PresidentBarackObama-related stories
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 Sep 4th 2009 10:08AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, OpEd, House, Reality-Free, So You Think You Can Dance
The only way Fox will air President Obama's prime time address next Wednesday will be if he joins the glee club. No, seriously, if the Prez could sing or dance with the kids at McKinley High School on the new Fox series,
Glee, he'd have a better chance of getting air time than he does as the Commander in Chief.
Fox is not expected to show President Obama's address to Congress.
Fox has already shown an unwillingness to interrupt prime time for
President Obama. Back in March,
the network chose not to air a press conference. To be honest, Obama has been on TV a lot more than President George W. Bush. All that prime time real estate is expensive, and the networks have squawked about how often Obama has requested the air time.
Continue reading Don't count on Fox giving up Glee for Obama
Posted Mar 24th 2009 9:04AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, Industry, OpEd, Reality-Free
The networks have been getting their
collective panties in a bunch over Barack Obama's need to go on television every time gravity starts to effect the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
They claim it not only screws up their schedule, but it also costs them millions in advertising revenue. Normally, I'd say that anything that keeps more advertising from pouring out of my TV and infecting my eyeballs with its sludge of persuasion (brought to you by the makers of the Gelatin of Ignorance and the Gas of Shame) is a good thing, but they do have a point.
And unlike most TV talking heads, past and current White House Chiefs of Staff or people who donated half of their brain to science (that last one may be a redundancy), there are two sides to every story. So here's a breakdown of the lovers and the haters of the Barack Obama TV brewhaha.
Continue reading Barack Obama's Presidential addresses ... who loves ya, baby?
Posted Mar 21st 2009 9:02AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, Industry, Reality-Free
President Barack Obama wants to make another primetime address to the nation, but the networks are puking in their soup over it.
The White House has another address scheduled for Tuesday, and
the networks are raising holy hell over having to shift their schedules to make room for him.
Tuesday is a prime choice cut for the four major networks (five if you count the CW) and shows like
American Idol,
Bones and
The Biggest Loser are having to play musical chairs because of his address.
Continue reading Networks want Barack Obama to butt out
Posted Jan 27th 2009 7:02PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: News, Industry, OpEd, HDTV, Cable/Satellite, Watercooler Talk, Hardware, Reality-Free
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate followed President Obama's recommendation and approved a
delay in the digital TV transition date from February 17 to to June 12. If a similar measure passes in the House, then we all know what that means: four more months of DTV transition ads! Woo hoo!
Seriously, though, will it matter if the transition date is February, June, or sometime in Obama's second administration? At this point, even the most casual observer has figured out that the transition hasn't been communicated very well to the American public. People who have cable or satellite still think that they need to buy a new HDTV or
upgrade to digital cable in order to be compliant with the conversion, people who got discount coupons for converters early on have found that
the coupons have expired and they can't get more, and the people who
have converted are being surprised that some weak stations won't come in due to the "
digital cliff effect."
Continue reading Will more time make the digital TV transition any easier?
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