Maybe the news channels will wake up and realize what they are doing isn’t working: After years of audience growth, cable news may have hit a wall. According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual State of the News Media report, cable news viewership for CNN, MSNBC and Fox News fell substantially in 2010 […]
Morning Joe is still stuck on Massa. Really, it appears that Joe has some inner regret for not being one of Massa’s targets, but something they have been saying has really got me going. All morning they have been comparing Eric Massa to Mark Foley. Massa is accused of making sexual advances towards male staffers […]
Looks like the network news is in some trouble: “I just looked out at the next five years and was concerned that we could not sustain doing what we were doing,” said David Westin, the president of ABC News, as he explained the decision last week to jettison up to 400 staff members, a quarter […]
Joe Scarborough’s tweet last week slamming Keith Olbermann has gained some attention, including from their boss: Griffin sent a memo, obtained by the Huffington Post, to network talent and executive producers clamping down on infighting within the network. “We have many strong personalities with differing, passionate opinions, but it is important to remember that we […]
While the gun debate is at the top of the list, another debate is not far behind – violence in movies, TV and music. As people struggle to figure out what happened at Virginia Tech, they now have a source of frustration, one Cho Seung-Hui, a 23 year old South Korean national. Luckily we have […]
With Bush out on a new “PR” push, we are learning more about how bad things really are in Iraq: A mob of gunmen went on a brazen daytime rampage through a predominantly Sunni Arab district of western Baghdad on Sunday, pulling people from their cars and homes and killing them in what officials and […]
OH this is Bush’s lucky day. Not only is there a hurricane beating down on Florida leaving death and destruction in its path, but news has come out of Aruba about the Natalee Holloway case. The Kalpoe brothers have been arrested again on suspicions that they acted together in covering up the rape and murder […]