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Move over Peter Arnett, here comes Ashleigh Banfield on the fast track to Arab satellite TV: NBC News correspondent Ashleigh Banfield has ripped television news networks, including her own, for their “glorious” coverage of the Iraqi war and a lack of focus on international news overall. In a speech Thursday …
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Read More »Hockey Is Just So … Canadian
What is the first rule of show biz? Protect your face – maybe that’s why they call him Thicke: “Growing Pains” TV dad Alan Thicke received 30 stitches and lost five teeth after he was struck by a puck while practicing for a celebrity fund-raising hockey game, his spokesman said …
Read More »Whitney and the Tube
Whitney Houston’s December TV interview with Diane Sawyer (“crack is whack”) led many to conclude that her relationship with reality is somewhat, um, tenuous. But following tepid sales of her latest album, she is returning to the tube to try to get something going. Per her website: April 17, 2003 …
Read More »U.S. Network News for Iraq
We’ve been watching Iraq with microscopic intensity for the last month; now the Iraqis will be watching U.S. network news, as well as programming produced by Arab journalists in Washington and the Middle East, in a nightly news package funded by the U.S. government: “Iraq and the World” … will …
Read More »Dave, Bill and William
Dave Pell, an interesting if overly self-deprecating fellow, has switched his news links and commentary email newsletter to a web-based format, transforming himself simply by a change in technology, into a blogger, voila! His latest essay is a penetrating if somewhat meandering look at the meaning of his favorite reality …
Read More »CNN’s Sucking from the Totalitarian Teat
Is it better to have “access” and report a distorted version of the news from a totalitarian country such as the former Iraq, or is it better to withdraw, call the regime on its threats, and report the truth that you DO have? The only rationales for the former course …
Read More »FAR Too Soon for a Macarena Revival
Is it me, or is the Michelina’s TV ad the creepiest to air nationally in some time? First, a third-rate Ted Knight imitator newscaster (a bad imitation of a parody) comes on with breaking news about Michelina’s, then in a befuddling disjunction, a breeder-hipped woman on a treadmill in a …
Read More »Nuke and Hitler
Opinions: everyone has them, and in a free society people are allowed, even encouraged, to speak theirs. But a big problem arises when individuals choose to use executive positions within organizations to forward their own views, coloring entire organizations with an individual’s view. That is the problem with the Tim …
Read More »Murdoch: New Leverage With DirecTV
Rupert buys largest satellite television provider: leverage ensues: Murdoch’s News Corp. agreed to acquire control of Hughes Electronics Corp., DirecTV’s parent, in a $6.6 billion cash and stock deal announced Wednesday. Murdoch would transfer control of DirecTV to his Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary, which includes the Fox News Channel. ….DirecTV’s …
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