I was bungling around and stumbled upon a post on Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban's blog that advocates the "convergence" or collaboration of print, internet, and broadcast TV news media:

Riddle me this Batman: Rupert Murdoch has figured out that Print and TV can be combined to be a vertical news organization and is willing to pay 5 billion ( Read more... )

Isn't it nice to see Russ Feingold on TV?

I suggest cable gabbing shows book him more often.

Michael Kinsley defined it as a spoken or written faux pas which revealed the truth, and CBSnews.com's Dick Meyer, in a column about not being sad to see the GOP go, gives us a textbook example ( Read more... )

I wish I could express any sort of shock at the Tom Cruise / Katie Holmes overkill (MULTIPLE SATELLITE SHOTS alerts came through my messages at work all morning, and this is just for the castle), but I know better. I'd rather watch ESPN fellate Bo Schembechler before his corpse stiffens ( Read more... )

I spent part of my morning post-work discussing the larger issue of the sick, sad business I had chosen ( Read more... )

Love cable news bloopers, just love 'em.

It's not Kyra Phillips' fault, really -- in all levels of TV news, producers and directors assume the "talent" is stupid and has no clue -- their job is to focus on reading the prompter and handling things as they are directed. The sound guy probably got his ass handed to him after that, if not outright

Please refer to this entry and this one for background.

On Thursday, when Plan B was approved for over-the-counter for 18 and over, we interviewed the same woman who lied in the prior two entries for a soundbite, and she repeated the same lie about Plan B causing abortions AGAIN. (This is the usual order of things; cable news did it too, and who'd ( Read more... )

I don't know quite why I subject myself to the absolute crazy asshattery that plays on CNN in the early morning -- Larry King's guests implying anyone who isn't 100% pro-Israel is an anti-semite and terrorist supporter, Anderson Cooper genuflecting in his own grey hair and chiseled face on screen, and Lou Dobbs, who is becoming more and more O' ( Read more... )

It's an interesting column here on what happened to objectivity in the U.S. media, and I don't disagree with any of the notions here. But the author underestimates how cheap networks are when it comes to news -- somewhere in the 90s, it became less acceptable for news departments to be a "loss leader," really, and I bet it was around the time cable ( Read more... )

Go watch him rip everyone a new one at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.