Update: Folkenflik has responded on Twitter that his interview about Knell’s departure on Monday’s edition of All Things Considered (versus his story on Tuesday’s edition of Morning Edition) did mention the O’Keefe sting (though did not credit O’Keefe by name): Makes
(AP) A-Rod’s lawyer says MLB’s evidence won’t hold upNEW YORKMajor League Baseball’s evidence against Alex Rodriguez is so weak he shouldn’t serve even one inning of his 211-game suspension, the lawyer for the Yankees slugger said Monday. Joe Tacopina told
The day’s top picks in social media and technology for 8/18: Backlash over TIME reporter’s tweet suggesting drone strike on Assange; Google patents “pay per gaze” eye tracking tool; NBC hiring “media hacker”; what’s behind Wikileaks’ ‘insurance’ files release?; Stuxnet
Hillary Clinton appears to be jumping into the 2016 race for the White House this week, coming out with a series of policy speeches. But former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs fears that Hillary is jumping in too soon, and
NBC Sports got record American ratings with its coverage of the Barclays Premier League on Saturday. NBC bet $250 million on Premier League soccer and it looks like it may pay dividends. The “triple-header on NBC and NBC Sports Network
Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs On NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning, discussing Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential aspirations, suggests her husband Bill and now-President Obama will be liabilities to her campaign.
New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly s Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host David Gregory
In constant campaign mode, President Obama attended a tony get-together in Martha’s Vineyard on Thursday night, headed up by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and attended by luminaries from the media world ranging from Obama’s chief Hollywood backer, Harvey Weinstein, to
In response to Striking the Right Balance with the Media: That’s a great point about the dangers of avoiding media outlets with big viewership, Lisa. I’m not sure where this RNC protest against CNN and NBC will ultimately end up,
Predicting that the new Al Jazeera America news network will experience a “rolling success,” the soon-to-launch network’s American chief, Kate O’Brien, insisted that the network is just what America is looking for. At the same time, interim CEO Ehab Al
(AP) NBC bets big on English Premier League soccerBy RACHEL COHENAP Sports WriterSTAMFORD, Conn.British sports announcer Arlo White remembers visiting relatives in Chicago more than two decades ago and flipping through a seemingly endless array of television channels. Starting Saturday,
Looks like CBS is getting into the political drama game at a time when several projects involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are heating up. Madame Secretary, from Joan Of Arcadia creator Barbara Hall and Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, explores the personal and professional life
Fox TV planned to produce the upcoming NBC miniseries based on the political life of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. That was before the Republican National Committee vowed not to let NBC handle any 2016 presidential primary debates until
At its Summer meeting in Boston on Friday, the RNC formally adopted a resolution excluding NBC and CNN from hosting or moderating Republican primary debates during the 2016 Presidential campaign. The vote comes after RNC Chair Reince Priebus urged the
Ana Navarro, the “Republican strategist” who personally insulted Congressman Steve King (R-IA) on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday, served as the National Hispanic Chairperson for Jon Huntsman’s failed Presidential campaign in 2011 and 2012. Unlike most Republican strategists who make a
(AP) Column: ‘Confrontation’ set as new Olympic event?By JIM LITKEAP Sports ColumnistA different kind of “sport” will make its debut at the upcoming Sochi Games. It’s called confrontation. If the still-unfinished construction, billions in cost overruns, lack of snow and
White House press secretary Jay Carney welcomed a former star of NBC’s The West Wing to Twitter by asking her to teach him how to perform “The Jackal.” Allison Janney, who played Carney’s fictional counterpart C.J. Cregg on the popular show,
In December of 2008, David Gregory took over as the permanent host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the then-41-year-old current affairs show and longest running program on network television. Over two years later, Gregory was in first place and even
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were motivated to commit their despicable act of terrorism by conservative thinkers, according to MSNBC’s Alex Wagner and Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok. Furthermore, the violence seen in Boston is part and parcel to the vocal,
President Barack Obama went golfing Wednesday with Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts, the Democrat donor whose company owns NBC–the network presently producing a four-hour miniseries on Hillary Clinton. Comcast’s executive vice president David Cohen also raised over $1.4 million for
Last month, a wealthy movie and television star took to Twitter to hurl homophobic slurs at a gay reporter, and to urge his million-plus followers to commit acts of violence against the man. Last week, a nobody — a jester,
NBC: Businesses, unions, and schools all warn of cuts in hours due to ObamaCare.
(AP) Longtime political columnist Germond dead at 85By BEN NUCKOLSAssociated Press WriterWASHINGTONJack W. Germond, the portly, cantankerous columnist and pundit who covered 10 presidential elections and sparred with colleagues on TV’s “The McLaughlin Group,” has died. He was 85. Germond
The Newsroom is Aaron Sorkin’s HBO show about a group of staffers on an MSNBC-like cable show. The concept of the show is that it takes place in the real world but not in real time. Current episodes deal with
The media push to protect and promote Hillary Clinton is well underway. The idea here is not just to ensure that she faces no damaging primary opposition, but that she steamrolls any Republican who dares try to stop her. Our
