MUST “NOT-SEE” TV
What kind of number will the highly-touted “King Charles” pull tonight?
Category: Bad Idea
LET THE RECORD SHOW….
If George Santos needs a future, it (fingers crossed) won’t be in tv news
BRAND “X” IS LIVING UP TO THE NAME
And advertisers continue to flee.
NEWSNATION LANDS A DEBATE NOBODY CARES ABOUT
And a moderator we’ve all largely forgotten
FOX “NEWS” DREAMS OF BEING KINGMAKER DASHED
The plan to interview all three House Speaker candidates crashed and burned.
HOW CAN HE BE TRUSTED TO PICK CNN’S NEXT LEADER?
David Zaslav doesn’t like his missteps being reported
IS THE “FOR SALE” SIGN GOING UP AT CNN?
And who might be interested in buying?
YES, THERE IS SUCH A THING AS BAD PUBLICITY
And it's usually prompted by a bad idea
ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
Seriously, presidential debates MORE THAN A YEAR before the election!!?!?
A BAD IDEA TO END ALL BAD IDEAS
A Canadian advocacy group wants FOX “News” banned
NEXSTAR APOLOGIZES FOR BONEHEAD MICHIGAN MEMO
It turns out the offending memo was the news director's brainstorm
WELL WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF THIS?
It seems this Nexstar station in Grand Rapids, MI feels a need to be ultra-sensitive to the needs of a certain segment of the community that rejects diversity. What’s next? No Cinco de Mayo ...
AND THE LAST OF THE LICHT-ERA CNN MAY NEVER HAPPEN
“King Charles”, the Gayle King-Charles Barkley project seems DOA
CHRIS LICHT WASN’T THE ONLY ONE FIRED AT CNN YESTERDAY
And the guard is changing at CNN.
CALL IT A MAY MASSACRE
Sinclair cutting newscasts and ditching people at two more stations
“YOU’RE DONE. WE’RE KEEPING THE SITE YOU FOUNDED”
Sure it’s an imaginary quote, but it’s based in fact
WE NEVER DOUBTED HOW NBC FELT ABOUT UNIONS
They even put it in a training manual
FACT-CHECKING IS “BAD FOR BUSINESS”
The philosophy of running a “news” organization according to Suzanne Scott
SINCLAIR SUBSIDIARY SKIPS OUT ON INTEREST PAYMENT
Now Diamond Sports Group has 30 days to negotiate with the people it owes
SINCLAIR’S FOLLY COULD DECLARE BANKRUPTCY THIS WEEK
A multi-multi-million dollar interest payment is coming due
WE SAW THIS COMING MONTHS AGO
Bad ideas will always turn out to be bad ideas
REWARD FAILURE? WHY, OF COURSE!!!
Disney's abject failure
TWIN CITIES’ ANCHOR OUT OF COMMISSION
He tore his rotator cuff the day after Christmas
ONCE AN ELECTION DENIER ALWAYS AN ELECTION DENIER
Lake says she is assembling a team to investigate the election
MORE AMERICANS GETTING THEIR NEWS ON…TIKTOK?
The dumbing down continues
TAPPER STIFFS IN PRIME-TIME – SET TO RETURN TO OLD SLOT
His tryout in the old Cuomo slot was a non-starter
NEXSTAR, VERIZON PLAY CHICKEN. CONSUMERS WILL GET ROLLED
Let the press release war begin.
CNN+ FADES INTO HISTORY
Not that it was ever a bright light to begin with, but the last of CNN+ is out the door, as the company handed out pink slips to the remaining 20 staffers. Many, many ...
WILL PROFESSIONAL SPORTS BAIL OUT SINCLAIR?
A couple of weeks back, we told you that Sinclair’s reach appeared to have exceeded its grasp in its acquisition of the former FOX Regional Sports Networks from Disney three years ago. The $9.6 ...
ILLINOIS MORNING ANCHOR DOING COMMUNITY SERVICE BY COVERING THE COMMUNITY
If this is true...
CANCEL IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE
Did anyone really think through the cancellation of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” or was Chris Licht in such a hurry to please major Warner Discovery stockholder John Malone that he preferred to leave a gaping ...
HMMMMMM…..SINCLAIR AGAIN
“The Baltimore Sun” is reporting that Sinclair Broadcast Group CEO David Smith has pumped $385,000 into an effort to put two charter amendments on the ballot for Baltimore voters to consider: One calls for ...
DON’T EXPECT CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM WITH THIS KIND OF MONEY ON THE LINE
This week in a paywalled story, “The Wall Street Journal” predicted a $9.7 BILLION windfall when this mid-term election season blessedly draws to a close. The race to cash in is well underway. Once ...
NOT THE ATTENTION NEWS NATION WAS SEEKING
Former GMA executive producer Shelley Ross is going after Nexstar’s NewsNation over its decision to hire disgraced former CNN program host Chris Cuomo for a fall primetime slot being carved out for him, calling ...
LOG-ROLLING IN OUR TIME PT 2: CHRIS CUOMO IS GOING TO NEWS NATION
The announcement was made live on NewsNation.
LOG-ROLLING IN OUR TIME
Log-rolling: [from a former American custom of neighbors assisting one another in rolling logs into a pile for burning] : the exchanging of assistance or favors specifically : the trading of votes by legislators ...
WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?
“A well-functioning democracy depends on healthy and trusted public and private institutions; an economy that provides broad-based opportunity and prosperity; tolerance and respect for one another and our differences; and a vibrant civic life.” ...
HERE’S ONE CASE WHERE THE “OPTICS” ARE HORRIBLE
To say we have had a skeptical view of the White House Correspondents’ Association annual celebration of itself is to put it mildly. Over the years the just-revived dinner has grown into a celebrity-stuffed ...
CNN+’S QUICK DEATH SHOCKED EVEN ITS CRITICS.
Maybe some re-tooling was in order. A tweak here or there and a chunk of budget cuts and some layoffs. But Warner Discovery decided CNN+ had to go…and the sooner the better. The move, ...
MEGYN KELLY TRIES TO REJOIN THE CONVERSATION
Megyn Kelly offered up a story on her eponymous podcast about Jeff Zucker’s attempt to woo her away from FOX News. Kelly said Zucker made her a huge offer but, in a rare display ...
CABLE’S LATEST GASBAG REVEALED
As we explained earlier this week, we find the plethora of network and cable news pundits to be a misallocation of resources, an abandonment of actual news coverage and a complete waste of viewers’ ...
CAN WE JUST STOP THIS?
We at NewsBlues have long contended that newsrooms, local, network and cable, would all serve their viewers better if the suits that run them end the practice of hiring politicians, past, present and future, ...
APOLOGETIC ANCHOR RETURNS AFTER DUI ARREST
He says he needed to deal with some issues.
MSNBC BANNED FROM RITTENHOUSE COURTROOM
As the jury deliberated for the third day in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the judge in the case, Bruce Schroeder, added to an already extensive list of controversial moves he’s made during this ...
ANOTHER GRAY NEWSER PLAYS COVID ROULETTE
Gray Television’s corporate vaccination policy continues to claim victims. This time it is 18-year veteran Meggan Gray, the popular co-host of “Good Morning Mississippi” at WLOX in Biloxi, MS. http:// She really didn’t elaborate ...
MEDIA-BASHING FORMER TV ANCHOR GOTS TRUMP ENDORSEMENT
Onetime Phoenix tv anchor Kari Lake, who now aspires to be the next Arizona governor can add Donald Trump to her trophy wall of endorsements. The former KSAZ anchor left her job last March ...
NEW YORK ANCHOR ATTACKED FOR TWEET ABOUT VACCINES
“The response has been so vitriolic.“
CNN SPORTS ANCHOR DIDN’T MEAN WHAT HE SAID
Now he’s apologizing for it.
IT’S GOING TO BE WHITE (POWER) WEDDING!
If misery loves company, this story most definitely has legs. According to the New York Post, rumors are flying that Sean Hannity is dating “Fox & Friends” anchor Ainsley Earhardt — but the pair ...
ABC REPORTER BUSTED WITH “NEWS MULLET”
All this reporting-at-home has spawned the era of “the news mullet.” That’s business on top (usually in the form of suit jacket or blazer) and party on the bottom (pajamas, undies or nothing at ...
TODAY IN ‘SERIOUSLY, THEY’RE NOT FIRED?’
El Paso NBC affiliate KTSM posted an apology over the weekend for comments made by news anchor, Patricia Maese, according to the El Paso Times. Ruby Montana, an ethics and philosophy professor at UTEP ...
PAY TO PLAY IN DES MOINES
Bucking the recent trend in launching “new” and “expanded” newscasts in order to cash in on the flood of political ad money in 2020, Nexstar’s WHO in Des Moines, IA will premiere “lifestyle” show ...
CONSOLIDATION TALES
Friday night, after 20 years in the anchor chair at KDLT in Sioux Falls, SD, Tom Hanson signed off for the last time. The anchor chair no longer exists with the consolidation of KDLT ...
BOTTOM LINE, BORIS? NOT EVERYONE BUYING SINCLAIR LINE
It hasn’t quite been a week since we waved a (not-so) fond farewell to Boris Epshteyn, once-chief political analyst for Sinclair Broadcast Group and his execrable must-run reliably Trump-friendly “analytical pieces.” At the time, ...
“CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT” LEADS TO ASSAULT CHARGES
Thomas Callaway, the Georgia bonehead who says he got “caught up in the moment” when he smacked WSAV‘s Alex Bozarjian on the bottom as she “live”-reported and footrace turned himelf in at the end ...
A QUESTIONABLE CALL
What do you get when a billionaire media mogul decides to throw his hat in the presidential nomination ring and 34 billion dollars in ad money after it? You get a media company that ...
THIS WEEK’S DUMB IDEA…
For some reason, a number of media types out there, including MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski have fallen in love with the idea that presidential wanna-be Michael Bloomberg is the perfect guy to buy Fox News ...
STILL ANOTHER BLOVIATOR
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Cable news’ addiction to talking heads has been flirting more and more with bottom feeding of late as it seeks to fill that 24/7 beast with ...
SOME DREAMS NEVER DIE
Frustrated in his efforts to change the impeachment narrative among the Beltway press corps, mainly because new whistleblowers keep turning up, Mr. Trump is once again dreaming a dream from 2016 – namely the ...
LINE?? THERE’S A LINE?
We can’t think of too many instances where a reporter, print or otherwise, inserts themselves into a story they’ve been covering. Until Kate Amara of Hearst’s WBAL in Baltimore earlier this month appeared to ...
A SHOWDOWN LOOMS
Today is D-D Day for AT&T’s DirecTV outlets and the Sinclair monolith. D-D meaning “Drop Dead” which is what could well happen to Sinclair’s 136 television stations on the AT&T’s dish. The two sides ...
REALLY????!!!
A NewsBlueser was rather appalled at what spilled out of the computer lately. We thought we’d share it with some brief observations. Is this considered a “best practice” use of “Facebook Live?” Scripps might ...
ANOTHER PAY TO PLAY COMES TO CHICAGO
“Lifestyle programming” is coming to NBC’s WMAQ in Chicago. “Chicago Today” will premiere September 6 and will be hosted by Cortney Hall, who signed off last week from Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar’s WGN, where she was the ...
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE (NOT)
It really was about the only high-profile recourse she had post-White House. Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ reward for a fairly consistent record of obfuscation and press-bashing/bullying is a job as ...
CREEP ACCUSED OF STALKING CLEVELAND ANCHOR
This is certainly nothing new in the tv news business but it doesn’t make it any less scary. Evan Williams, a 28-year-old from Lorain OH, is accused of stalking ‘Fox 8 News In the ...
FAMILIAR GASBAG HIRED AT CNN
Talking heads are like potato chips to the execs at CNN. They never know when to say “enough, already.” So they’ve gone out and hired Terry McAuliffe, Democrat, Clinton operative and one-time Virginia governor ...
A BAD PRECEDENT
Increasingly, we find that we are being badly served by both political parties and cable news in the run up to the 2020 elections. Not that we weren’t the last time around, but the ...
NOT WITH A BANG, BUT A WHIMPER
WWOR might be licensed to Secaucus, NJ, but soon, any reminder that it once actually operated out of a New Jersey facility will be erased. The building which once housed WWOR on Meadowlands Parkway ...
VIDEO GAME MAKER REMOVES “JOURNALISM MURDER” LEVEL
Even in this current era of glamorizing the bashing and threatening of journalists, generally by know-nothings, the notion that a video game had a level in which the goal was to murder a journalist ...
JUST WHAT WE NEED
If we haven’t made is clear enough already, we have a deep and abiding loathing of those cutely-named “lifestyle” programs that have become a pestilence on local television. Thinly-disguised as real information, they are ...
YES…BUT WHY?
Proof that persistence pays off. Ad man-turned TV gasbag Donny Deutsch has been hanging around 30 Rock, seemingly forever, as a regular source of noise on the “Morning Joe” panel on MSNBC. And now ...
WANTED: ONE NEWS DEPARTMENT
It’s not an opening but KJNB in Jonesboro, AR, and WJNB has eliminated the news director position at these stations owned by Waypoint Media. We’re told that news people will report to the GM ...