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Keith Olbermann returned to the air after what turned out to be a brief “indeterminate” suspension from MSNBC for violating its policy by making unapproved donations to three political candidates. He had three apologies to his viewers, but not for the donations. Olbermann was sorry, he said, for …
This just in: MSNBC host Keith Olbermann supports Democrats. According to a report in Politico this morning, Olbermann made the maximum legal donations to three Democratic candidates last month, one of them immediately after he appeared on Olbermann’s show.
This is potentially a problem for Olbermann, because it looks as though he …
* Let me make clear that, for all I know, Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi/time-travel/dinosaur show Terra Nova for Fox may be the greatest thing ever created for television, if it comes to exist. But it continues to make the kind of news you don’t want an upcoming show to make. First it was announced before a single frame was shot, raising the …
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Video: MSNBC wasted little time reacting to the reaction at the polls last night.
“Wave,” “tidal wave,” “tsunami”—the terms for the midterm results in last night’s TV coverage were limited only by the English language’s number of terms for something really big from an ocean. (The …
After the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Saturday, Keith Olbermann went on the defensive on Twitter, tweeting that Jon Stewart had “jumped a shark” in behaving as though left and right voices in cable news were equally as guilty for creating a toxic tone in media discourse. (To be fair, Olbermann said it was a small shark. Perhaps a …
America is about putting together things that are not supposed to go together. Korean tacos, for instance. (Which, really, you should try.) Or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and R2D2. Or irony and sincerity.
Which is to say, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert put together a very American show on the National Mall today with the Rally to Restore …
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You do not really need to shed a tear for Juan Williams, unless you weep droplets of gold, and them you can pile them on top of the three-year $2 million contract Williams received from Fox News after NPR cut ties with him. To sum up: Monday night, Williams said on The O’Reilly Factor …
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly was a guest on The View today, and brought up the subject of, as he referred to it, “the mosque down here on 9/11.” As you might have guessed, he, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar had a reasonable and good-natured discussion about sensitivity and civil liberties an angry, bleeped-out shouting match that resulted in …
I’m about to say something that may seem cynical, so first: Seeing the Chilean miners (still being evacuated as I type this) emerge from the rescue pod into the light has been moving, inspiring and a reminder of the power of live television news to deliver a story of raw human triumph.
OK, now the little-bit-cynical part: the news story …
Lou Dobbs, the former CNN host who turned up this week as a client on The Good Wife, is in a real-life legal controversy. After he made a name for years with his crusade against illegal immigration, a year-long investigation by The Nation charges that Dobbs himself employed undocumented workers to maintain his estate and …
Update: CNN announced this afternoon that Sanchez is “no longer with the company.”
CNN’s Rick Sanchez, a frequent target (like many anchors) of The Daily Show, went on comedian (and CNN contributor) Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show and said that Stewart was picking on him out of bigotry. And then he took it a little further. When …
The conversion of Washington, D.C. to full-time performance-art venue is complete. My column in the print TIME today (not yet online) is an expansion of my earlier blog post on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s joint marches on the Mall Oct. 30, and it turned out to be fortuitously timed: Colbert today testified before a House Judiciary …
Breaking news! CNN announced a major executive shakeup this morning, as its longtime U.S. president Jonathan Klein is leaving and being replaced by Ken Jautz, the current head of more-successful sister network HLN. The Associated Press reports that Klein was fired, while the official statement simply says that he’s leaving, but in any …
