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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 Feb 16th 2009 12:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: News, Celebrities, Reality-Free
One of the most recognizable figures in ABC News is saying goodbye to the daily grind. In his time with the network, Sam Donaldson has done it all, investigative reporter, anchor, host, talking head, and always with a distinctive, pugnacious style. After four decades at the job,
ABC's Sam Donaldson is retiring.
He will be missed, especially at the network. Anchorman Charles Gibson acknowledged as much when he told the
Washington Post that Donaldson's retirement "really is a loss of the bedrock" for ABC. These days, the big three have struggled to maintain their dominance in the news business with cable outlets offering so much blanket coverage compared to the nets. Sam Donaldson has been synonymous with ABC. He can't help but be missed. To this day, I think Ted Koppell is missed as well.
Continue reading ABC News' Sam Donaldson announces his retirement
Posted May 28th 2008 11:20AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: News, Industry, OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
If you watched the network morning shows this morning, you've seen the shocking sight of the Big Three evening news anchors -- Brian Williams, Katie Couric, and Charlie Gibson -- appearing on each show ... together! Gasp! How can that happen? Don't the networks have contract clauses and armies of lawyers to prevent these things from happening?
Well, I guess the lawyers tend to stay home when a good cause is involved. The anchors went on the news shows this morning
to announce a cross-network telethon called
Stand Up for Cancer Stand Up To Cancer, which will air on NBC, CBS, and ABC on September 5. The one-hour show will have musical performances and testimonials from all three anchors about the need for furthering cancer research (remember Couric's husband and sister both died from various forms of the disease). Money raised by the telethon will go to a number of organizations and research groups.
Continue reading CBS, ABC and NBC to hold cancer telethon; Couric returns to Today
Posted Jul 19th 2006 6:41PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, News, Industry, Programming
Starting this evening (probably as I type this), ABC is debuting a new name for its nightly newscast. It's nothing radical; they've just removed one pesky word: "Tonight."
The decision to rename
World News Tonight, which ABC has been using since 1978, to
World News (actually,
World News with Charles Gibson), is due to the fact that there is now an afternoon webcast attached to the program and updates made on ABCNews.com all day long. According to news president David Westin, "We are committed to expanding ABC News and
World News into the 24-hour space created by the digital world, and it makes sense for that reality to be reflected in the title of the broadcast."
This
TV Week article also notes that this is the first time the broadcast's title has incorporated Gibson's name. Gibson, of course, took over the anchor spot in June.
Posted Jun 26th 2006 9:03AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: ABC, News, Talent
This Wednesday marks the last day that Charles Gibson will co-host
Good Morning America. He's not going very far of course: just to the
evening anchor chair at the same network. And, this is his second send-off from GMA. Gibson was on GMA for ten years until he left in 1998. Nine months later, he returned to the morning anchor desk and has been there ever since.
Wednesday's farewell episode for Gibson will include special guests Joan Lunden and David Hartman. But, don't expect it to be anything like the
tearful love-fest when rival Katie Couric left
Today.
Posted Jun 12th 2006 12:50PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, News, Talent, Industry, Celebrities
That's the news from Joe Hagen at
New York magazine, in this long (but worth reading)
piece. Before ABC tapped Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas to be co-anchors on
World News Tonight, they approached Charles Gibson, asking him to "keep the seat warm" until the 2008 election and then they would find a permanent anchor. But Gibson said he didn't want to just fill the seat (and he also didn't want to continue doing
Good Morning, America), and that if he didn't get the anchor position for good - and without Vargas - then he was going to walk.
Vargas is said to have been surprised by her ouster from the show.
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Romenesko]
Posted Jun 1st 2006 7:40PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: ABC, News, Talent
New ABC
World News Tonight anchor Charles Gibson took the helm on Monday and already he's in a bit of hot water. In a question-and-answer style interview printed in New York magazine, Gibson appears to suggest that issues in Africa are not worth covering. When asked whether he'll be traveling as much as his rival, Brian Williams, who reported from Africa late last month on the issues of poverty and AIDS, Gibson answered, "Now he's in Africa. I don't know why you do that. Why the hell do you go to Africa? It's certainly an interesting choice. We'll do travel, when it warrants."
Gibson says he was quoting an e-mail he sent to a friend who works as a producer for
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. In an interview with the Associated Press today, Gibson clarifies that he was questioning why Brian Williams had to go to Africa with a rock star (U2's Bono).
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