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Category: Glass Houses
CBS NEWS BOSS UNDER THE HR MICROSCOPE FOR HIS BULLYING BEHAVIOR
It’s not the first time Neeraj Khemlani has gotten into hot water over his management style
STUNNING NEWS ON MEDIA DISTRUST
Selfies and TikTok videos won’t help here
CBS NEWS BOSS UNDER HR REVIEW
Hmmmmm….
ROLLING OUT THE SOCIAL MEDIA RED CARPET
Massive hype preceded her debut this week
NEXSTAR DIGS AT CNN
Giant billboard near CNN Atlanta HQ beckons
TEMPORARY DIGS WHILE A STUDIO UPGRADE GETS DONE
It kind of looks like one of those party tents you see at large gathering during the summer months. But this is the new Atlanta home (for a while at least) of WGCL’s newscast. ...
MIA IN FARGO
Did this now-deleted Facebook posting lead to Lisa Budeau’s exit from Gray’s KVLY in Fargo, ND? Budeau, the longtime anchor of the station’s morning newscast and its AM pay-to-play hour has been MIA since ...
TURNING LEMONS INTO LEMONADE
CNN‘s Don Lemon and two guests on his show are facing backlash after they mocked President Trump‘s supporters and depicted them as uneducated. The Washington Examiner reports Lemon was joined by New York Times columnist ...
WHY IS THIS MAN SMILING?
Maybe it’s because, despite the furor surrounding the allegations contained in Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill” and the questions surrounding the actions of both NBC News Chair Andrew Lack and NBC News president Noah ...
NEXSTAR, DIRECTV TO CONSUMERS: DROP DEAD
As DirectTV tries to keep down the costs it ultimately passes on to consumers anyway, and Nexstar tries to sweeten its over-leveraged bottom line with bigger transmission fees (which, again, consumers will pay), it ...
ALL IS NOT WELL IN LA
Trouble appears to be brewing at CBS’ Los Angeles duopoly KCBS/KCAL. We’ve gotten an email that is reportedly being sent this morning to the SAG/AFTRA unit that represents newsroom employees and it’s not a ...
REASONS TO RECONSIDER YOUR PARTY GUEST LIST
It was just a birthday party. And you routinely invite friends to a birthday party, don’t you? And if you’re a corporate player, you might even invite an enemy or two – or maybe ...
TRUMP VS. OBAMA: THE FOX TREATMENT
Well…. What if Fox News covered Trump the way it covered Obama? It would look like this pic.twitter.com/dLfhHToieL — NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 16, 2019
WELL IF THE AP SAYS IT’S OK…
We still have mixed feelings about the Associated Press Stylebook, a bible for many of us over the years, telling us if something’s racist, journalists should call it racist. “Racially charged” and “racially tinged” ...
ACOSTA BACK AT IT IN WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING
If we were expecting CNN correspondent Jim Acosta to suddenly turn deferential after the lifting of his press credential temporarily a few weeks back…. Well, really we weren’t. Acosta’s combative style is his brand. ...
NOT A HAPPY PLACE
Evidently a lot of people want out of KUSI in San Diego if the list of station job postings is any indicator. Eight people have exited in just the past two weeks and we ...
IT WAS ALL GOING SO WELL…
For former “Big Brother” and “The Talk” host, as well as sometime-journalist Julie Chen….Moonves, it just gets worse. Both of her jobs melted away when her husband, Leslie Moonves, was deposed as CEO of ...
HOW BAD WAS THE AD?
It was so bad that Fox News Channel also decided to pull the ad. So bad that Fox News beat NBC to the punch in pulling it. Fox pulled the ad Sunday “upon further ...
AND THE MOST UNDERCOVERED STORY ON TV NEWS IS…
In North Dakota, thousands of Native American voters may be prevented from voting next week in a key Senate race because of an ugly technicality. In Georgia, hundreds of thousands of citizens were “purged” ...
DOBBS AND LIMBAUGH MOVE INTO ALEX JONES’ ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
Where we are as a country is also sadly illustrated by the transformation of Lou Dobbs, once a fairly-respected financial journalist, into a better-dressed version of conspiracy hawker/performance artist Alex Jones. We expected nothing ...
BIG-NAME SPONSORS CONTINUE TO SHUN SOME FOX NEWS PROGRAMMING
Once upon a time, Fox News prime-time entertainer Laura Ingraham boasted over 200 advertisers on her weeknight hour. Then she ran afoul of a school shooting survivor, called immigrant detention facilities “summer camps” and ...
CNN’S “ALL TRUMP” COVERAGE WEARS THIN
Remember when CNN liked to brag that “we cover the world”? “New Yorker” media critic Ken Auletta does, and he’s gone pretty vocal about missing the comprehensive global coverage. He’s also pretty disapproving of ...
IT’S CALLED CO-DEPENDENCY
Veteran journalist and smart guy Ted Koppel gave CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter some uncomfortable moments during a panel discussion on the relationship between the press and the Trump Administration. Koppel began by ...
“I HONESTLY CAN SAY I LOVE MY COWORKERS!”
Sure you do. That’s what it says right here in the police report. Ironically, it was at a benefit called “Girls Night Out,” whose purpose is to raise money and awareness of domestic abuse ...
GOOD QUESTION, O’BRIEN…
Be careful what you tweet. It could come back to bite you. And Soledad O’Brien is paying attention. Over the weekend, a persistent topic on network and cable news in the wake of the ...
