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anderson cooper.. with glasses (not so good)

630 — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:51:00 +0000

with a mom like gloria vanderbilt, you’d think anderson cooper would have a little more fashion sense. i mean, he’s got great taste in ties but he clearly needs some help with eyeglasses. he debuted the two new pairs of glasses he got last week on live with regis and kelly and let’s just say, he needs to go back to the store.

(and yes, they look exactly alike.)

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oh hell…

180 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:00:49 +0000

here’s an interesting item from yahoo. the american people (who are these people?) were asked to evaluate certain groups’ attitude toward religion. not surprisingly, hollywood is not seen as very god-fearing and scientists, the obama administration, and the democratic party didn’t do much better. regarding the democrats the report says that ”Only 9% of conservative Republicans say the Democratic Party is friendly toward religion, less than half the number who said this in 2008 (23%). Moderate and liberal Republicans are 11 percentage points less likely to see Democrats as friendly toward religion than they were last year (21% in 2009 vs. 32% in 2008). The number of independents describing the Democrats as friendly toward religion is down nine points (from 35% to 26%), and the number of conservative and moderate Democrats taking this view is down eight points (from 50% to 42%). At the same time, 56% of liberal Democrats view their political party as friendly toward religion, identical to last year’s level.”

i’m wondering if the dems and obama would have done better after that little ‘come to jesus’ meeting held on friday in baltimore.

souped-up ipod touch*

630 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:23:03 +0000

most of you have probably already made up your minds on whether to buy the highly anticipated apple ipad or not so i’ll keep this brief and let you get to video of steve jobs introducing the product today. the wifi version will be available in 60 days (mid march) and the 3g version will be available in 90 days (mid april). you’ll have an option on hard drive size 16bb ($499), 32gb ($599) and 64gb ($699). if you’re going 3g, tack on another $150. apple is not yet taking pre-orders but you can sign up to be notified when they do at the apple website.

*doesn’t mean i’m not going to buy it though

presenting.. your favorites

630 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:01:11 +0000

it’s been an awesome year at sb and before we jump into new year, we thought we’d take a look at your favorite stories from 2009. here are the top 5, in order by page count:

omg sharon, you’re … huge is the story of one man’s love … for his pumpkin.
not sure I want this to be true about rumors debates the age old question: daytime sacred bird (aka anderson cooper) or nighttime sacred bird? in my dream world, it would be both.
spring ’10 trends gives us some ideas on how can some of our favorite (anderson cooper and bill hemmer) and not so favorite (glenn beck and rush limbaugh) news men may stay on top of the men’s runway fashion trend. hint: there might be a little bling involved.
recycling is good gives us a peek into how some news anchors might be making (or saving) a few extra bucks.
more nascar coverage take us through a little adventure with some raccoons, glenn beck, sean hannity and bill hemmer.

photo courtsey of paul thurlby

the big ball dropping event

630 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:06:37 +0000

like everything else, the times square ball is going green this year with the replacement of some older halogen bulbs with new led lights. rain is in the forecast this new year’s eve so if you were planning on heading to see it in person, you might want to rethink it and choose one of the alternatives:

dick clark’s new year’s rockin’ eve with ryan seacrest 2010 (abc) – dick clark, ryan seacrest and melissa rycroft and fergie with performances by jennifer lopez, daughtry, the black eye peas, and selena gomez
billboard’s new year’s eve live (fox) – hosted by carmen electra with performances by kris allen, allison iraheta and sean kingston
new year’s eve with carson daly (nbc) – hosted by carson and natalie morales with musical guest jay-z, rihanna and green day
mtv news presents (mtv) – our new fav reality stars from the jersey shore join adrienne bailon
new year’s eve live with anderson cooper and kathy griffin (cnn) – andy and kathy will make it a threesome this year with the addition of lance bass
all american new year (fox news) – bill hemmer and back-from-maternity-leave megyn kelly will host with musical guest lee greenwood and matt gross

and for those who don’t have tvs, you can catch the action starting at 5:50pm at www.timessquarenyc.org

another busy holiday news weekend

630 — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:51:57 +0000

while you were out doing your last minute shopping, stuffing your face with holiday fruit cake and trying to come up with some last minute lame excuse on why you couldn’t go visit family, the holiday news anchors (cause all the A-list folks were on vacation) were busy. here’s what you might’ve missed (in chronological order):

the senate passed the health care bill in time for them to head home for the holidays. there’s still a long road ahead though as the house of representative and the senate must now work on reconciling the differences in the two bills (the house of rep has their own). one of the biggest differences is what has been referred to as the public option.
obama is in hawaii for the holidays. frankly, i’m getting tired (and jealous) of watching cnn’s ed henry, the white house correspondent, filing in his reports from the beach.
some radical nigerian dude tried to blow up a plane headed to detriot christmas day with a bomb made of powder and liquid. luckily something went wrong, some passengers and crew jumped him and he’s now got some nasty burns on his leg. because he was in the bathroom presumably assembling the bomb and then hid it with a blanket, international travelers are currently not allowed to leave their seats an hour before landing nor use pillows and blankets. and because everyone is super viligiant, there was another scare on the same flight a day later when another dude was in the bathroom a little too long and he didn’t like being asked about it.
the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well as one of the passengers in the debacle plane blow-up incident made 18k on the photo he took of the bomber being restrained by officials. oh and since he was one of the passengers who helped to subdue the bomber, he’s decided that in addition to his 15 minutes of fame, he should be paid if he’s going to do any interviews.
add domestic violence to the list of drugs and alcoholism for charlie sheen. he was arrested for going after his wife with a knife.
amazon’s kindle is the most gifted item in amazon history (pretty impressive when you consider all the crap amazon sells) and kindle e-books outsold regular books on christmas day (not surprising since people probably unwrapped their gifts only to discover they gotta shell money out to use it).
and new-ish today, a new round of deadly protests broke out in iran as opposition to the election results from june continue. so far ten are reported dead including the newphew of mousavi, the opposition leader.

it’s just bloody good business

630 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:11:43 +0000

the news media is getting everyone in trouble these days. a reporter that provided an abrabic translation of a chinese advertisement for the artificial virginity hymen kit got conservative members of the parliament in egypt all up in a tizzy. according to the distributor’s website, for 29.90 us dollars, you get a “artificial hymen” which will “ozze out a liquid that look like blood not too much but just the right amount.”

the conservatives are worried the kit will make egyptian women more likely have sex before marriage. said abdel moati bayoumi, a prominent egyptian religious scholar “I think this should absolutely not be allowed to be exported because it brings more harm than benefits. Whoever does it (imports it) should be punished.” others, like author and blogger marwa rakha, think the kit can empower women, giving them options in a culture that allows men to do as they please but not women. “It sticks it in the face of every male hypocrite,” she said.

sex before marriage in many parts of the middle east is still considered a no-no with women going as far as having their hymen reattached to avoid punishment. i say if a $30 (us) dollar kit, gross as it may be, helps women avoid punishment or worse yet, death, then that’s a product that the market needs.

photo courtsey of heo2035

need more news?

630 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:33:18 +0000

i gotta admit, there are days like today when i just can’t find any new stories to write a whole blog post about. 180 is a lot better at this but i go through phases where i am indifferent to every story. where does that leave you to get your news, you ask? well, if you look to the right on the sidebar, you’ll see we’ve already got that covered. under the recent comments section we have a section called stories we’re reading and a section called what we’re taking about on twitter. check them out throughout the day to get a snapshot of what’s going on in the world. and if you’re reading some interesting stuff we should know about, email us at sb@sacredbird.com cause we’re all about getting and sharing the news you can use.

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what is going on with this man?

630 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:45:07 +0000

with his luck and apparent lack of staff to do damage control, how in the world did mark sanford become the governor of south carolina?

first he disappears on a secret trip his wife doesn’t care about and staff doesn’t know about. after some inquiries, his staff said he was hiking on the appalachian trail (it’s still unclear if his staff really believed it or if they were making it up). then because of all the media speculation surrounding his disappearance, the press got hot on his trail and caught him getting off a plane from buenos aires. forced to provide some kind of explanation, he gives a press conference with clearly what was not a well prepared speech admitting that he had been in argentina visiting his mistress. after that he finally catches a break off of someone else’s tragedy, michael jackson’s death dominated the media and they left him alone, at least for a few days. today sanford’s back in the news admitting that he has spent more time than he originally admitted to with his “soul mate”, the mistress. originally he said he only saw her 3 times, now it’s 7. not only that, the man might’ve been hanging with the wallabies cause he also said that in his 20 years of marriage, in addition to his current mistress, he’s “crossed the lines” several times with other women but did not cross the “ultimate line. ”

when will the train wreck end?

victory!

180 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:00:45 +0000

ari emanuel, the inspiration behind fictional character ari gold featured on hbo’s entourage–has reached the pinacle of hollywood agentry–the 48 year old emanuel, head of the william morris endeavor agency was profiled in the new york times. in it emanuel is described as a “restless achiever who hungers for the bold stroke.” the article goes on to outline some of emanuel’s more bold actions. for example: when negotiating the future of the nbc show “medium”, a show created by one of his clients, he reportedly threatened to ruin marc graboff, co-chairman of nbc entertainment, and emanual and his buddies dumped the chairman of william morris shortly after the merger (even though it was agreed that he would stay on). some even speculate that he’ll try to leverage his connections in the white house to get what he wants.

i wonder why he didn’t call the new agency miller gold?