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Program Note: MSNBC’s ‘The Ed Schultz Show’ to Broadcast Live From Anti-Union Bill Protests in Wisconsin State Capitol Tonight
New York – February 17, 2011 – ‘The Ed Schultz Show’ will broadcast live tonight from Madison, Wisconsin where protestors continue to converge amidst the news of Governor Scott Walker’s new budget plan. MSNBC’s Ed Schultz will be on the ground covering the massive backlash and outcry opposing Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union bill.
Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent’s highlighting of this poll is going to stir a hornet’s nest. I blog about it because red meat is healthy for you…
The new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute, which I linked to below, also contained this interesting nugget:
The survey findings also show a significant correlation between trust in Fox News and negative attitudes about Muslims. Americans who most trust Fox News are more likely to believe that Muslims want to establish Shari’a law, have not done enough to oppose extremism, and believe investigating Muslim extremism is a good idea.
At first glance, this is a bit of a no-brainer. But I asked the organization to send over the numbers supporting this finding, and the specifics are really striking:
Read the article for the details…
The Albuquerque Express has an un-credited story on FNC showing a tape that didn’t accurately reflect the subject of the story…
Fox News interviewed Paul after he won the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) poll but played a video clip of the announcement of his win which showed crowds overwhelmingly, and loudly, booing the result.
Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer confronted Paul after the clip saying, “Probably not the reaction he was hoping for.” He then asks Paul, “So who was in the audience booing you?”
As it transpires, nobody was. The tape was a deception. It had been taken from a reception to the announcement of last year’s winner, who again was Ron Paul. At that time supporters of Mitt Romney had packed the hall for the announcement in the expectation their man had won. He hadn’t. Paul had. So they booed the announcement enthusiastically. That tape was then taken and used for Tuesday’s night Fox News interview and presented as being the reception Paul had received for winning this year’s poll. Ron Paul who was not in attendance when the announcement was made was caught unawares and answered Hammer by saying the booing only proved he was not unanimously popular, which is something Fox opponents say is a perception the Network was trying to promote.
This story also has FNC response…
Following allegations widely disseminated through Internet blogs that Fox News deliberately created the deception to damage Paul, possibly in favor of other candidates that the Murdoch interests prefer, the network issued a statement saying the airing of the wrong video was a mistake. “We made a mistake with some of the video we aired, and plan on issuing a correction on America’s Newsroom tomorrow morning explaining exactly what happened,” Michael Clemente, Senior Vice President of the network said.
Update: Hemmer addressed this today…(via J$)
GQ’s Taimur Kahn interviews FNC’s Greg Palkot about his harrowing experience in Egypt…
What were you thinking when you were first attacked?
That we were in trouble. That we were in deep trouble. Again, though: there were a few people in the crowd who did not think it was a great thing to kill foreigners out on the street in Cairo. So we were guided forward and protected by a few people in the crowd. And very shortly we saw what our goal would be and that was an Egyptian Army APC [armored personnel carrier] that was sitting in the middle of a plaza ahead of us.Were you able to fight back?
I did my best but it’s tough because you’re getting it from all sides. You’re fending off the blows, you’re trying to figure out if somebody’s a friend of yours when they’re looking at you, and then the next minute they’re smashing you in the face.Did you think about your family while this was happening?
Oh yeah, it’s quick, your life going by. Basically it was: it can’t end this way, ok? It can’t end in the middle of a riot with a bunch of thugs kicking the heck out of me. It can’t end this way.
This isn’t the first time that a negative piece on Phil Keating has leaked out. Today FTVLive has the dirt…
In fact, sources within Fox News confirmed to FTVLive that Keating’s assignments have been drastically reduced after covering the oil spill last Spring. Said one insider, “He was way out of his element covering a prolonged major news story like that even if he was one of many reporters down there – someone in New York finally figured out that he has no depth and is weak in the field on top of it.”
Why would Keating want to work at FNC anymore? You know the saying “with friends like these…”?
Did Darren Rovell really forget Donald Trump’s name or was he just goofin’ around? I posited that question to Rovell on Twitter but didn’t get a response.
The PEJ has come out with a report on the coverage of Egypt by the media last week…
In order to monitor the contours of the coverage, researchers identified a series of significant terms related to the ongoing events in Egypt. Six of them—including “democracy,” “triumph,” “celebrate” and “pluralism”—seemed to have positive connotations. Another six—including “theocracy,” “Muslim Brotherhood,” “extremism” and “radical”—appeared to have more worrisome connotations.
PEJ then tracked the use of those terms on 17.5 hours of cable news and network news broadcasts on February 10 and 11. Of the five terms that appeared most frequently on the programs, four of them—“democracy,” “freedom,” “peace” and “celebrate”—had upbeat implications. Only one, the “Muslim Brotherhood,” would seem to indicate concern or negativity. Moreover, the group of positive-leaning terms appeared about three times as often as the more negative ones.
At the same time, the search did reveal some differences in the use of key words between the Fox News Channel and its two rivals—CNN and MSNBC. For example, Fox used the term Muslim Brotherhood about five times as frequently as the other two combined and mentioned Israel about twice as often as CNN and MSNBC combined.
Fox News host Sean Hannity and his colleague Glenn Beck were among those in the media expressing the most concern about the ouster of Mubarak. On his February 11 program, Hannity declared that “at the end of the day, I think we have weakened America’s influence in the world” and he warned that the Muslim Brotherhood or a Muslim state could emerge.
And once the media documented the sudden transfer of power in Egypt, that narrative was quickly overtaken by another—one driven by speculation, prediction and a dose of ideology.
I haven’t got all my trip photos in order yet but I did create a separate folder for just the travel part of my trip, though I did leave the seaplane part of the photos out.
CNN announced this morning the CNN iReport Awards…
CNN Launches the CNN iReport Awards
Nominees to be Featured on CNN/U.S. and CNN International Week of March 7th
CNN.com Users to Select Community Choice Winner
CNN today announced that CNN iReport, the network’s user-generated news community, is launching the CNN iReport Awards to honor the best examples of participatory journalism in 2010 from CNN’s more than 740,000 iReporters globally. The final winners of the CNN iReport Awards will be announced on March 15.
“The collaborative relationship that we have with our iReporters is one of the unique strengths of CNN, and in many ways represents the future of storytelling,” said Meredith Artley, managing editor and vice president of CNN.com. “These awards are designed to celebrate those outstanding efforts.”
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Mallory Jean Tenore writes on Poynter.org about the music selection for Morning Joe…
When you watch “Morning Joe,” you can’t help but notice the music. Every commercial break is book-ended with tunes from a mix of bands — the Rolling Stones, Smashing Pumpkins, Rilo Kiley, The Grateful Dead and Arcade Fire, to name a few. The music’s catchy, and it helps capture the show’s feel-good vibe.
But it’s not just the type of songs and artists that make the music stand out, it’s also the way they’re selected.
Behind the scenes, the “Morning Joe” producers are busy at work, listening to the MSNBC show’s guests to see if there’s a song or band that could illustrate what they’re saying. The show’s audio director, David Quanvie — or “Q” as he’s called on set — selects much of the music with the help of the show’s producers and hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.
“We don’t have a rundown of the songs we’re going to play; it’s completely organic,” executive producer Chris Licht said in a phone interview. “Really anyone in the control room can shout out a song and Q can literally dial up a song in a couple seconds.”
MSNBC viewers have noticed that Chris Jansing has been absent from her show the past few days. The on air explanation has been that she’s “on assignment” but that’s as much information as viewers have been given.
Jansing traveled to Vietnam with MSNBC military analyst and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Col. Jack Jacobs as Jacobs returned to the scene of the battle for which he received his CMH. Jansing has been tweeting a few pics of the journey. Normally I would have just done an RT but since her Twitter follower number is artificially low, given that they hadn’t even announced her Twitter handle on MSNBC’s air until they did so for the first time today, I’m making a full blog post out of this since I currently have more blog readers than she has followers. The picture at top is of Jacobs meeting the Vietcong General who ordered the ambush which nearly killed him. Another is of Jacobs visiting the infamous Hanoi Hilton.
Jansing’s story of Jacobs return to Vietnam will air across NBC and MSNBC’s platforms at some point though there is no specific air date at this time.
This TVNewser item is going to have some tongues wagging inside 30 Rock…
CNBNC announced the debut of “Money in Motion Currency Trading”, a new show airing Friday’s at 5:30pm ET.
CNBC LAUNCHES “MONEY IN MOTION CURRENCY TRADING,” A NEW PROGRAM TO AIR FRIDAYS AT 5:30PM ET BEGINNING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH
Weekly Half-Hour Program Hosted By Melissa Lee and Sponsored By FXCM and FOREX.com
Your Edge to the Foreign Exchange Market
Simultaneous Global Launch in CNBC in the U.S., CNBC EMEA and Australia
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. – February 14, 2011 – CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, today announced CNBC’s “Money in Motion Currency Trading,” a new weekly half-hour program will join the network’s programming lineup beginning Friday, February 25th airing Fridays at 5:30PM ET and broadcasting live from the NASDAQ MarketSite studio in New York’s Times Square.
CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, today announced CNBC’s “Money in Motion Currency Trading,” a new weekly half-hour program will join the network’s programming lineup beginning Friday, February 25th airing Fridays at 5:30PM ET and broadcasting live from the NASDAQ MarketSite studio in New York’s Times Square.
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Blogging resumes Monday morning…
Think Progress’ Ben Armbruster ambushed Jesse Watters at CPAC…
A new concept: Parker Spitzer, sans audio…
The AP’s David Bauder writes about the crisis in Egypt and how it impacts CNN…
CNN slipped past MSNBC twice in overall prime-time viewership last week and, in its high point last Wednesday, saw all three of its programs beat MSNBC, the Nielsen Co. said. That’s only happened a handful of times since 2008, as MSNBC sharpened its lineup with left-of-center talk shows. Both networks lag far behind Fox News Channel, the ratings leader in cable news.
The timing is key for CNN, with Piers Morgan only a few weeks into his job as Larry King’s replacement (“Piers Morgan Tonight” airs at 9 p.m. EST). The “Parker/Spitzer” 8 p.m. EST show, which began last fall, has struggled to find an audience.
“Typically, the ratings go down when interest in the big stories wane, but hopefully some of them will stay with you,” said Ken Jautz, the executive in charge of CNN’s U.S. network. “So it’s an opportunity.”
CNN retreated to third place this week, as Jautz predicted. But “Parker/Spitzer” had 103,000 more viewers Monday than it had been averaging during its first three months on the air, and Anderson Cooper’s 10 p.m. EST show essentially finished in a dead heat with MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Monday and Tuesday, Nielsen said.
The Egypt story emphasized CNN’s newsgathering advantage over its rivals. Only Al Jazeera English seemed more tuned in, but few people in the U.S. can see that network on television.
Talking Biz News has the video of FBN’s Kevin Magee appearing on the Imus in the Morning Show to talk about Imus’ future at the network. Short version: Imus is staying…
Update:
Johnny Dollar emails in the following…
Short version, he’s staying? Did you really get that from Magee’s vague comments? BTW, I have a (longer) youtube vid up if U want to embed.
Well Magee did say that Imus was at FBN “forever”. Sure, it was tongue in cheek but still…Kevin Magee isn’t going to go on Imus’ show and basicaly suggest Imus isn’t going anywhere and then turn around in a few months and dump him because he’d get all kinds of self-inflicted flak for it. And Magee isn’t that stupid.
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CNN
CNN Looks Ahead to 2012 Election Season
Cornell Belcher, Will Cain and Dana Loesch join Best Political Team on Television
CNN is gearing up for the election season with the addition of political contributors from across the ideological spectrum. Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher, conservative commentator Will Cain, and local Tea Party leader and radio talk show host Dana Loesch will appear across the network’s prime time programs, as well as other dayparts and platforms.
“CNN is increasingly the only network where political dialogue representing all points of views is actually helping Americans understand the political process,” said Cornell Belcher. “I’m honored to join and add my voice to the best political team on television.”
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Washington Whispers’ Paul Bedard writes about potential fallout from Bedard’s story that FBN and Imus may part company…
Much of his chatter has been appreciative to Whispers, especially to our illustrator, Ed Wexler, who drew our cartoon of Imus with Fox Business boss Neil Cavuto. But when it comes to his TV bosses quoted in the item, well, the I-Man has flashed his fangs. In our original story, Executive Vice President Kevin Magee told Whispers: “Imus has helped us enormously and he still has awhile to go on his contract.” Imus has been displeased that Magee’s statement didn’t offer further job security. Imus has a three year contract, but he broke a previous three-year deal with RFD TV to jump to Fox.
We also chuckled at how Imus misread part of the item. We heard that Fox Business will be profitable sooner than originally projected. A FBN spokesperson wouldn’t confirm it—networks rarely talk profits and losses—but Imus mistook that for a comment on the status of his show.
Bedard also violates ICN’s standing order…okay more of a plea than an order…and has the latest ratings leak concerning FBN, even though the network isn’t officially rated by Nielsen, which means the numbers aren’t valid.
So should he be worried? After a little digging, Whispers has stumbled upon the reason Imus is nervous. His ratings stink. Since he arrived at the network in October 2009, the 6 a.m.-9 a.m. Imus In The Morning show has lost 58 percent of its viewers and has frequently been beaten by the show Imus was supposed to draw viewers to, Varney & Co. When he started, Imus drew an average of 136,000 viewers a day. That slid to 110,000 by January 2010. And last January, his Nielsen ratings slacked off even further, to just 57,000 average daily viewers.
Normally a negative ratings leak on FBN would, for me, point a finger at a competitor network. But in this case, since Imus has been taking shots at the very network he works at, I can’t dismiss the possibility that this leak came from FBN to slap him down. It wouldn’t be the first time FBN has used its own ratings as a weapon against talent or about to be former talent…
Alternet’s Don Hazen interviews Cenk Uygure…
DH: Do you think much about Fox? Olbermann and O’Reilly had this ongoing clash. Has that preoccupation with Fox faded from the air?
CU: To be honest, I think Fox News is very relevant. For so long, they have controlled the national conversation by incessantly talking about the stories they want to drive home. They do it until the other cable news outlets and eventually the whole press picks up on it. I want to drain them of that power. I want to put them back in the cave they came from.
So, yes, I think defeating Fox — and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news — is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.
Red meat served. Happy eating…
Talking Biz News interviews CNBC’s Darren Rovell…
How is working for CNBC different than working for ESPN, your former employer?
The stories are nearly the same. So I haven’t changed the way I have done things. ESPN is pumping out so much content that if you don’t have an automatic platform every day, you can get lost. And I felt lost at times. On CNBC, the website gets fewer hits than ESPN.com, but I am featured more prominently, which is good. There is a difference between the people who watch ESPN and the people who watch CNBC. The ESPN viewer dips in and out. They may watch “SportsCenter” for a few minutes and then catch a game later. The CNBC viewer never shuts it off.
Although I am covering the business of sports, which might seem like nonessential to CNBC, I feel like I do play a part in mixing up part of the broadcast day. It provides viewers with some levity. I kind of see myself as the rodeo clown in a way. If the market is going down, two and a half minutes of fun about sports will divert your attention.
Are there other sports business journalists that you admire for their work?
The thing about this business is that we are a very small ghroup, but it does get us going when one of us writes an article that the others wish they had. I like Neil Best at Newsday for his coverage of media, Mike McCarthy at USAToday for hjis coverage of media, Richard Sandomir at the New York Times, Matt Futterman at the Wall Street Journal. Mike Buteau at Bloomberg. There’s a group of us, and we see each other at every event. That’s what gets me going. People say you don’t have much competition, how do you keep the fire going? But within this small group, there is a lot of competition. I get angry at stories I wish I had written.
In case you haven’t noticed already, the blog is changing a bit. After my last trip ended I decided it was time to spend more time job searching and less time blogging…at least during the daytime hours. So M-Fr blogging will be mostly early mornings PST and evenings/night time PST. This will be more or less the permanent operating style for me going forward since when I do land a job I won’t be able to blog during the day anyways.
