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Posted Oct 1st 2009 11:00AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, Video, Web, Reality-Free
Every time I watch a TV talking head like Glenn Beck, I usually walk away with the same thought I had every time I walked out of my economics class in college: "What the hell were they talking about?"
That's because there isn't anything journalistic or scientific about their pontifications. It's all "gut talk," particularly Beck who throws around more wild and unfocused theories about the ongoing war between "us vs. them" than a homeless preacher in a bus station. Chances are if you actually sat down and simply asked him "what did you mean by (x)", he would give you a 1,700 word answer that answered everything but the question you asked him.
Continue reading Beck can't explain his own explanation about Obama
Posted Jul 26th 2009 11:03AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, OpEd, The Daily Show, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Walter Cronkite is a tougher act to follow than letting Metallica open for William Hung.
But now that the news legend and former most trusted man in America has passed on to that big newsroom in the great beyond, America needs someone else to trust. They need someone they can depend on to get the hard, cold facts about the important stories that truly affect their lives. They need someone to cut through the political haze of misdirection and mediocrity that cloud almost every major news story like a lingering beer fart.
That man is ...
Jon Stewart. Don't like it? Blame the rest of the news media for not doing a better job.
Continue reading Blame Jon Stewart's trustiness on the news media clusterf#*$
Posted Jul 20th 2009 6:30PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: News, TV Royalty, OpEd, Reality-Free
Right after
Walter Cronkite died,
CBS decided to stop using his voice over in the intro of the
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, mainly figuring it was inappropriate to have a ghostly voice introduce their current anchor.
It seemed like a respectful decision, but it felt a bit wrong to me. The voice over was a simple sentence: "This is the
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric." That's it. It felt like a good way to pay tribute to his immense contributions to television news and to bridge the years between his era and the current one. And, shockingly enough, it wouldn't have felt creepy at all, just comforting.
Cronkite's family must have felt the same way, as they've given CBS permission to
keep using his voice at the top of the broadcast. How long CBS will keep doing it is anyone's guess. But if
Billy Mays can keep selling Oxi Clean from the Great Beyond, why can't Uncle Walter keep introducing the news?
Continue reading Cronkite will keep introducing Katie Couric
Posted Jul 20th 2009 1:04PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, OpEd, Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free
Walter Cronkite's passing didn't mark the end of an era in the TV news business. The era he helped produce and prolong died long before he did.
It's hard for me to ever imagine a time when people considered a major network news anchor as America's most trusted source for anything. Claims of bias and political persuasion being injected into every story with a meat syringe created a thick fog that made it very hard to cover anything with a modicum of honesty.
Cronkite, however, was the man people turned to when something blew up, exploded, imploded, launched, landed or any other number of descriptive verbs, because his goal wasn't to make news every time he stepped in front of a camera. His goal was just to report it.
Continue reading What if the Apollo 11 moon landing didn't happen under Cronkite's watch?
Posted Jan 25th 2009 9:26AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free
CBS has had a rocky relationship with their new evening news anchor. The move to hire her after journalist Dan Rather went down in flames like a phoenix blasted out of the sky was heralded as a new dawn without realizing that it sets just as quick.
Couric has earned some respect for her work since Sarah Palin let her stick her brain in a Newton's Cradle and knock it back and forth until her "You betchas" became her "Okie dokies".
But the news broadcast is still third in the ratings war and the egg hasn't completely been washed from CBS' face.
So until Palin announces her bid to run for head of Alaska's border patrol to keep those pesky Russians at bay, CBS hopes they can keep what little momentum they have going by doing for Couric
what NBC just did for Jay Leno.
Continue reading CBS giving Couric some primetime specials
Posted Dec 29th 2008 2:03PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Late Night, News, Industry, Ratings, News and Gossip, Reality-Free
Remember the good old days, when becoming a joke in Johnny Carson's monologue was considered a bad thing for politicians? Some wily, horny old goat on the Senate Subcommittee for Restocking the Senate Office Supply Cabinet would get caught with a hooker nest in the middle of an underground speakeasy. And before you could say "Heavens to Teddy," he would be the punchline of some joke that involved a gallon of bathtub gin, a forklift full of Chinese geishas, and at least two camels.
Those days are deader than disco. 2008 marked an historic turning point in American politics, since
politicians quadrupled the number of appearances they made on late night comedy shows.
Oh, and America elected their first African-American president, too.
Continue reading Late night no longer a threat to politics - VIDEO
Posted Jul 18th 2008 5:26PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: News, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
After the executive session, it was CBS News' turn to face the critics and talk about their election coverage. Via satellite from their New York studios was
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric,
Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer, senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield, and CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus.
Right away, a reporter brought up Katie Couric's job status. "I'm glad you got right to it," Couric joked. "I thought [the speculation] had died down considerably." She said she "can't control what media writers write. We live in an echo chamber," with media reporters more fascinated by her status than the general public is. "The attention befuddles me," she continued. She's concentrating on doing "the best job I can."
Continue reading As far as Katie Couric knows, she's staying - TCA Report
Posted Jun 17th 2008 1:02PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: News, OpEd, Video, Reality-Free
Lately, the only Katie Couric most people have been seeing is the one that's depicted in the picture to the right: serious, sober, possessing whatever gravitas she can muster in her role as anchor of the
CBS Evening News. But where can you see the goofy Katie, the one that people came to know -- and some got sick of -- for fifteen years on the
Today show?
Why, on YouTube, of course! In fact,
Katie has her very own page on the leading video sharing site, where she posts extended
Evening News interviews and behind-the-scene footage. The behind-the-scenes stuff is where you see Katie at her most impish, doing things like snapping Larry King's suspenders as he leads her to the set of his show,
singing with Bette Midler, and
meeting with mommy bloggers in her office (check out the huge Warhol-esque portrait of herself she has hanging near her desk!).
Continue reading Katie Couric has her own YouTube channel - VIDEO
Posted May 27th 2008 12:43PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Industry, Celebrities, Reality-Free
For once the info coming from CBS News is not about whether
Katie Couric's job is in jeopardy.
Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer has decided not to retire after all; he's staying with CBS News indefinitely.
The veteran newsman, who'll be 72 this year, had announced his retirement. He was going to leave the Black Rock as of the January presidential inauguration. Now he's decided to postpone the rocking chair. According to
TV Week, the network didn't have to twist his arm; the deal was easily and simply done. All Schieffer had to do was get his wife Pat's approval and he was able to tell CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus asked him not to step down as planned with the inauguration of a new president that he would remain.
Continue reading Bob Schieffer sticking with CBS News a little bit longer
Posted May 18th 2008 3:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Industry, Reality-Free
According to the
Hollywood Reporter,
Chris Wallace is on the short list for replacements if -- more likely when --
Katie Couric departs the CBS Evening News anchor desk. Wallace, son of the CBS elder statesmen and
60 Minutes attack dog Mike Wallace, has been host of
Fox News Sunday since 2003. But the guy isn't interested.
"As much as I grew up in CBS and as much as I associate that anchor chair with Walter Cronkite and the history of broadcasting, I have never been so happy as I have working the last four-plus years at Fox. I suspect I've had a much better last couple of years than Katie Couric."
Continue reading Chris Wallace doesn't want Katie Couric's job
Posted Apr 15th 2008 9:41AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: News, Industry, Talk Show, Reality-Free
With the rumors swirling around that Katie Couric
may leave (or be removed from) the CBS Evening News soon after the 2008 election, speculation of what she might do and who might take her place has also been in the air. The latest speculation by insiders, though, is an interesting one, so interesting that it just might make complete sense.
According to the New York
Daily News, "TV insiders," whoever they are,
think that a trade of sorts might take place: Anderson Cooper comes to CBS to anchor the
Evening News, while Couric goes to CNN to host a talk show in the 10 PM slot where
Anderson Cooper 360 currently resides. The idea is to have Couric eventually take over for Larry King.
Continue reading Couric may be traded for Cooper (and an intern to be named later)
Posted Aug 30th 2007 11:30AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: News, Programming, Celebrities
What would you do if you were Katie Couric and the first anniversary of your stint as anchor of the CBS Evening News was fast approaching? Would you have a big party to celebrate, get drunk, and dance wildly in your underwear in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City? Or, would you suit up in some body armor and report from Iraq?
Personally, I'd frolic in my underwear. Katie is forgoing that frivolity and going to Iraq.
Next Tuesday and Wednesday Couric will be anchoring the news from Baghdad, which will be her first time in the war zone.
Continue reading Katie goes to Iraq on her first anniversary
Posted Aug 11th 2007 1:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
Posted Jul 13th 2007 3:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: News, Web, Celebrities
I think Katie Couric giving that interview to New York has pushed this whole "will Katie leave CBS?" talk to a whole new level.
Intrade.com, a web site where you can trade event futures on political, current, financial, weather, and unique events, has listed a new market on whether or not Katie will leave The CBS Evening News by the end of the year. There are a lot of different rules (it has to be announced on or before December 31, etc) so read carefully.
Just so you know, I have absolutely no idea what any of the above means. The stock market and anything to do with finances just confuses me. It's just a little less comprehensible than Klingon to me, but it certainly sounds exciting!
After the jump, give us your opinion on when Ms. Couric will leave CBS.
Continue reading Place your bets on whether or not Katie will leave CBS
Posted Jul 8th 2007 2:22PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: News, Celebrities, Ratings
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric says that she's not sure she would have made the move from NBC if she knew she'd be doing the type of show she is doing right now.
In a New York interview, Couric says that understands that viewers hate change and that they tried to change too many things in the first couple of months that she was there, but that she's not sure she would have taken the gig if she knew it would end up as the same traditional network news show. She says there are days she wishes she hadn't taken it. She even hints that if it doesn't turn out to be the job for her, "I'll do something else that's really exciting and fulfilling for me."
I bet her CBS bosses are thrilled with those type of comments.
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