TV News Review

Original reviews and critiques of TV News by a couple of TV news junkies.

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Entries from September 2007

Day 6 of the OJ News Orgy

September 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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.
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Tags: One Eyed Man · MSNBC · Fox News · CNN

9/11 Converage

September 11th, 2007 · No Comments

In 2001 when I watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center it made me weak and sick. For many weeks I lived and worked in a fog. I would come home from work and sit and watch the TV coverage. I couldn’t take my eyes off […]

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Patti Ann Browne on ‘Red Eye’

September 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments

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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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News

Fox & friends, 9/11 Guest Irony

September 11th, 2007 · 7 Comments

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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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News

Too sexy to Fly? Too sexy to Sit?

September 7th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News

Fox News ignores Mexico’s Inflamatory State of the Nation

September 7th, 2007 · No Comments

“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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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News

F&F Looses Credibility w/Geraldo

September 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Every Friday morning ‘Fox & friends’ flushes away their credibility as a news show by having Geraldo Rivera on as a guest. 
Fox News’ morning show ‘Fox & friends’ must not care anything about their credibility or they would not have Geraldo as a respected guest every Friday, for at least two segments to discuss the […]

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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News

NY Post takes cheap shot at CNN’s Cooper

September 4th, 2007 · No Comments

From the NY Post’s Page Six…
Slippery Finger
September 4, 2007 — NO wonder CNN gets its clock cleaned by Fox News. Two weeks ago, Anderson Cooper shot a pretaped Hurricane Katrina special in New Orleans, but somehow the tapes got lost. According to our spy, “Anderson was on vacation in Europe last week when he got […]

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Tags: One Eyed Man · CNN

Camerota Returns

September 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Alisyn Camerota returned this morning from being off all last week on vacation. It was a welcome and much anticipated return.
Alisyn is the best, and often the only reason to watch ‘Fox & friends 1st’ and ‘Fox & friends’. Alisyn provides a spark of electricity to the show when she hosts, a down to earth […]

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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News

Anniversaries: Diana vs Katrina

September 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Last week was both the 2nd anniversary of hurricane Katrina hitting the US Gulf Coast and the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. Watching the coverage of these two anniversaries on CNN and Fox News has been interesting.
Fox News sent anchor Martha McCallum to London to do her show “The Live Desk” live […]

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Tags: One Eyed Man · Fox News · CNN