Had some fun with Rachel Maddow last night, on Fox "going nuts" and airing that Jesse Jackson tape. Why did they do it? Why did they hold it for O'Reilly instead of treating as hot news?
NEW YORK — With an assist from Kobe Bryant and Paul Pierce, ABC snapped a Fox winning streak that had stretched back to January. For 22 straigh...
ThinkProgress noted today that Fox News has finally identified Karl Rove as an informal adviser to the McCain Campaign, almost four months after hirin...
Think of it as the Big Bang of Video.
The strangeness surrounding the strike-compromised 2007-08 broadcast season just won't stop -- even now that the season is over.
What made the Bones season finale so traumatizing is how the departure of a beloved regular character was executed. There was nothing leading up to it, and it was completely unfair.
We had been led to expect networks to roll over and play dead in the wake of the WGA strike and amid the recession -- but almost all the networks rallied in grand style for Upfronts 2008.
NEW YORK — With a strong finishing kick from "American Idol," Fox captured the distinction of America's most popular television network for the ...
The show's producers may have told us it's been a lot closer than we believed (with only one million votes separating the Davids two weeks ago), but this is what I think: a tie goes to Archuleta.
I've preached that as long as the two best make the finals, there's no real big scandal about who goes home in what order. But if Jason Castro doesn't say "bye bye" this week, it'll be a shonda.
The Bush administration's propaganda wouldn't have spread far if it weren't for its cozy relationship with media outlets like Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN.
Diamond gave away little about his attitude towards the singers and since we didn't see him actually giving any tips or suggesting arrangements, changing keys, or doing much of anything, I assume he wasn't a very active mentor.
The major TV networks were not hoodwinked by a Pentagon propaganda scheme. No government agency forced MSNBC to repeatedly feature the hawkish generals unopposed.
Broadcasting & Cable's Ben Grossman reports that Fox is considering major changes to hit "American Idol," which is suffering in the ratings compared t...
"Clinton's Last Stand" "Obama Can't Close the Deal" "Bitter and Angry" Argh. It's a bad TV drinking game. For me, the hackneyed vocabulary of these politicos drains all meaning from the process!
The mainstream media seems intent on confirming that it has so internalized the Right's framing and messages they have now become part of its DNA. The first of the latest round of exhibits proving this was offered into evidence during last week's ABC debate. This was followed by the New York Times' epic revelation of the unseemly complicity between the Pentagon and the media in delivering the Bush administration's talking points on Iraq via "a kind of Trojan media horse" -- Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" dutifully parroting the Bush party line, with nary a raised eyebrow from the TV stations and newspapers offering these highly-decorated sock puppets their prestigious platforms. And it's not just the media. Witness Hillary Clinton repeating the Rove-promoted lie that MoveOn was against intervention in Afghanistan after 9/11.
NEW YORK — The gripping men's college basketball final between Kansas and Memphis helped CBS into a virtual dead heat with Fox despite some four...
The political season continues to be very good to CNN, which will officially announce on Tuesday that for the first time since 2001, it managed to bea...
From the Hollywood Reporter: Fox has pulled the low-rated Parkey Posey sitcom "The Return of Jezebel James" from its schedule after just three airings...
Fox has always done a good job of airing reality game shows that appeal to the lowest common denominator. But this week they took an ad for a future ...
With CBS close to losing the total viewers race for the first time in five years, CEO Leslie Moonves called Fox's ratings hit "American Idol" a "monst...
Who needs writers? Not NBC. It's using low-brow reality shows starring over-muscled meatheads and Howie Mandel to whip Fox's expensive, scripted programming.
Fox Broadcasting Co. scheduling chief Preston Beckman took aim Wednesday at NBC's plans for a 52-week programming schedule, saying that it wasn't anyt...
Gun control is still not an issue. Will the fact that a kid on medication could purchase guns, walk into a lecture hall and use them change that? That will depend -- on whether the candidates make it an issue, and on whether the media asks them about it.
With presidential candidates dropping like flies, the television networks are pouring more resources into covering the most famous non-candidate on th...
