"THIS IS NOT SOME OPINION! This is a mathematical fact!" In a now-infamous Despite viewing Mr. Bloomberg as a mentor, Mr. Ratigan took issue with the mayor's handling of the Occupy Wall Street protests, which Mr. Ratigan supported and It's another reason he doesn't necessarily consider himself a journalist. "I'm an advocate who hosts a Read More
MSNBC's Chris Hayes was practically giddy with excitement this Saturday morning. Not only had the morning news host snagged retired Philadelphia police Captain Ray Lewis (whose arrest during Occupy Wall Street's "Day of Action" last week made for some great copy and even better photojournalism), but he was able to start off his segment with a bunch of Star Wars references. Zoinkers!
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Last night MSNBC host Thomas Roberts introduced Meghan McCain as a "newly appointed MSNBC contributor."
"I didn't know it was going to be announced," she said.
Ms. McCain, a Daily Beast columnist and the daughter of Senator John McCain, was brought on to talk about the GOP field. Read More
On Friday afternoon, Chris Hayes was in his new office at 30 Rock, trying to reconcile two sets of data involving U.S. household debt. He wanted to make a chart to use on an upcoming episode of Up With Chris Hayes, his ambitious, month-old MSNBC show, and he had just half an hour before his Read More
Mr. Ratigan was down at Zuccotti Park most of last weekend, interviewing participants and chatting them up about his Read More
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Two months in, Occupy Wall Street media coverage has swelled from a fringe movement to the importance of a daily beat. To guide you through this media saturation, the Observer presents the best stories and angles from the worldwide OWS news desk, including coverage of the media “blackout” when the protests began in September. (But be sure to check out our coverage as well.)
October 31
The New York Times "With Generators Gone, Wall Street Protestors Try Bicycle Power" Read More
What’s in a name? A lot, if it happens to be Touré: not only did the young Rolling Stone writer and MSNBC contributor deliver a passionate takedown of 9/11 coverage on Dylan Ratigan last week, but in the days that followed, he’s also managed to a) Start a Twitterversy about what your tipping percent says about you as a person, b) release a book about what it means to be black in today’s culture, c) and announce that he’ll be co-authoring Nas’ memoir. Last night in Brooklyn’s Greenlight bookstore, Touré celebrated the release of his latest book Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness. Hosted by Terry McMillian, the party got hot amidst the crushing fans all trying to squeeze their way into the Forte Greene venue.
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Tamika Mallory, the 31-year-old executive director of Al Sharpton's National Action Network, has some words of warning for African-American reporters. On Friday, Mallory wrote a column titled "Time For Black Journalists To Stop Criticizing Rev. Sharpton." Mallory's column, which was published on NewsOne.com and linked on National Action Network's web site, was addressed Read More
Ambitious young liberal media-types, start buffing your resumes. Christopher Hayes, the 32 year-old Nation editor whose performances guest-hosting for Rachel Maddow recently earned him his own weekend MSNBC show, is staffing up. According to a lefty list-serv, he's looking for a senior producer, segment producer, and booking producer. Old partisan hacks need not apply! Read More
Reportedly, Aaron Sorkin researched his forthcoming HBO series about cable-news windbaggery, More As This Story Develops, by visiting the set of Chris Matthews's Hardball. However, plans for Mr. Matthews to visit Mr. Sorkin's set--and appear on-camera as a character in the Sorkin universe, one in which everyone talks quickly and has hidden pieties that are revealed Read More
Mark Halperin's suspension from his MSNBC commentating gig for suggesting that President Barack Obama was "a dick"--after asking for a seven-second delay for his extremely premeditated slip of the tongue--calls to mind so many recent suspensions: David Shuster's, from MSNBC, for saying Hillary Clinton had "pimped out" her daughter Chelsea during the Read More
Last week, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell devoted an unseemly share of his airtime to blasting Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly for his "relentless barrage of interruptions" of Barack Obama during Mr. O'Reilly's pre-Super Bowl interview with the president. Monday's line was that Mr. O'Reilly "failed more miserably than anyone who has ever gone before him" Read More
Anthony Weiner appeared on MSNBC's Ed Show last night to talk about why Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from health care reform cases- and why Justice Elena Kagan should not.
Thomas came under fire last month after failing to disclose that his wife, Virginia Thomas, received a total of nearly $700,000 from Read More
As only he could, Keith Olbermann quit his top-rated MSNBC show Countdown last night with quite the send-off:
It was an unexpected announcement that ABC suggests had nothing to do the recent Comcast takeover of NBC, while The Times notes that Olbermann is getting the Conan treatment and will not be back Read More
Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," will face suspension after admitting to making eight separate donations to Republican candidates, Politico reports. The news comes two weeks after NBC President Phil Griffin handed down a similar punishment to Scarborough's colleague Keith Olbermann after that anchor acknowledged contributions, in his case to liberal candidates.
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