TV News Review

There was a time not so long ago when a person could tune in to CNN Headline News anytime day or night and within 30 minutes be caught up on the major stories of the day. First there was Nancy Grace and Showbiz tonight. Tasting success (higher ratings) Headline News pressed on. […]

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Attention Cable News networks. California car chases are not riveting TV unless the car being chased is carrying a well known celebrity or a criminal of notoriety. The car chase today was broadcast for what seemed like forever on HLN. As you can see Christi Paul was doing her best to make […]

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Saturday night two middle eastern men were pulled over for speeding near Goose Creek, South Carolina. Goose Creek is the site of the Naval Weapons Station and the U.S. Naval Consolidated brig, where enemy combatants have been held.
During the traffic stop, and a search of the vehicle, police claim to have found pipe bombs.
CNN was […]

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At 6:04am ET during the morning headlines section of  ‘Fox & friends’ they went live to Dallas to report on the first auditions being held for the new season of American Idol. 

At the exact same time on CNN’s American Morning they had Jeanne Meserve giving a report on the changes, as ask for by President Bush, to the […]

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Mornings aren’t easy. I stay up too late and have to get up way too early to start the work day. In fact, It’s usually not advisable to even talk to me before that first cup of morning coffee. Speaking of that morning coffee, Robin Meade and company are made to […]

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Tonight was Paula Zahn’s last night on CNN. Her first day on CNN was covering the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on 9-11-01. Nearly six years later and her last day is spent covering the bridge collapse in Minnesota. Sad and tragic bookends to Paula’s career at CNN.
The last few years as Paula hosted the […]

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Nearly 24 hours ago the story broke about the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. The cable channels have been in 20-24 hour live coverage of this story. They have all sent some of their big name anchors to the scene.
Fox News has Sheppard Smith, Bill Hemmer, Greta Van Sustren, plus many, many reporters on location. CNN […]

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This morning both CNN’s ‘American Morning’ and Fox News’ “Fox & friends’ had segments centered upon the higher rate of defaults in home mortgages. Nearly 1 million homes have been foreclosed on, so far in 2007. With the possibility of 2 million being foreclosed upon by year’s end.
‘American Morning’ talked with CNN’s Personal Finance Editor, […]

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One of the big stories this morning was the medical condition of US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts after his being hospitalized late Monday for a seizure.
It was interesting the difference in the coverage between CNN’s ‘American Morning’ vs Fox News’ “Fox & friends’. ‘American Morning’ gave the story much more coverage with on-site reports […]

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Today at noon as E.D. Hill handed off to Jon Scott, Fox ran one of their oft used ‘Fox News Alerts’ but they had the date for the Alert as 08-01-07.

Does Fox know something is going to happen tomorrow? Did they leave an intern in charge of the graphics? Does Fox need a better calendar?
For […]

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