TV News Review

Tuesday afternoon, Dagen McDowell, a Fox Business correspondent, filled in for Neil Cavuto, and anchored ‘Your World’. This is the first time this blogger knows of Dagen hosting “Your World”, although she routinely fills in as a host on one of the Saturday morning, ‘Cost of Freedom’ biz block shows. Just this past weekend Dagen […]

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On Tuesday, Patti Ann Browne filled in for Jane Skinner, who was off for the day. Jane’s show is affectionately referred as ‘Skinnerville’ by the fans and fellow Fox anchor, Shepard Smith.
Patti Ann always does a superb job when anchoring, bringing professionalism and intelligence to whatever the topic. Patti Ann covered such wide ranging topics […]

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When I saw the commercials for this three part special on the religions of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, I was skeptical. I was fully expecting a slanted view that either was derogatory to all religion, something along the lines of, “It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness […]

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A few weeks ago, Geraldo Rivera was doing a report on Lisa Novak, the astronaut arrested for attempted kidnapping among other things. During the report Geraldo repeatedly referred to Ms Novak as the “astronut”. He appeared to be doing it by accident and even apologized for it. Over the past few days […]

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As a followup to my blog about the Fox program “Anchorwoman”.  It appears it has been cancelled after only one episode due to extremely poor ratings.  Too bad.  I though it had potential.

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I was reading the paper this morning and noticed an advertisement for a new TV series on Fox Broadcasting called “AnchorWoman“. The star, Lauren Jones, tries to transform herself from a swinsuit model to a TV news anchor.
I know TV News is a visual medium and the anchors appearance matters but just how important are […]

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On Thursday night the Utah mining rescue was brought to a sudden and tragic halt as the rescue team of miners suffered their own mine collapse that resulted in the deaths of three rescue miners and six others injured, as of the time of this writing.
Fox News was the first to break the news at […]

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Not so long ago I heard a Fox News anchor congratulate one of the Fox reporters on their promotion to anchor. By their words and their tone, they almost immediately realized they had just insulted all of the hardworking reporters at Fox. The next few moments of them trying to do damage control […]

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What possibly could a toy maker, a supermodel, a talk radio show host, a Presidential candidate, a former network anchorman, and an exercise guru all have in common? They all appeared on Tuesday’s “Your World w/Neil Cavuto” with Alexis Glick filling in. 
This was Glick’s first time filling in for Cavuto. Glick is the director of business news for the Fox News […]

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Red seemed to be the favored color for many of the women on the cable news channels, Monday. Red was certainly looking good.
 
WOW!!
Fox News’ Alisyn Camerota, CNN’s Kiran Chetry, CNN’s Bonnie Schneider,  Fox News’ Jane Skinner, Fox News’ Patti Ann Browne
One Eyed Man

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