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Monday, August 17, 2009

Potty Talk Creeps into Cable News

The talk on the cable talk shows has been getting a little raunchy in recent weeks. And I’m not talking about the occasional guest’s slip of the tongue. Increasingly it appears as though vague sexual references are being written into some programs as shtick.

Topics: anderson-cooper, campbell-brown, keith-olbermann, rachel-maddow

Posted by Patrick Hynes on 08/17 at 05:11 AM

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Campbell Brown Flatters Herself

Campbell Brown basked in her putatively non-partisan independence during a recent interview with Julie Menin. Her remark, in which she shoves Fox News Channel to the right and MSNBC to the left, are in keeping with CNN’s general strategy of repositioning itself as the centrist, dispassionate cable news outlet.

Topics: campbell-brown, tom-brokaw, tim-russert

Posted by Patrick Hynes on 07/21 at 06:11 AM

Monday, June 29, 2009

Update on CNN’s “Declaration of Independence”?

How goes CNN’s campaign to become the cable news source of straight, independent news, as opposed to leftwing or rightwing opinion, which, in their marketing formulation, is how CNN positions MSNBC and Fox news respectively? Two nuggets give us conflicting clues.

Topics: cnn, campbell-brown, bias

Posted by Patrick Hynes on 06/29 at 07:43 AM

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A Line is Finally Drawn in the Media’s Ongoing Palin-Bash

It may be of little consolation to the supporters of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin but we can now say there is an uncrossable line in the media’s ongoing Palin-bash: Jokes about her daughters getting “knocked up” at baseball games go too far. Some of us would have drawn the line months ago and for less offensive “jokes,” but at least the media now have a metric against which to judge their skits, sketches, and news segments.

Topics: cnn, palin, huffington, campbell-brown, toobin, letterman

Posted by Patrick Hynes on 06/16 at 06:55 AM

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