USA's Magic Formula For Making Hits [Network scores in ratings without trendy sex or violence]
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| Four and a half million Americans tuned in earlier this month to watch the second-season premiere of USA network's series, "White Collar"—a high number by any cable-channel's standards. The tale of an ex-con, forger and thief extraordinaire who partners with the FBI to solve white-collar crime, the series seems to have it all—big money, high society and dangerous villains. But the show is missing two ingredients seemingly inherent to modern television: sex and violence. You might also notice that absence in the rest of USA's summer lineup. From "Royal Pains," about a concierge doctor treating Hampton's aristocracy on the fly,... |
At Your Beck & Paul From Today's Liberal Blogs - July 30
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| Here's the Beck: MEDIA MATTERS Jeremy Holden: Glenn Beck's D'Oh! Ex Machina Media Matters staff: So who's still advertising on Beck? July 29 edition Well, Media Matters for one. How obsessed are these guys? Kate Conway: Beck's imaginary persecution You mean from Media Matters, which runs at the very least four imaginary Beck stories each day? |
Nightlife Past Comes to Haunt Partying Georgian Economy Minister
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s pick of 28-year-old Canadian-Georgian Vera Kobalia for the key post of minister of economy and sustainable development raised many questions about her qualifications, which did not seem to go beyond working at a family bakery in Vancouver. But Russian media, always game to rip on Saakashvili, argue that a nightclub photo, which reveals the playful side of the young minister, sheds more light on her credentials. Russian news outlets seized on a Facebook photo of Kobalia, which portrays her posing suggestively with dancing show girls on a bar counter. After the photo surfaced, Russian-language websites erupted... |
And Let the Harrowing "Immigrant" Stories Begin
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| After the judge's ruling on the Arizona immigration law yesterday, it didn't take long for the media to display the heartwarming saga of illegal immigrants coming to the US. Cue the violin. From ABC News: An Immigrant's Story: Smuggled by 'Coyotes' in Search of Better Life Immigrant? They won't even call them "undocumented" anymore? Legal immigrants from all over are now vomiting - all over. "Juan Garcia talks openly about his illicit, harrowing overnight excursion through the Sonoran desert from Mexico into Arizona." ""I was very, very afraid," said Garcia, in elementary English, of the night he and a dozen... |
The Curious Case Of The Journolist Dogs That Didn’t Bark….
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| But Klein also said that he felt that the list should only contain journalists, not political operatives and he took great pains to exclude such people though “it’s possible I missed one” |
Hola America
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| a deft strategy has emerged from the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, which has launched "Vota Tus Valores" — vote your values — a $1 million voter-outreach campaign to educate Hispanic voters about the pro-life/traditional marriage/free-enterprise platform of U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina in California. "Now is the time for the Latino voice to be heard. We are tired of being taken for granted by Democrats who expect our 'minority vote,' but don't respect us or our values. The Latino vote is waking up," says Alfonso Aguilar,the group's executive director. |
Longtime Mississippi and New Jersey newspaperman Donald V. Adderton died Saturday.
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| Longtime Mississippi and New Jersey newspaperman Donald V. Adderton died Saturday. He was 61. Adderton, most recently of Passaic, N.J., was a reporter, columnist and editor at the Sun Herald from 1994 to 2000, where his personal columns continued to run occasionally through recent years. Adderton in 2000 was named executive editor of the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, becoming the first black person to hold the top editor post at a Mississippi daily newspaper. Most recently, he served as assistant city editor and columnist for the Herald News in Passaic. Adderton began his newspaper career as a paperboy... |
ABC programming chief McPherson abruptly resigns
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| LOS ANGELES — ABC's programming chief Stephen McPherson is abruptly leaving the job. The Disney-ABC Television Group released a statement Tuesday announcing that McPherson had submitted his resignation as president of the ABC Entertainment Group and it was accepted by the company. |
Aaron Guerrero, Cub Reporter at The Daily Caller, Fails The Shoeleather Test With His Hit On Palin
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| Aaron Guerrero, cub reporter at The Daily Caller, gets all wee wee’d up over Governor Palin’s remark to his adult supervisors at the website that the media was “a key reason she decided not to finish out her term as governor.” Sensing the chance of getting on the Couric Award For Balanced Journolism shortlist he plays his gotcha! moment to perfection. |
Memories of a former journalist
Saturday 31st of July 2010 02:44:09 AM
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| Sometimes I miss working in journalism. Not the high profile sniping that we read in the newspapers or the reports of political shenanigans, though that was often fun to write about. No. I miss the every-day conversations with people that led to intriguing stories about the lives of everyday people. It’s been almost 20 years, but I still recall meeting the man who’s mind’s eye could still see his former surroundings of 50 years earlier on that Sunday morning that will live in infamy for the United States. |
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