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‘Cufflinks Didn’t Match My Tie Bar’ Not a Good Enough Excuse For CNBC to Pull Your Interview

Who hasn’t done an on-air appearance they’ve come to regret? At the top, there are presidential candidates like John McCain who wish certain CNN interviews would disappear. Toward the bottom, there are the talking heads cable networks always call upon to weigh in on Topics A, B, and C. Thanks to the magical ways of [...]

Published: 2008-07-29 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Media

MSNBC Sets Its Own Rules for Journalism

That Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann continue playing both hard news anchor and opinionated talking heads is of no consequence to NBC News president Steve Capus. Responding to taunts from Fox News’ Chris Wallace made earlier this week at the Television Critics Association annual event, Capus told MSNBC’s audience he has no plans to change [...]

Published: 2008-07-22 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Media

You Might Be a Redneck If … You Don’t Know How to the Interweb

When the writers’ strike left many in Hollywood with little to do except walk in circles holding pieces of paper above their heads, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay moved ahead with FunnyOrDie.com, the insta-hit comedy website that made his daughter a trash-talking star. With a 10 percent stake purchased by HBO, FOD.com was supposed to [...]

Published: 2008-07-22 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Media

Putting a Price on Tabloid Talking Heads

Because the two most important things to an editorial cog in the media industry is 1) who is reading you; and 2) how much you are being paid, we shall note that Ben Widdicombe’s new editor-at-large gig at Star will earn the ex-Gatecrasher some $125,000 a year. As we understand it, this sum is less [...]

Published: 2008-07-16 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Ben Widdicombe

Military Experts: Proceed With Caution

Based on the New York Times revelations that many military experts, stumping as television talking heads and newspaper guest op-ed columnists, are paid (with cash, trips, or access) agents of the Bush administration, producers and editors might begin taking a more cynical eye to booking these men in uniform. Because they were so apt [...]

Published: 2008-04-21 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Bias

At Least None of These Good 'Ole Boys are Pretending to Be Black

Isn’t funny that cable news’ talking heads – the Chris Matthews, the Tim Russerts, the Bill O’Reillys – all play up their blue collar roots, identifying as one of the people, when they earn millions of dollars a year and have more homes than you have limbs? Every night at 5 and 7, Matthews acts like [...]

Published: 2008-04-16 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Bill O'Reilly

The New Faces of Cable News Are Darker, Feminine, and Cost a Helluva Lot Less

While our black sister Stereohyped explores the politics behind the new black and lady commentators popping up on cable news, it’d be smart to recognize the influx of pundits isn’t just because we suddenly need non-white, non-male talking heads to talk about issues that are suddenly relevant to more than aging white men. Rather, it makes [...]

Published: 2008-04-02 Provider: Jossip Keywords: 2008 Election

We've Run Out of Current Events for Pundits to Discuss, So Let's Go to Tape

Because Fox News’ The 1/2 Hour News Hour fared so well, CNN Headline News is making another go at the “news as entertainment” doctrine with Not Just Another Cable News Show, a weekend show that dives into the CNN video archives, pulls out clips of yesteryear, and asks talking heads like Rachel Sklar and [...]

Published: 2008-03-24 Provider: Jossip Keywords: CNN Headline News

David Byrne is Un-American, Weird

Little-Known Fact: Talking Heads frontman and avid cyclist David Byrne is not American, and can't vote because of his immigrant status. At least, according to the emails he's been sending out to everyone. (But why hasn't he applied for citizenship in the 20+ years he's been in NYC?) We thought: Canadian? But it turns out [...]

Published: 2008-11-04 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Media

Disney Execs: All Remnants of Childhood Nostalgia to be Hocked For Feature Length Films

Because no one got sick of those damn Pirates movies, or Johnny Depp talking like a drunk Keith Richards, Disney execs got it into their heads that people need to see more 10-minute rides stretched putty-thin into two hours in a dark theater. Despite the fact that it's ass-backwards to make a ride first [...]

Published: 2008-09-18 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Media

An Embarrassing Stab at Showing Why Gay Marriage Is Bad

Usually armed with pundits who will back him up or talking heads he can easily steam roll, Bill O’Reilly found himself in a precarious position last night: His guest who was supposed to argue that allowing gay marriage was bad for California … failed. It’s always been O’Reilly’s gimmick to book guests who are sympathetic to [...]

Published: 2008-05-29 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Bill O'Reilly

Not Content to Let Its PR Blunder Blow Over, Us Weekly Tries Resuscitating Its Mistakes on TV

Us Weekly just doesn't learn. After last week's very public blow up – printing the mistakes of other tabloids, while refuting its own errors and blatant fictionalized facts – now they're trying to book execs to explain their side of things. Phones have rang at MSNBC and CNN in the hopes of booking Wenner Media's talking heads to show how Us Weekly gets it right while the competition gets it wrong. It's times like this that we miss Katrina Szish most.

Published: 2007-05-07 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Us Weekly

Black Man Exonerated of Rape Less Important to Some Anchors Than White Men Exonerated of Rape

As Stereohyped points out, some right-wing talking heads seem to be ready and willing to ignore the DNA-based exoneration of a man who spent 25 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. So how is a professional pundit like Sean Hannity managing to bow out on this one – when his coverage of the Duke rape case was borderline obsessive – and not even mention the case? Perhaps it has a little something to do with the man, 48-year-old Jerry Miller, being black. No matter that Miller's

Published: 2007-04-24 Provider: Jossip Keywords: Sean Hannity