Anderson Cooper makes Digital Journal’s list of 10 Rebels with a Cause…
As much as his work is about death and loss, it’s also about removing the filter. A classic Cooper moment will feature all the raw emotion reporters are taught to stifle. Even his inflection often hints at his true feelings about a story.
Forget Blitzer, King and Soledad: this grey-haired wunderkind actually makes CNN worth watching.
July 26
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,097,000 viewers
CNN - 626,000 viewers
MSNBC - 241,000 viewers
HLN - 202,000 viewers
CNBC - 184,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC - 2,144,000 viewers
CNN – 879,000 viewers
MSNBC – 296,000 viewers
HLN - 371,000 viewers
CNBC - 143,000 viewers
25 - 54 Total Day
FNC - 361,000 viewers
CNN - 235,000 viewers
MSNBC - 105,000 viewers
HLN - 78,000 viewers
CNBC – 53,000 viewers
25 - 54 Prime Time
FNC – 602,000 viewers
CNN - 297,000 viewers
MSNBC - 132,000 viewers
HLN - 124,000 viewers
CNBC – 77,000 viewers
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Johnny Dollar has the video of FNC’s David Lee Miller coming under rocket fire.
UPDATE: Here’s a transcript of the incident…
David Lee Miller: “Oh my goodness, we are under attack here now one more time. We are being fired upon by rockets here. I’m going to ask my photographer to stay on my here while I grab a flack jacket. Can you hand me a jacket there, Miriam?
That was one of many rockets that hit northern Israel today. We have been hit by as many as 80 of these in the north a short time ago. We had a dozen or so that hit us here in Kiryat Shmona. I’m looking around now to asses the damage It seems to hit something in a field. I don’t know what we can show for censorship reasons. Can we show that? We are going to cover our camera for a second and focus on the damage. We have another camera here to show the damage? We are going to do it that way. We’ll let you see the damage for yourself.
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MSNBC announced that Hardball Executive Producer Tammy Haddad has been promoted to Vice President, Washington for MSNBC…
Award-winning broadcaster Tammy Haddad has been named Vice President, Washington for MSNBC, overseeing political and election coverage for the network from MSNBC’s Washington office. She will also continue in her role as Executive Producer of “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” The announcement was made by Dan Abrams, General Manager of MSNBC. Haddad will report to Abrams.
For the past two years, Haddad has served as Executive Producer of “Hardball” and MSNBC’S primetime political director. In that role, she has overseen the coverage of the 2004 presidential election as well as MSNBC’s signature political program, “Hardball.” She also developed a series of specials and documentaries including “Picking the Next President,” the Hardball Heroes Tour and “JFK: The Day that Changed America.” Haddad came to MSNBC in June of 2003 as Executive in Charge of the daily political show, “Buchanan and Press.”
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Fishbowl D.C. has an interview with Megyn Kendall…
What single person played the biggest role / had the biggest influence on your journalism career? Henry Ford, who said: “If you think you can do a thing, or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
Beach, city or country? City. Beach leads to cancer. Country’s fun for a day and then a yawn. City is busy and dirty and crazy and yet so much fun.
MSNBC was broadcasting a car chase at around the 11:50 am hour. Say what you will about Rick Kaplan but at least he kept those idiotic things off the air…
UPDATE: Grrrrrrr…FNC and HLN are covering it too. At least CNN is showing some restraint…
TVNewser has a CNN spokesperson issuing what seems to me like a non-denial denial about Roger Ailes’ claim at the TCA that the network has spent 20 million dollars to market Anderson Cooper noted below…
‘’We haven’t spent $20 million marketing a single star, as one of our competitors has, although not their top-rated star, which I found interesting,'’ said Ailes in a clear reference to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who despite an enormous advertising campaign still trails Fox News programming by a 2-1 deficit.
CNN doesn’t actually come out and say that they didn’t spend that much. They just question where Ailes got that figure. That’s why it seems like a non-denial denial to me…
The Wasington Post’s Howard Kurtz writes up the spat that erupted on Romenesko yesterday…
One person who was there tells me Garvin had it right, which doesn’t exactly make the critics look fair and balanced.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Neal Justin has a profile of FNC’s Lauren Green…
For those who didn’t know her from her pageant days, the loosey-goosey Green was a bit of a revelation. “Fox & Friends,” the most-watched cable-news morning show, may sometimes resemble an unsupervised detention room, but Green, as the news reader, almost always appears stoic and centered.
“It’s easier for me to be the serious one, because that’s who I am,” said Green.
It says a lot about the newscaster that she avoids words like “cops” and “busted,” because they’re too disrespectful.
FNC just teased that Mike Tobin will have exclusive video of the front line action. Tobin was the first US reporter allowed to go in with Israeli Defense Forces across the border into Lebanon. The report is scheduled for 1 pm ET…
The Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin fact checks Olbermann’s Leno appearance…
Just kidding?
It was way back last week, so maybe it’s understandable that his memory has dimmed, but MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s recollections of the playful Nazi salute he gave at a Saturday breakfast of TV critics are, shall we say, imprecise.
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