With Hurricane Gustav, we get another episode of "Watch Us Stand in the Elements" -- don't the media make you want to hurl?
Hurricane Gustav gives the media another chance to show just how special we are.
The main bulletin: We are such hypocrites. We'll tell you what to do in a hurricane -- flee -- but we won't follow our advice. And on the New Orleans story, the levees deserve the close-ups rather than the journalists.
But Monday morning, TV anchors and reporters served up another episode of "Watch Us Stand in the Elements."
Among those being lashed by the elements on Monday were Al Roker and Ann Curry of NBC,
CAPTION THIS: Gangbangin’ With Mr. Cooper
Anderson Cooper couldn't be happier about his first trip to a men's prison.
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Triumph goes to the RNC, talks to Cooper and Blitzer - VIDEOS
Filed under: Late Night, Video, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-FreeI thought I'd get this in before we get too far away from the Republican National Convention.
Conan O'Brien sent Triumph The Insult Comic Dog to St. Paul last week to cover the convention, and as usual the results are hilarious. He manages to get an interview with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. Well, at first Cooper just sends him a note from across the convention hall (I won't spoil for you what the note says) but Triumph finally gets a face
Anderson Cooper Vs. Triumph!
The hilarious Triump, The Insult Comic Dog from Late Night With Conan O’Brien visited the Republican National Convention and bumped into CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Check out the video to see who, surprisingly, got pooped on.
Industry Insiders: Ivanka Trump, Executive Heiress
The Donald’s little darling talks industry jargon, raises cash for the fuzz, gives props to Rupert Murdoch, plays a few rounds, then slings gold to those Trump-loving Russians. All in a day’s work.
Point of Origin: I'm a native New Yorker, born and raised -- and from the looks of it, likely to remain here in perpetuity.
Occupations: Modeling, for me, was purely a pit stop, fun, in the moment. I worked for a year for the [Bruce] Ratner organization in Brooklyn, cutting my teeth on the business, away
Anderson Cooper is not emo!
Filed under: News, Celebrities, Reality-FreeNo, that doesn't say "Elmo," though I could understand the confusion because Anderson Cooper was on Sesame Street last year. I mean emo.
USA Weekend interviews Cooper and he talks about a lot of subjects, from the places he hasn't gone in the world that he'd like to visit (China), what's on his iPod (Marisa Monte), what he watches on TV (Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List?!), Hurricane Katrina, that he hasn't gone to the dentist in five years (I used to be like
News media follows Gustav south
Anderson Cooper is CNN's first Big Star to change flight plans from St. Paul, Minn., to New Orleans.
The Silver Fox Is Easy
Anderson Cooper isn't fussy! Page Six spotted him getting his hair cut at a barber shop in NYC for $15.
Andy should have saved his sexy pennies. I have a Flowbee at home. I would have done it for free. And I would have thrown in a back massage....and a happy ending...and a prostate check.....and a candlelit dinner.... and a walk on the beach.... and a marriage proposal... and a.... DAMMIT! Why won't he return my 10,000 phone calls!? I just want to cut his hair! I JUST WANT TO LOVE HIM. Fuck. Excuse me, I h
Network anchors flock to Republican convention
NEW YORK -- The top broadcast and cable television news anchors left the storm-drenched Gulf Coast today and headed to St. Paul, Minn., to report on the Republican National Convention as it resumed a full schedule.
CBS' Katie Couric, ABC's Charles Gibson and NBC's Brian Williams will arrive in Minnesota in time to anchor tonight's news specials about the GOP gathering, which was drastically scaled back Monday because of Hurricane Gustav. CNN's Anderson Cooper and Fox News' Shepard Smith also will rejoin
The Ticker (Gustav edition): Shep, Anderson, Gibson...
> FNC's Shepard Smith gets some high praise from the Kansas City Star's Aaron Barnhart. "Now that Shepard Smith is on Fox, there's really no reason to watch anything else," he writes. "Knowledge of his home state and his experience from the Katrina watch makes him the authority."
> CNN's Anderson Cooper is leading the on-the-ground coverage of Gustav, reporting from the French Quarter in New Orleans. As for the rest of Cooper's week, CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein tells TVNewser, "We'll make a call based on
All The Sad Young High School Literature Teachers… [Summer Reading]
"I would would love to teach any of the Russians including guys like Babel. Definitely Wilde and Virginia Woolf. I would want to do Illustrated Man by Bradbury. Mafouz, Naipaul, Saramogo, oh and Crab Walk by Günter Grass as a weird interesting look at WWII. Plath is wonderful. I could go on. For me I want to deal with books that in Kafka's words 'wound and stab us.'"--My favorite high school teacher emailing in response to this.*
*I went to a generally mediocre Catholic high school but every medio
Brangelina in top 10 of ‘100 Most Powerful’ list
And they were a new entry at that! Amazing huh?? The Daily Telegraph reported last Wednesday that Vanity Fair’s annual list of the world’s 100 most powerful and influential people listed Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in their top 10. The list is scheduled to appear in the October issue of the magazine.
THE VANITY FAIR 100 (2007 ranking in parentheses; only top 20 shown)
1. Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister (new entry)
2. Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. (1)
3. Sergey Brin (3), Larry Page (3), and Eric
Ailes on Obama Meeting: "Neither of Us Was Overly Aggressive But Neither of Us Blinked"
Following up on Michael Wolff's lengthy book excerpt about News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch in Vanity Fair, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz talked to FNC CEO Roger Ailes about the meeting with Sen. Barack Obama earlier this summer.
"The meeting appears to have eased tensions between the two camps," writes Kurtz.
Ailes said the meeting involved both sides discussing their concerns, with Obama talking "fair" treatment and Ailes discussing the Obama "boycott."
Ailes told Kurtz Obama is, "a ver
Celebrity Quote Of The Day: Bullie Piper’s Boobs
Well, there’s the little matter of a hurricane mop-up to attend to and, um, the fact ...When Michael More Leaves The Scene - WHEN Michael Moore leaves the scene:
Via Vote Republican To Be 'Vaporized In A Nuclear War' - SAYS Paul Craig Roberts:
If you desire to be poor, oppressed, and eventually vaporized in a nuclear war, vote Republican.
Roberts ...How Rupert Murdoch Handles Gossip - Rupert Murdoch loves gossip. Indeed. Writes Michael Wolff:
He may be among the biggest gossips in New York. In
Murdoch in Esquire: For Five Years, Sulzberger Didn't Want to Hire 'Any White, Heterosexual Men'
"Everyone can see that The New York Times is a magnificent paper in many ways, lots of ways, but you can also see that they choose stories, very often for page 1, based on an agenda. I think that Arthur Sulzberger, over the years, has made it very clear that he wants a very liberal paper, and that he wants a staff that reflects that community. For five years, he didn't want any white, heterosexual men hired. He was sending a clear message."
"I have one or two friends who know Barack Obama, b
Cooper: " I'm Actually One of the Least Emotional People On-Air"
"Roving reporter, world traveler, hipster, jokester, anchorman, rich kid, loner, geek — CNN's Anderson Cooper is a Renaissance man for a digital age," begins reporter Monica Collins.
Collins asks Cooper about his reputation as "emo" reporter. "I think I'm actually one of the least emotional people on-air around," he says. "If you look on any given night on the cable channels, you'll see people yelling and screaming and talking at the top of their voice — not just guests but anchors of shows
Desperate Denver Journos Just Reporting on Each Other [Journalismism]
There's no news in Denver. At least, no news that couldn't be reported by watching it on C-Span from the comfort of home. So what to do? Report on what all your fellow journalists are doing! So far, the single greatest example of this is HuffPo's constant reportage from their own "HuffPost Oasis" in Denver. At left, an unretouched screengrab from their front page today. The Oasis is remarkably popular with journalists, considering that we have no idea what goes on there but we don't think it involves free b
Ivanka Trump on Bike -- Someone's Gettin' Fired
Filed under: Z-Spin, The Rich Life When blabbermouth billionaire Donald Trump finds out his mogul-ette daughter Ivanka Trump is riding something other than a lear jet --his cotton candy comb-over is going to do backflips.When was manual labor in the Trump's repertoire?
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Murdoch on FNC's "Popularity and Profit" and Olbermann's "Bad Behavior"
From the mediabistro.com Morning Newsfeed: On the heels of a not-so-glowing book excerpt in Vanity Fair of Rupert Murdoch (including his not-so-glowing comments about Fox News and Bill O'Reilly), comes what appears to be quite a different profile of the News Corp. chairman in the October Esquire.
Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici has the pre-publication quotes in which Murdoch praises FNC as, "a core asset in every sense," and talks about the fairness of the network.
"In terms of its popularity and of its
Loose Lips [Beyonce]
Beyonce said that gaining 20 pounds for her role as Etta James in the upcoming movie Cadillac Records was "so much fun," but that when she had to lose it, she was "so angry with myself. I was like, 'D'oh! Why do you have to go through this?" Sort of endearing that she said D'oh! • Amy Winehouse, making bad decisions? You don't say! Apparently the beleaguered singer is ditching producer/ hottie Mark Ronson for her new album. Sadness! • Dandy Anderson Cooper gets his haircut on the cheap: he spends $15 at
Murdoch: I Won't Put the 'Times' Out of Business
Excerpting his upcoming book in Vanity Fair this month, Michael Wolff claims that Rupert Murdoch has become embarrassed of Fox News, and, in particular, of its biggest star, Bill O'Reilly. But it sure doesn't seem that way in a lengthy Q&A Esquire conducted with the 77-year-old News Corp. chairman for its October issue.
"Fox News is a core asset in every sense," Murdoch told Esquire. (Sorry, the story's not online yet.) He continued,
In terms of its popularity and of its profit. But the thing that I am p
The Daily Show: August 29, 2008 - VIDEOS
Filed under: OpEd, Video, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
"The Heart of Hopeness": Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech the other night, to a stadium full of insanely excited Democrats. John Oliver filed a report live from the site of Obama's speech. Man, John has really been putting himself on the line this week, being incredibly annoying in front of so many overexcited people. I mean, chanting "Osama!" at a massive crowd of Obama lovers is almost a sure to bring about a beating, but
