EXECUTIVE SHUFFLES AT FOX
The main moves are with the digital team
Category: Not Journalism
THE RUSH TO EMBRACE AI NEEDS TO SLOW DOWN. MAYBE EVEN STOP
The pitfalls and steep cliffs presented by AI are showing
“THIS IS HOW WE SAVE LOCAL JOURNALISM. THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO.”
We’re still scratching our heads over this one.
PROJECT VERITAS STUMBLES INTO OBLIVION
Its “video stings” that weren’t reaped $$$ for its departed founder
FOX “NEWS” DOES IT AGAIN
Not that they would actually admit their error
IN THE RACE TO BE THE OFFICIAL GOP CABLE “NEWS” CHANNEL, NEWSMAX HAS NO BOUNDARIES
Chris Ruddy and his cable outfit really, really want the GOP's approval
THE LATEST IN THE PAY-TO-PLAY IS IN MIAMI
“South Florida Live” debuts Monda
A THREE-QUARTERS OF A BILLION DOLLAR SETLLEMENT AND AN ADMISSION OF LYING LATER…
And FOX “News” hasn’t learned a thing
TUCKER’S BACK AND JUST AS HATE-FILLED AS EVER
He wasted no time in his ten-minute sewer tour
IT’S NOT A BEAUTY CONTEST. IT’S A SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Rapid City anchor is the new Miss South Dakota.
A KC CELEBRITY SIGNS LONG-TERM DEAL FOR PAY-TO-PLAY
She'll be featured on KCTV
FORMER NEWSER CONTINUES “PAY-TO-PLAY” CAREER ARC
From one Nexstar station to another
PROJECT VERITAS FOUNDER OUT ON HIS EAR
He packed up his office Monday
GOOD QUESTION
Now that we know FOX News executives and personalities were lying to their audience, what next?
OH PLEASE…..
We are painfully aware it is a slow time of year but….
OH PLEASE…
By and large, the only news is in the name
HAPPY CYBER MONDAY!
The day you keep your smartphone at the ready
AND THE SEASON OFFICIALLY BEGINS
We have no plans to participate
PROOF OF PERFORMANCE
Guess it won;t be used by this "news" organization
WHY PUNDITRY AND POLLS HAVE OUTLIVED THEIR USEFULNESS
The Red Wave that wasn’t
ONCE AGAIN, TV NEWS EMBARRASSES ITSELF
When did street gossip and schoolyard rumors become news?
FORMER HARTFORD ANCHOR AIMS TO BECOME A “REAL HOUSEWIFE?”
At one point in her career, Hena Doba was an anchor at WFSB in Hartford, CT. Then she moved on to CBS News as a “Newspath correspondent from 2015 to 2019. Then it was ...
LEAVING AT THE TOP
KRON anchor Sanaz Tahernia had network potential. She got to San Francisco after only one job in Reno. Tahernia, who is also an attorney, took the job at KRON as a reporter and was ...
LITIGATION THREAT FORCES FOX AND NEWSMAX TO COME CLEAN
Nothing scares the hell out of station and network news execs more than the threat of a lawsuit. Especially when the executives know that what they’ve been allowing on their watch is total BS. ...
FAKEBOOK? THE NEWS IS SKETCHY
Despite all the assurances and hand-wringing by Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook crew, it appears that fake news on the social media site is increasing and reaching even more people than it did in ...
THIS WEEK IN SOCIETY NEWS….
Fox Nation’s blondiful Tomi Lahren is engaged – news which will crush the hopes of many of the 50+-year-old guys who subscribed to the streaming service just to dream impossible dreams. The pride of ...
AN ECHO CHAMBER SUMMIT
Fan boys and girls (aging men and women) of Fox Nation, the new streaming service offered up as a secure silo for insecure viewers, is holding its first annual fan appreciation summit on May ...
IT’S THE LIFESTYLE, STUPID
She’s been a familiar face to “Today Show” regulars for more than a decade, but only now is Jill Martin getting a title. She is now something called a lifestyle contributor in a nod ...
IS THIS SERIOUS OR JUST CLICKBAIT?
Sometimes we wonder if certain corners of the Internet is more about getting clicks than actually informing anybody with half a brain? The latest comes from onetime sports-casting trailblazer and our long-ago colleague Jane ...
DESPITE HIS RETRACTION, CORSI’S “JOURNALISM” STILL UP
Tinfoil hat-wearing crackpot Jerome Corsi may have issued an abject retraction and apology for an “InfoWars” article he wrote in 2018 claiming that murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich leaked DNC emails to ...
UMMMMMMM…..
Far be it from us to try to dictate talent picks (although Norah O’Donnell for Jeff Glor is an overdue move) and we’re the last to consider the syndicated “Extra” an actual news program. ...
YEAH, THEY REALLY DID THAT
This wouldn’t be our place to throw shade. Sure Steeler fans can get bitter. But “Known Cheater?”
IN TODAY’S SOCIETY NOTES…..
60-year-old actor Steve Guttenberg, who was all that back in the 80’s or so with a string of “Police Academy” movies and “Three Men And a Baby” resurfaced recently to get married. His bride ...
TAKING A DIVE FOR DAD
Palm Springs anchor John White wanted to give his dad a little something special for his 80th birthday. And in the bargain, give himself a first-time thrill. While on vacation from his job anchoring ...
NOW THIS….
For those of you inexplicably offended by the lyrics of the 74-year-old seasonal ditty “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”, relief is here. Former tv news anchor Penn Holderness and his wife Kim have come up ...
THE FOX NEWS–WHITE HOUSE NEXUS.
It would be one thing if it were Chris Wallace, Shep Smith or Bret Baier heading for the UN. But it’s not. It’s Heather Nauert, former denizen of the “Fox and Friends” kurvy kouch ...
FINDING NEWS IN COMMERCIALS. REALLY?
CBS O&O WBBM in Chicago is trying out an unusual approach to promoting news content. It’s running spots to promote a series of stories about the ELECT Act, under which employees can earn up ...
THE THREE DUMBEST PEOPLE ON TELEVISION ‘FESS UP
So why, you might be asking yourself, does Mr. Trump persist in calling the press “the enemy of the people.” Let’s go to the kurvy kouch at “Fox & Friends.” “Clearly what he doesn’t ...
AN NDA MAKES A “COMMENTATOR” WORTHLESS
Here’s a question for the bookers and hirers at CNN and MSNBC and…well anybody but Fox and Sinclair. If it is a requirement for former Trump Administration employees to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in ...
TAKE A BREAK
The weekend is coming. You deserve a break and a laugh. See you Monday
THE LOBS WERE PLENTIFUL
Sinclair “chief political analyst” Boris Epshteyn recently sat down with Mr. Trump for a one-on-one, hard-hitting interview in which he pinned the president against the wall with penetrating questions such as….. No, we can’t. ...
HOW MANY FOLKS GOT TAKEN IN BY THIS?
Yeah, David Pecker is a great name to use to create NSFW puns, but no, this is NOT a real screen grab. The shot of MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace is from a January broadcast and ...
AND THE SOFTBALLS FLEW….
Ainsley Earhardt wants to be a journalist. Donald Trump wants to be taken seriously. Both the “Fox & Friends” co-host and Mr. Trump need to keep at it. Earhardt interviewed President Trump on Wednesday ...
WHERE’S MY WALLET?
Tricia Macke, news anchor at Raycom’s WXIX in Cincinnati, put out a social media “all points bulletin” when her wallet went missing from her shopping cart at a Newport, KY market. “If you happened ...
FAUX JOURNALIST FAILS EMPLOYER’S LOW STANDARDS
Even conspiracy-addicted “news” blogsites have limitations – apparently. Last year Lucas Wintrich created a sensation when, as a new hire for tinfoil-hat site “Gateway Pundit,” he managed to score a White House press pass, ...
SKY-DIVING FOR THE STORY
Here’s a way to start the weekend. Jump out of a plane. WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner took the leap Friday as she jumped out of a perfectly serviceable airplane with the U.S. Army Golden ...
“GO JUMP IN A LAKE.” “OK”
We heard that more than one time as we grew up. We never complied. But then we are not Ashley Doerzbacher of Sinclair-operated WHAM in Rochester , NY. While doing a live shot about ...
3DPOT SETS NATIONAL AGENDA
The single most chilling quote we got from a “Politico” piece on the futility of John Kelly’s tenure as White House Chief of staff “[The President] comes down for the day, and whatever he ...
THE CURSE OF VIRAL VIDEO
Bad news travels fast. The truth takes a little longer. That’s today’s journalism lesson, courtesy of a viral video from a July 23rd Cubs-Cardinals game. You’ve seen it. If you haven’t or need a ...
BORIS AND PENCE INDULGE IN MUTUAL BACK-SCRATCHING
A day after Mr. Trump attacked the FCC over its all-but-certain killing of the Sinclair-Tribune deal, industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai assured a congressional committee that the commission stands by its decision and that ...
THIS IS “FOX & FRIENDS”
Sure, they are the Three Dumbest People On Television, happy to be occupying the kurvy kouch. Of course, they have nothing to do with news as practiced by actual journalists. This is a Fox ...
SINCLAIR’S CHIEF ADMINISTRATION APOLOGIST BLAMES THE MEDIA
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s “chief political analyst” wants you to know that as far as coverage of the “zero tolerance” family separation policy goes, the “Bottom Line with Boris” is that it is a creation ...
DOOCY AGAIN DEMONSTRATES THE INEPTITUDE ON THE KURVY COUCH
Over the weekend we read of a confidential letter sent to special counsel Robert Mueller from President Trump’s legal team that, according to The New York Times, argued “that the president cannot illegally obstruct ...
EARHARDT INVOKES “DEEP STATE” NONSENSE
The middle player on the “Fox & Friends” kurvy kouch desperately wants to be taken seriously as a journalist. But it’s rather difficult when Ainsley Earhardt consistently spouts nonsense. Recent case in point: As ...
OOPS
You can see the Google entry at the top of the page: “Schools in Polk County are taking extra security precautions after last week’s deadly shooting in Texas” Click on the link “Polk County ...
“F&F” OUTDOES ITSELF IN STUPIDITY AND MISINFORMATION
Sports writers across the nation are having a field day with the latest idiocy emanating from the kurvy kouch and the Three Dumbest People On Television (3DPOT), who had help from Lawrence Jones, editor ...
WELCOME TO THE HAIRRYS
If you’re an insecure tv news anchor who has yet to win an Emmy or an Egbert Roscoe, rest easy. You may very well qualify for a HAIRRY. How? For the folks at getgoodhead.com ...
“YANNY” OR “LAUREL?” MEH….
Not since “The Dress” has local tv news been so consumed with….well, nothing. This “nothing” is whether you hear “Yanny” or “Laurel” and it consumed far too much of our time in the past ...
“F&F” LIVES DOWN TO ITS REPUTATION
For further proof that no matter what day of the week it is, you can always find the Three Dumbest People On Television (3DPOT) sitting on the kurvy kouch at “Fox & Friends” we ...
BRITT McHENRY OPENS HER MOUTH TO SWITCH FEET
Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry, still evidently trying desperately for a place on the “F&F” kurvy kouch, went on Twitter to claim she lost her job at the WorldWide Leader© because she was white. ...
“FOX & FRIENDS” INADVERTENTLY MAKES REAL NEWS
Through no fault of their own, the Three Dumbest People On Television (aka, the denizens of the “Fox & Friends” kurvy kouch) accidentally had news made before their dumbstruck eyes Thursday morning when they ...
CEDAR RAPIDS METEOROLOGIST “ARRESTED” FOR THEFT
And who would blame anyone for bringing charges against the weatherman for this so-far ridiculous spring across the country? Bravo to viewers who swore out an “arrest” warrant against Kaj O’Mara, charging him with ...
LET THE BETS FLY
Scripps sister stations WTVF in Nashville and KMGH in Denver are getting themselves all worked up over the NHL hockey playoffs. The morning show hosts are betting breakfast on the outcome of the series ...
IDIOT ST. LOUIS YAKKER LOSES HIS SINCLAIR TV PROGRAM
When you are as classy as St. Louis radio/tv personality Jamie Allman, you kinda deserve to lose your show. Which is what happened to Allman Monday. “We have accepted Mr. Allman’s resignation, and his ...
BOSTON’S CBS O&O GOES BACK TO THE 80’S
What with “Roseanne,” “American Idol,” “Will & Grace” and “Murphy Brown”, teevee reboots seem to be all the rages these days. So why not in the world of teevee promotion? Yeah, maybe it does ...
HANNITY TURNS UP ON “F&F”
The Tweeter-in-chief did his best Monday morning to promote an upcoming guest of 3DPOT*, aka “Fox & Friends”. “@seanhannity on @foxandfriends now! Great! 8:18 A.M.” Sure enough, all of DJT’s besties were together to ...
TAKING THE CHALLENGE
It was regional spelling bee weekend across the country and that meant that, also across the country, local anchors were stepping up and showing off their spelling ski. Watch Veronica De La Cruz of ...
REAL “FAKE” NEWS
We’re getting dangerously close to a tipping point in teevee news as newsrooms that once routinely avoided reporting bomb threats and building lockdowns until something concrete was learned now move into full alert at ...
“F&F” PLAYS SCHEHERAZADE
Which came first “Fox & Friends” or Washington Republicans? One guess is as good as the other as the “Three Dumbest People on Television” engaged in some virtual hand-holding with a certain viewer in ...
SINCLAIR HAS ANCHORS DO ITS MEDIA-BASHING
What will those innovative kids at Sinclair come up with next? From stone-faced “chief political analyst” Boris Epshteyn holding forth nine times weekly in his wooden must-run segments, to end-runs around current ownership rules, ...
SINCLAIR CONTINUES TO INFLICT EPSHTEYN ON VIEWERS
We are coming up on almost a year since Sinclair Broadcast Group hired one Boris Epshteyn to be the “Chief Political Analyst” for the company. Epshteyn was an Administration special assistant when he resigned ...
SINCLAIR’S “TERRORISM ALERT DESK” IS TERRORISM ITSELF
We’ve said for a long time that Sinclair’s must-run “Terrorism Alert Desk” is the absolute nadir of local television “journalism.” Sinclair’s flagrant abuse of its local teevee licenses to run the “TAD” fear-mongering is ...
JUST IN TIME FOR THE WEEKEND
Yeah, we’re glad February is over too. Enjoy.
ALASKA TEEVEE STATION FINE TUNES SET FOR SWEEPS
KTVA, the Denali Holdings Station in Anchorage, AK went for a video display upgrade to sharpen up its look, dumping its existing LCD monitors behind the anchor desk in favor of a 1.9mm pixel ...
WE INTERRUPT THE OLYMPICS FOR THIS CAR CHASE…
If you were in Los Angeles Tuesday night watching the final minutes of the USA Hockey team’s semifinal match with the Czech Republic, you were treated to some most unwelcome bonus coverage that was ...
WHEN ADVERTISING AND NEWS COLLIDE
We’re so old, we remember when airline commercials were cancelled if a plane crash made the news. And competing car dealer commercials never ran in the same commercial block, let alone back-to-back. But what ...
NEW NRA SPOT IS HILARIOUS IF YOU LIKE DERANGED
The now-officially unhinged NRA, formerly a sportsman’s advocacy organization, and now somewhere between ammo industry lobbyist and purveyor of conspiracy theories, has had it uptohere with criticism of the current Administration. And the gang ...
“F&F” NEEDS A HEAD WRITER
We ran across this classified ad and, frankly, were a bit gobsmacked. “’Fox & Friends’ is looking for a dynamic Head Writer. If you never get beat on a story, have an eye for ...
A VISIT TO THE ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE
If you spent last night in the alternative universe of the Fox “News” primetime entertainment block, you didn’t hear that White House aide Rob Porter resigned following gruesome allegations that he physically abused two ...
PARADE GENERATES DISSENT ON “F&F”
When 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has lost a third of the kurvy kouch’s inhabitants, it might be time to re-think the idea. Not that Brian Kilmeade went off the ledge in his skepticism about that ...
“BEST OF” BLOOPERS FROM JANUARY
Indeed, it was that kind of month.
SWANN BACK IN THE CONSPIRACY BUSINESS
Now that he is relieved of the burden of having to include facts and logic in his reporting, recently-axed WGCL anchor Ben Swann is reviving his “Reality Check” “investigative” piece on his ironically-named Truth ...
SPORTS ANCHOR MOONLIGHTS IN WRESTLING RING
LOOK! Up in the air. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Mike Lacett, sports anchor for Block Communications’ WRDB in Louisville, KY. and occasional pro wrestler Lacett has a long-simmering ...
THE UTTER IRRELEVANCE OF SEAN HANNITY IN ONE TWEET
Reality intruded on the Fox News primetime alternate universe Thursday night, but Sean Hannity resisted as much as he could. Evidently the mainstream press DOES get it right, much to his chagrin. Matt Fuller ...
BILLY BUSH HAPPIER MAKING WHISKEY…HONEST
Billy Bush, the mike-holding stooge in the famed “Access Hollywood” tape that showed just how far our national standards have cratered, has his new bliss and he’s planning to follow it. He’s got a ...
NET NEUTRALITY: A WHOPPER OF AN EXPLANATION
Still having some trouble understanding WHY the dismantling of net neutrality rules is a terrible idea? Burger King tries to explain in a fascinating manner. Even FCC Chair/industry lobbyist Ajit Pai might understand. Watch ...
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THANK YOU FOR THE YEAR. ENJOY!
And to wrap up 2017, we’ll take the Wayback Machine on another blooper quest, this time to the early 80’s for the arguably classic “Tapes of Wrath.” It’s not because we had a very ...
NOW BACK IN MY DAY….
Yesterday we took a look at the best bloopers of the years, judged by no one in particular. Were things funnier “back in the day?” You decide as we set the Wayback Machine for ...
WHEN THINGS GO AWRY
So what kind of a year was it in the news business? Imperfect, as we see here.
MEET WVIT’S SNOW MONSTER
Wait…you’re serious about this? A pimped-out four-door Jeep Wrangler is NBC Connecticut’s latest weapon in increasingly absurd weather wars. A gaudy paint job sure to cause accidents by distracted drivers and gew-gaws galore. ...
WAL-MART PULLS T-SHIRT MARKETED TO BONEHEADS
You really have to wonder about the thought processes of the Wal-Mart marketing dimwits who thought it was a good idea to stock a t-shirt featuring the words “Rope. Tree. Journalist. SOME ASSEMBLY ...
“F&F” LECTURES THE TIMES. STOP LAUGHING
The trio of vaudevillians who occupy the kurvy kouch at “Fox & Friends” this week railed on "The New York Times" Opinion section for “advocacy journalism” in an exchange designed for one set ...
MARK LEVIN GETS WEEKLY SHOW ON FOX NEWS
Talk radio host Mark Levin is headed for a weekly hour on Fox News Channel. “Life, Liberty & Levin” will air Sunday nights at 10 pm beginning next February. It says right here ...