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Anderson Cooper: The Shirt Off His Hack
2008-06-09 13:16:00 ?Anderson Cooper, ?you?re not my boo.? ? Number two-selling T-shirt in CNN's put your favorite CNN headline on a cheap-T-shirt store. #3: ?1 in 3 workers hung over at office.? Top headline/shirt: "Obama Makes History". NYT's Brian Stelter wonders if CNN reporters can write funny New York Post headlines... I've ordered my T-shirt: "18 Million Cracks In The Glass Ceiling".
By: Chickaboomer
Color Bars
2008-05-27 14:42:00 Nattering nabobs of negativism are throwing water on former Repub Congressman J.C. Watts's dream to start an all-black cable TV channel Don Kaplan NYP Media Week in predominately black markets where 25 million TV sets will fade to black when TV goes digital February 19, 2009. Brian Stelter NYT
By: Chickaboomer
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...
By: Chickaboomer
Weakend At Bernie's
2008-05-13 11:36:00 Why is it that the media are strangely silent on priest kiddie porn perv turned radio host Bernie Ward's amazing fall from grace? NewsBusters There has been barely a Tee Vee ripple in the sick case of the fired liberal KGO talk show guy. His defenders propped up the serial perv... It appears the contentious Clear Channel suit will be settled out of court. NYTThe good news? More subscribers. The bad news for Sirius and XM - bigger losses. NYTDon Imus's first WABC charity radio-a-thon's take was disappointing. Half of last year's. NYDN snarks are pointing to Don Ho's "nappy-headed ho" fall from grace. "Not The I-Man He Used To Be." But the good news for Imus is that he's jumped from 8 to 3 in the the new way of measuring audience - the Portable People Meter (PPM). David Hinckley NYDN [Why am I fixated on the "Purple People Eater"?]Apple will be charging more than a buck ninety-nine for hit HBO show downloads on iTunes. Brian Stelter NYT This flies in the face of Apple's longtim...
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CBS Evening News: Limbo Rock
2008-04-29 21:56:00 Sally Quinn's garden party to "cheer up" Katie Couric Sunday during the WH correpondents' DC "prom weekend" offset by the CBS News ratings limbo rock: How low can you go? "CBS Evening News" numbers hit an all-time low last week, beating out the previous record set the week before. Brian Stelter TV Decoder NYTBut it's all right now, I learned my lesson well. You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself... Rick Nelson's "Garden Party".
By: Chickaboomer
Wary Of Terry
2008-04-23 19:58:00 Slimy Clinton elitist limousine liberal millionaire Hillary campaign head Terry McAuliffe (he personally guaranteed a $1.3 mil loan for Clintons' NY house back in 1999) hearts Fox News. Brian Stelter TV Decoder Terry kisses up to Fox for first reporting Hillary's PA victory.He also hearts Obama. The former Clinton DNC chair straddling the fence. More on McAuliffe's shady Clinton "friendship"
By: Chickaboomer
Garbage In. Garbage Out.
2008-04-14 15:22:00 In a move reminiscent of a major league sports deal, rumors surface of a Katie Couric Anderson Cooper "trade." Richard Huff NYDN Anderson to the CBS anchor chair; Katie to CNN. Anderson, a CBS News "60 Minutes" contributor, attracts the much-coveted younger demo elusive to network and cable TV news...Katie Couric is merely the public face to CBS's woes. People are getting fired left and right to save money. CBS stock is tanking. Ad sales suck. Yet head honcho Les Moonves rakes in more dough. Nearly $37 mil last year - $8 million more than the year before. Brian Stelter NYT A 28% increase. LA Times
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ABC News Swallows Diane Sawyer's Piece
2008-03-17 13:20:00 Hooker piece she did two years ago. ABC now inured to prostitution after the media wall-to-wall Eliot Spitzer sex shenanigans. "Prudish rivals posed a bigger problem. Some claimed the piece was disgraceful ? shameless pandering by the news division for ratings." Rush & Molloy NYDN "Prostitution in America: Working Girls Speak" runs Friday on "20/20." See more ABC News shameless ratings-driven pandering as newsmagazines' numbers continue to shrink faster than Eliot Spitzer's dick. Brian Stelter TV Decoder NYTIf CBS News brass had balls they'd pay a hooker $5,500 an hour to cover her orifices and anchor ratings disaster "The Early Show." LA Times
By: Chickaboomer
What's A Boob Tube?
2008-03-10 11:28:00 Game show question circa 2021. TV sets are heading for the technology graveyard. More people are watching programs on the Internet. ?I think what we?re seeing right now is a great cultural shift of how this country watches television,? said Seth MacFarlane, the creator of ?Family Guy,? a Fox animated comedy that ranks among the most popular online shows. ?Forty years ago, new technology changed what people watched on TV as it migrated to color. Now new technology is changing where people watch TV, literally omitting the actual television set.? Brian Stelter NYT
By: Chickaboomer
Huckabee's New Gig
2008-03-05 18:31:00 The loquacious quip-witted Mike Huckabee, striking out in the presidential race, could be striking gold as a Tee Vee talk show dude. Brian Stelter TV Decoder NYT Consider that impressive audition on SNL's "Weekend Update." Geek Army
By: Chickaboomer
Absence of Malice
2008-02-19 17:58:00 The NYT's plans to beach a number of reporters to save bucks should be on merit and not on longevity. Pass the torch to Young Turks like Brian Stelter. Stelter founded TV Newser while still in college. His ink on his diploma was barely dry when he headed east to his new Times gig. I cannot praise this talented gentleman enough and have been following his career since his TV Newser days. So it comes as no surprise that Brian's prolific past, present, and future are touted in Fishbowl NY with the head "Brian Stelter's the Only Reporter the NYT Needs""I'm working my little butt off" admits 27-year-old Natalie Bancroft of THE Bancroft family who sold Dow Jones & WSJ to Rupert Murdoch. Rupe appointed her to the 17-member News Corp. board of mostly old farts, pissing off the old guard and others who felt THEY were entitled to the $195,000 a year gig until 2018 and not this young twit with no experience. Miz Natalie is an opera singer. Oh, just get over it! Portfolio profiles her ...
By: Chickaboomer
Puff Piece
2008-02-18 16:36:00 "Oh, see. Oh, see Jane. Funny, funny Jane." Not Jane Fonda. We're talking about Katie Couric and CBS News taking viewers of a certain age back to 1950s first grade "Dick and Jane" learn-to-read primers. CBS News has employed cartoonists to deconstruct "complicated" matters - such as superdelegates - to clueless viewers. To fanciful music, the three-minute segment on the Feb. 8 newscast likened superdelegates to "wizards" who overrule voters. "Like the great and powerful Oz, these superdelegates are pulling the levers of powers in your political party." Katie Couric in-stu reax: "Now I get it!... That was great... I enjoyed that, that was fun." Brian Stelter NYT Huff Post has the video See Spot run. BTW there was a pussy named Puff. When Chicago WMAQ TV anchor Jane Pauley was auditioning for the Today show in 1976, she and fill-in dude Lloyd Dobyns got into a heated on-air argument over Puff. The condescending Lloyd claimed there was no Puff in the Dick & Jane books. Young...
By: Chickaboomer
This Just In! NYT Beaching 100.
2008-02-15 23:13:00 Is Tee Vee wonderboy writer/blogger Brian Stelter out of his NYT gig now that the Times is dispatching 100 newsies to the beach to save $$$? The 21-year-old (or is he 22 now?) started TV Newser while still in college at Towson State in Baltimore. He wrote 15,000 posts before the NYT snapped him up right after graduation. Olbermann Watch seems to think Keith Olbermann's media marionette is out. I happen to believe Stelter is a wonderful writer wise and talented beyond his years.
By: Chickaboomer
What Ailes Fox?
2008-02-11 15:58:00 No surprise. Psycho Tee Vee bikini anchorbabe Alycia Lane's assault case against a NYC lady police officer will be dismissed if she's a good girl for six months. Dan GrossCNN's Carol Costello was spotted sniffing Alycia's former anchor chair at Philadelphia TV station KYW. Philadelphia InquirerWinston-Salem TV anchoress answers cell phone on the air crimping her pimping. Live Leak Fox News crimping the career of media critic Eric Burns. Why? The weekend "Fox News Watch" ratings are good. I've admired Burns since his NBC News days. He's likable, professional, objective, smart, thoughtful, soft-spoken. No blowhard. Refreshing, eh? This sucks. So Fox claims it wants the show to go in "a new direction?"Roger Ailes paging Courtney Friel...From Eric's Fox News bio: For his work with NBC, Burns was named by the Washington Journalism Review as one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism, joining such luminaries as Edward R. Murrow, Charles Kuralt, Eric Sevareid, Ha...
By: Chickaboomer
Choke Cherry
2008-01-22 19:07:00 Did CNN's Wolf Blitzer deliberately forget to bring his knuckle-slapping ruler to last night's SC Dem debate? Brian Stelter TV Decoder NYT Salon's Walter Shapiro characterized Hillary as a "soda jerk adding a cherry atop an ice cream sundae." Scream Hillary went back for a second helping of Obama today. The media were slow to figure out uncontrolled debates are hauling in ratings because there's nothing new on Tee Vee. Boston Globe
By: Chickaboomer
Gigante Gaffe
2008-01-18 23:02:00 TV Newser's Chris Ariens had to retract a story he posted earlier today about CNN blowhard and illegal alien wack job Lou Dobbs's "interview" last night on Stephen Colbert's report in Espanol: "Colberto Reporto Gigante" with "Esteban Colberto."There is no Esteban Colberto. No Colberto Reporto Gigante. And as far as I'm concerned, no loudmouth Lou "I love me" Dobbs. Even a Baltimore Sun reporter got the joke and wrote about it today.A sheepish, naive Ariens found out ex post facto that last night's Colbert Report bit was a bit of world class editing from a Dobbs appearance a year ago."Esteban Colberto" has a brilliant albeit fake Wikipedia entry divined by Mr. C in "Wikiality" - the Truthiness Edition. The Colberto Reporto Gigante. An Esteban Colberto fake MySpace page.
By: Chickaboomer
Conan The Contrarian
2007-12-17 18:35:00 Leno and Conan are returning LIVE January 2nd with NO union writers. IHT This should be fun. Conan tells Brian Stelter NYT's TV Decoder that his show won't be as good without the writers and may very well be "terrible."
By: Chickaboomer
Sound Bites
2007-12-12 15:50:00 Why striking writers picketed ABC's "The View" is beyond me. We're not talking scripted Chatty Cathy picket line-crossing Ellen DeGeneres here. Brian Stelter's TV Decoder NYTRupert Murdoch is "The Wizard Of Oz" in the media Metropolis. New York ObserverThe working relationship between the Wall Street Journal and CNBC on shaky grounds after CNBC leaked a WSJ exclusive story. It may not mean much to you, but the embargoed story on cosmetic giant Estee Lauder's head honcho son William Lauder's forced exit was a big deal. NYOYahoo! makes a big deal with CNBC to display the biz network's content on Yahoo! Finance. Brian Stelter's TV Decoder NYT Silicon Alley InsiderIt's a funeral fit for a King! CBS exec and game show czar Roger King is laid out in an open casket tomorrow at Donald Trump's Palm Beach estate. The 63-year-old founder of King World Prods. died over the weekend of a stroke. Oprah, Dr. Phil, maybe Alex Trebek if he's recovered sufficiently, and other stars owing the...
By: Chickaboomer
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