Joe Kernen apparently had something of a Santelli moment at the end of Squawk Box regarding the New York Times and tore up the paper on the air. I’m looking for the video…
Archive for February, 2009
Anchor Wars: 02/23/09
Posted in Anchor Wars 2009 on February 22, 2009 by icn2Today…
CNN’s John King and FNC’s Gregg Jarrett…
Final Tally: King…
What’s Hot/What’s Not: 02/22/09
Posted in What's Hot/What's Not on February 22, 2009 by icn2What’s Hot:
Rick Santelli – Does this one really need explanation…
Twitter – Cable news talent’s Twitter use was all the discussion this week, spurned on mostly by a bunch of NBC/MSNBC like David Gregory and Davis Shuster jumping on the Twitter bandwagon the past couple of weeks.
What’s Not:
Bright Blue Scrotum – Some websites were duped by a bogus YouTube video which tried to make it look like John Gibson had used the term.
Diving to 130 feet – You spend 5 minutes getting down, 5-6 minutes max on the bottom to avoid having to make a long decompression stop, and then 9 minutes going back up. That’s a 20 minute dive with only 6 minutes of bottom time. I can spend an 40 minutes on the bottom diving at 60 feet. But to go to 130 feet you have to make trade offs. And then you can’t dive again for at least an hour while your body dumps the nitrogen your body built up going down to 130 feet. Oh, and to top it off you’re narked when you’re on the bottom so you can’t fully appreciate what you’re seeing anyways because your brain is taking a break from reality.
Morning Joe to air from White House Tuesday?
Posted in MSNBC on February 22, 2009 by icn2The Orlando Sentine’s Hal Boedeker blogs that Morning Joe will originate from the White House on Tuesday…
Update: The Release…
“MORNING JOE” TO BROADCAST LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
The three-hour broadcast will originate live from The White House on Tuesday, February 24
NEW YORK – February 22, 2009 – MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” will originate live from The White House on Tuesday, February 24. The three-hour broadcast anchored by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist will feature in-depth interviews with key members of the Obama administration, including Senior Advisor David Axelrod and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, among others. The guests will preview President Obama’s Address to Congress scheduled for Tuesday evening.
More on the “Bright Blue Scrotum” Video…
Posted in FNC on February 21, 2009 by icn2The B-Cast interviews the guy who created the video as well as Johnny Dollar. Yes, you get to hear Johnny Dollar’s voice. Dollar, true to form, manages to work in a shot at Olbermann…
Blogus Interruptus…
Posted in Blog Announcements on February 20, 2009 by icn2
That’s right. I’m diving again. Working on Deep Diver Certification. Blogging resumes Sunday night…
What’s Hot/What’s Not: Submissions…
Posted in What's Hot/What's Not on February 20, 2009 by icn2Post your nominations for this week’s What’s Hot/What’s Not. I’ll post the finalists on Sunday night…
Press Releases: 02/20/09
Posted in Press Releases on February 20, 2009 by icn2CNBC (1)
CNBC’s “NEWBOs: The Rise of the New Black Overclass” Will Premiere Thursday, February 26th at 9PM & 1AM ET on CNBC
CNBC’s “NEWBOs: The Rise of America’s New Black Overclass,” is an original one-hour primetime documentary about the growing wave of young black multimillionaires coming out of the sports, media and entertainment industries. This project examines the rise of “Newbos,” — young black athletes, entertainers, and creative entrepreneurs – who, with the right amount of financial literacy, collaboration, intergenerational mentorship and social awareness, could have a profound, positive impact on black America. The special, hosted by Wall Street Journal reporter and CNBC correspondent Lee Hawkins, who coined the term “Newbo,” is based on Hawkins’ forthcoming book of the same title.
Newbos captures the pressures and prominence of the fascinating Newbo class and includes data about the wealth and financial impact of black athletes and entrepreneurial black music moguls in America.Contradicting old-guard leaders who assert that Newbos offer little to the black community as a whole, Hawkins puts the spotlight on the entrepreneurial, social and charitable efforts of several Newbos and their contagious financial power. The documentary offers behind-the-marquee stories on several high-profile Newbos, including NBA superstar LeBron James, Major League All-Star Torii Hunter, The Williams brothers of Cash Money Records, Dallas Cowboy star Terrell Owens, billionaire entrepreneur and Newbo pioneer Bob Johnson and musician, Multiplatinum gospel star Kirk Franklin, and television network owner Wyclef Jean.
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CNN Obama Address Coverage Plans
Posted in CNN on February 20, 2009 by icn2CNN announced its coverage plans for Obama’s address to Congress…
CNN Breaks New Ground On-Air and Online to Cover President Obama’s Address to Congress
WEBWIRE – Friday, February 20, 2009
CNN.com and Facebook Join Forces for First Time Since Inauguration; Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Anderson Cooper and John King Lead Network’s Special Coverage
After setting the record for the largest live video event in Internet history on the day of Pres. Obama’s inauguration, CNN.com and Facebook again will partner on Feb. 24 to enable users to connect and engage with each other while watching live the President’s first address to Congress.
Additionally, CNN continues to break new ground in its political coverage with anchor John King hosting a special online-exclusive edition of State of the Union with John King from noon to 1 p.m. on CNN.com Live, where users can watch as well as pose questions to members of the Best Political Team on Television and comment on their analysis in real-time. From 8 a.m. until midnight on Feb. 24, CNN.com Live, the Internet’s only multi-stream live video news service, will provide continuous, live coverage – featuring numerous CNN anchors and analysts – produced specifically for the digital audience.
On television, anchors Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Anderson Cooper and John King will lead special coverage from the Election Center in New York. Throughout the evening, members of the Best Political Team on Television, including CNN Senior Political Analyst Gloria Borger and CNN Political Analyst Roland Martin, will analyze the expectations facing the president and break down his address. From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., there will be a special edition of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, followed by special editions of Lou Dobbs Tonight and Campbell Brown: No Bias. No Bull.
Shortly before the 9 p.m. address, Blitzer will set the stage and introduce President Obama. Both CNN and CNN.com will provide live coverage of President Obama’s speech and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s GOP response.
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FNC Obama Address Coverage Plans
Posted in FNC on February 20, 2009 by icn2Multichannel News has FNC’s coverage plans for Obama’s address to Congress…
Bret Baier will lead Fox News Channel’s coverage of President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.
Beginning at 8:55 p.m. (ET) on Feb. 24, the speech and post address analysis is expected to run through 10:30 p.m.Baier will be joined by senior political correspondent Brit Hume and network contributors Juan Williams, Nina Easton and Charles Krauthammer to provide the analysis.
Programming will also include live reports from chief White House correspondent Major Garrett, chief political correspondent Carl Cameron on Capitol Hill, Brian Wilson in the House gallery and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.Coverage will also be streamed live on FoxNews.com, while FNC’s Facebook page will contain video clips of the address as well as an open wall discussion.
FNC’s Shepard Smith will anchor separate live coverage for the Fox broadcast network from Washington, D.C., with Wallace providing analysis and the Republican response. FNC Supreme Court reporter Shannon Bream will be live from Capitol Hill.In addition, Hulu.com will provide a live stream of Fox’s coverage of the address and the Republican response.
FBN Wins FOIA Suit
Posted in FBN on February 20, 2009 by icn2Broadcasting & Cable’s Alex Weprin writes that FBN won a FOIA suit against the government…
Fox Business Network has won its lawsuit against the United States Treasury Department.
As a result of the victory, the U.S. Treasury will have until March 23 to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request filed by FBN parent network Fox News last year. The Treasury will also have until April 6 to provide a Vaughn Index, which identifies withheld documents and the statutes justifying their exclusion.
Get it Right, Eh?
Posted in Miscellaneous Subjects on February 20, 2009 by icn2The Canadian Press’ Lee-Anne Goodman takes on the US media over its Canadian coverage yesterday…
American news channels, bloggers and others who watched live on Thursday as U.S. President Barack Obama visited Ottawa were largely complimentary and admiring of Canada, even if they were somewhat unfamiliar with what they seemed to consider their quaint neighbour to the north.
“We love those Canadians; they’re good people,” CNN anchor Kyra Phillips said at one point during the cable news network’s coverage of Obama’s first foreign trip as president.
Later, however, Phillips said: “All eyes are on Ottawa right now — you don’t hear that every day.”
Her colleague, Fredricka Whitfield, was stumped earlier in the day when Air Force One first landed in Ottawa and a line of Mounties — clad in their traditional red serge jackets and Stetsons — marched out to greet the president on the airport tarmac.
Pausing as she attempted to describe the scene to viewers, Whitfield apparently took a wild guess and referred to them as “troops.”
Busted…
Posted in FNC on February 19, 2009 by icn2Johnny Dollar exposes a Huffington Post video that’s been doctored…
There’s only one problem with all this: the video posted by HuffPo is a fake. The three words allegedly spoken by Gibson, “bright blue scrotum”, are actually in Trace Gallagher’s voice. Those words were lifted from a few moments earlier and pasted over Gibson’s actual sentence: “We were talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his comment that this is a nation of cowards.” But don’t take our word for it. See, and hear, for yourself:
This is really bad. I’m surprised the post is still up…
Update: Fallout…
Update 2: More fallout…
Anchor Wars: 02/20/09
Posted in Anchor Wars 2009 on February 19, 2009 by icn2And today…
CNN’s T.J. Holmes and FNC’s Heather Nauert…
Final Tally: Holmes…
Here Comes the Santelli Blowback…
Posted in CNBC on February 19, 2009 by icn2You just knew the hype over Santelli’s outburst would subside and people would start looking at what he actually said. And then the blowback would come. CJR Daily’s Ryan Chittum has the honor of being one of the first. I doubt it’ll be the last. Earlier I said Santelli did a Howard Beale. I take it back. He did a Jim Cramer. Total meltdown…
In the annals of CNBC cluelessness, this morning’s outburst by the channel’s Rick Santelli is up there with the worst.
This is an example of what’s wrong with a certain kind of financial journalism, the kind where people of like backgrounds spend all day staring at tickers and interviewing each other.
The segment couldn’t more clearly illustrate the disconnect between the financial-services sector, certain financial journalists, and, you know, “reality.”
This was CNBC’s worst performance in an entire week—since Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Dennis Kneale, Roben Farzad & Co. made horses’ rear-ends of themselves trying to squeeze investment tips out of two of the leading thinkers on the global financial crisis, Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Press Releases: 02/19/09
Posted in Press Releases on February 19, 2009 by icn2MSNBC (1)
MSNBC’S “AL ROKER REPORTING” EXPLORES AMERICA’S DRUG PROBLEMS IN 3 BRAND-NEW MARCH PREMIERES
MSNBC INVESTIGATES AMERICA’S STRUGGLE WITH PRESCRIPTION PILLS, HEROIN AND MARIJUANA
NEW YORK – February 19, 2009 – This March, tune in to MSNBC on Sundays at 10 pm ET to watch “Today” anchor, Al Roker examine America’s drug problems head on. In three revealing documentaries, MSNBC delves into America’s struggle with prescription pills, heroin and marijuana.
“Al Roker Reporting: Generation Rx” premiers on March 1st. Across the country, prescription drugs are for sale in all kinds of ways you wouldn’t expect – from pushers on the street, from the Internet, from rogue doctors and pharmacies. This growing trend has become a priority for the Government’s Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). MSNBC investigates how and why prescription drug abuse has become a new American epidemic that is reaching an alarmingly young generation.
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Know thy Subject…
Posted in Miscellaneous Subjects on February 19, 2009 by icn2The Washington Times’ Robyn-Denise Yourse and Elizabeth Glover try to make some hay at Jeff Immelt’s expense…
Recent Internet chatter has speculated about why on-air personalities such as David Gregory and Mika Brzezinski at GE subsidiary NBC and MSNBC seem to be flocking to Twitter, the social networking and news site. Could it be in part because of Six Sigma, GE’s management strategy?
Is Mr. Immelt a Six Sigma expert, or “Black Belt” as they’re called? “No,” he confessed. “I never was.”
I read this earlier and laughed. I wasn’t going to blog about it because it was so stupid. But then J$ sent me an email asking about Twitter and Six Sigma so I’ve changed my mind.
If Yourse and Glover had bothered to do even the most basic research they would have realized what I already knew because of my line of work. Six Sigma is a Quality term used in Quality Assurance and Quality Management. Attaining Black Belt status requires a lot of work and training (not to mention $$$ for the certification). It has nothing to do with Twitter or any social networking and even if GE does have a Six Sigma policy it wouldn’t pertain to establishing a web presence as a PR tool. I feel like giving Yourse and Glover Worst Persons in the World status for this because this story is pure idiocy. But Olbermann would probably sue for trademark infringement, so I won’t.
Rick Santelli has a Howard Beale Moment…
Posted in CNBC on February 19, 2009 by icn2This is classic TV but Santelli isn’t saying anything I haven’t already heard before on CNBC and FBN. The only difference is the cheerleading from the peanut gallery behind Santelli. A pretty good cross section of America? Traders? Umm…talk about preaching to the choir and stacking the deck. Let’s see Santelli get that kind of response in some of the harder hit sections of our Economy…
Erin Burnett Profile…
Posted in CNBC on February 19, 2009 by icn2Emmy Magazine‘s Christine Champagne profiles CNBC’s Erin Burnett. Here’s a snippet from the currently offline article.
Apparently, viewers like the duo’s mix of hard news and high jinks. Since Burnett began anchoring with Haines, viewership of Squawk on the Street is up 129 percent.
Meanwhile, Burnett also does well on her own: Street Signs, which she began anchoring in early 2006, is up 69 percent in total viewers since her debut.
Already a major player in financial news just a few years into her career, Burnett could likely continue covering the business world for decades to come. Would she like to branch out in broad- casting?
“I think the beauty of my situation is I cover business and money, which is a niche in journalism, but it’s one of the most important things in terms of mak-ing the world go round. So I think being able to have it as my base of strength is great,” Burnett muses. “But when you talk about telling broader stories, yeah, I’d have to say I’d like to do that.”
MSNBC goes Twitter crazy…
Posted in MSNBC on February 18, 2009 by icn2Is there some sort of internal directive at MSNBC to get on Twitter? Olbermann and Maddow have been on for a while, though Olbermann’s feed stopped last September for some reason. Mika started in December. But things have ratcheted up in the past couple of weeks. Now David Shuster, Tamron Hall, Luke Russert, David Gregory, and Contessa Brewer have started tweeting. And is this MSNBC head Phil Griffin’s first tweets? Judging by who’s already following it may be.
Anchor Wars: 02/19/09
Posted in Anchor Wars 2009 on February 18, 2009 by icn2Today…
FNC’s Uma Pemmaraju and Trace Gallagher…
Final Tally: Gallagher…
Lobbying for 10pm…
Posted in MSNBC on February 18, 2009 by icn2The LA Times’ Matea Gold writes about progressives lobbying for MSNBC’s 10pm slot…
MSNBC President Phil Griffin said he’s not necessarily looking for someone who shares the political leanings of Olbermann and Maddow, but is delighted by the response.
“If people identify with us, I’m thrilled,” he said.
“Obviously, we’re going to have flow between our shows,” Griffin added. “But it isn’t going to be ideology that drives it. I want that hour to be edgy, to be smart, to be a little snarky.”
At this point, the search for a new host is just an “aspiration,” said Griffin, noting that the network may not even select someone by the year’s end. But he said he had been floored by the reaction, which has included “dozens and dozens of phone calls from people I never thought about or considered.”
“It’s just incredible and just shows you where MSNBC is,” he said. “We’ve had times when hours have been open and nobody noticed.”
The end of the year? MSNBC can’t wait that long. It needs to strike now while there’s momentum.
Score one for FBN…
Posted in CNBC, FBN on February 18, 2009 by icn2Liz Claman tweets about a change in one trader’s business channel…
Ran into a trader friend who told me his Manhattan trading floor has switched to Fox Biz. I’m doing the Happy Dance
Fight!
Posted in CNN, FNC, MSNBC on February 18, 2009 by icn2It’s been a while since we had a good back and forth between FNC and CNN. Two things puzzle me though. 1) Why now? It’s not like CNN did something outrageous with their ratings lately. So why is FNC picking this fight now? 2) Why drag MSNBC into this? MSNBC has had its PR sights on CNN and not FNC (if you exclude the world of Keith Olbermann that is) and has not in recent memory deliberately massaged numbers in an effort to get FNC (if you exclude the world of Keith Olbermann that is). So my take is FNC goes after MSNBC because of Olbermann. Not that FNC doesn’t have a salient point here. FNC continues to dominate the news landscape, even if you include CNN’s demo victory at 10pm.
As to the back and forth, both CNN and FNC are guilty of spinning their story rosy and the other guys’ story not so rosy. But then what would you expect? An honest assessment?
David Gregory has a blog…
Posted in MSNBC on February 18, 2009 by icn2And it’s right here. It apparently launched today…
I’m David Gregory and this is a place where I like to share some thoughts about the news or other things that move me. It’s a view from where I stand at work and in life.
Mika Brzezinski Interview
Posted in MSNBC on February 18, 2009 by icn2Leslie Stahl interviews Mika Brzezinski on The Women on the Web. This is pretty close to a must read…
LESLEY: I guess my point was, now that you do this kind of a show, Joe Scarborough comes on every day and says, “I’m a conservative.” Are you trying to preserve your objectivity by not telling us? In other words, what roles are you playing on the show, politically?
MIKA: It’s a great question and I will answer it as honestly as I possibly can, given the fact that I am still trying to find my voice. My role is evolving. It started out as the objective reporter and obviously that changed. If you take everything I’ve ever said on “Morning Joe” and put it in right/left boxes, chances are you won’t really know my affiliation. I would say I’d lean to the left, but it’s not necessarily my role. My role is to challenge Joe when necessary and for the two of us to try our best to create an accessible show. And I would say my role is far less ideological and on one side than Joe’s, although I’m happy to lean left when necessary, because that feels more natural to me.
The Hazards of Live TV: #24,996
Posted in Hazards of Live TV on February 18, 2009 by icn2I want to say something witty but it’d be dirty…(via TVNewser)
