Aug 01, 2008 -
The late Tim Russert's son, Luke Russert, is joining NBC, it was announced on Thursday. The 22-year old Boston College graduate has been assigned to cover both the Democratic and Republican conventions focuising on "youth issues".
''Never before in an election cycle has so much attention turned to the youth vote, and Luke will bring a unique perspective to covering it,'' NBC News President Steve Capus said in a statement.
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Nov 19, 2009 -
Source: E! News Online
Glee's Mark Salling may have wanted to perform in this year's Thanksgiving Day parade in NYC, but he's also sorta happy that NBC decided to ban the musical television show from the annual festivities.
"I'm gonna watch it," says Salling, who plays football stud Puck.
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Nov 15, 2009 -
Agnew speeches sparked move toward soft news
Michael Socolow (Bangor Daily News)
It remains the most influential indictment of American journalism ever made. Forty years ago today, this famous figure began railing against the corporate media. “A broader spectrum of national opinion should be represented among the commentators of the network news,” he argued, explaining that “men who can articulate other points of view should be brought forward, and the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.”
American democracy's perilous dependence on the corporate, capitalist media had previously been detailed.
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Nov 09, 2009 -
I thought this would be an interesting tie in from Tulipe's earlier post.
On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall — the stark, menacing symbol of the Cold War — came crashing down, suddenly and dramatically.
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Nov 13, 2009 -
Well, I do declare! This week's The Office was silly good fun. Distraught over rumors of bankruptcy, Michael suggests that the employees engage in a murder mystery game called Belles, Bourbon and Bullets to keep their spirits up.
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Dec 08, 2007 -
By Paul J. Gough
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News will cut about 1% of its work force, or about 15-20 jobs, throughout the division.
Final decisions haven't been made, but the cuts likely will start Friday and continue through the middle of next week.
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Nov 09, 2009 -
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has charged three detained U.S. citizens with espionage, the official IRNA news agency quoted a prosecutor as saying on Monday, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there was no evidence to back the charges.
The three, Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, were held after they crossed into Iran from northern Iraq at the end of July.
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Dec 19, 2007 -
NEW YORK - Michael Douglas has a new role on TV five nights a week.
NBC chose the 63-year-old actor-producer as the announcer to introduce Brian Williams on the "Nightly News" each night. His recorded introduction was first heard Monday.
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Oct 24, 2009 -
Even before Barack Obama was elected to the presidency, Rupert Murdoch had declared war on him via the personalities of Fox News Channel, a subsidiary of Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp.
Since Obama's election, the cable channel's hosts and paid analysts have launched a full frontal assault on the president, smearing his nominees, calling him a racist and suggesting that his administration was trying to persuade disabled veterans to off themselves.
Now the fearmongers at Fox are crying foul since the president and his aides declared Fox not to be a news organization.
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Oct 23, 2009 -
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The Journal editorial page's whoppers about public-option polls.
By Timothy NoahPosted Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, at 6:31 PM ET
Click here for a guide to following the health care reform story online.
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