bill not-so-much hemmer

bill hemmer’s audio interview with the pittsburgh post-gazette is worth a listen


quality time with andy: anything but trivial

the hotty-hot anderson cooper was back on regis and kelly and had a trivia rematch to see who knows the most about donald trump. who wants to win a match on this subject though? he lost and he’s ready for round three.  i think the subject should be “coverage of andy on sacred bird.”  here’s [...]


“the voice of chicago” is now censored

some words should never be uttered, so believes randy michaels, the ceo for tribune co.  michaels recently released a memo of 119 words that are not suppose to be used by news reporters and anchors on the tribune’s am radio station, wgn. explained charlie meyerson, the wgn news director, “The real goal here is to avoid [...]


in case you missed it

fox to cnn president, jon klein: “we don’t respond to presidents of fifth-place news networks. The last time we looked, Jon was losing to the Weather Channel, so call us back when he and CNN regain relevancy.”


and you thought web chats were so 1990s

check out chatroulette.  as of february, the site had more than 10,000 members who signed up to be randomly connected to strangers around the world for web “chats”.  i’ve haven’t been on it but it appears to be the new platform where you can find some of our favorite news anchors – diane sawyer, keith olberman, katie couric and [...]


15 minutes with bill hemmer

you know we’ve been busy when it takes us a week to watch and report back on a bill hemmer interview. the 15+ minute interview with media beat didn’t really tell us anything new (how his on-air career got started, his many roles at cnn and why he moved to fox) and repeats some [...]


stephen colbert for abc’s this week?

it’s not a jon steward/brian williams pairing but george stephanopoulos’ visit to the colbert report was amusing. stephanopoulous tells stephen colbert the real reason he left the sunday morning this week news program for good morning america (lady gaga) and side steps the obvious question we already know the answer to of whether gma is [...]