Inside Cable News

April 28, 2006

MSNBC previews The Most…

MSNBC ran a TV ad for The Most during Countdown tonight.

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Oops…

TVNewser got tipped off to what I had suspected and tried to dig for a little but didn’t manage to find…a web page on MSNBC.com that mentions The Most.

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There is no direct link to this page, which is an internal work in progress that was posted four days ago according to the time stamp and repeats the same text over and over. I suspect this page won’t be up for long now that it has been outted.

MSNBC still has not made an official mention of this show yet even though it is supposed to debut Monday. When are they planning on taking the wraps off this show for real?

UPDATE: I take it back. There is a direct link to this page and it shouldn’t be there yet. The link is on Stewart’s bio page.

UPDATE 2: Apparently I underestimated that MSNBC would care about that incomplete page being exposed because it’s still up nearly two days after being revealed.

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A Clinton Summit…

CNNs Dr. Sanjay Gupta and President Bill Clinton at a break in taping of "The End of AIDS: A CNN Global Summit with Bill Clinton." Image courtesy of Jake Herrle/CNN (C) 2006. All Rights Reserved. The first of three CNN Global Summit specials was taped this morning at the Mother AME Zion Church in Harlem. The Summit features former President Bill Clinton with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta moderating a discussion on eradicating HIV/AIDS. The program will air this Saturday on CNN at 8 and 11 pm ET with a repeat on Sunday at 8 and 11 pm ET.

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Clooneys visit FNC…

George and Nick Clooney on Studio B with Shepard Smith George and Nick Clooney made what some might consider an unlikely appearance on FNC today. As part of their Darfur media blitz the father-son tandem dropped in on Studio B with Shepard Smith today. The two talked about their visit to the Darfur region of Sudan to draw attention to the crisis in the region and called for international help.

Kind of amazing how Clooney can bring more mainstream attention to a story that Nick Kristoff has been banging his head in futility over for the longest time now (including picking, what some considered a stupid fight with Bill O’Reilly over the issue).

Fox News Sunday’s 10th Anniversary: Take 2

The New Jersey Star Ledger’s Matt Zoeller Seitz writes up the landmark for Chris Wallace’s show…

On first glance, Wallace might seem an unlikely advocate for Fox News. He’s a bred-in-the-bone mainstream journalist. His politics are pretty much a question mark, a fact that led some conservative bloggers to tag him as a liberal fifth columnist. Plus, Wallace doesn’t re-frame the news in terms of a conservative world view, as Hume does virtually every single night.

Yet Wallace argues forcefully for Fox’s value — not as a primary news source, but as one voice among many. According to this interpretation, “Fair and Balanced” doesn’t mean Fox News is unburdened by preconceived political notions. It just means that if you set Fox alongside a news source that’s often unfriendly to conservative or right-wing thought, the complete picture becomes more balanced.

“The only thing Roger ever said to me was, ‘Treat everybody the same, be equally tough on everyone.’ Forget the conservative bloggers, just go do it,” Wallace said. “A lot of shots that are taken against Fox are cheap shots. I know the way we treat Republicans as well as Democrats on ‘Fox News Sunday,’ and I don’t know anyone in the political community, Republican or Democrat, who thinks I pull my punches.”

Fox News Sunday’s 10th Anniversary…

The New York Daily News’ Marisa Guthrie writes about the FNC show’s 10 years on the air…

Wallace has presided over “FNS” (10 a.m., Ch. 5) since 2003. He joined Fox after 15 years at ABC, where he worked on “Primetime” and filled in as host of “Nightline.” He has brought an element of his newsmagazine past to Sunday morning with the “Power Player of the Week” segment, which features apolitical personalities, including Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs and Placido Domingo.

“We have the best, most interesting, provocative, most cued-in panel on Sunday morning television,” said Wallace.

Aaron Brown update…

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Tim Cuprisin catches up with Aaron Brown…

After six months off-camera, former CNN anchor Aaron Brown isn’t hurrying just to do something.

“It’s one of the great things in my life, I have no one pushing me to do anything,” he says. Still, he keeps a pretty active speaking schedule, including a stop in town Saturday to receive the Sacred Cat Award from the Milwaukee Press Club at its annual Gridiron Awards Dinner.

“I don’t have a job, I have an employer,” Brown says of CNN. “That contract has another almost 18 months to run.”

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