Posts Tagged ‘tv news’
Exhibit A why I boycott restaurants that air Fox News
I really do, like the McDonalds on Morgan Street. The service is horrendous, and it’s a McDonalds, so those are two reasons to avoid it, but they also show Faux News. Fox talkers gang up on Edwards, dead girl’s family to defend insurance company Meagyn Kelly, [Read More]
Michael Moore vs. Wolf Blitzer
I saw Sicko last week, and I highly recommend it. Does Moore cherry-pick when he visits England and France and Canada to find positive healthcare stories? Maybe. Could you find testaments to long lines and occasions when those systems of socialized medicine failed people. [Read More]
A Joe Scarborough highlight?
Joe Scarborough is one of the more palatable conservative talk-show hosts. (Is palatable conservative talk-show host an oxymoron?) But the star of this clip from today’s post-Imus MSNBC morning show is actually newsreader Mika Brzezinski. Her disdain for a lead story [Read More]
Kudos to Fox News! Seriously…
Kudos to Fox News, because they (Your World with Neil Cavuto) gave venerable Dan Rather eight minutes to elaborate on how he feels about the state of televisions news. Rather had been hammered by CBS honcho Les Moonves for saying that CBS had “tarted up” the [Read More]
One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Inspiring story on 60 Minutes earlier tonight about One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a $100 laptop for the world’s children’s education [Read More]
Katrina anniversary
I’m watching Brian Williams on NBC reporting on Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans. Having abandoned network news years ago, I didn’t realize how remarkable Williams’s reporting was. I have some newfound respect for him. Powerful stuff. And another [Read More]
Fox News slammed by journalists
Two Jordanian television news producers who had freelanced for the Fox News Channel for several years have declared that they will no longer do any work for FNC, sending the following letter: Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 Dear All, We would like to announce our resignation from [Read More]
Hope for us?
Richard Clarke was just on The Daily Show, and Jon Stewart spent about ten minutes with him as opposed to the usual five, and I’m thinking that if The Daily Show is beating out the network nightly newscasts in the ratings, then it is wonderful that Richard Clarke, one [Read More]
