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Marty McCry
2008-06-01 18:19:00
Fire consumes backlot at Universal City. KNBC photos Defamer Variety Hollywood Reporter MSNBC Fox News Deadline Hollywood DailyThe "Back To The Future" set and famous clocktower went up in smoke. MSNBC vidThe blaze incinerated 50,000 films - but there were duplicates. Same kind of fire hit Universal City in 1990...Expect ex-volunteer firefighter Brian Williams to weigh in...
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Fisher Cuts Bait
2008-06-01 18:04:00
Wash Post's Marc Fisher bags his Radio Listener column after 13 years: "Radio in its AM-FM incarnation seems to have largely defined itself out of creative energy; rather, it has set itself (blaming market and historic forces, but really because of a sorry lack of gumption) on a path toward irrelevance."Read his last column here. Executive summary: Radio sucks.
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Bill Clinton: "The Comeback Id"
2008-06-01 17:08:00
Best headline of 2008 crowning a new Vanity Fair piece by Todd Purdum (husband of former Clinton press sec Dee Dee Myers), on how f**ked up narcissistic Bubba is. He's no longer "the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral." Next stop: his own. Long piece but a must-read... The Universe nails Bill in this lifetime...
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Flex and the City
2008-06-01 16:53:00
What do ABC's Robin Roberts, Barbara Walters, Kelly Ripa, and Eliot Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupre have in common? They all landed on a new list of the 50 most powerful women in NYC. NYP What, no Diane Sawyer or Katie Couric?
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Hillary: Girl Interrupted
2008-06-01 01:43:00
MSNBC's Chris Matthews got to spend 10 hours in the political candy store as Democrats haggled over the Florida and Michigan delegate seating. "The closest thing to gavel-to-gavel" Matthews exuded before the mess got started at 9:30 this a.m. I watched a little bit this afternoon when Matthews & Company were in the awkward position of having to fill a big chunk of air as the Dems ran over their break by a couple of hours. When the bigwigs filed in and the thing cranked up again, the honchos could barely hear themselves pontificate with the yelling onlookers. A harbinger for the convention...TV Newser stayed glued to the tube for the boring predictable MSNBC CNN BS-a-thon. Me, I had better things to do. Like wash my hair... If you care, here's what happened. Hint: They did what Bill Clinton whispered in Blowing Rock (see previous post). It was a backroom done deal before today's dog and pony show. MSNBC NYDN NYP Fox NewsLoser: Hillary NYT She can bag the gagging shots and beer...
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Church Bulletin: Unholy Trinity Loses Hymn
2008-06-01 01:23:00
Obama bids adieu to his church pew. Politico ABC News NYT NYDN NYP
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Bill Clinton Blowing Crock
2008-05-31 22:25:00
What the hell is Bill Clinton doing on MY turf? Here he is at a chi-chi spa in Blowing Rock, North Carolina where somebody recorded him saying "seat half the delegates."DNC chair Howard Dean jetted off to NY to confer with the Godfather - Al Goracle - after he kicked off the Dem thing today by sending a message to You Know Who. Gore told him to get out of the race for John Kerry because it's not about you. It's about the party.NYT's Adam Nagourney has a piece running tomorrow on "No Roadmap For Democrats As Race Ends".An aside: The heinous Hillary hag with a bullseye on her forehead is reason enough to vote for Obama.
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Cloud Burst
2008-05-31 15:51:00
NY's WCBS TV anchorbabe slips and calls weatherdude "Lonnie Queer" instead of "Lonnie Quinn." Gawker video from last night's 5 p news. Lonnie blew it with swishy arm action in tandem with "whoops!" Related: "You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows"
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McClellan Factors In O'Reilly
2008-05-31 15:43:00
After bitching that suddenly hot Scott McClellan was avoiding him, Bill O 'Reilly nails Scotty Monday night. Jossip What's left to say? The NBC Tee Vee vampires have sucked all the blood...
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Mike Hammered
2008-05-31 14:58:00
Mike remained behind the mic rather than bag his radio show and hightail it to that tragic crane collapse. Richard Huff NYDNDo you think he should've stayed on the air?
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Looking Glass
2008-05-31 14:48:00
Don't look at electronic billboards. Big Billboard is Watching You... NYT[The complete manuscript of George Orwell's "1984"]
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Sunday Spin Shows
2008-05-31 14:29:00
Classified under "Entertainment" - Scott McClellan's appearance tomorrow on "Meet The Press." NYP
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Hillary: The Devil's Advocate
2008-05-31 13:41:00
What: Clash of the titans Hillary and Obama. When: 9:30 a.m. today. Where: A DC hotel. Why: You know why. Wash Post NYP NYDN So what if Hill captures Puerto Rico tomorrow.C-SPAN and the orgasmic political Tee Vee talking heads fuel-injected LIVE coverage!. Mark Halperin The Page TIMEMy prediction: Michigan and Florida delegates are shit out of luck thanks to their short-sighted party elders who thought Hillary had it in the bag. If they seat any of them they're going against their own rule change... "Clinton forces have a weak hand." Thomas Edsall Huff PostIt's all over for Hillary. Politico Obama's kicking off his general campaign Tuesday on Repub convention turf. Ballsy...Don't expect the Clintons to go quietly into the good night. Bill Clinton 's Nixonian enemies list is growing and as the Clintons have repeatedly demonstrated over the years, paybacks are hell. To resurrect Hillary's admonition to Barack Obama : "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen".
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Al Sharpton: Pumped and Spinning
2008-05-31 13:34:00
Captions, anyone?"My Jaguar I got for free is in the shop."
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Hillary's Last Stand
2008-05-30 18:22:00
It's the kind of rare event that political Tee Vee talking heads would gladly lop off their nuts with no anesthesia to witness in real time. Democratic party honchos gather in a DC hotel tomorrow where drama queen victim Hillary's already summoned her female protest warriors. The Dem rules and bylaws committee takes up the Florida and Michigan delegate seating issue to determine once and for all who gets the nomination crown. PoliticoChris Matthews has a 36-hour thrill up his leg...
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Clear Channel Greases Palms To Block XM/Sirius Merger
2008-05-30 17:16:00
Clear Channel spent more than $760,000 in the first quarter lobbying against the combination of two satellite radio companies and on other issues, according to a disclosure form, reports Encore.com. The company, like most of the broadcast radio industry, opposes the proposed $5 billion acquisition of XM Satellite Radio by Sirius . That deal was cleared by the Justice Department in March but still needs approval by the FCC. All AccessSo what's so unusual about that?
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Scott McClellan: $$$$ Boy
2008-05-30 16:48:00
This is not the first time MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews has invoked the classic Frank Capra film starring Jimmy Stewart as "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington." Here he's elevated Pillsbury doughboy Scott McClellan with poppin' fresh video.Keith Olbermann's paranoia appears to be rubbing off on Matthews. Chris claims Huff Po editrix Arianna Huffington (former frequent MSNBC talking head now banned) has a private dick spying on an unnamed NBC rival in the Washington bureau. Gawker

Jane Clark: Bug Off
2008-05-30 16:06:00
Fox News whiner Jane Clark has post traumatic stress disorder from three bed bug bites? The wacko is suing everybody but Fox for "Acute psychological injuries," resulting from Clark being bitten three times by bed bugs. She has not returned to her job as satellite desk coordinator since May 12. TV Newser Fox isn't named in the suit "...because FNC parent News Corp. is paying full Workers Compensation to Clark, which includes being treated three times a week by a psychologist and frequent doctor visits, legal action cannot be brought against them.Clark's lawyer is a veteran of bed bug lawsuits... Fox announced the bugs were "totally eradicated" in March Jacques Steinberg NYT and another report claims the source of the bed bugs was fired. The crux of the lawsuit in my view: That Fox lied... The unimaginative media are universal in bleading off with "Something is bugging a Fox News employee..."

GE: "We Bring Good Things To Light"
2008-05-30 15:43:00
It's been a bad week at 30 Rock. The long knives are out as Katie Couric claims she was pressured to positively spin Bush's Iraq war while NBC "Today" show hostess the same day a former MSNBC reporter said the same. "Was Press A War Enabler?" NYTRe: Katie's blast: A spokeswoman for General Electric, which owns NBC and MSNBC through its division NBC Universal, declined to speak about the specifics of the comments but said, ?General Electric has never, and will never, interfere in the editorial process at NBC News.? Jessica Yellin, the ex-MSNBC chick now at CNN, "revised and extended" her remarks: "No, senior corporate leadership never asked me to take out a line in a script or re-write an anchor intro. I did not mean to leave the impression that corporate executives were interfering in my daily work; my interaction was with senior producers. What was clear to me is that many people running the broadcasts wanted coverage that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the country a...
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Olbermania
2008-05-30 15:07:00
"As to the "crazy" part, he had to pay me $800,000 for the rest of 2001, and lord knows how many tens of millions I've helped MSNBC take out of his pocket ever since ? so: who's crazy?" Keith Olbermann's response to Rupert Murdoch's branding him "crazy." Olbermann claims Rupe had a hard on after Keith did a Fox sports story about Rupe selling his LA Dodgers...Manic Olbermann had Bush turncoat Scott McClellan on for almost the entire hour last night followed by righteous turncoat Watergate dodger John Dean. Keith's schizo. Watch the vid"Fox News Sunday" Chris Wallace agrees with Rupert's "crazy" assessment - and NBC's allowing "Howard Beale" to drift between wacko and Serious Journalist: "There's Keith Olbermann, you know, one minute delivering a rant about 'Shut the hell up, President Bush,' and then the next minute he's the anchor of their news coverage or their election coverage."Serious journalists inside NBC (read WH correspondent David Gregory held hostage by Olberma...

Obama Pastorized
2008-05-30 14:17:00
For once Chris Matthews and I are bump dancing in rhythm. "I don't see the importance of this," Matthews opined on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" this a.m. "This" is this: A white guest pastor at Obama 's Chicago church doing stand-up political comedy. I thought it was Hil-arious. Obama claims he's "disappointed." Wash Post Jaded me thinks the Obama campaign orchestrated the Hillary attack... NewsBusters has the vid Catholic priest and now-ex Obama adviser Michael Pflegler later apologized.The guy's shtick sent Harvey Korman laughing all the way to the 15th Vibration. Hilarious Harvey has exited the planet. The Carol Burnett TV show genius was 81. NYP NYT

Olbermann's Waterloo
2008-05-29 19:49:00
They're coming to take me away, Haha, They're coming to take me away, Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha, To the funny farm Where Life is Beautiful all the timeAnd I'll be happy to seeThose Nice Young MenIn their Clean WhiteCoatsAnd they're coming to take me AWAY,HA HAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!Napoleon XIV 1966Hear it here!Rupert rings in on Imploding Big Head Keith Olbermann . Would he rehire obsessive-compulsive wack job primal screamer Keith Olbermann. "No. I fired him 5 years ago. "He was crazy." Silicon Valley Insider
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MSNBC Sends In The Clown
2008-05-29 18:46:00
To commit Serious Journalism, pissing off NBC WH correspondent David Gregory fingered for leaking an anti-Olbermann jab appearing in the Wash Post yesterday. Jossip has the back story.Here's what set off Olbermann: "Some top NBC journalists say privately they are troubled by the overlapping identities." [Now that NBC has physically swallowed MSNBC at 30 Rock.] Thin-skinned Olbermann went bat shit when he saw this: "Olbermann is edging ever-closer to self-parody, or, worse, predictability... every time he turns up the volume to 11 like this lately, he sounds like just another of the cable gasbags he used to be a corrective to." TIME James PoniewozikWhen I wrote about both jabs yesterday I observed that Olbermann's skin was so thin he could be flayed with a butter knife. As I predicted months ago Olbermann's snake skin is shedding to reveal suicidal blowhard wacko TV anchorman Howard "Mad As Hell" Beale in 1976's "Network." Help me untie the Gordian Knot. Who wins the war? Gregor...
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For Whom The Belle Toils
2008-05-29 18:10:00
Did MSNBC suits bow to WH pressure to spike negative Bush Iraq war stories? CNN's Jessica Yellin was at ABC News and before that MSNBC. Politico 's Michael Calerone with video she plans to correct on her CNN blog inferring the suits were ABC News:CNN's Jessica Yellin to Anderson Cooper last night: "The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings. And my own experience at the White House was that the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives ? and I was not at this network at the time ? but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president, I think over time..."Cooper: "You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?" Yellin: "Not in that exact.... They wouldn't say it in tha...
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You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows
2008-05-29 16:58:00
Who is ABC "Good Morning America " weatherswish Sam Champion's boyfriend? Radar A gay NBC-owned Bravo exec gets dishy on his blog about the fah-byoo-lous Memorial Day do in the Hamptons. One would think guys like Sam and Anderson Cooper find their dual existences stressful. Gawker The youngsters at Radar seem to think the explosion of gay weathermen is a recent phenomenon. "Cloudy With A Chance Of Fabulous". Au contaire, my callow compadres. Let's reel in the years to 1970, shall we? 1. Mommy's boy. Momma's surrogate spouse. Possesses an Arctic jet stream. 2. Asexual. Not even a 9.9 tornado rings his stationary front. 3. Married. Shows cold front to wife. Imagines hot front of hunky general manager.4. Married. Physically slight and wussy as 1, 2, and 3. Chases eyes of her-icanes. Insists on measuring female dew point and heat index.5. Beefy absolute zero occupying continental air mass disgorging gale force winds. 6. Secretly gay. Gets off on mercurial barometer and icicles.7. Gay...
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Katie Couric: How Low Can You Go?
2008-05-29 16:31:00
Katie Couric's ratings slipped again last week beating the old record low set in April. Huff PostCatty Lisa Ling signed by CNN to deliver doom and gloom to your HDTV. Hollywood Reporter Ling will report from countries where battles are being waged over oil, land, water and food. Also reporting for "Planet in Peril: Battle Lines" will be anchor Anderson Cooper and chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta . It will be televised in high definition at year's end.How will Miz Lisa arrange for those Botox shots in the bush... Maybe Gupta will volunteer.
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Hot Scott
2008-05-29 13:49:00
The "get" of the moment Scott McClellan on the "Today" show this a.m with his book #1 on Amazon.There are several kinds of Washington memoirs: ?I Reveal the Honest Truth,? a kiss-up-and-tell designed to settle scores (nod to honesty optional). ?I Was There at the Start,? designed to make the author appear to be the linchpin of history. And, most tedious: ?I Knew It Was a Terrible Mistake, but I Didn?t Mention It Until I Got a Book Contract.? NY Times editorial"...McClellan is an exceptionally nice guy." NYP McClellan's book contrasts sharply with his spin before the jaded WH press corps when he was on Bush's watch. Wash Post ABC News "An affable Texan, McClellan was extremely well-liked by White House press corps regulars and was accessible off-camera. But he never earned a reputation for being particularly helpful or pushing for more information. "I didn't ask about that" was a phrase reporters heard regularly." Thomas DeFrank NYDN
More About: Books , George Bush , Dick Cheney , Scooter Libby , Karl Rove

Bang A Tong
2008-05-29 13:32:00
Local TV news celebrities can't even pass gas without it ending up in the NY tabloids. Veteran New York anchorwoman Kaity Tong had a health scare that kept her off Channel 11's newscast Wednesday night.Tong's WPIX colleagues called 911 Wednesday afternoon when she fainted at the 42nd St. station, sources confirmed. The beloved anchor reported feeling lightheaded and sick. But Tong, who is believed to be 57, went home on her own, sources said. She's expected back at work today. Richard Huff NYDNCould it be that toxic mold that drove Miz Kaity out of her pricey pad in 2007? Gawker
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Howard Kurtz's Reliable Sources
2008-05-29 13:13:00
The ubiquitous, prolific media gadfly Howard Kurtz fending off conflict of interest sniping from NYT's Jacques Steinberg after the Wash Post columnist and host of CNN's "Reliable Sources " pimped a new book PR flacked by none other than Howard's wife. His on-air disclaimer wasn't enough for Jacques and other "media ethicists" - an oxymoron, CBS News
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ABC's Charles Gibson Mulls Future
2008-05-29 12:57:00
?We?re figuring this out. They?ve asked me to stay. We?ll see.? Does coy Charlie want to? ?I honestly don?t know." Jacques Steinberg NYTThe sexagenarian's contract expires after the November election. Gibson was passed over a mere three years ago when Peter Jennings expired. Fate intervened. Jennings's heir, Michigan prep school boy Bob Woodruff, foolishly went to Iraq and nearly had his head blown off. His co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas couldn't cut it solo. Rival sexagenarian Diane Sawyer jonesin' for a nightly anchor gig wouldn't talk to Jacques.
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