During the 2012 election campaign NBC refused to allow Chelsea Clinton to appear in political ads made by a same-sex marriage advocacy group based in the state of Washington that was trying to get a same-sex marriage referendum placed on
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Another farcical climate change conference begins in Doha, Qatar Large Tuesday protests planned after Egypt’s Morsi refuses to rescind decree Egypt’s ‘Hope and Change’ candidate Morsi has forgotten all his promises Another farcical climate
Today, multiple high-ranking Republicans announced that they were willing to raise taxes as part of a deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” breaking the pledges they had made to Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform. Said Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC)
By LYNN ELBERAP Television WriterJ.R. Ewing was a business cheat, faithless husband and bottomless well of corruption. Yet with his sparkling grin, Larry Hagman masterfully created the charmingly loathsome oil baron _ and coaxed forth a Texas-size gusher of ratings
As we reported in September, long-time morning host Matt Lauer has seemingly worn out his welcome at NBC’s Today show. TV insiders are saying the $21.5 million-a-year Lauer is soon to be fired. Lauer’s “Q Score,” an industry popularity rating,
The fusion of entertainment and politics may have reached its tipping point thanks to a tweet by NBC News’ David Gregory. The biased host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” ran into noted thinker Lindsay Lohan on the set of “The
Having reached her mid-seventies, Oscar-winner Jane Fonda is now in that phase of her career where she’s celebrated with all kinds of “achievement awards.” Last night at the L.A. Press Club gala honoring her, Fonda revealed that her biggest regret
In a piece of obvious stunt-casting, Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels chose Jane Fonda to portray Nancy Reagan in his new film “The Butler” — the story of a black man who served eight American presidents during his long White House career. Naturally, because this is
Senate Intel Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): on NBC’s “Meet The Press”
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on “Saturday Night Live”
The Old Media has found its narrative for Obama’s first press conference since March and the first since his re-election, and that narrative can be boiled down simply to this: Obama helpfully Reaching Out, Republicans still mean as snakes. After
CNN is looking for a new president to run the channel after Jim Walton stepped down last summer. Mark Shapiro, who has worked at Dick Clark Productions and ESPN, is rumored to be in the running, along with Jeff Zucker,
Is there anyone in the room who doesn’t think the Obama Administration is trying to bully General David Petraeus into silence? NBC News is reporting that the CIA is now opening an investigation into the affair Petraeus had with Paula
Hollywood resisted the urge to politicize Abraham Lincoln in the new Steven Spielberg drama “Lincoln,” the political drama opening wide tomorrow. Will the industry show the same restraint regarding the man regarded as the father of this country? NBC is
NBC NEWS – Rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel killed three people and injured six on Thursday, Israeli officials said, as Israel launched numerous airstrikes across the Gaza Strip and the military showdown lurched closer to all-out war. Fifteen
According to Chuck Todd on today’s MSNBC “Daily Rundown,” the Libya issue is pretty much settled, Susan Rice did nothing wrong, and John McCain’s hunt for the truth is what Todd describes in his chyron as a “Rivalry Revisited.” Todd’s
Now that Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are very publicly ramping up their push to get to the bottom of what happened in Libya, Obama’s media guardians are trying to undermine McCain’s investigation by portrating it as motivated by
NBC’s White House corespondent Chuck Todd Discussing Nancy Pelosi running for Minority leader again
On Saturday, Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey participated in the International Socialist Organization Midwest Marxism Conference at Northwestern University. Much of the conference focused on the successful intervention and assistance by the ISO to the Chicago Teachers Union
You would think an organization like NBC/Universal, which has a fairly large news organization, would release news when news is available. According to Paul Bond at the Hollywood Reporter, though, 500 layoffs that had been in works for months, were
In response to revelations of the extramarital affair that now former CIA Chief David Petraeus admitted to over the weekend, liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin scoffed at the idea of holding highly placed public figures to account for their personal behavior.
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Television viewership is suffering a steep decline so far this season. Or is it? The raw ratings tell a dramatic story, according to the Financial Times. TV executives rush to point out that more people today watch shows on alternative
Alec Baldwin is the white, middle-aged male star of the low-rated sitcom “30 Rock.” The politically progressive actor rejoiced at President Barack Obama’s re-election precisely because it means his demographic, to his eyes, is politically on its last legs. “Obama’s
In a Sunday appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said he and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) plan to reignite talks over immigration reform. “I think we have a darned good chance using thisblueprint to get something
When CIA Director David Petraeus handed in his resignation in response to an FBI investigation, it was the end of his short stint in intelligence but the beginning of a long list of questions that need to be answered. Right
