
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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Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:
» The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) is desperate to unload Newsweek magazineR...
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A few days after its newspaper sibling A.H. Belo (NYSE: AHC) reported narrowing its losses, local broadcaster Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) posted some very healthy profits and revenue numbers. Among them was a 14 percent jump to $8.1 million in online revenues tied to its 20 TV station...
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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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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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The upcoming Eliot Spitzer/Kathleen Parker 8pmET CNN show now has an executive producer - one of the original CNN employees and currently EP of Fareed Zakaria's weekend show.Liza McGuirk takes over - and that may give an indication of just how un-Crossfire-like the show will end up.
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I'm afraid I must agree with the learned, now-facially hirsute Jon Stewart: Nothing President Obama does will ever make his critics happy. In an appearance on The View, President Obama spoke with rare honesty about the issue of race, but got "Breitbarted" for his trouble. The media have gone into...
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Jersey Shore is back, and the crew of non-Jerseyites have moved south to Miami, bitch (that will happen all season).Yesterday we worried if self-awareness would pervade the show, and the fact that the four biggest stars (Jwoww, Snooki, The Situation and Pauly D) were barely involved in the episode one plot proved...
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