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Another News Anchor Forgets That “Live On The Air” Means Well, That You’re Live, And On The Air

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, May 24th, 2010. Filed under Humor, Media

Ernie Anastos, Rosanna Scotto, and now New Orleans’ own Michael Hill:

Cable News Wonders: Does Playing Softball Make You A Lesbian ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 14th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Elena Kagan, Media, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Supreme Court

This is what “news” has been reduced to:

The only thing I learned from this video is that Pat Buchanan thinks he has very reliably GayDar.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Washington Post Puts Newsweek Up For Sale

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, May 5th, 2010. Filed under Business, Economics, Media

The Washington Post announced today that it was putting Newsweek up for sale:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Washington Post co. announced Wednesday it is looking to sell Newsweek magazine, which has posted losses since 2007 and is expected to continue to see sales decline in 2010.
The publishing company said it has hired investment bank Allen & [...]

Too Little, Too Late: Moonies Put Washington Times On The Market

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, May 2nd, 2010. Filed under Business, Economics, Media, Washington DC

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After years of financial problems and two decades of playing second fiddle to The Washington Post, the Unification Church is putting The Washington Times on the market:
Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million that has [...]

Soy What ?: Another Reason It’s Not A Good Idea To Ad-Lib During The Evening News

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 30th, 2010. Filed under In The News, Media

Ernie Anastos, meet Rosanna Scotto:

Rupert Murdoch: Fox News Should Not Be Openly Supporting Any Political Party

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, April 8th, 2010. Filed under Media

Dave Weigel posted this interesting clip of Rupert Murdoch’s appearance at the National Press Club the other day:

RABIN-HAVT: Your business network host David Asman told viewers they needed to visit the tea party Web site to buy merchandise, and your network had graphics saying “Fox Day Tea Parties.” Is it appropriate for a news network [...]

Federal Appeals Court Strikes Major Blow Against Net Neutrality, Major Blow For Economic Freedom

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, April 6th, 2010. Filed under Business, Economics, Internet, Media, Politics, Technology

The U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. today hand a major defeat to the Net Neutrality crowd:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
Tuesday’s ruling by the United States Court [...]

Sarah Palin Not Exactly A Ratings Star

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 3rd, 2010. Filed under Media, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Sarah Palin, Television

Somehow, I don’t think this is what Fox News Channel was hoping for:
• Sarah Palin’s much-hyped LL Cool J-less Fox News special last night didn’t bring in the huge ratings some (ok, we) predicted. Greta Van Susteren’s On The Record which normally airs at 10pmET beat the program the previous three nights [...]

Why Is The New York Times Obsessed With The President’s Race ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 3rd, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Media, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

To the point where they write a story like this:
It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.
Really ? No kidding ?
That’s something I never would have known before today.
The Times goes on:
The president, who was born in Hawaii and raised there and in Indonesia, had more than a dozen options in responding [...]

Will The Last Person To Stop Watching CNN Please Turn Out The Lights

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, March 30th, 2010. Filed under Business, Economics, Media, Television

The original cable news network continues it’s ratings free fall:
CNN continued what has become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their viewers in a year.
The trend in news ratings for the first three months of this year is all [...]

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