NewsBusters’ Matthew Balan notes that Rick Sanchez took another shot at FNC today…
Sanchez stated that President Obama was being “dogged” and blamed “conservative talk radio hosts…lambasting this man 24/7…. [and] Fox News, which is essentially the voice of the Republican Party, whose job it is to make this man look bad no matter what he does”
NewsBusters’ Matt Hadro notes that Joe Scarborough is again needling his own team…
Scarborough’s second question began thus: “If you’re a liberal radio and TV talk show host, and your goal is to keep calm and carry on, do you say of a Republican politician who’s just had a life-threatening heart attack, quote, ‘We ought to rip his heart out, and kick it around, and stuff it back in his chest’?”
That question referred to Ed Schultz’s nasty rant from this past February, where he derided conservatives for complaining that Dick Cheney’s recovery from his heart attack was being used as a political football for health care. “You’re damn right Dick Cheney’s heart is a political football,” Schultz ranted. “We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him. I’m glad he didn’t tip over. He is the new poster child for health care in this country.”
Two questions later, Scarborough again used an MSNBC colleague’s words as an example of hate-speech. “If you’re a liberal cable host, and you want to keep calm and carry on, do you accuse the President of the United States, who happens to be a Republican, of being a fascist, and a liar, who urinates on the Constitution?” he asked columnist Mike Barnacle.
That question referred back to Olbermann’s August, 2008 smear of President Bush’s administration as “urinating on the Constitution.”
Hadro asks the question, “Does he want to lose his job at MSNBC the way Donny Deutsch did?” First of all that question is both inaccurate and disingenuous. Donny Deutsch did not “lose his job” because he’s not employed at MSNBC so there’s no job to lose. He did however get his fill in anchor slots taken away for the rest of the week.
But more importantly the two situations are not similar. Deutsch was expendable. Scarborough is not. MSNBC drops him and it has nothing equivalent to fill the hole with. NBC is hot on Willie Geist but a Geist hosted 3 hour block would be a fundamentally different animal from Morning Joe and that’s not what MSNBC would want because MSNBC is making a concerted effort to corner the political market from 6-9 and make MSNBC the must see must talk about location for D.C. in the morning. They’re well on their way to doing that and that’s a big differentiator from what CNN, FNC, and, to a lesser extent, FBN offer up in the morning. So Scarborough knows he has more rope to play with than Deutsch ever did.
That said Scarborough can’t keep needling his liberal co-workers like this forever. Eventually either Schultz or Olbermann – or both – are going to march into Phil Griffin’s office and demand that something be done about it. If they haven’t already…
The University of Delaware announced that Wolf Blitzer will be moderating a Senate candidate debate which CNN will broadcast on Oct 13th…
U.S. Senate candidates from Delaware Christine O’Donnell (R) and Chris Coons (D) will face off in a 90-minute pre-election debate at the University of Delaware on Wednesday, Oct.13.
The candidates have agreed that the debate, co-produced by the University and Delaware First Media (DFM), will be co-moderated by longtime Delaware public television anchor Nancy Karibjanian and national CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer and will be televised by CNN. The announcement is being made jointly by DFM, the University and CNN.
Micheline Boudreau, president of Delaware First Media, said, “The Delaware Senate race has become a national phenomenon since last week’s Republican primary election, when O’Donnell defeated longtime Delaware Congressman and former Governor Mike Castle.” She added, “We’re delighted that CNN proposed to carry our debate nationally.” The Senate seat was once held by Vice President Joe Biden, a UD alumnus. It is being vacated by Sen. Ted Kaufman, who was appointed when Biden moved to the White House. Kaufman declined to run for election.
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“THE CLINTON GLOBAL CITIZENS AWARDS SHOW” WILL AIR ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH AT 9PM ET ON CNBC
“The Clinton Global Citizens Awards Show” will air on Sunday, September 26th at 9pm ET on CNBC.
The Clinton Global Citizen Awards™ were established in 2007 to recognize extraordinary individuals who have demonstrated visionary leadership in solving pressing global challenges. Through their work, these citizens have proven that diverse sectors of society including philanthropic, public service, corporate, and civic organizations can work together successfully to implement and devise solutions that effect positive, lasting social change.
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CNBC’S “MEETING OF THE MINDS: THE FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY” PREMIERES SEPTEMBER 23RD AT 8PM ET
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This story is going to cause some trouble if it’s accurate. The Brisbane Times’ Kate Dennehy writes that former CNN reporter Michael Ware filmed the slow death of an Iraqi boy after being shot by US soldiers and did nothing about it. And the video? CNN never aired it.
He allages the incident was ‘‘technically’’ a breach of the Geneva Convention or ‘‘a small war crime if there’s such a thing’’.
Mr Ware’s friend, journalist John Martinkus who now teaches media studies at the University of Tasmania, returned to Baghdad in 2007 where he had worked previously for the SBS’s Dateline program.
‘‘One of the first things he (Ware) showed me was that tape and he was watching it over and over and over again; he was really obsessed with it,’’ Mr Martinkus said.
‘‘Part of him was like ‘how could I just stand by and watch that happen’. It was a really horrible stark moral choice that he faced and he still wrestles with that,’’ he said.
He said CNN owned the footage and Mr Ware therefore was not free to give it to anyone else.
The Huffington Post’s Jason Linkins has CNN response to this story…
A CNN spokesperson tells the Huffington Post, “CNN often has to make calls about which disturbing images are necessary to tell a story, and which are too graphic. These are always challenging, and the subject of reasoned editorial debate. On this occasion we decided to not show an Iraqi insurgent dying with fatal wounds.”
A couple weeks ago ICN noted that FBN would be doing studio swaps for some of its dayside programs. At the time I’d heard that there might be anchor shift changes as well but nothing was solid. Now Benzinga reports that those changes will manifest themselves next Monday…
We hear that FOX Business Network is expected to announce a new daytime lineup later this afternoon. The lineup will mark the debut of Lori Rothman, formerly of Bloomberg, as co-anchor for the 1 PM/ET FOX Business block alongside Chris Cotter.
Update: Talking Biz News has the rotation…
Inside New Jersey’s Susan Anderson has a profile of Bloomberg TV’s Betty Liu…
While there are many Asian newscasters, few are in business news. And Liu doesn’t mind wearing the label of role model for young Asian journalists.
“I think I do have a lot to offer. I started in print. I’m a working mom and made the transition into television. I’d like to think that I can help the younger generation with that. A younger journalist might wonder: How did you make that career transition? How do you balance motherhood and a career?”
The daughter of an internist, Liu was born in Hong Kong and came to America at age 3. She grew up in Philadelphia and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English. She has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review.
