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This Thursday, Barack Obama will appear on The View for the first time since becoming President. (The episode will tape on Wednesday while Obama visits New York City.) Brian Stelter at the New York Times has more on the decision, noting it as an example of the White House’s longtime strategy of courting “nontraditional” media.
The fact …
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I could tell it was summer yesterday. Not because of the soup-like atmosphere that greets me on opening the door in the morning, or the sweet garbagey fragrance of New York in July, but because the political media was busily living every week like it was Shark Week. The latest example …
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Yesterday I wrote about the mixed messages in Barack Obama’s oil spill address, but last night Jon Stewart took on the same theme and showed why he gets paid a zillion dollars to do his work on TV, while I have this little blog I run out of the less-nice part of my basement: …
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People who follow the news and politics closely come to a Presidential Oval Office speech with a list of expectations: policy aims, specific targets, forceful rhetoric, political positioning, expressions of leadership, definitions of problems, proposals of solutions, framing of issues and …
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When the story broke about Washington journalist Helen Thomas getting into trouble for saying Israeli Jews should “go home” to countries like Germany and Poland, I thought about Mike Wallace. My first year at the University of Michigan, there was a controversy over his being asked to …
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That, anyway, is the word from The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove, who reports that David Axelrod told him the Prez received jokes for his White House Correspondents’ Dinner standup from writers for The Daily Show. (For a review of Obama’s, and Jay Leno’s, performances, see this post from …
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It’s always entertaining when Fox News takes on Fox Entertainment; nothing better captures the exciting contradictions of Rupert Murdoch’s blend of conservative punditry with anything-goes entertainment. First Sarah Palin attacked “Fox Hollywood” for a Family Guy bit about Down Syndrome that mocked her. And now, as Mediaite points out, …
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Yesterday was April 15, which is to say Tax Day, which is to say Tea Party Day, and needless to say that meant plenty of coverage on Fox News in particular of the anti-big-government protests held yesterday. One could get all J-school and tsk-tsk-y about how closely the news channel and especially its opinion hosts have associated …
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God help me, I think I actually agree with the Parents Television Council on an issue involving the FCC.
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve rarely seen eye-to-eye with the “broadcast decency” advocacy group, which has (among other things) spearheaded efforts to police the content of primetime TV. The reason: I’m all for …
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It’s official: Sarah Palin is getting her own reality show, ahem, “documentary series.” The trade press reports from earlier this week were right, sort of: Palin did sign with Discovery Networks, but her show will air not on Discovery Channel (home of Deadliest Catch) but on TLC (home of Kate Gosselin).
Which seems like a tacit …
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Why didn’t I make this video? Why didn’t you? This viral video, based on Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” from the 2008 primaries, is so inevitable it should have been obvious. And I’m not sure anyone needs to write, video-edit, or otherwise create anything further about American politics in …
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OK, so cable-news pundits bluster, shoot from the hip and end up hilariously, spectacularly wrong occasionally. Or more than occasionally. It’s pretty much the job description. And Chris Matthews—well, God love him, he’s very good at his job.
But this clip is really something. It’s …
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Does Sarah Palin aspire to be the next Ronald Reagan or the next Bear Grylls? She appears to be stepping closer to one of those goals at least, as Variety reports the former Alaska governor is signing a deal with Discovery for her proposed show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”
If you’re expecting a Kardashians-style series, perhaps with a …
