NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
For the second time in less than 48 hours, NPR's Juan Williams accused the press of not doing their job in properly reporting the deeds and doings of America's new President Barack Obama. Having accused the news media of " kowtowing to the Obama administration " during Friday's "Special Report" on FNC, Williams went even further on Sunday's "Fox News Sunday" (h/t Jennifer...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! DOWNLOADS: (38) PLAYS: (77) (h/t Heather) Oh noes! None of the right wing talking points that Roger Ailes has been distributing to his minions seems to be taking hold. Despite their best effort to throw all sorts of poo at the president, Obama still appears to be very popular with the American people. What's a RNC propaganda...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
Anderson Cooper , Tom Brokaw , and Ted Turner all make the wowOwow list of "Sexy Gray-Haired Men From Politics, Business and Hollywood". Here's what the site had to say about the three: • Cooper: "This anchorman makes heads turn 360. Confident, charming, intelligent Anderson Cooper. The movement's perfect icon?" • Brokaw: "The highly-respected, veteran broadcast...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Alex von Bidder, owner of The Four Seasons , has penned a children’s book, Wiggens Learns His Manners at the Four Seasons Restaurant , which imagines a poorly behaved dog learning the finer points of fine dining. It will publish in November complete with blurbs from Martha Stewart, Tom Brokaw, Tim Zagat, Mary Higgins Clark, and others who’ll never again have trouble scoring a last-minute...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
The Republican National Committee is now fundraising off of ABC News' decision to host an hour-long special on health care reform from the Obama White House. Chairman Michael Steele blasted out an email to supporters on Thursday morning asking them to help raise $100,000 to buy airtime to compete with the ABC broadcast. We need, Steele writes, to "get the truth about the disastrous consequences...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
NBC special correspondent Tom Brokaw was appointed to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships today. The group will meet this week in D.C. to select the 2009-2010 class of White House Fellows. "These leaders are diverse, non-partisan, and committed to mentoring our next generation of public servants," said Pres. Obama in the release . Others on the commission include former...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
ABC's "Prescription for America" special plugging the Obama health-nationalization plan is not the first time a network has taken on such a task. NBC did the same thing for Hillary-care in the summer of 1994, but with a twist: its two-hour special was commercial-free, paid for by the liberal Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. From the July 1994 edition of our newsletter MediaWatch: NBC raised...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
Here's a NBC News clip from 1994. In it, correspondent Tom Brokaw interviews a pair of executives: Sun Microsystems's Eric Schmidt and Microsoft's Bill Gates. The topic? "Something called the Internet." We know. Awesome. Anyway, our favorite bit is when Tom Brokaw asks Gates: "Are a lot of people just getting on to the Internet because they feel like they have to get on the playing...
Indecision Forever (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
In honor of The Television & Radio Correspondents Appreciate Fortnight, we present to you fourteen of our favorite Daily Show interviews with media personalities… 14. Rachel Maddow 13. Brian Williams 12. Anderson Cooper 10. Ira Glass 9. Katie Couric 8. Ted Koppel 7. Chris Wallace 6. Howard Stern 5. Dennis Miller 4. Tom Brokaw 3. Jack Cafferty 2. Bill O'Reilly 1. Chris Matthews [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
This past Saturday marked the one year anniversary of the death of Tim Russert . The journalism icon was remembered this weekend throughout DC and beyond- with tributes in his hometown newspaper, The Buffalo News , on NBC by his former colleagues, and also by his former competitors. "Meet the Press" anchor David Gregory marked Russert's legacy on Sunday's show. "He's here, still teaching...
Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
WASHINGTON -- Judging from White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' roundabout answer Friday, one can conclude that President Obama still might occasionally sneak a smoke -- even though smoking is not allowed in the White House. The question about Obama's struggle to quit smoking came up at Friday's White House briefing as Obama applauded Congress for sending him a bill giving the Food and Drug Administration...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the death of Tim Russert , beloved NBC Washington bureau chief and host of "Meet The Press." The past year has been filled with events that Tim no doubt would have taken great joy in covering -- the down-to-the-wire fight for the Democratic nomination between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (although he had already declared her out of the running),...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
> NBC's Tom Brokaw interviews President Barack Obama today from Dresden, Germany, two days before the 65th anniversary of D-Day. It airs tomorrow on Today and Nightly News. Brokaw also interviewed former Pres. Bush on the 60th anniversary of D-Day from Normandy. > Ted Koppel gives his thoughts and analysis on Pres. Obama's speech tonight on BBC World News America at 7pmET. Also on the show will...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
Thursday night, as my colleague Brent Baker noted , ABC and NBC fretted that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor might not adhere to a strict liberal orthodoxy on abortion. NBC reporter Pete Williams said Sotomayor’s views on abortion were a “mystery,” while ABC’s Jan Crawford Greenburg declared “both sides in the contentious debate want to know more.” On Wednesday’s...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
> NBC's Tom Brokaw will be honored at the Library Foundation of Los Angeles awards dinner with The Literary Award tonight in Beverly Hills. > Squawk Box anchor Becky Quick has a fan in Memphis country group 40 Watt Moon, who have released a song about "the coolest chick." Check out the song here . > Beginning today and for the next few days, the CNN flipper will be all Sonia Sotomayor...
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