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On Friday night's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, MSNBC host Matthews took a page out of Dick Cheney's book and accused the president of "dithering" over Afghanistan.
"President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there. Health care. Terror trials. Job losses." Matthews began. He [...]
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Bill Clinton told FDL's Eve Gittelson that it would be problematic for him to attend a free medical clinic being held in Little Rock, Arkansas tomorrow because MSNBC's Keith Olbermann had "politicized" the event." He indicated that some were turning the event into a primary kickoff against Arkansas Sen. [...]
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Bill Moyers is leaving weekly television.
The New York Times' Elizabeth Jensen reports that the PBS newscaster is retiring from his Friday night program, "Bill Moyers Journal," on April 30, 2010.
"Bill Moyers Journal" launched in April 2007.
Jensen reports that it was Moyers' intention to retire at Christmas this [...]
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.
The Rockland County district attorney's office issued a one-sentence statement Friday saying Carter, 46, was found guilty of third-degree attempted assault.
The maximum sentence [...]
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ESPN has punished Bill Simmons for writing tweets critical of Boston sports radio station WEEI. ESPN.com editor-in-chief Rob King wrote a blog post to confirm the news, writing that "we've taken appropriate measures."
ESPN Radio and WEEI announced a partnership on October 7, and Simmons has criticized the [...]
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Unhappy fans of Sarah Palin went rogue on the Alaska Republican during her book tour stop in Noblesville, Indiana on Thursday.
The local Borders outlet had handed out 1,000 wristbands to book purchasers; the wristbands were supposed to procure fans Palin's signature on their hardback copies of "Going Rogue." But [...]
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Twilight is upon us! From the frenzy surrounding the release of the second movie in the smalltown-teen-vampire-romance series, you'd think someone had opened a vein.
The books in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series — Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn — have sold over 85 [...]
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At the end of the Charles Bronson film, 10 to Midnight, a serial killer, who has just been apprehended, reverts to a variation of the same plea uttered by Andy Robinson's psychopath in Dirty Harry and Leo Gorcey's punk in Dead End: "society made me do it."
Like Clint Eastwood [...]
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NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard makes note of the curious way that news organizations choose to identify White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, whose very name is like a dead fish mailed to everyone's style guide:
...when he's quoted or mentioned on radio, TV, or print, reporters and anchors [...]
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Oprah's announcement that she will give up her syndicated talk show in 2011 after 25 years on the air leaves an enormous hole: who will be the next king or queen of daytime TV?
Below are some of the names that immediately come to mind as potential heirs to Oprah's [...]
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Obviously, unless sometime between now and 2012 there occurs a rip in the space-time continuum and the country slips into an alternate reality, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck will not be running on a joint ticket for the presidency. But let's speculate anyway.
The [...]
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The good people over at the National Republican Campaign Committee have a favorite punctuation mark, called the ellipsis. And they enjoy using it, mainly to make strategic truncations in a piece of text to make it look as if it says something completely different from its author's original intent. [...]
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The business channel, which News Corp started to compete with General Electric's (GE.N) CNBC, will start appearing on Nov. 19 on channel 106 for Cablevision subscribers, Fox Business said in a statement.
Fox Business Network will be available to about 3 million Cablevision customers, a Cablevision spokesman said. [...]
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Seems like only weeks ago that CNN was parting ways with former anchor Lou Dobbs because everyone was yelling at Dobbs to stop saying crazy birther and anti-immigrant nonsense on the teevee. Despite all that negative attention, Dobbs is setting his post-CNN job-seeking hopes very high, telling reporters [...]
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It's a potent combination: Steven + Stephen.
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are joining forces to develop a limited series based on King's just-released supernatural thriller "Under the Dome." DreamWorks TV has optioned the book and is looking to set it up as an event series, likely for cable. [...]
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The term "idiocracy" means a nation run by idiots - and the term idiot is defined as "an utterly foolish or senseless person" and/or a "person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old." There [...]
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Martha Stewart told Cynthia McFadden that while Rachael Ray may be popular, her style is "not good enough" for the domestic diva.
"She professed that she cannot bake," Stewart told "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden. "She just did a new cookbook which is just a re-edit of a lot of [...]
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Like many people outside of Alaska, the first I heard of Sarah Palin was back in August 2008, when John McCain announced her as his running mate. My first reaction: Smooth move, John. We wanted a woman in the Oval Office, now you might be giving us one. My [...]
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Founded this year, ThinkSocial's goal is to connect people and ideas to advance the use of social media to address society's most pressing challenges.
Today we are very proud to announce the inaugural ThinkSocial Award Winners and also release Blueprints 1.0, a report detailing trends in [...]
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Below, watch video of Oprah tearing up as she announces that her show will end in 2011 after 25 years on the air.
Her full statement:
"So here we are, halfway through the season 24. And it still means as much to me to spend an hour everyday with you as [...]
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I've been watching with great interest as of late the amount of hate stories written about Governor Palin. Oh yes, we are a country that loves our drama. And we are certainly a country that can, at times, be accused of going to extremes. But one thing is certain [...]
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What will it take to convince dead-enders that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his 9/11 masterminding ilk should be tried in federal court in New York City? Maybe this will do it: here's intrepid Washington Times reporter and Friend of Eat The Press Liz Glover, asking rap legend-slash-star of [...]
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The Xbox 360 gaming system, sold by the Microsoft Corporation, is being endorsed by the Jonas Brothers rock band in a campaign that appears in properties owned by the brothers' media partner, the Walt Disney Company.
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The news that the queen of daytime TV is leaving her perch — which only broke around 5PM ET Thursday — was big enough news to be A1 news at several of the nation's newspapers.
Below, see several of the different front pages featuring the Oprah news:
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One of the things that's obviously under-appreciated about right-wing radio and television is the way hosts wield this awesome variety of artful metaphors about the state of the nation.
In this new mashup video from Media Matters, however, you really see the full measure of their rhetorical brilliance, as [...]
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Now Bill O'Reilly might really be mad.
After O'Reilly reportedly threw a "hissyfit" because Sean Hannity's interview with Sarah Palin would air before his, the ratings show Wednesday's "Hannity" was a huge hit and even beat "The O'Reilly Factor."
"Hannity" was the top show on cable news Wednesday, averaging 4.200 [...]
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LOS ANGELES — An Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews is expected to make his first court appearance Friday.
Michael Barrett was due in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to face one count of interstate stalking. He is free on $4,500 [...]
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These milestones highlight how rapidly "Yo Gabba Gabba!," a show aimed at a preschool audience and broadcast on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. channel, has built a fan base of young (and not-so-young) viewers with a mix of charming characters, catchy music and hip celebrity guests.
They are also occurring at a [...]
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Doug Hampton, the former co-chief of staff to Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., speaks out in his first television network interview, about the affair between his former boss and his wife, Cynthia "Cindy" Hampton, also a former Ensign employee.
Speaking exclusively to "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden, Hampton provides astonishing new details [...]
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The co-founder of Twitter today warned Rupert Murdoch that his plans to charge for online content, and block Google from using stories produced by his News International titles, were a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle".
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It's official: Oprah Winfrey will end her famous talk show in 2011. The much speculated rumor was made official yesterday and will come at the end of next year as Oprah readies the new OWN channel for launch. While The Oprah Winfrey Show will know longer air on [...]
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Stephen Colbert sat down with David Letterman last night and reminisced about his trip to Iraq. He recounted for Dave his visit to the White House where the president taped a segment for Stephen to show the troops. Turns out the president is an unnervingly talented actor who [...]
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A new poll by Public Policy Polling shows that 52% of Republicans believe that Obama did not really win the 2008 election. You think that's absurd, get a load of why -- ACORN stole it for him. Yes, a majority of Republicans in the country believe ACORN flat [...]
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Oprah's Friday announcement that "The Oprah Winfrey Show" — which began in 1985 — will end its run in the fall of 2011 will bring to a close one of television's most legendary shows.
Below, we've compiled 13 of the most memorable "Oprah" show moments. Vote on your favorites.
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Arianna Huffington went on MSNBC's Countdown to discuss a new report from the Anti-Defamation League on anti-government rage, that calls Glenn Beck the "Fearmonger-in-Chief."
The report calls Beck "the most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped stoke the fires of anti-government anger."
Arianna argued that although [...]
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CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey was set to announce Friday that her powerhouse daytime television show, the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire with legions of fans, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air.
Winfrey planned to announce the final date for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" [...]
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The more I hear about the troop level increases that are ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to win in Afghanistan, the more and more I feel detached from any sense of what this troop escalation is supposed to achieve in practical terms. That doesn't necessarily mean it can't achieve something, it just [...]
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A healthy dose of New York's media social scene turned out Wednesday night as new ASMALLWORLD Chairman Patrick Liotard-Vogt hosted his first party since taking control of the site from Harvey Weinstein last month.
The Swiss mogul — clad in a distinctly American bandana — joined forces with the Waldorf-Astoria [...]
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The Financial Times's Tim Bradshaw writes about the surprising success of Vice, which despite the downturn in media more generally has managed to make a successful transition into becoming an "international multimedia group."
Bradshaw reports that Vice — which recently threw a $250,000 Halloween bash in honor of its [...]
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Sarah Palin has never been shy about criticizing her critics. So to start off her book tour for the much anticipated Going Rogue -- itself filled with scathing comments about people who didn't offer her their wholehearted support -- Palin had a few more angry words for her [...]
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PHILADELPHIA — Media mogul John Malone said Thursday that Comcast Corp.'s plan to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal would give it too much market power and force competitors to consider similar acquisitions.
Comcast Corp. – the nation's largest cable TV provider – is in talks to buy a [...]
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HARTFORD, Conn. — A small, family-owned Connecticut newspaper sued the state's largest newspaper Thursday, saying it repeatedly plagiarized stories after cutting its own reporting staff to save money.
The Journal Inquirer of Manchester accuses the Hartford Courant of "pirating" at least 11 local news stories in August and September, then [...]
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It's the rally cry of publishers...
Want a book deal? Show me your platform.
If only they knew how easy it's become to fake a monster platform in a 2.0 world...
A few years back, proving your platform meant whipping out your big black book of press clipping. You know, [...]
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Crossposted with the Center for American Progress.
Last week, Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei at Politico reported that the White House planned on making deficit reduction a centerpiece of the next State of the Union address. Allen and Vandehei called the decision "practical" saying that "Obama has spent [...]
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The exhibit that has recreated Tim Russert's office is set to open at the Newseum in Washington, DC Friday.
"Inside Tim Russert's Office" will take museum visitors inside Russert's office in the Washington bureau of NBC News, where he was bureau chief and moderator of "Meet the Press" until his [...]
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Army will allow the media limited coverage of Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg, but will bar reporters from interviewing her or her supporters on the post, officials said Thursday.
A Fort Bragg spokesman initially said the Army would ban the media from Palin's book [...]
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The latest alarmist claptrap that's emerged in the debate over health care reform involves a study that's been done by the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on breast cancer screenings. That study led that agency to formulate a new set of recommendations on when and how often women [...]
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We've all heard the speculation about Major Nidal Hasan's terrorist motives for going on a shooting rampage in Fort Hood. I have no idea what his true motives were, but I know that his racial and religious profile jumps to the top of almost every story about him.
Imagine my [...]
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On the matter of Sarah Palin, Newsweek magazine, and THE SEXISM, I think that the Washington City Paper's Amanda Hess has basically won the entire discussion.
Is the Newsweek cover sexist? Yes. But let's put the photo back into context for a minute: Sarah Palin's entire existence is [...]
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When Ruth Seymour announced earlier this week her retirement as general manager of Santa Monica's pioneering public-radio station, KCRW, it really did mark the end of an era. Ruth basically founded the modern KCRW, and set the template for much of modern public radio as a result. She built [...]
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Sarah Palin picked celebrity interviewers and right-wing pundits for her book promotion tour, probably to avoid embarrassments like last year's Katie Couric interview.
But even a friendly interview can be treacherous. In a sit-down with Fox News' Sean Hannity Wednesday night, the former Alaska governor confused Iraq [...]
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WASHINGTON — The Washington Times is denying a religious discrimination claim by the paper's former opinion editor.
Richard Miniter filed a complaint Tuesday with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He says he was coerced into attending a Unification Church event that included a mass wedding. And he says the [...]
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As facts continue to emerge about alleged Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan, reasonable people should be able to agree that serious questions need to be asked regarding how he advanced in his career and why he was apathetically shuttled from assignment to assignment by a military bureaucracy that just [...]
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In a sign of how difficult things have become in the Bears' world, the beleaguered team stunned a network giant Wednesday by rejecting NBC's request for prime-time access to coach Lovie Smith, quarterback Jay Cutler and general manager Jerry Angelo. [...]
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Suzanne Sena, who anchored primetime and late-night breaking news on Fox News from 2006-2008, has found a new home: the Onion News Network (h/t TVNewser, CCInsider).
Sena now portrays Onion News Network newsreader Ana Gentry.
Ex-CNN anchor Bobbie Batista also appears on the network.
In the clip below, Sena/Gentry [...]
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It's hard out here for a blogger.
And hard for online journalists, unemployed new media producers, and just about anyone else dabbling in journalism without professional backing.
Beyond the basic financial challenges, there is scant legal help for members of the new media, even though they face the [...]
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Though we have heard of foolishly rushing to war, we have never seen cleverness in war associated with long delays...Delay tends to favor misfortune over good fortune. As long as affected parties have at least adequately prepared for the moment at hand, delay risks an escalation of misfortune. --Sun [...]
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Three months ago, we asked for your help in picking the HuffPost Game Changers -- 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world.
You responded with a host of great suggestions.
We then began announcing our choices for [...]
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The Daily Show's Jon Stewart welcomed former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs with a Mariachi band because... why not? Over a long interview, only portions of which aired, Stewart and Dobbs discussed the newsman's decision to quit on the air... or not quit on the air... or come to some [...]
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HBO has renewed "Real Time With Bill Maher" for an eighth season.
The political talk show will return Friday, Feb. 19 when it will move from its previous 10 p.m. slot to 9 p.m., with a rebroadcast slated for 11 p.m.
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NEW YORK — Country music helped ABC to its best ratings week in more than a year.
The network, which narrowly lost to CBS for the distinction of America's most popular TV network last week, aired the Country Music Association awards to 17.2 million people, according to the Nielsen Co. [...]
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The music industry video portal Vevo will launch December 8th. The site, associated with both Sony and Universal, uses YouTube's platform to host and stream high quality, official music videos from artists. Vevo's goal is to reclaim the "premium luster" of music videos, which are often low quality [...]
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Jon Stewart gave what seemed like his final word on Sarah Palin last night, explaining to Fox News pundits that he doesn't dislike her because she's from Alaska or because she hunts, but because "when you peel back the pretty, shooty layers of the Palin onion, there's no onion. [...]
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Aside from taking a moment to wish the Obamas a "happy and joyous holiday season," FOX News's Major Garrett cut right to the chase in his interview with President Obama in Beijing.
Garrett made it clear from the get-go that the interview would have a "lightning round nature" to [...]
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At a Vanity Fair and Bloomberg event in Manhattan on Wednesday night, audience members were delighted by an impromptu ( and slightly coerced) appearance by Morgan Stanley CEO, John Mack, who called for far more stringent policing of Wall Street.
Mack, sitting inconspicuously amongst a crowd of business journos [...]
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Ken Auletta has written another enlightening book that explains what's going on in the media: Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. If you want to understand the new world, buy it and read it.
Auletta explained how the three major television networks lost viewers [...]
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The Ad Council is celebrating its annual dinner Wednesday night at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where it will present Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company, with its 56th Annual Public Service Award. Tina Fey will serve as the event's emcee, and over 1,000 media, advertising, and corporate [...]
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PHOENIX — NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Twitter.
"I am convinced that had he come along today, I don't think he would have cracked through. I think there's too much noise, too [...]
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Here's yet another content creator convinced that Apple has a tablet device in the works: Condé Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the rumored gadget by the middle of next year and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18 [...]
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Last week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Fox News' Sean Hannity running old footage of September Tea Party crowds in an attempt to make Michele Bachmann's smaller November Tea Party shindig appear to be more well-attended than it was. Is Fox up to the same [...]
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The Ad Council — the nonprofit organization that has produced some of America's most memorable public service campaigns — is celebrating its annual dinner Wednesday night at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where it will present Muhtar Kent, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company, with its 56th Annual Public Service [...]
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So, have you heard about this Sarah Palin sexy-lady photo from Runner's World magazine that's festooning the new issue of Newsweek and causing Palin to go bonkers on Facebook, because of "the sexism?"
Maybe you have, because the news has been doing a story on it every quarter hour, [...]
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Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year, and with it comes the idiotic fringe-media meme that's come to be known as the "War On Christmas."
Paced by the heavy breathing and pearl-clutching of such luminaries as Bill O'Reilly, the "War On Christmas" is a figment of the [...]
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Over a year after she infamously stalled on Katie Couric's question about what news sources she reads, Sarah Palin has told Sean Hannity what's in her media diet.
"She asked about what I read, and I read," Palin told Hannity in an interview to air Wednesday night on Fox [...]
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It's no surprise that Going Rogue has spun such a widespread reaction. Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure that rarely makes anyone indifferent to her. But when eleven Associated Press (AP) reporters fact check her memoire, it is becoming evident that the liberal media is unfairly giving her the [...]
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Earlier today, Sam Stein reported on Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), taking a new approach to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed terror-trial fearmongering by raising the specter of O.J. Simpson. I gather that what Grassley wanted to convey was an scenario in which the ghost of Johnnie Cochran gets KSM acquitted, [...]
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On November 16th, two Greenpeace activists from Germany and Italy and two members of the press from India and Italy, all of whom were traveling on valid business and journalist visas, were picked up and detained by Indonesian police. They were on their way to meet the villagers [...]
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Apparently, the latest thing in "Debasing The Institutions You Pretend To Hold Dear In Order To Suggest That President Barack Obama Should Be Murdered Without Actually Coming Right Out And Saying So" goes by a shorter name: Psalm 109:8.
And Psalm 109:8 is just straight up memetastic, appearing on bumper [...]
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On Tuesday evening, several organizers of the Teaparty Movement and of the ultraconservative website 73wire.com, including healthcare executive and conservative activist Michael Johns and Eric Odom, founder of the American Liberty Alliance, hosted a telephone conference call for Teaparty activists. Twitter user @Strwbrry_Blonde learned of the call [...]
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A school employee lost his job after he posted a one-word vulgarity in the comments section of an online article at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an article asking readers what was the "craziest thing you've ever eaten" and invited them to submit the [...]
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In October, the Illinois state's attorney's office sparked controversy when it subpoenaed materials, documents and e-mails regarding the Anthony McKinney case from Medill Prof. David Protess and his Investigative Journalism class, an action which may "chill" efforts to work on future cases, Protess said. Media outlets, journalism professionals and [...]
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Crowley said she has been dieting, swimming and working out, sometimes with a trainer, since last December.
And, in a change she thinks has made the biggest difference, she has taken up Transcendental Meditation. A couple of times a day, Crowley escapes her break-neck schedule to settle into what the [...]
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To: Bill O'Reilly
The O'Reilly Factor
Fox News Network
Dear Bill,
You lost the bet. Time to pay up!
When I appeared on your show in July, you were so certain that the Southern Poverty Law Center's call for CNN to fire Lou Dobbs was a waste of time that you [...]
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The Wrap's Dylan Stableford reports that Sarah Palin has caused tension inside the halls of Fox News — namely, between its two biggest primetime stars, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.
Both hosts landed interviews with Palin, and both filmed their interviews Tuesday. But Hannity's is set to air Wednesday, [...]
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Oprah's much-anticipated interview of Sarah Palin brought her the biggest "Oprah" ratings in two years.
The Live Feed's James Hibberd notes that Monday's "Oprah" drew an 8.7 household rating and 13 share, the highest since Oprah hosted the Osmonds in 2007.
The ratings boost confirm Palin's popularity and suggest that [...]
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In an interview Tuesday, Justice Kennedy said he never asked to clear the copy before publication. He said the request came from a new employee who misunderstood his longtime rule for classroom visits: no outside media, but campus reporters are welcome. As "the captain of the ship," he said, [...]
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Further to Ad Age Editor, Jonah Bloom's, remarks to the ANA last week about the current role of procurement in the marketing industry, the IAB's CEO, Randall Rothenberg, has published a comprehensive review of how we got here, to the point where as an industry we are [...]
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Notional, a new production company housed at Barry Diller's IAC, unveiled its initial TV development and production slate Wednesday with several concepts looking to bridge TV and the Internet, such as a dance competition format called "Ready, Set, Dance."
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