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WNBC Hopes They Know What The F They're Doing
2008-05-22 23:25:00
Sue Simmons and Chuck Scarborough have more chances to f**k up on the air. "WNBC/Ch. 4 is banking on the familiar faces of Chuck Scarborough and Sue Simmons to pull it out of the ratings hole." Richard Huff NYDN Don Kaplan NYP The poor suckers now doing the evening and 11p may find themselves dispatched to Siberia on the new NBC 24 hour news channel.
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Webb Cam
2008-05-22 22:53:00
Virginia Senator Jim Webb getting a lot of face time on TV news leading to speculation he's on Obama's VP short list. Wash Post Jim's pimping his new book but at the same time spinning how much the Scotch-Irish (his descendants) and blacks are alike. Rolling Stone profile I wouldn't count him out but the political pragmatist in me indicates Obama's got to get a white bread governor from a state he needs - like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Barack's got a old DC Dem hand running potential running mates through the political woodchipper. CBS News NYT
More About: Barack Obama , Washington Post , Jim Johnson

At CBS It Takes A Village
2008-05-22 22:40:00
CBS "Early Show" bags Betsy Alexander as a senior producer. TV Newser Just a year ago Miz Betsy was one of the Village People elders at NBC's iVillage.
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Room With A Jew
2008-05-22 22:31:00
My Evil Twin, the headline writer...Barack's in a Florida synagogue wooing wary Jewish Dem voters who would rather vote for McCain than him. NYT Obama HAS to deal with the phony Muslim gossip, his legal name, and his commitment to Israel . And he did. Perhaps Obama disarmed the tough crowd by admitting he tried "Barry" for awhile but went back to Barack... Obama noted to applause his Hebrew name could be "Baruch" (blessed). Perhaps he didn't realize there is a "Barak" meaning a "flash of lightning." NYDN
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Hillary: Not Fade Away
2008-05-22 22:16:00
Hillary vanishes into Tee Vee etherland. IHT Thomas Edsall HuffPo Determined to wangle back into power, the Clintons are pimping "Chelsea in 2012!" UK Evening Standard
More About: Hillary Clinton , Bill Clinton , Fade , Hillary , Chelsea Clinton

Boob Tube
2008-05-22 16:58:00
Used to be you'd step on your tongue live or on film (later video) and the gaffes never saw the light of day. Except at Christmas parties where the TV news "funny reels" were the highlight of the event. No more. Felix Gillette NYO: "...24 hours after that original O?Reilly freakout video went viral, and pretty soon the nation?s first unofficial Anchor Meltdown Week was in full fucking swing."
More About: Tube , Bill O , Boob Tube , Keith Olbermann

What's Wrong With This Picture?
2008-05-22 16:40:00
"The powerful news couple - Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough - and me!" Media whore Martha Stewart pimping photos of SHE!
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MSNBC's Organ Grinder
2008-05-22 16:22:00
MSNBC's in-house organ TV Newser makes fun of Fox & Friends anchorbabe - the prim former Miss America Gretchen Carlson - for refusing to utter "Hell" on the air like liberal foul mouth Keith Olbermann .
More About: Bill O , Fox News , Reilly , Fox and Friends

Head 'Em Up. Move 'Em Out.
2008-05-22 16:02:00
Tee Vee networks suing bloggers' best friend RedLasso for copyright violations. Jossip CNET
More About: Video , Lawsuits , Blogs , Move , Head

Dark Shadows
2008-05-22 14:43:00
Charlie Rose sucks up to Jeff Zucker introducing him as "a living cancer survivor." (pause) "Obviously you wouldn't be a dead cancer survivor." Zucker: "I'm happy to be anywhere." Charlie Rose "I am very fortunate and humble to be in a company..." Zucker spends a big chunk pimping Hulu - the joint venture between NBC and News Corp .Wireless mobile revolution. "Very much in it's infancy in the United States...I look at my children who were born digital.""Network television obviously is going through a tremendous transition. Network television is still very strong, very powerful, and can still aggregate and audience...It's not what is was and we cannot pretend that is." "Ben [Silverman] is looking for big explosive ideas that resonate internationally... Heroic, inspirational, blue sky shows... programs that are not dark."I can't watch this anymore...It's like 20 minutes.
More About: Dark , Shadows , Rupert Murdoch

NBC Ya!
2008-05-22 14:27:00
FTV Live : Rumors are floating around (DCRTV hears them as well) that NBC is looking to sell off WRC in Washington, DC and KNTV in San Francisco. Word for weeks is that NBC is looking to increase their cash flow and a number of station sales have been talked about. NBC is still looking at make some big layoffs in the near future. Sources tell FTVLive that the redesign of WNBC and their new 24 hour news operation could result in a 20% staff reduction at the station. Insiders tell FTVLive that other NBC stations will be in for layoffs as well.

Lost In Spacey
2008-05-22 14:07:00
"Is MSNBC A Political Liability To NBC?" Brian Stelter TV Decoder NYT Not lost in translation: Olbermann.MSNBC is lost in Spacey. The actor was on "Countdown" last night for a lonnnng segment thumping his HBO movie "Recount" about the 2000 Florida presidential vote Democrats believe was stolen from Al Gore by the evil, corrupt, incompetent Bush. NewsBusters Surprise! Spacey admits the film is skewed Democrat. Olbermann queried Spacey on what he discovered during the course of the movie that he didn't know. "That 'chad' is plural." Spacey pimped the movie this a.m. on "Morning Joe" where he got what seemed like 12 minutes of suck up from Mika Brzezinski and the talking heads. Mika actually trotted out a photo of her kiddies sporting conflicting T-shirts: "Bush" on one and "Gore" on the other. Tee-hee. It appears Hillary's in tandem with Spacey. "Mrs. Clinton stumped across South Florida, scene of the 2000 election debacle, pressing her case for including delegates from Florida an...
More About: Lost , George Bush , Hillary Clinton , Media Bias

Ted Kennedy's Topside
2008-05-22 13:17:00
NYDN: Ted Kennedy has made clear to confidants that when his time is up, he wants his Senate seat to stay in the family - with his wife, Vicki. Multiple sources in Massachusetts with close ties to the liberal lion say his wife of 16 years has long been his choice to continue carrying the family flame in the Senate. Kennedy won the seat in 1962; his brother John held it from 1953 to 1960.NYP: No, it's nephew Joe Kennedy whom the NYDN claims doesn't have a chance. Nasty divorce. In bed with Venezuelan oil thug Hugo Chavez . Both the Post and Daily News dredged up sailing themes. "Tough Ted Keeps Even Keel" "Ted Kennedy Boldly Sails Into The Future" Ironic that Ted Kennedy crises involve water... More sedate NYT "Hospital Releases Kennedy" NYT Wash PostIt appears as though the Boston Globe is trolling for morgue material: Has Senator Kennedy affected your life? Do you have a story of how Edward Kennedy's work as a senator has affected your life? Boston.com is looking for people who w...
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Pussy Abhor
2008-05-22 12:40:00
Page Six: Did Lesley Stahl crack an inappropriate sex joke during her commencement speech at Jesuit-run Loyola College? A witness tells us the "60 Minutes " correspondent jolted the crowd of proud moms and dads last weekend by using the word "pusillanimous," adding that it "doesn't have anything to do with p - - - y." (The word means lacking in courage). Stahl claimed through a CBS spokesman she actually said "pussycat." An excerpt from her speech posted on Loyola's Web site doesn't include the contested remark. Asked to clarify what Stahl said, a Loyala rep told us, "We have no interest in commenting." She declined to release the rest of the tape.
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McCain Zoning In On VP
2008-05-21 22:59:00
John McCain beaming up possible running mates or mere brain trusts to his pod in Sedona, Arizona's High Vibrational Vortex. NYT Cable Tee Vee speculation abounds...
More About: Republicans , Bobby Jindal

Sixteen Scandals
2008-05-21 22:23:00
"F**k that, I am keeping them up." No, you're not. A 16-year-old Wisconsin boy's dick shrivels after court files kiddie porn and defamation charges because the perv put Girlfriend's naked pictures and nas-ty comments on MySpace . The Smoking Gun
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Linda Douglass: Once You Go Black, You Never Go Back
2008-05-21 21:48:00
My Evil Twin wrote that disgusting headline...Former ABC News crackerjack journo Linda Douglass throws herself on top of the Obama bus. Politico "For anyone who thinks the press is in the tank for Obama." Was cable Tee Vee talking head Miz Linda "in the tank for Obama" when she did this April 25th National Journal interview with an Obama honcho? NewBusters reports Linda's been in the bag for Barack "for weeks..." But so has MSNBC. The difference? Nobody's bolted for the campaign.Linda's now on the other side of the mic as Obama's number one media spinner..."I just can't see sitting on the sidelines anymore" she tells The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder. NYT In 1997 she was ABC's Justice correspondent digging into then-prez Bill Clinton 's finances and 1998 she reported on the apparently now-forgotten Bill Clinton impeachment...Linda joins Smokey The Parrot Obama Spokesbird programmed to squawk "Obama, Yes We Can" ad infinitum. YouTubeSo why is Politico assuming such a righteous p...
More About: Barack Obama , Hypocrisy , Black

"Georgia Mafia" Wiseguy Sleeps With The Fishes
2008-05-21 18:24:00
Hamilton Jordan (Jur-dan for the cable Tee Vee talking heads years away from their mothers' wombs) has exited the planet. NYT Cancer. He was 63. Then and March 2008. Jordan was Jimmy Carter 's chief of staff after Carter was elected prez in 1976. The three guys Carter imported from Georgia were dubbed the "Georgia Mafia " - hard drinkin' hard smokin' press sec Jody Powell, in-your-face Jordan, and corrupt banker Bert Lance.

The Wife Is The Last To Know...
2008-05-21 17:58:00
"I had no idea." Cheato Vito's clueless wife (left) to the New York Post. Meanwhile the political vultures on both sides of the aisle are circling over Vito's politically dead carcass. NYDNWhile we're on sex scandals, a New Jersey radio station pimps itself for press and the press gladly obliges by offering a job to Gay American whining ex-NJ gov Jim McGreevey who told the divorce court he's "radioactive" and "unemployable." McGreevey's response: "Thanks for the gracious offer, but I don't want to destroy your image." NYPMcGreevey's wife has claimed she had no idea Jim was gay...
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Al Sharpton's Extortion Plot
2008-05-21 17:30:00
Corrupt hypocritical thug Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson operate from the same blackmail playbook: they threaten to wreak havoc if corporations and other fearful rich don't pony up dough to line their pockets. To wit: "A longtime confidant of rapper Dr. Dre claims the Rev. Al Sharpton threatened to march on the hip-hop icon's recording studio unless he donated a half-million dollars to charity." NYP Hiphopdx.comSharpton denies he said "If you don't have $500,000, we marching." Sniffs Sharpton: "absurd."
More About: Race , Don Imus , Corruption

Play Misty For Me
2008-05-21 16:59:00
"Put yourself in the place of [Clinton]: You?ve gone out there and made a thousand speeches, and you?ve shaken a million hands and you?ve been out there working your ass off. And then somebody comes up and says, ?Why don?t you just drop out of it??? PoliticoNYT's Maureen Dowd consults her invisible friend and divines an imaginary smackdown between Hillary and Obama. Hillary: Once Harold Ickes works his dark magic on the delegate rules to count Michigan and Florida, I?ll have the popular vote. And then the superdelegates will grovel back. They know in their hearts that they don?t want to go on a blind date with a guy who?s going to be BFF with Cuba, Hamas, Iran and retired Weathermen. You can bet your white turban that I?m not raising the white flag.? NYTOregon put Obama over the magic pledged delegates number. NYT
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Clint Eastwood , Play

Ted Kennedy Sails On
2008-05-21 16:17:00
My doctor husband doubts the rosy picture painted by Tee Vee talking heads today that Ted Kennedy will be back on Capitol Hill in short order. Six months is all he's got. If he's right-handed, the left brain tumor will screw up his motor skills right away big time. His Senate colleagues shot Kennedy Kry-On-Q drops in their eyes and bawled on the Senate floor yesterday. NYDN More NYDN More more NYDN NYP Wash Post More Wash Post NYT Boston Herald Boston Globe [Photo Ted and wife Victoria at Mass General] Ted left the hospital today to "go sailing" in Hyannisport.Call me a cynic, but it's a safe bet that Teddy's 24-hour grace period has expired and the political vultures are jockeying for his Senate seat. Teddy is, even as I write this, greasing the skids for another Kennedy to assume his position.Boston radio talk show dude Howie Carr has posted a "speedy recovery" headline on his nasty anti-Teddy website "Fatboy."
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Takes A Licking And Keeps On Ticking
2008-05-21 15:36:00
Fox finishes the season with the most viewers overall beating the Big Three. Variety CBS.com is resurrecting five ancient shows for your viewing pleasure - including "The Love Boat" (which launched "Happy Days"). Alley InsiderBack in the good old days TV programs were live and so were the commercials. We're seeing a return to the golden age of live spots. One word: TiVo. Stuart Elliot NYT I adored Ed McMahon 's Alpo dog food commercials in the "Tonight" show. I like the idea... You'll WANT to watch the spots to see if they f**k up. Here's a 1973 Alpo live spot where the dog wouldn't eat the tasty all-beef "by-products." Johnny Carson rescues a tongue-tied McMahon. Carson proves why he was and is the King Of Late Night TV (in the Mynah bird bit right before the Alpo spot) and no current late night pedestrian comic will ever touch him.
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TV Static
2008-05-21 15:11:00
An Emmy-winning WCBS TV veteran reporter exits the revolving door tomorrow. Richard Huff NYDNNoises off! The fourth hour of "Today" has canceled recess. No more outside giggles after neighbors bitched about the noise from the adoring fans and Kathie Lee's annoying braying. NYDN"Noah Oppenheim Is Getting Out Of 30 Rock Before It Implodes" Jossip
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John Stossel: One Toke Over The Line
2008-05-21 14:05:00
ABC'S John Stossel wants the government to stop interfering with your right to get high. The libertarian anchorman told a medical marijuana benefit the other night, "I think all of it should be legal: marijuana, cocaine, heroin and crack." The chatty, weed-loving crowd went silent at his call to legalize hard drugs, and Stossel admitted his own 22-year-old daughter doesn't think it's a good idea. He said although it might result in having more addicts, it's even more dangerous, in his view, to keep drugs illegal because the dealer gangs we're creating will soon be able to buy nuclear weapons. Page Six
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Ted Kennedy: Brain Cancer
2008-05-20 21:26:00
Ted Kennedy 's got an inoperable malignant brain tumor. Here. NYT ABC News Wash Post The Boston Herald in billing Ted as "the nation's liberal lion," reports Ted has from under a year to five.
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Meredith Viera's Winning Streak
2008-05-20 18:08:00
Streaking her college campus in 1975 prepared Meredith Viera for a lifetime of naked lunches with TV suits. Soup CansLeft, the Portugese Princess strikes her preferred pose.
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Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran
2008-05-20 17:26:00
NBC's Richard Engel asked George Bush if he had plans to attack Iran in his last gasp as prez. Bush denied it; the Jerusalem Post reported Bush's denial; Keith Olbermann thumped the speculation last night.
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Hillary: Sob Sister
2008-05-20 15:47:00
The '50s TV game show "Queen For A Day" returning to the airwaves. The lady with the best sob story got the crown. NYP First contestant: Hillary Clinton. A desperate Hillary turns to Bush kingmaker Karl Rove snatching Rove's divination that Hillary is the "most electable." So here's Keith Olbermann and liberal shill Jonathan Alter last night demonizing Rove and dismissing Hillary. YouTube Liberal Salon still demanding the Fox News political guru get real about his role in the McCain campaign. Ten days after Rove's first appearance on the network, Slate's Troy Patterson announced that on-air, Rove offers "clarity, concision, humility, good humor, good posture and dispassionate analysis." In March, after Rove had made 15 appearances on Fox, the New York Times' David Carr said the pundit is "one of the best things on television right now." Carr called him "graceful, careful and generous," adding that he is unlike "the real Karl Rove." But it may just be the real Karl Rove dressed...
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TV Suits Behaving Badly
2008-05-20 15:27:00
Boston Tee Vee news crews disappointed when Ch. 7 lady GM Randi "Do you know who the f**k I am?" Goldklank was MIA at court yesterday to answer charges in that drunk plane tirade. Boston Herald Goldklank's attorney pleaded not guilty. Next court date June 20th. Nobody's telling where Randi's hiding out...The Tampa Tee Vee GM caught Friday at an adult movie theater in a circle jerk with undercover cops in the middle is beached. Tampa Tribune Fox WTVT's Roger Linger fingered at Fantasy Land.
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