ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CBS News Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan is joining the staff of the PBS NewsHour and will play a key role in bridging its broadcast and digital platforms when it succeeds The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on Monday, December 7th. He will report and anchor video news updates throughout the day on the PBS NewsHour's website. He'll also appear nightly on the...
First On TVNewser : CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenivasan is leaving the network to become a news anchor and reporter at PBS's The NewsHour , TVNewser has learned. A formal announcement is expected Monday morning. Sreenivasan joins the program as it gears up for a re-launch of sorts on December 7. Along with a name change — from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer to the PBS NewsHour — the...
For a public broadcasting nerd like myself, it's like getting asked to shag a few balls for A-Rod. But the good folks at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer have been very nice about inviting me onto their show today to...
piqued my interest and woke up my sense of humor. Border Officers Discover 9 Lbs. Of Pot Inside Stroller POSTED: 5:38 pm PST November 19, 2009 I reacted to this story with two competing thoughts: A) People really do need to take some type of test before they start squirting out brats. B) Look at the ridiculous consequences of marijuana being illegal; the federal government has to foot the cost of incarcerating...
DOWNLOADS: (30) PLAYS: (39) From The PBS Newshour Hunger in America : JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight: hunger in America. Jeffrey Brown has our story. JEFFREY BROWN: One in seven American households had a hard time putting enough food on the table last year, that from a new report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- 14.6 percent of U.S. households, nearly 50 million Americans, found themselves...
In front of the Senate Judiciary committee: Graham: Can you give me a case in United States History where a enemy combatant caught on the battlefield was tried in civilian court? [crickets] Holder: "Hmm... I'd have to look at that... the determination..." STOP THE PRESSES!! YOU MEAN TO SAY THAT HE DOESN'T ALREADY KNOW?!! I guess the consultations with his wife and brother weren't extensive.**...
For the record: - Last night's panel discussion with Jim Lehrer on the News Hour about China, Obama, et cetera, here;- Also last night on BBC America with Matt Frei, also about Obama and China, here;- This morning on CSPAN Washington Journal, with Bill...
Per Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, Google backed out of a debate on Google Books that was supposed to air on Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour show yesterday. The stated reason was that the Open Content Alliance changed their representative at the last minute from a professor to a lawyer. Google did not want to put an [...]
Bloomberg reports: "Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said using the Troubled Asset Relief Program to pump capital into banks was “not a good idea” and helped erode confidence in the regulatory system. “I just see all the problems it’s created now, the horrible public outcry,” Bair said on PBS’s “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” yesterday....
By Art Moore Despite recent reports of new evidence of its ties to terrorism , the Council on American-Islamic Relations is boasting of its success in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre as a spokesman in numerous major media outlets for a religious community "shocked" by the attack and incensed that anyone would associate them with it. In a fundraising letter, CAIR Executive Director Nihad...
Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other top terrorism suspects will be prosecuted in federal court on Friday. And the Far-Right erupted with ..... fear! Those who have been incapacitated from excessive trembling for the last 8 years, screamed with anguish. Evidently they do not think much of the American system of justice. But Eric Holder is a true believer...
— “I don’t normally just post random stuff here, but this is more than worth it. It’s a rendering of the famed Dock Ellis LSD-no hitter, with narration by Dock himself. The killer animation is by James Blagden.” — *** — Weekly Poems: a Double From the ‘Mets Poet’ from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | [...]
Eric Holder talks about the decision to try KSM and other 9-11 detainees in civil court in New York. Holder says that he only informed Obama of his decision. Obama is hands off with the AG's office, he said. Holder says Greg Craig didn't resign because of Gitmo.
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