Fox uses Treo to break N.Y. plane crash news

10-15-2006 • Reuters

When a single-engine plane crashed into an Upper East Side [New York] apartment building, Fox News delivered early live video to its viewers from the crash site using a hand-held mobile phone souped up with streaming video.

The Enemy Within

10-11-2006 • PBS

Here's the PBS show that aired yesterday(10/10/2006). It's broken down into 7 parts. Enjoy!!

You might not see Bill or Sean on TV!!

09-30-2006 • AP

With Fox's 10th anniversary next week, a series of 10-year contracts with providers will be expiring. Fox says the systems pay roughly 25 cents per subscriber each month to carry its programming. Given the network's success in the ratings,(

Keith Olbermann's Special Comment for the anniversary of 9/11

9-13-2006 • Raw Story (video link)

"And anyone who claims that I and others like me are 'soft,' or have 'forgotten' the lessons of what happened here is at best a grasping, opportunistic, dilettante and at worst, an idiot whether he is a commentator, or a Vice Pre

Court stays FCC ruling on TV profanity

9-8-2006 • Reuters

A U.S. appeals court put on hold a Federal Communications Commission ruling that four television broadcasts of profanity violated decency standards and gave the agency two months to consider rebuttals by the broadcasters.

CNN Anchor Kyra Phillips - David Letterman - George W. Bush - Video

09-01-2006 • David Letterman via HuffingtonPost.com

VIDEO: CNN Anchor Goes On Letterman With "Top Ten Excuses" For Putting Bathroom Chatter On Air during Bush Speech (Very Funny)

"Survivor's" latest tribal twist: racial segregation

08-24-2006 • By DERRIK J. LANG - The Associated Press

South Pacific-set season of the CBS reality show, 20 castaways will be racially divided. Teams of five will be separated into four tribes — black, white, Hispanic and Asian — that will eventually merge into one.

PBS: Stay Mum on Pundit's Daytime Job

08-17-2006 • TPM Muckraker

Yesterday afternoon I spoke with Bonnie Erbe, whose political discussion show has featured a senior Bush-appointed official without identifying her job for the adminstration. Erbe said she sees nothing wrong with the arrangement.

Colbert & Stewart (more effective treatment than any pill)

08-15-2006 • CrooksAndLiars.com

This was even better than last week’s TDS where Colbert first asked Stewart to apologize. Colbert decides the best way for Stewart to make amends with Geraldo is for him to walk a mile in his moustache.

2 Fox Reporters Kidnapped

08-15-2006 • AP

Palestinian security forces hunted for 2 abducted Fox News journalists Tuesday, and the Palestinian president and prime minister were intervening in an attempt to gain their release. President Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister

60 Minutes interview with Ahmadinejad airs on Sunday

08-11-2006 • Reuters

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an interview to US television network CBS in which he criticized US President George W. Bush's handling of the international response to Iran's nuclear program. CBS on Wednesday released 2 short exc

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert together - (Great Stuff)

08-11-2006 • CrooksAndLiars.com

This was great to watch last night. I guess after a day of hearing "how the terrorists are after us", I was due for some serious comedy. Maybe Geraldo will go on TDS to accept Jon’s apology.

Olbermann Exposes the Politicizing of the Explosive Liquids Threat

08-11-2006 • CrooksAndLiars.com

Keith took a good look at the threats of explosive liquids last night. Keith revisits a report from March of this year about threats to airlines, and in particular liquid explosives.

War on the Web

07-29-2006 • ABC

There's a war raging, and it's not only in the Middle East - it's in cyberspace, too. Hundreds of would-be journalists are using blogs, videos and online rants to plead for peace or the destruction of their enemy. Search for "Hezbo

BBC had MI5 watch over it's staff

07-03-2006 • Sydney Morning Herald(Aus)

Confidential papers show that the BBC allowed Britain's domestic security agency, MI5, to investigate the backgrounds and political affiliaations of thousands of its employees, including newsreaders, reporters, and continuity announcers.

Fox & Friends advocate "Office of Censorship" in wake of NY Times banking surveillance sto

07-02-2006 • MediaMatters for America

On June 29, several Fox News media figures suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship" to screen news reports to determine whether they "hurt the country" or are of "news value," in the wa

Television is 65 years old today: Channel 1

7-2-2006 • LiveScience.com

It's hard to imagine in today's media-filled world that some people can still remember when there was no television. TV got going in earnest 65 years ago today, when the first scheduled commercial television program was broadcast by the Na

You gotta love Keith Oberman

06-29-2006 • Crooks and Liars(Video Link)

You gotta love this guy. First, he shows that the organization at the heart of the New York Times fiasco has it's own website, and publishes it's own magazine. Also, he show that Bush himself proclaimed the Adminstration is doing everything

The Dark Side

06-23-2006 • PBS(Video Link)

For those who missed the PBS special the other day, here's a link to watch it on the computer. It's split into 6 differenct segements. I missed it myself, so I'll be watching.

Dan Rather leaves CBS bitterly

6-20-2006 • Reuters

Veteran broadcast journalist Dan Rather has left CBS News in a bitter departure clouded by a reporting scandal over President George W. Bush's military record, ending 44 years as reporter, anchor and face of the network. [What's the frequency

Congress goes biblical on decency standards and penalties

6-7-2006 • USA Today

Congress gave notice to broadcasters that they will pay dearly for crossing the line with offensive material like Janet Jackson's 2004 Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction," passing legislation that would multiply indecency fines 10 times.

FCC investigating "fake news" planted by Bush Admin.

05-29-2006 • The Independent

Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush adminstration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up suc

Bush planted fake news stories on US TV

5-29-2006 • The Independent

Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up suc

Who is Stephen Colbert?

5-1-2006 • 60 Minutes

And now for some fake news: The Colbert Report. If you flip through the cable news channels any weeknight, you’re bound to see a collection of talking heads — rather shouting heads — who draw large audiences with a diet of often wildly inaccurate but

South Park pokes fun at Comedy Central

4-13-2006 • Associated Press

Banned by Comedy Central from showing an image of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the creators of "South Park" skewered their own network for hypocrisy in the cartoon's most recent episode.

Corporations are getting fake news aired on TV like government has done for decades

4-6-2006 • Raw Story

Over a 10 month span, 77 television stations from all across the nation aired video news releases without informing their viewers even once that the reports were actually sponsored content.