Friday Cable News Links and Open Thread
Thursday's numbers: Bill-Sean-Beck 1-2-3.
Shep, Gupta, Hemmer fr/Haiti. Greta: it's gruesome.
Weekend update. Journo or medico?
Shine on Sarah. Tucker vs Zucker. Beck defector.
Q&A: Hemmer, Guthrie. Dobbs resurfacing?
Media struggle; Campbell's emotion.
MSNBC: filthy! Day three. Hotline after dark.
Updated through the day. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your cable news comments in today's open thread. Standard rules apply. fox news cable
Blackflon
Here's a poll question:
Which web site whines more over irrelevant information?
Media Myrmidons or The Bodacious Babes of News Hounds?
Top Three Fox News Shows Devoted Less Than 7 Minutes To Haiti Last NightReported by Ellen - January 14, 2010 - Comments (6) Really, now. Fox is on 24 hours a day and these poor saps worry about 7 minutes?I thought there whole premise was they watch Fox News so we don't have to? Well, if you go by that standard, they seem to have missed all of the coverage throught the day. Haiti.Now let's compare MESSNBC weekend news coverage with taht of Fox News.OOPS!! SOrry. MESSNBC doesn't do weekend news.Ya gotta love the dog washers.
January 15, 2010, 9:00:08 AM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Parroted from Media Matters of course, who themselves carefully chose certain hours on certain days to make MSNBC look good, skipping over the times when they ignored the quake entirely.
FNC has something no other cable news channel has: an entire hour of pure hard news with no pundits, no debates--the only evening newscast on cable. After they do that 7:00 pm hour they are already ahead of CNN and MSNBC in coverage, regardless of what happens afterward. So they have more freedom to explore other approaches or issues from 8:00 pm beyond.
You'll note how MM, the newsliars, and the rest always chose their comparison hours using some metric that insures 7:00 pm isn't counted. That's not by accident.
January 15, 2010, 10:14:03 AM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
will this be something you take on with your next FHWIR? To be honest-I even thought about doing a post around MM item-but chose not to.
January 15, 2010, 11:18:13 AM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Joe Scarborough and the Morning Joe panel have spent the entire morning suggesting that Rush Limbaugh told his followers to refrain from donating to ANY...ANY...ANY...ANY... relief organization efforts towards Haiti.
That is a mischaracterization and they know it.
January 15, 2010, 9:16:44 AM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Limbaugh came out on his radio show and called it a flat out lie. It was in response to a caller who challenged him on it.
January 15, 2010, 11:19:27 AM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Speaking of movies... I watched a GREAT one on tv last night.
Anatomy of a Murder, with Jimmy Stewart. The plot, the acting, and the soundtrack are all fantastic!
I watched it on Turner Classic, but I'm sure it could be netflixed.
January 15, 2010, 11:11:13 AM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Olbermann lied last night. Olbermann said that Limbaugh's site did not have a link in order to donate to Haiti-of course I checked it out and there WAS A LINK on the top of the page- and its still there
January 15, 2010, 11:24:19 AM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
I have no problem with CNNs Dr Sanjay reporting and providing medical care. I think its great. Sometimes you have to do what is MORALLY right
January 15, 2010, 12:50:35 PM EST – Like – Reply
Wenchie
Agreed....Sanjay is a doctor first, Hyprocratic Oath and all.
January 15, 2010, 3:52:34 PM EST – Like – Reply
Wenchie
Another Hemmer interview---
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2010/01/15/bill-hemmer-checks-in-from-haiti/
January 15, 2010, 3:50:40 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Gracias!
January 15, 2010, 4:28:10 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mike C.
Re: "Beck defector": How long will it be before Gresham appears on "Countdown" to tell Mr. Olby what the big bad Lonesome Rhodes [Ding!] Beck did to him and how glad he is to be at MSNBC?
January 15, 2010, 5:04:26 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Speaking of Lonesome Rhodes, the film "A Face in the Crowd" will be shown on TCM on Monday Night/Tuesday Morning....12:00 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday. It is a great film, when you watch it, you'll see that the Lonesome Rhodes/Olby analogy is much much closer than the Lonesome Rhodes/Beck analogy.
January 15, 2010, 8:04:37 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Thanks, IM Right! I'll DVR it.
January 15, 2010, 9:40:04 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mike C.
Just call him Lonesome Olbs.
January 16, 2010, 4:05:21 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Fox & Friends Weekend begins an hour early (6:00 am) on Saturday for expanded Haiti coverage.
January 15, 2010, 6:42:04 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Cankles had his rear end kicked in big time by Campbell Brown/CNN.
By the way, is it just me, or is Olby beginning to look like Henry Kissinger?
January 15, 2010, 8:16:42 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
The Factor is great as usual tonight. Glad to see Dr. Hill during the Danny Glover segment, but also glad to see Ray Stevens. He's put out the anti-Obamacare song so I'm sure the haters will be going on the attack against him. While he's likely most known for his novelty songs (The Streak), he also made one of the best songs of the 19070s.
"Everything is Beautiful"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xryMJD9TKZQ
January 15, 2010, 8:40:12 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mike C.
I loved Ray's "Factor" appearance. And at the same time, thanks to Bill, I learned more about Maria Muldaur's "Midnight at the Oasis." I was first exposed to that song through saxophonist Kim Waters' cover of it. I like his arrangement the best out of all the versions I've heard, with all due respect to Maria. "Ahab the Arab" might have come out in 1962, but the video looked like it was shot in the '80s.
January 15, 2010, 10:06:01 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
I'd like to hear that version sometime. Muldaur's version is great, it brings back some fantastic memories from the Summer of 1974 on Long Island.
January 15, 2010, 10:33:38 PM EST – Like – Reply
Mike C.
Kim's version is on his 1998 album "Love's Melody."
I don't want to drift too far from cable news. So, I'll stop here.
January 15, 2010, 11:46:01 PM EST – Like – Reply
