media
so the trip to mogadishu was…r&r?
richard engel, our beloved desert iguana is now embedded with the 82nd airborne division in afghanistan and is once again delivering some amazing reporting (see video below). just a couple weeks before engel took a trip to mogadishu,somalia one of, if not the most dangerous place(s) on earth to see what life is like there [...]
brian of all trades
that’s right, we’re going to have to stop calling people jacks of all trades and start calling them brians of all trades. newsman brian williams has thrilled us as a firefighter and entertained us as a comedian, now we can add dj to the list. over the weekend williams was a host on sirius xm [...]
at least she apologized
reporter ann curry screwed-up big time when she gave the commencement speech at wheaton college in massachusetts over the weekend. during her speech at the fomer women’s college curry recognized the schools esteemed graduates reverand billy graham, film director wes craven, and politician dennis hastert. problem was, these dudes graduated before 1988 when [...]
campbell brown, cutting through the bull, for real
cnn’s campbell brown released from contract and will leave cnn
‘must see’ tv?
after the jay leno debacle, nbc must have been a little nervous to announce the fall schedule but they did it anyway (they kinda had too). the line-up has drama back at the 10 o’clock hour and is minus one longstanding show law & order (the one based in nyc without the special victims or [...]
the other dan and dave
remember dan and dave from the olympics and how they failed to meet expectations? well, another dan and dave–dan abrams of msnbc and mediaite.com fame and dave zincenko of eat this not that and men’s health have joined forces to open a new restaurant called the lion in new york’s greenwhich village–this one seems poised [...]
lobbying mtv
if you didn’t believe that young people are being cautious, here’s another story about the consequences of putting it all out there. a young woman that was a ‘house guest’ on the recent season of mtv’s the real world in washington, dc is suing the show and mtv for $5 million bones because she [...]
