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The Hank Williams Jr. Experience
2008-10-29 16:25:00 I know very little about Hank Williams Jr., but I like him for two main reasons. First, the Monday Night Football theme based on his song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" is an incredible, pump-you-up song. Second, Williams is a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. These may be shallow reasons to like Hank Williams Jr., but that works for me.However, I?m starting to get a little worried about Williams. He sang the national anthem during the Monday night game this week while wearing a Tennessee Titans jersey. I can?t say that I agree with him wearing a jersey other than a Steelers one, but I guess that he wanted to make a good impression for everyone in Nashville (even though you would think he would already be well received by Tennessee fans based on Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year awards and the Monday Night Football song). Unfortunately, this seems to be a trend for Williams. In the video below, Williams is shown wearing a Denver Broncos jersey and a Was...
By: Sean's Ramblings
VE Day: 1945?Edward R. Murrow reporting
2008-05-08 15:40:00 The biggest throw-your-hat-up-in-the-air news on May 8, 1945 was VICTORY IN EUROPE - GERMANY SURRENDERS! Click here to go to a site where you can hear a live report from Edward R. Murrow of CBS news standing in Piccadilly Circus in London”amidst a crowd of jubilant Britains celebrating the end of the war”. Go to CBC News ...
CBS Evening News: Extinct
2008-04-29 14:48:00 NewsBlues Mike James Exclusive: Half of the subscribers to NewsBlues believe either CBS "Early Show" host Harry Smith should replace Katie Couric as anchor of the CBS "Evening News" or the network should simply shut down its nightly newscast.Of 8,816 votes cast in a 24-hour period Monday, 2,192 (25%) indicated they believe the nightly CBS network newscast is no longer viable. 2,172 readers (25%) believe Harry Smith should anchor the fading newscast.1,120 voters (12%) hope ABC's Diane Sawyer will replace Couric. 928 readers (11%) voted for CBS's Scott Pelley as her replacement. 920 voters (10%) chose CNN's Anderson Cooper.MSNBC's Keith Olbermann finished 6th with 700 votes (8%), CBS's Russ Mitchell followed with 564 votes (6%), and NBC's Ann Curry was a distant last with just 2-percent of the votes (220).And one more thing... TIME mag's James Poniewozik puts in what his editors excised in his TIME opine on Katie Couric's colossal failure. Executive summary: If CBS News instal...
By: Chickaboomer
Edward R. Murrow?
2008-04-26 03:50:00 ...would have been 100 today......just sayin'...I
By: DaNewz.com
CBS News: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
2008-04-24 16:43:00 It is time for CBS News to be put down, in the Old Yeller sense of the phrase. It's time to turn out the lights and just start airing Hollywood gossip at 6:30 p.m. The network could follow Schieffer's lead and simply dissolve the thing after the inauguration, maybe keeping 60 Minutes around, either as a commercial-free public service program (because what exec doesn't love a prestige-hogging loss leader?) or under the auspices of CBS' entertainment division (because why keep pretending?). The farewell would be handled with dignified pomp?tributes to Murrow and Severeid and so forth. And if Walter Cronkite is in good health, he could do the honors with a final sign off. I'm serious. That's how bad things are, and that's the way it is. Troy Patterson Slate "Dead Air. Why CBS Should Shutter Its News Division"Dorothy Maguire as Katie Coates "Old Yeller" 1957: "If that don't beat all. I never saw such a dog."
By: Chickaboomer
TV News: Good Night And Good Luck.
2008-04-17 15:10:00 Cindy McCain co-hosts ABC's "The View" Monday. NYDNABC News weatherdude Sam Champion fronts a "20/20" special Friday night on the weather: "Your Weather: Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity." NYDN Will Champion address stupid weathermen tricks like cute dog props? Charlie Gibson fronting a shameless promotion of Babs Walters's new book with a special on how special she is. NYP Echoing what I've pimped, Columbia Journalism Review advises CBS News to not pay Katie Couric's heir an obscene salary. I've gone further suggesting CBS just bag the evening news. TV Newser: The closing session of this year's RTNDA conference pondered the question "What Would Murrow Do?" He'd kill the formerly noble industry that spawned him in the halcyon days of TV news. NBC could end up sold if parent company GE's earnings continue to drop. "Once-isolated calls for at least a partial breakup of the conglomerate have become a chorus, with NBC Universal, appliances and GE Money, the consumer finance u...
By: Chickaboomer
No Debates for CBS News and Katie Couric?
2008-03-05 15:31:00 ?It wasn?t a financial decision. It?s a programming decision and finding an appropriate time to put it in prime time. It does cost a fair amount of money in preemption costs to put them in prime time. But that wasn?t the primary reason it didn?t happen.?-- Sean McManus, president of CBS News, trying -- unsuccessfully -- to explain why TV's highest paid news anchor, Katie Couric, did not host a single one of the 348 televised presidential debates. He was interviewed by The New York Observer's Felix Gillette for the story "Why No Debate for CBS Star Katie?" What's even worse? Nobody noticed Couric was MIA until this week.Tough week for CBS News anchors past and present, as it was also revealed that former "48 Hours" original anchor Dan Rather was excluded from the celebration of that show's 20th anniversary. He was apparently too busy hosting "The Search for Geraldo Rivera" on HDNet. Oh, and Edward R. Murrow is still dead. (Thanks to MediaBistro.com for the tip!) Amazon.com Widgets
By: Mr. Media
Goldberg Fingers Katie Couric
2008-02-13 20:36:00 "If Mike Wallace were dead, he'd be rolling in his grave." Along with Edward R. Murrow. Former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg on Katie Couric's "seriously embarrassing girl talk" interview with Hillary Clinton earlier this week. NewsBusters audio Goldberg's icy blast came on NYC's WOR radio.
By: Chickaboomer
Olbermann's Oy Toy
2008-01-25 14:41:00 While I'm on the subject of May-December romances, it's only fair to counter Katie Couric and her 17-years-younger objet d'boink with Keith Olbermann's quarter-century-younger live-in lover. Not only that you've repeatedly implored me to dig into Keith's baby girl. At least Katie's guy has his own dough. As smart as the 48-year-old Olbermann is he fell victim to an Anna Nicole - 23-year-old Katy Tur. The 2005 UCLA grad somehow got her talons into Olbermann and, besotted, he moved her into his new NYC luxury digs last year. Here are more photos of the Valley Girl. Miz Katy, unemployed and living off Keith's largesse, lists her "accomplishments" and assets on Al Gorgasm's Current TV media company he owns with vulture lawyer Joel "You Have My Word On It" Hyatt. Katy's LA dad (younger than Keith) is an Emmy-winning journalist and Edward R. Murrow awardee along with his ex-wife - Katy's momma. Bob Tur's celebrity hookup after the divorce: Carrie "Princess Leia" Fisher. A 23-y...
By: Chickaboomer
Airman championed by Murrow dies at 81
(AP)
2007-11-20 20:01:00 AP - Milo Radulovich, the Air Force Reserve lieutenant championed by Edward R. Murrow when the military threatened to decommission him during the anti-communist crackdown of the 1950s, has died. He was 81.
Grave Robbers
2007-10-15 16:34:00 Edward R. Murrow still spinning in his grave. 2007 Murrow awards in. Murrow Apparition Keith Olbermann snubbed. NBC News gets best overall Tee Vee. Overall exellence radio: CBS Radio. Large market TV: KYW Philadelphia. Large market radio: WBAL Baltimore. RTNDA list of winners hereCheck out the high tech NBC/MSNBC studios (shot above). More photos here. Coming to a Tee Vee near you October 22. NBC's anchordude Brian Williams takes his act to "Saturday Night Live" next month during sweeps. Brian's jealous of Jon Stewart's ratings.
By: Chickaboomer
Quote of the Day: Edward R. Murrow
2007-01-04 07:22:01 “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” Edward R. Murrow US broadcast journalist & newscaster (1908 - 1965) |
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