Snow Day Video Break; Plus, Media's Snowcabulary Challenged

There’s a lot of snow where you are, right? You’ll have to excuse me; I live in New York City, so I assume that extreme weather events that affect me also affect and preoccupy everyone else in the rest of the world. That’s what morning news shows have taught me! In any case, if you’re [...]

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CBS's Dirty Frosty: Snow Joke or Leaves You Cold?

The holidays really do bring people together! Mediaite and conservative media watchdog Newsbusters find themselves united today in one belief: CBS shouldn’t have messed around with Frosty. The two sites knocked the network for some mashup promos that intercut the perennial kids’ cartoon Frosty the Snowman with rather adult dialogue from How I Met Your [...]

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Tune-In Alert: Hear Me Get Mediated by Mediaite

Watch me enter the exciting world of online video/radio/streaming-thingies this afternoon! I’ll be calling in to Mediaite’s Office Hours webcast around 4:35 p.m. ET; the whole show starts at 4 p.m. ET, and you can find details here. The other guest (separately) will be Contessa Brewer of MSNBC. I’ll be talking matters media and televisual [...]