even as liberal comedians continue to knock their product if not its target the legacy media celebrates a broad diversity of marketing slogans as it prepares for novembercbs news creative director bob peterson has rolled out this new logo for cbs news coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign. cbs continues with the campaign 08 theme while abc calls theirs vote 08 and nbcs is decision 08oh to hav...
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american idol auditions begin in louisville american idol season 8 auditions begin saturday in louisville and run through monday. the open call for auditions starts with registration saturday and sunday followed by auditions monday. all events take place at freedom hall.......
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how do you build a reading community around a book with a dark difficult premiseandrew davidsons first novel the gargoyle opens with some tough passages about car accidents and burn victims. his book site features real people telling real stories about being burned by love. read a couple and submit your own. check it out we met at work. he seemed nice. i was a virgin. he seduced me and made me thi...
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io9 roundup on scifi book trailers. via......
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fox jesse jackson used nword off camera pabst set to become largest us owned beer company illinois governor may send national guard to chicago legendary milwaukee cocktail lounge bryants reopens jay leno im done with nbc carl levin ubs bank should be shut down bush threatens veto of house use it or lose it oil drilling bill man declares home chruch gets 80k tax break......
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after about two months of searching cnn.com now has a new gm. kc estenson will join cnn.com as svp and general manager beginning september 2 cnn announced today. he will be based in atlanta and report to susan grant evp of cnn news services. estenson currently is vp of digital media for disneyabc cable networks group. at disneyabc estenson worked primarily on the web side of disney channel soapnet...
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...ckingly used the nword it was reported yesterday. in a previously unreleased transcript of the salty studio tantrum jackson said barack hes talking down to black people telling n s how to behave mediabistro.com reported. update the ladies on the view are discussing this right now. elizabeth is crying.......
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as most of yall know fox news didnt reveal all the crude things jesse jackson said about barack obama into that hot fox mic last week. well a new report says that in addition to the infamous nuts cutting comment jackson also said the following barackhes talking down to black peopletelling ns how to behave. this was confirmed to be authentic by a fox news channel representative. so not reverend li...
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as most of yall know fox news didnt reveal all the crude things jesse jackson said about barack obama into that hot fox mic last week. well a new report says that in addition to the infamous nuts cutting comment jackson also said the following barackhes talking down to black peopletelling ns how to behave. this was confirmed to be authentic by a fox news channel representative. so not reverend li...
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just when we thought the cut his nuts out comments were the worst thing to come out of jesse jacksons mouth regarding barack obama along comes this. remember the jesse jackson tape where he was caught making comments about barack obama prior to a fox news taping it turns out there was more that was said. tvnewser has obtained a transcript of what jackson said on sunday july 6 2008 jesse jackson ...
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what else jesse jackson said on that fnc tape quote tvnewser has been sent the transcript of what jesse jackson said sunday morning july 6 as he prepared for an interview on fox friends weekend. below is the partial transcript we received in our tips box and confirmed to be authentic by fox news channel representatives. quote barack......
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this is cool npr is building an api. and here are the details. looking forward to the nytapi. its no news to the web nerds in the audience but there are all sorts of cool things which can be built when you open up your data. naturally im very interested in the forthcoming news mashups.......
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the drama over jacksons cut his nuts out comment regarding obama which he was caught saying on a hot mic prior to a fox news show taping has just escalated with new revelations about what else the reverend said via this aint hell barackhes talking down to black peopletelling ns how to behave. heh.a add this to the encyclopedia of things jackson has said andadone that he demands others not sayanora...
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confirming what a fox news channel insider told gawker nearly a week ago the cable news network is now confirming that civil rights leader jesse jackson referred to barack obama as a ner in front of cameras in fox news chicago bureau. although foxs bill oreilly last week aired other incendiary comments jackson made in front of the cameras about obama i.e. that he wanted to cut the democratic candi...
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im sorry to report that the new york times neela banerjee has left the paper. all national reporters who cover thematic beats were asked to return to new york by september 1. such an arrangement was problematic for banerjee who lives in dc with her family. at the same time the paper was asking employees to consider taking a buyout. famed supreme court reporter linda greenhouse took one. so did pu...
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remember that whole michael richards debacle last year when he yelled out the nword during one of his acts in quotation marks cause its only an act if its funny well that was wrong. hes not allowed to say that because hes white. chris rock can say the nword and everyone can laugh. why cause hes black partly well largely but also cause it was funny when he used it. i guess its the context. now je...
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the fox news channel is now admitting that civil rights leader jesse jackson used the word ner in comments about barack obama in front of cameras in fox news chicago bureau. fox told ap tonight that jackson said the democratic presidential candidate was talking down to black people ... telling nrs how to behave that sentence fragment having first appeared on tvnewser earlier today. a fox news chan...
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just before voicing his desire to castrate barack obama jesse jackson on july 6 accused the presumptive nominee of telling ns how to behave. stay classy mr. jackson.......
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the hubby has been maintaining that there was more to that jessie jackson tape than fox news was releasing. guees he was right.aheres another tidbit from the ahemaaccendentally picked up.a barackhes talking down to black peopletelling ns how to behave. if you were paying attention to the original clip circulating the internets a few days ago you could tell that there was something cut out of the m...
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last week jesse jackson learned the hard way that if a fox news camera is pointed at you and youre wearing a microphone whispering that you want to cut barack obamas nuts out is no way to guarantee he wont hear you. at the time foxs bill oreilly claimed that there was more to the tape than just the quote that was aired during the networks first ratings extravaganza. today the other shoe dropped....
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iraq is on the hunt for a new flag. thats according to the ap who are reporting that a design contest will be held to find a replacement for the old red white and green. a committee will select three designs to be presented to the parliament which will vote on a new flag by the end of this year. iraqs saddamera and 2008 revised flag so why does this get a wtf they just changed their flag in januar...
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...rit is one of the best if not the best anchor on the foxnews channel. i hate to see brit leave the 6pm slot but at least it sounds like hes going to retain some visibility with the network.......
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oreilly factor executive producer david tabacoff shot down the rumor floated here last week via fox news insider that jesse jackson called barack obama the nword in unaired portions of his infamous cut his nuts off comments about barack obama. tabacoff told tvnewser that jackson never uttered the slur nor did he use an even more incendiary phrase halfbreed nr surfaced on daily kos and hybrid natio...
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oreilly factor executive producer david tabacoff shot down the rumor floated here last week via fox news insider that jesse jackson called barack obama the nword in unaired portions of his infamous cut his nuts off comments about barack obama. tabacoff told tvnewser that jackson never uttered the slur nor did he use an even more incendiary phrase halfbreed nr surfaced on daily kos and hybrid natio...
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filed under industry programming web celebrities realityfree whats happening on other blogs via the interweb. hmmmmaybe we are a little closer to a strike after all. is a cast member of ugly betty leaving the show for cbs new show harpers island tv newser has reactions to the death of tony snow. yes fans it looks like there will be a sex and the city sequel. stephen collins says that hallmark...
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