the love fest with andy continues…
for all of us except for greta van susteren that is. in a recent anderson cooper profile in elle magazine, the author speculates that the reason why greta van susteren has referred to anderson as a “marketing experiment” and has accused him of exploiting katrina by writing a book is because he has the #1 [...]
smarter than a 5th grader?
i have three questions for you:
which party currently controls the house of representatives?
who is the secretary of state?
who is the the british prime minister?
according to a pew research center study based on the three questions, where you get your news can determine how well you know your politics.
readers of the the new yorker and the [...]
story round up
lots of stories on media folks last week:
nascar loving funny man, brian williams, is featured in this month’s AARP
everyone is writing about how rachel maddow, beating even oblermann’s ratings, starts off her new show at msnbc with a bang. ok, maybe not everybody. just the la times, the philadephia inquirer, the american prospect and the [...]
profiles: roberts, o’reilly, king
john roberts – eye weekly
recently caused some ruckus when he self identified as a democratic during an interview
“feedback from viewers is great”, unless it’s from “ranters”
cnn is dedicated to “speaking to the great middle of America”, they’re different from the rest of cable network news because they offer” personality, not partisanship”
bill o’reilly – time [...]
there’s no such thing as bad press…
but there is such as thing as obscure press. america’s newsroom’s (of fox news) pr people is either targeting a certain type of viewers or they’re just snoozing on the job. this month, bill hemmer is on the cover of cincinnati gentleman and megyn kelly is featured animal fair magazine.
we hear that hemmer talks about [...]
tasteless and offensive…
that’s how people are describing the artwork on the cover of this week’s new yorker. i think people are just mad that their private thoughts have been illustrated. i have a friend who loves this quote from 30 rock–it goes something like this: “there’s an 80% percent chance that in the next election [...]
they say a picture is worth a thousand words
apparently everyone’s got a copy of photoshop these days. to add to the collection of digitally altered images, here’s two that made the news yesterday:
1. in response to fox news’ design skills, the folks at vanityfair.com decided to do a little photoshopping themselves. here’s a selection, see the full gallery on the vanityfair.com website.
2. iran’s [...]
