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Posted Jan 29th 2010 11:00AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: News, Reality-Free

Once again people, I'm forced to ask the question: what the hell is going on here? Is up now down? Has black become white? Did Keith Olbermann just spend an inordinate amount of time and energy in his last "Special Comment" to discussing why Glenn Beck is TV's most "huggable" pundit?
CNN has been looking for ways to prop up their sagging ratings in the never-ending cable news wars by becoming a network that actually just delivers news as opposed to "from-the-hip," unsubstantiated opinions, as long as you don't count their constant monitoring of their viewers' Twitter feeds. Apparently they are so desperate for a format change that
they have consulted a former ESPN producer to suggest ways to revamp their style.
Continue reading CNN consults programming advice from ... ESPN?!?
Posted Jul 21st 2009 12:09PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Sports, Video, Awards, Reality-Free

The thought of having to sit through another cable network awards show makes my Golden Globes shrivel.
It's nothing but a million-dollar idea for getting some useless ink in what's left of the local papers and making a quick buck off the cell texting charges by getting people to vote for awards that mean nothing. It's the television equivalent of the participation medals you got in elementary school for not dying during the mile run.
Thanks to Samuel L. Jackson's work as the host of the recent ESPY Awards, I will sit through whatever awards show he hosts from now on. I don't care if the National Sewage Treatment Board of America hires him to host their annual "Sewey" awards.
Continue reading Samuel L. Jackson could have kicked the mother*#&ing s#*% out of sports broadcasting