TV News Review

The best 10 minutes of TV is never seen on TV. Every weekday morning at 9am ET the ‘Fox and friends’ gang hand off to Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly. Then the ‘F&F’ gang begin their internet broadcast called the “After Show Show”, (jokingly referred to be some fans as the ASS) and the real […]

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Happy Thanksgiving  everyone!!
I know some of you must think I have  given up on blogging about the good and bad of cable news. Well, I admit I have been a bit of a turkey (Thanksgiving humor!) and slacked off on postings the last couple of months. But they didn’t catch me. I still have my […]

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Recently Bill O’Reilly has had Fox News anchor, Laurie Dhue join his show as the “Ombudsgal”, a name they coined because they didn’t want to call her an ‘ombudsMAN‘. Anyone that has ever seen Laurie Dhue will agree she could not be mistaken for a man.
According to the website for the Organization of News Ombudsmen an ombudsman […]

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Reports of the demise of Bill McCuddy’s career at Fox News seem to have been greatly exaggerated.
Back in June TVNewser reported that Fox News had not renewed Bill McCuddy’s contract. TVNewser followed with that McCuddy would be leaving by the end of the summer. He was to be replaced by Fox new hire Jill Dobson, […]

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I have been slacking off on the blog entries lately but I wanted to give some good and bad props to Fox News’ morning show ‘Fox & friends’.
 
THE GOOD: A few weeks back I let loose on ‘F&F’ for constantly having on their show Geraldo Rivera, an embarrassment to anyone that ever considered being a […]

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It all started Friday, September 14th around 8am ET, in the middle of the morning news shows. News broke out of Las Vegas that O. J. Simpson was being questioned in relation to a hotel room break in. The media smelled blood in the water, the sharks began circling and the feeding frenzy began.
The hosts […]

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As regular readers will know this blogger thinks Fox News anchor Patti Ann Browne is a gold standard for anchors and is very under used by Fox News, as written in a previous entry. This past weekend Patti Ann appeared as a guest on Fox News’ late night talk show ‘Red Eye’.
Previously when I have tried […]

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As part of the coverage of the 9/11 anniversary of the terrorist attacks, ‘Fox & friends’ this morning had a writer from the magazine Popular Mechanics, which did a special issue in March 2005 about debunking the 9/11 theories, to explain away several of the 9/11 conspiracy theories that have sprung up. The writer explained […]

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TVNewser has a story up about Kyla Ebbert’s appearance on the Today show on NBC and her wardrobe mishap. Kyla Ebbert is the young woman that was told by SouthWest airlines that she was dressed to provocatively to fly. During the interview Kyla stood to show what she was wearing, the same outfit she wore while […]

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“Mexico does not end at its borders.”  Those are the words spoken by Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon Sunday September 2nd, while giving the Mexican State-of-the-Nation speech. Calderon continued later in his speech by saying “Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.”
These inflammatory comments aimed at the US immigration policy have been ignored by Fox […]

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