into the land of politics as parlour game! More »
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By PareeneComment by jbwan: what about PBS? how come everyone forgets about PBSs coverage? oh wait, I think I just answered my own question. 4 Responses | Other threads
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lola ogunnaike
CNN Duped By Palin Photoshop
It can be hard to sift truth from myth from conspiracy theory when it comes to Sarah Palin, even if that's what you're paid to do. But one would hope a professional journalist's natural skepticism would be piqued by the now-notorious Photoshop job at left of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin holding a rifle next to a swimming pool while wearing a bikini. Too good to be true! But Lola Ogunnaike, entertainment reporter for CNN's American Morning, seems to believe the image is authentic. Yesterday she told Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz that Palin should maybe avoid posing with guns like this, because it might come back to bite her in the ass: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Gosukusan: Even worse, that's not an AK-47. 10 Responses | Other threads
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bias
McCain's War on Media Begins in Earnest
Finally, it's come to this: McCain is pulling out of an interview with professional softballer Larry King, because King's CNN peer Campbell Brown accidentally asked McCain proxy Tucker Bounds some tough questions about Sarah Palin's readiness to be commander in chief. (As we said before! The media forgives everything besides violating your own narrative!) This will teach Larry to keep everyone else at the network in line! Here are some of the many many lies John McCain's increasingly whiny campaign is accusing the liberal media of spreading: More »
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By PareeneComment by lionel-mandrake: For Christ's sake, it Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! (stick it to the man!) who got arrested. The woman is... 21 Responses | Other threads
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rachel maddow
CNN Slams New MSNBC Anchor
"CNN President Jon Klein [said he] declined to hire Maddow because he found her 'predictable.'" [Washington Post]
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By Ryan TateComment by Private Hangnail: Anderson just wanted someone with better pectoral definition. 4 Responses | Other threads
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hurricane gustav
Most Ridiculous Hurricane Gustav Reporting
Now that Hurricane Gustav seems to have safely blown past New Orleans and Baton Rouge, we can turn our attention to ridiculing TV journalists who pointlessly risked life and limb to set up more of those clichéd, wind-whipped hurricane-reporting shots. Even CNN can't resist making fun of those guys, and it employs half of them. The Washington Post said storms tend to produce a "High Chance of Blowhards" and added that "no one covers a house fire by rushing into the burning building, or reports on a war by doing stand-ups in the middle of a tank battle." True, but that's just because there are firemen and soldiers to keep journalists out of those dangerous situations. They'd totally shoot there if they could! Click the video icon to watch some of the most insane moments so far.
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By Ryan TateComment by Pope John Peeps II: When I hear people drool over Anderson Cooper's tired grey sharp-faced "handsome" skull head, I always think about his penchant... 3 Responses | Other threads
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femiladyism
Sex-For-Favors Story Completed By CNN Freelancer
Hey, remember that CNN freelancer who was looking for people bartering sex to get their masters thesis edited or kitchen renovated or taxes done or whatever? It was kind of an uphill battle, since the freelancer ruled out using anonymous sources. But she still managed to find one sex trader! It all started with a young a college coed spending a semester in hot, steamy Brazil, dying for the rainforest tour no one would give her — until she met a native busboy at the local resort. And then... (cue steamy music) More »
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By Ryan TateComment by stequoianie: finally, 'tis i, stephanie gerson. i've been hanging out in stealth mode waiting for this story to blow over,... more » | Other threads
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barack obama
Obama-Pepsi Investigation Quenches Desperate News Thirst
Michelle Obama is scheduled to speak at the Democratic Convention in about an hour. It's the first thing any reasonable number of people will care about at the big political show in Denver. When the speech ends, and talking head spin mode begins, everyone should remember the TV people are completely desperate to conjure news at the pointless, made-for-media convention. Here's some evidence, in the form of a CNN segment that seems to be hinting that Pepsi controls the Obama campaign and entire Democratic party, because of its logo.
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By Ryan TateComment by Triborough: @SaraRueful: Ayn Rand is hardly the best source for New York history or naming convention. Fun fact: The postal addresses of... 1 Responses | Other threads
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