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How CNN Can Save Itself
 How CNN Can Save Itself 
OPINION
Apr 1, 2010 1:51 PM CDT

How CNN Can Save Itself

Insiders pitch plans, from bringing back Crossfire to pulling an MSNBC

(Newser) - With CNN’s primetime viewership off 40% since last year, Michael Calderone at Politico undertakes a survey of news insiders to see what can be done for the “most trusted name in news.”
  • Resurrect Crossfire: CNN could give people the outspoken MSNBC- and Fox-style opinions they appear to
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Toby Keith Also Complains About Palin Show
 Toby Keith 
 Also Complains 
 About Palin Show  
PLUS, WILLOW'S BEEN NAUGHTY
Apr 1, 2010 8:22 AM CDT

Toby Keith Also Complains About Palin Show

Toby Keith: No, Palin didn't interview me

(Newser) - It looks like Fox News was at least two-thirds wrong when they said LL Cool J, Toby Keith, and Jack Welch "will speak to" Sarah Palin "for her inaugural episode of American Stories on April 1st.” Toby Keith has joined LL Cool J in denying that Palin...

Fox Cuts LL Cool J From Sarah Palin Show

Move comes after he complained it's an old interview

(Newser) - Twitter fight, over: LL Cool J won't appear on Sarah Palin's Fox News interview show. The network says it cut his recorded segment from tomorrow night's Real American Stories after he complained the show was simply recycling an interview from 2008. Earlier, the rapper blasted Fox on his Twitter page...

LL Cool J, Sarah Palin in 'Rap Battle' Over Fox Show

But really, LL, you might be overreacting a bit

(Newser) - LL Cool J is in the unlikeliest of “rap battles” with Sarah Palin over his appearance on her new Fox show. The rapper apparently gave an interview to Real American Stories , a website owned by Fox News, in 2008. That interview will now be featured on the premiere episode...

Sarah Palin Hosts First Fox Show Thursday

Guests include LL Cool J, Toby Keith, and Jack Welch

(Newser) - Sarah Palin begins her career as broadcast interviewer Thursday night on Fox when she hosts the premiere of a new series, Real American Stories. She's got an eclectic lineup of guests to work with: Toby Keith, LL Cool J, and GE's Jack Welch, among others. The show airs at 10pm...

Coulter Disses Canada, Defends 'Jokes'
 Coulter Disses Canada, 
 Defends 'Jokes' 
o'reilly, behar interviews
Mar 26, 2010 5:46 AM CDT

Coulter Disses Canada, Defends 'Jokes'

Ann makes the rounds with Bill O'Reilly, Joy Behar

(Newser) - Ann Coulter has made no secret of her displeasure after a recent appearance at the University of Ottowa was canceled , and she defended herself on a mini media circuit last night. She told Bill O’Reilly she finds it “funny that a lot of my most hateful speech are...

Annoyed by Beck's Take on Social Justice? Write a Haiku

'Hurling expensive / coffee at the expensive / TV screen now, Ahhh'

(Newser) - Searching for a unusual way to respond to Glenn Beck’s comments on “social justice,” the Jewish Funds for Justice settled on…haiku. “We wanted to do something that showed some wit, some humor, is little bit cathartic, and is highly participatory,” Mik Moore tells the...

James Cameron Calls Glenn Beck a Madman, and Worse

...but wants to debate him

(Newser) - James Cameron didn’t mince words yesterday when asked for his thoughts on a particular Fox News host: “Glenn Beck is a f---ing asshole.” The Avatar director later amended that, saying, “He may or may not be an asshole, but he certainly is dangerous,” calling him...

Al Sharpton Admits Obama Is a Socialist!*
Al Sharpton Admits Obama
Is a Socialist!*
OPINION
Mar 23, 2010 11:05 AM CDT

Al Sharpton Admits Obama Is a Socialist!*

*According to right-wing pundits and an out-of-context sound bite

(Newser) - The conservative media is doing backflips over a video they’re touting as the long-sought smoking-gun proof that Barack Obama is a socialist. In an interview with Geraldo Rivera Sunday on Fox News, Al Sharpton uttered—get this!—that “the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they...

Bill O'Reilly Is Finally Calming Down

Or maybe Glenn Beck just makes it seem that way

(Newser) - Bill O'Reilly, moderate voice of reason? Maybe not quite, but a profile in the Los Angeles Times portrays him as mellower these days and less inclined to meltdowns or flame-throwing interviews. He's even asked conservatives to back off the personal attacks on President Obama, a man he personally likes. "...

Kudos to Baier for Showing How to Handle Obama
  Kudos to Baier for Showing 
 How to Handle Obama 
PEGGY NOONAN
Mar 19, 2010 5:30 AM CDT

Kudos to Baier for Showing How to Handle Obama

Health care interview was 'startling and revealing'

(Newser) - Fox's Bret Baier performed a vital public service in his "startling and revealing" interview with President Obama on health care, writes Peggy Noonan. Unlike the vast majority of reporters, Baier refused to let Obama filibuster his way through the interview, and by doing so exposed the amazing fact the...

Roger Ailes to Fox Staff: Back Off on Glenn Beck

CEO doesn't want any more infighting

(Newser) - Fox News chairman Roger Ailes isn't happy about reports of bad blood between the network's journalists and Glenn Beck. During a recent visit to the Washington bureau, he channeled the Godfather and told staffers to knock it off. "I was brought up to defend the family. If I couldn't...

For Liberals, a Bracket of Evil
 For Liberals, a Bracket of Evil 
ALTERNATE TOURNAMENTS
Mar 17, 2010 8:46 PM CDT

For Liberals, a Bracket of Evil

No hoops knowledge? No worries here

(Newser) - Feeling left out of the NCAA basketball bracket-mania because of hoops-knowledge deficiency? If politics is more your thing, activist cell-phone company Credo Mobile has you covered with its “ Bracket of Evil .” Features matchups include Dick Cheney vs. Fox News (in the media division), Sarah Palin vs. Michele Bachmann...

Obama on Fox: Health Care Reform Will Pass

This is about reform, not 'procedural rules,' he says

(Newser) - President Obama tells Fox News he isn't worried about the legislative acrobatics under way to pass health care reform—and voters shouldn't be, either. "I don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate,'' Obama said in a rare...

Obama Will Make His Case—on Fox News

President agrees to interview tomorrow

(Newser) - President Obama takes his pitch for health care reform to unusual territory tomorrow: He's agreed to an interview on Fox News at 6pm. Obama will take questions from Special Report host Bret Baier. "Obviously, they have a pretty big audience share," explains Robert Gibbs, "and I think...

Bill O'Reilly's New Target: Tom Hanks

 Bill O'Reilly's 
 New Target: 
 Tom Hanks 
karl rove piles on, too
Mar 16, 2010 9:37 AM CDT

Bill O'Reilly's New Target: Tom Hanks

Fox News host doesn't get why actor keeps saying we're racist

(Newser) - Bill O’Reilly's favorite new target: Tom Hanks. The Fox News host says the actor is unfairly claiming racism was behind our attack on Japan during World War II ... and behind the current War on Terror. The actor, while promoting his miniseries The Pacific, told Time that we “wanted...

War Brewing at Fox Over Beck
 War Brewing at Fox Over Beck 
Howard Kurtz
Mar 15, 2010 1:10 PM CDT

War Brewing at Fox Over Beck

Some staffers complain, anonymously, that he's hurting network

(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s meteoric rise has some at Fox News worried that he’s becoming the face of the network—and ruining any chance it has to be viewed as a legitimate news source. Anonymous sources at the network tell Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post that Beck is a...

Glenn Beck Launches New Attack on...You
 Glenn Beck Launches 
 New Attack on...You 
viral videos
Mar 11, 2010 10:00 AM CST

Glenn Beck Launches New Attack on...You

Progressive groups mock Beck's attacks on progressives

(Newser) - Glenn Beck is famous for his rants against progressives, and his latest is directed at none other than you…or any of your friends. A new interactive video put together by three progressive groups including MoveOn.org shows the Fox News host crying as he rails against America’s new...

Palin's Leno Spot Stuns Jon Stewart
 Palin's Leno Spot 
 Stuns Jon Stewart 
FAIR AND BALANCED?!
Mar 4, 2010 8:08 AM CST

Palin's Leno Spot Stuns Jon Stewart

Ex-gov makes outrageous statements— and some decent jokes

(Newser) - Jon Stewart went apoplectic last night after playing a clip from Sarah Palin’s interview with Jay Leno, in which she criticized the media for having too much “opinion under the guise of hard news stories.” Then, just to twist the dagger, she added, “That’s why...

Rachel Maddow to Glenn Beck: 'Back Off'

She blasts him after he called her a liar

(Newser) - Glenn Beck can decide how much he’s “willing to stir up Americans’ fear and prejudice for profit,” in Rachel Maddow's opinion. That’s “between you and your God.” But when the Fox host calls the MSNBC host a liar for accurately reporting that he said...

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