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clips
Fox News In the Gutter, Looking at the Czars
The Fox crew are plain goin' nuts about how Obama has appointed many people whom the media have dubbed "Czars." They will not shut about about the Czars! You know who else hated Czars, guys? How soon we forget! More »
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By PareeneComment by Colonel Mustard: Only Fox News could find a peaceful way to resolve historical revolutionary conflict between the Imperialists and the Bolsheviks by... 4 Responses | Other threads
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car chase!
Shep Smith Gets Another Late-Afternoon Car Chase
What's that? A car chase, in Houston? Studio B With Shep Smith was on the case! It is, as always, delightful. Though it wasn't as exciting as last week's, you wouldn't know it from listening to Shep.
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tv news
No AMC on MSNBC Tonight
Aw. Non-MJ-mourner and celebrity Twitterer Ana Marie Cox will not host The Rachel Maddow Show tonight, because MSNBC is devoting all its primetime programming to the still-classified 2004 CIA report into interrogations and detentions. Ha ha, just kidding.
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By PareeneComment by The-Littlest-Hobo: Hey, she just made a Unrest reference! Teenbeat Records! The 90s! Yay! On another note, she really is pissed off about... 1 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
Great Moments in Unprofessionalism: Covering Mark Sanford
So a live, rambling, out-of-left-field admission of adultery by a sitting US Governor is big news, and it is just the sort of thing our 24-hour news networks should love. Except Fox, which cut the feed. More »
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By PareeneComment by katekate is squared: What the fuck is up with people saying how they admire this guy for admitting he cheated? I don't... 5 Responses | Other threads
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tv news
Shep Smith: Loved by Liberal Elites, Hated By Own Viewers
Shep Smith, who's been doing his "awesomest bro on Fox" thing for years now, is finally getting some attention from the elite liberal media! The Times reports that he is not crazy, and therefore hated by his audience. Really? More »
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By PareeneComment by oboesqueaks: My roommate loves Glenn Beck. At times I fear for my life. Neither of my roommates understand my... 2 Responses | Other threads
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law and order
Joe Scarborough Once Defended the Murderer of an Abortion Doctor
Dr. George Tiller wasn't the first abortion doctor to be murdered by a pro-life jihadist. In 1993, Dr. David Gunn was shot and killed in Florida by Michael Griffin. Who was Griffin's attorney? MSNBC morning host (and Starbucks lover) Joe Scarborough!
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By John CookComment by howYOUdoin: It's a misnomer that those who are "against" another individual's health choices are "pro-life". A better term would be... 10 Responses | Other threads
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tv news
Keith Olbermann's Ego Trumps the Truth
Oh man, Keith Olbermann took to his nightly airwaves to try and shame CityFile, Wonkette and us for raising questions about his unexplained vacation last April. We're not sorry. More »
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tv news
The Time and Place For Being a Dick
We've been hard on ABC News' Jake "The Octogon" Tapper, because we think he can seem rather dickish. But today he used his dickishness for good and not evil, and for that we thank him. More »
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tv news
It's a Punderful World
Yay, puns! TV news folks are always employing bad wordplay—"Barack/hard place"—to add a little levity to the grim news proceedings. Our video team has compiled a clip reel off the recent best/worst.
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Comment by Aaron Altman: Puns! Puns! I got your puns right here! Hot cross puns! Hamburger puns! Puntasia! 8 Responses | Other threads
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tea parties
Teabagging Jokes, Killer Robots Sweep the Nation
It's not just cable pundit "teabagging" jokes (attached) we have to deal with today: it's freedom fighters versus socialist/fascist big government ROBOTS! HAPPY TEA PARTY TAX DAY! More »
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By PareeneComment by AndPreciousLittleofThat: Hey, you don't want to pay taxes? Fine. But don't bother to call 911 the next time something happens. ... 22 Responses | Other threads
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tv news
NBC News to Axe Chuck Scarborough and Paul Moyer?
A tipster says a "pervasive rumor" is making the rounds at NBC News that the network is putting long-time local anchors Chuck Scarborough of WNBC and Paul Moyer of KNBC out to pasture. More »
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By John CookComment by enriquez the water bottle: I don't know if I should be happy or sad that Moyer's getting fired. On the one hand, he's horrible. On... 5 Responses | Other threads
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tv news
Chuck Todd Is Choking
Chuck Todd had the best gig in the TV as NBC News' beloved, cuddly political director. He was TV's Nate Silver. Then he had to go and become White House correspondent. More »
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By John CookComment by Aaron Altman: "Mr. President, I know you care about Tim Geithner. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't... 4 Responses | Other threads
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tv news
Jake Tapper Interviews Paul Rudd Because Obama Was Busy
Why is Jake Tapper profiling Paul Rudd and talking about Bromance? Because he can and because there's not much happening on the White House beat these days anyway. Suck it, Chuck Todd! More »
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charts & graphs
Congressional Repubs Win Media War
Watching the cable news, one might get the impression that Republicans aren't a completely powerless minority party. They're still opinionating like it's 2004 out there! More »
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By PareeneComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Could it be, MAYBE, that cable news guests are typically brought on to represent the opinion opposite to the host's/anchor's? 5 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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media
Is It So Bad That No Networks Cover Iraq Anymore?
The US is still engaged, supposedly, in the occupation of an unfriendly middle eastern nation, called "Iraq." We remind you of this because you won't learn about it on the television. It's expensive! More »
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media
The Hard Life Of A Former Network Anchor
Ted Koppel, the impressively-haired former ABC newsman, is parting ways with the Discovery network six months before his contract is up. You may or may not have been aware that he's been working with them since 2006. Not the greatest tragedy in history, but it does point to the sad plight of the former big-time news anchor. There's nowhere to go but down from the heights of the network news desk. Where are all those famous former anchors today? More »
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videuhoh
Fox News Reporter: Whose Idea It Was To Give Pennsylvania The Vote, Anyway?
Oh, MAN, I had to watch this like three times to believe it: Fox News sent a reporter to Joe Biden's hometown of Scranton today for a story on how Pennsylvania is a "battleground" state. It is not, of course, but you can prove anything on cable news with enough — which is to say, "scant" — anecdotal evidence. So the reporter went to a diner and asked for a show of hands as to who favored which candidate for president. "See, it's split!" he proclaimed when it was all done. What, your primary visual cortex? Click for the full awe-inspiringly-shameless-even-for-Fox clip.
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journalismism
Maria Bartiromo Vs. Erin Burnett, Still The Most Important Story On Wall Street
A November Vanity Fair story explores the "rivalry" between CNBC "Money Honey" Maria Bartiromo and the rookie anchor eight years her junior, Erin Burnett, whom they dub the "Street Sweetie." Both broads deny the existence of said rivalry; Burnett suggests it's a "male fantasy thing" and Bartiromo speculates that "maybe at the end of the day someone is doing this, planting this, because it puts more attention on the network." And like: mission accomplished! The two look stunning in the mag.* But like, hey, you know what else puts attention on the network? The actually-more-stunning collapse of finance as we knew it! So what do these two babelicious brunettes make of all that: anything? We don't really find out! Vanity Fair is too busy ruminating on how sexist the whole business of broadcast financial news is. Oh yeah, and the story is called "Who Is Wall Street's Queen B?"
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By MoeComment by rednrowdy: moe, the ladies in the news media always have to be lovely...they can't be anything less than pretty to look... 7 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Tom Brokaw: Boring For NBC, Boring For America
So Tom Brokaw is still chugging over at Meet the Press. The NBC Sunday morning institution has been hosted by the former nightly news anchor since the untimely and unexpected death of Tim Russert earlier this year. The network is probably going to permanently hand off the show to smart analyst Chuck Todd and serviceable anchor David Gregory, but Brokaw will remain at NBC News, by necessity, for a long time. Because he is now their resident grown-up. Which is why he's so irritating.
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By PareeneComment by wonky-tonk: On last Sunday's Meet the Press, Brokaw interviewed Bill Clinton and never bothered to get his opinion on Sarah Palin's... 15 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
"If You Have The Guts To Invest In This Market Because Of Negative Headlines, Go Ahead, I'm Not Following You"
Breaking new media crush alert! The Financial Times columnist Francesco Guerrera went on CNBC this morning for a segment on how the financial crisis is so bad even newspapers read by stupid poor people are writing about it. Ooooh look it's on the cover of a Spanish paper and everyone knows Spanish speakers never met a dollar they didn't need to envia back to nineteen impoverished half-hermanos back in Santo Domingo! This, CNBC believes, is a signal for the superior intellects viewing CNBC to stop panic-selling all those stocks RIGHT NOW. Well, Francesco does not buy this logic.* Even when total idiot tool Dennis Kneale presents him with this turd of wisdom: "Come on, Francesco, you're young! You can make it back!" You know what? I'm not even going to get started on that. We'll have plenty of time to vilify him and his whole awful fact-resistant generation of denial dogmatists while we continuing not investing our nonexistent savings in the market. More »
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Request For Information
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Everyone Likes Katie Couric Again!
Good news for Katie Couric: the ongoing psychodrama at MSNBC has caused people to forget entirely that she was widely considered a unhappy failure as the anchor of the CBS evening news. Remember how she hated the job, and the criticism, and was going to quit after the elections and take over for Larry King or something? That was a long time ago, and the spectacle of Chris Matthews versus Keith Olbermann versus Joe Scarborough versus NBC News brass versus viewers has basically taken all the negative attention off of poor Katie. As a result, now it is time for people to decide they like her again! First up, Times media person David Carr. More »
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By PareeneComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: anyone can anchor the news! anyone can be president! more » | Other threads
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shouting heads
'Fox & Friends' Mocks Bill O'Reilly
Ok. A couple things to note here. The Fox and Friends morning crew are actually stupider than the stupidest people currently participating in the national discourse, because they don't understand the basic tenets of Biblical Literalism or creationism (or they're just pretending not to). But more importantly: the guy who isn't Steve Doocy totally referenced Fox mascot Bill O'Reilly's famous meltdown, on Fox, and cracked everyone up. It's... weird. This show creeps us out, even when it is "funny."
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bias
New MSNBC Strategy: "Be Boring"
As we more or less said, before, MSNBC's switch from all-crazy-pundit all-the-time (their two most unbalanced talking heads anchoring convention coverage? what can possibly go wrong!) to the more traditional "boring old guy who'll accept your bullshit with a smile" approach is a cowardly retreat by MSNBC president Phil Griffin, giving in to the outdated old methods of NBC News head Stave Capus and NBC head Jeff Zucker. It's a return to the "beat CNN at their game" idea, only that "game" is boring and they'll never beat them at it. Today's Observer explores the decision to kick Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews back down to their pundit kids table. It's a victory for the "serious" journalists of Washington, DC, and a terrible defeat for people who enjoy television. More »
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By PareeneComment by KarenUhOh: How long have I been hearing that the MSNBC engine's been thriving on the measured, stentorian hysteria of KO (say.... 3 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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desperate plea
Why MSNBC Should Stay Crazy
So MSNBC going back to more "traditional" election coverage? Looks like that David Gregory ascendancy everyone predicted back before the Rachel Maddow ascendancy is finally happening! All because Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams are embarrassed by those loud shouty people and Jeff Zucker's in serious trouble with the rest of the Illuminati. Well it's a stupid, stupid idea, for many reasons. Reasons which we'll explain below. More »
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By PareeneComment by SinisterRouge: Hackery from any side is disgusting and does nothing to actually push the issues you want pushed. It just makes... 14 Responses | Other threads
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tv news
Did You Catch Cindy McCain Telling Katie Couric She Doesn't Know What Roe v. Wade Is? No?
Katie Couric was supposed to be a terrible overpaid diva whose terrible "soft" overhaul of the CBS evening news had dragged the network down to dead last in the ratings and whose entire career was on life support due to the poor return on investment the network was booking on her annual $15-22 million salary. But look, it turns out her flagging Q-rating has not completely robbed her of all talent and skill! Today's Times suggests this presidential campaign might rehabilitate her broken reputation. Because she gets "more interesting answers" from politicians. Like, holy shit! On Wednesday night, she interviewed Cindy McCain, and it turns out Cindy McCain does not know what Roe V. Wade is! No really, check the transcript: More »
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By MoeComment by HK_Guy: She's giving interviews because people expect her to give interviews - as a first lady. She should be asked what... 16 Responses | Other threads
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pundits
Rachel Maddow Still Charming
The Observer checks in with rapidly rising MSNBC star Rachel Maddow, the academic AIDS activist who has improbably ended up with a television show following Keith Olbermann's. She's in Denver, hanging out, getting excited about Joe Biden. Basically everyone still loves her. Our video department put together this compilation of her being, you know, cool. And here are some fun facts about Rachel Maddow from the story! More » -
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MSNBC Has Bar Too!
Update: MSNBC does have its very own terrible stupid sportsbar to broadcast from Denver in. Though we're not sure if they tricked it out like CNN and Fox did theirs. "Morning Joe" was live today from a place called "Sam's No. 3 Grill and Bar." It is a "USA Mexi Grill and Bar" that serves "comfort food with an attitude." UGGGHH. We put a stupid video of this after the jump because why not. It takes place at a strip club so click!! [Observer] More »
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predictions
Rachel Maddow: America's Next Top Pundit
Rachel Maddow, liberal MSNBC pundit, was supposed to get Chris Matthews' show when his contract ran out, but MSNBC decided to capitalize on election fever and complete her transformation from feminist Rhodes Scholar AIDS policy wonk to television star right away. They gave her Dan Abrams show, even though everyone at the network loves Dan and his show's been doing well. But he's a soft-spoken legal analyst and she's a phenom in the making. She's the Keith Olbermann liberals won't be embarrassed to admire!
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Attn Celebrity Interviewers: 'Meet the Press' Gig Still Open
After the election, Tom Brokaw will end his stint as host of Meet the Press (which is too bad, because as smug as the dude is, he's been good). Then no one—least of all NBC—knows what will happen. Howard Kurtz seems to think Ted Koppel might get the job, and Koppel has not ruled that out. But he is old, and he retired from regular TV news to do 50-part documentaries on China. If NBC plans on poaching someone so expensive from ABC, they should go after Diane Sawyer, who is bored with Good Morning America and pissed off at the network for sending Charlie Gibson to the evening news and keeping her in the morning ghetto. DC's elite will be able to get over their horror as the prospect of a lady in the Meet the Press chair by reminding themselves that she's a Republican hack who once dated Kissinger. And so the Sunday Morning Circle Jerk will continue. -
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CBS War Correspondent Gets Promotion, Sex Scandal
Apparently some CBS execs saw their foreign correspondent Lara Logan on The Daily Show last week, and, like thousands of young men across the nation, they said, "who is that cutie?" It turned out she already worked for them! But because she insisted on reporting depressing news from depressing places like Afghanistan and Iraq, she never made it on-air. That will change! A CBS press release says Ms. Logan will now be "CBS News’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and will be based in Washington, D.C." Effective immediately! Now Ms. Logan can shoot herself in the head when she's forced to watch the news they show us here in the states. Oh, and also, did you know she is a HOMEWRECKER? Oh ho ho yes she is.
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TV News Makes CBS Correspondent Feel Suicidal
CBS News Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan showed up on The Daily Show last night to bum us all out. Seriously, she "cracked" some "jokes" but they were too dark to laugh at, and she always sounds so deadly serious in her littleEnglishSouth African purr. So then she gave up on jokes and said the wars were miserable and CBS News executives should be the first against the wall. Basically we're all terrible people, you see, and then she shamed Jon into basically saying The American People Themselves have abandoned their responsibilities. We can't imagine what Logan has against the American TV news! Her own network ran a totally compelling story just today on the state of the war between boys and girls. One of the most awkward Daily Show interviews ever, attached.
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double standards
Ugly People No Longer Welcome to Read Us the News
The late Tim Russert initially refused to host Meet the Press because, in his words, he was "ugly." Sad! He just looked like a regular fat dude to us, no grosser in appearance than plenty of other fat guys you might see on television any night of the week, as SNL cast members or wacky sitcom neighbors. But Doree Shafrir points out that you don't generally see ladies who look like Tim Russert on television, and certainly not hosting important news programs. "We expect our female pundits and news anchors to be intelligent and beautiful," Doree says, "but men can get away with being overweight and unattractive." We kind of disagree with that. More »
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citizen journalism
David Gregory: Jerk?
MSNBC took away Tucker Carlson's show because it was terrible and no one watched it. They gave to former White House correspondent David Gregory (the tall guy). We're not sure if his show is terrible or not, because no one still watches it. But regardless, rumors continue to fly that Gregory is being "groomed" to take the place of Hardballer Chris Matthews. Matthews is a network star, but he comes with a lot of baggage, like accusations of sexism, embarrassing magazine profiles, and his inability to deal politely with his staff. Gregory—famous for, in addition to his height, his testy and sarcastic exchanges with Bush press secretaries—doesn't have the ratings to justify any of this yet, obv, but supposedly CBS wants him so therefore NBC needs him even more because that's how TV works with its "talent." But would replacing Matthews with Gregory be even more of a disaster? More »
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By PareeneComment by KristaJulieva: Gregory is affable but charisma-less. I guess it's a matter of taste whether or not that's better than the douche-y... more » | Other threads
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tv news
Anderson Cooper And Richard Quest Salute The Queen!
When park-cruising meth-head CNN correspondent Richard Quest wasn't busy with rope tricks, he was pouring forth more innuendo-laden quotes on his globetrotting assignments. Here, Quest makes Anderson Cooper, the third most powerful gay man in America, break out into an embarrassed fit of giggles with his salutation: "As Dame Helen Mirren famously said when she picked up her Oscar: I give you...the Queen!" Cheerio, indeed!
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tv news
Anderson Cooper's Dolphin Trainer
Not that the CNN anchor is gay or anything that might gross out midwestern TV viewers. But, if he were, this is what his hypothetical latino boyfriend might look like. The gossipmongers at L.A. Rag Mag claim they were introduced to the silver-haired TV presenter's ex, J.D. Ordonez, at a gay mafia party in Hollywood. The 22-year-old is not merely the shallow party boy his shirtless Myspace photos would suggest. Ordonez is a marine mammal trainer: he communes with dolphins, as well as closeted news anchors. (Click thumb for close-up.)
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equality of sex and money
Fox Biz Women Deserve Rich Guys, Too!
Word on "The Street" is that CNBC Reporter Michelle Caruso-Cabrera may be dating Gary Parr, deputy chairman of Lazard and a guy who is involved in finance stories Caruso-Cabrera could be covering [Radar]. It's reminiscent of CNBC Money Honey Maria Bartiromo's purported canoodling with Citigroup exec Todd Thompson. This raises an important issue: why do all the rich business guys go for the CNBC women? Haven't they heard of a little place called FOX BUSINESS NETWORK, which put in a lot of effort to hire its own stable of attractive female on-air personalities to lure male viewers? Can they get some love over there? We've decided to help them out; after the jump, five of Fox's foxy professional women, and a real item of interest about each one. Act now, Wall Street jerks! More »
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men and women
Sports Vs. Business: What Men Want
Deadpan actor and much-derided financial commentator Ben Stein has a long article in Best Life Magazine this week in which he speculates about why there are so many attractive women on TV business news channels these days. You can practically see Stein's drool spattered about the pages of the article, and he's drawn some (justified) mockery for the leering tone of the story. But he does raise an interesting question about the profusion of "Money Honeys" on TV. Compare that to the situation in sports broadcasting; it's full of ex-jocks and men's men, not Fox-branded eye candy. Why the discrepancy between the two traditionally male provinces of business and sports TV? You have come to the correct place to hear a theory. More »
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