
CNN's Rob Marciano has been in four different states since the BP oil disaster began just over 100 days ago.We talked to Marciano today about BP's lack of communication, his recent CNN special about environmental and wildlife Gulf storylines and more.
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Could our two-week-long national nightmare be nearing an end? In an interview with Newsweek today, Andrew Breitbart spoke to the magazine about the Shirley Sherrod speech scandal and expressed regret, acknowledged that it has "been difficult for me as well," and claimed he would "be more than happy to meet with...
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Lawrence O'Donnell's future 10pmET show with MSNBC now has a name and a premiere date.The Last Word will premiere September 27, putting MSNBC in the same category with CNN and Fox News with three prime time hours of original programming.
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On Wednesday, The Danger Room blogger Noah Shachtman profiled a young information services company called Recorded Future, which monitors the web in real time and, to be perfectly honest, sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi film. Recorded Future uses a collection of futuristic-sounding analytical tools like a “temporal analytics engine” and “sentiment...
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The publisher of the Advocate and Out magazines--Here Media--has sent a letter threatening legal action to a former employee of its skin magazines for making negative comments about the company on his Facebook page.
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Breaking news (or a Friday in the middle of the summer's version of breaking news)! Snooki AKA Nicole Polizzi AKA the inspiration costume contest winners at "Remember the Aughts" costume parties for years to come, has been arrested. While details of the arrest are still slim, we can only presume that the MTV...
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Did NBCU's Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin just confirm Piers Morgan will be joining CNN?That's what The Wrap's Hunter Walker is reporting after Gaspin's comments today at NBC's TCA press tour.
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Earlier today NBC News White House correspondent Chuck Todd filed a rather unremarkable report about the Obama administration's eagerness to put the Shirley Sherrod story behind them. What was rather remarkable was Todd's reference to Andrew Breitbart as a "conservative propagandist," which is interesting in that it not only marginalizes the...
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If you watched the World Cup, you may have noticed a series of commercials that asked soccer fans to "Say No To Racism." The reason that FIFA feels the need to tell its fans not to shout bigotry at opposing players? People like Macedonian Asshole.
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Plans are in place to bring WiFi and mobile phone service to the subways of New York. Sure, this announcement comes after a summer where budget constraints have caused lines to be discontinued and the MTA has considered no longer selling unlimited tickets but, hey, now I don't have to wait till I...
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