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*The media is sprouting up celebrities of its own every day. Everyone knows Matt Lauer, Anderson Cooper, Al Roker, Katie Couric, and the O, but there are more and more TV anchors gaining popularity and we’re delving into their private lives just as much as entertainment celebrities. The newest anchors gaining popularity are Lawrence O’Donnell [...]
*Our Morning Mess today is a little different but it still some mess. In fact, it’s major mess and it comes from our EURthisNthat. Tuesday night, this guy named Joe Oliver went on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” And yes, we’re talking about that Joe Oliver, the black man who came from out [...]
*MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” got heated this morning when Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart spontaneously jumped in and harshly grilled New Jersey governor Chris Christie on his position on gay marriage, reports the Huffington Post. Christie was defending his decision to veto gay marriage in New Jersey and put it to a popular vote. He said [...]
*Tamron Hall, host of MSNBC’s “NewsNation” at 2 p.m. ET, is appearing in the latest addition to the cable channel’s “Lean Forward” campaign, which has a number of its hosts sounding off about American issues they feel passionate about. The Luling, TX native uses her promo to talk patriotism, and how growing up in a [...]
*CNN was the most watched network of all cable news competitors in the ratings for Whitney Houston’s funeral, averaging five million viewers during its coverage of the singer’s Baptist memorial on Saturday, according to Nielsen. The event was televised without commercial breaks from 12:15 to 3:45 p.m., resulting in a spike of 5.4 million viewers [...]
*Melissa Harris-Perry is on her way to the top. It seems like the heavy criticism her archenemy Cornel West bestowed upon her hasn’t affected her at all. She’s getting ready to join MSNBC’s news as its newest anchor. According to the network’s president, Phil Griffin, Harris-Perry’s keeping the attention of audiences nationwide, but she didn’t [...]
*Stick a fork in him ’cause he’s done. Yep, Pat Buchanan is officially out as a commentator for MSNBC, after being suspended from the network for controversial statements in his most recent book. The network, in a statement, says it’s severed ties with the conservative icon and former presidential candidate: “After ten years, we’ve parted [...]
*The intellectual television market has been cornered on MSNBC. They have an impressive roster on their evening line-up that include veteran journalists with not so shabby educational backgrounds. One example is Rachel Maddow, who is a Rhodes Scholar. She is so smart that she had the good common sense to bring on a young scholar [...]
*Lawd, say what?! MSNBC Anchors Tamron Hall and Lawrence O’Donnell are dating, according to the Huffington Post. The unlikely couple which on paper looks like they are light years apart in age due to O’Donnell being 60, have reportedly been caught canoodling in several downtown New York hot spots. If this is true, it isn’t [...]
*Fewer and fewer viewers are tuning in for President Obama’s annual State of the Union address. According to Nielsen, 37.7 million viewers watched Tuesday night’s speech on 14 networks. That was down more than 13 percent compared to last year’s speech, which averaged 42.7 million viewers across eleven networks, notes The Hollywood Reporter. In fact, [...]
*A Fox News guest said that some people might want to describe President Obama as a “skinny, ghetto crackhead” Thursday night, reports the Huffington Post. The Conservative Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell appeared on Fox News and was interviewed by guest host Mark Steyn, who replayed a March 2011 clip from Chris Matthews’ MSNBC show, [...]
*There is no mistaking the political leaning of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, but the openly liberal host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” says her network as a whole, which many viewers accept as the Fox News for the left, cannot be written off in the same manner. “I think it’s easy to caricature us as the opposite [...]
*At the end of his MSNBC show “Politics Nation” on Monday, Rev. Al Sharpton played the clip of “Saturday Night Live‘s” skit mocking him, and said he found it “hilarious.” Not only did he enjoy Kenan Thompson’s portrayal of him mispronouncing the names of his guests and confused by the camera’s red lights and teleprompter, [...]
*If you didn’t know, MSNBC gave Al Sharpton his own show. That was very exciting until they played games with the cameras and gave him the wrong words on the teleprompter. They may have even pushed them too far away for him to see. But, at the end of the day, they know that his [...]
*The gay half-sister of Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is not only criticizing his position on gay rights, but has already said she is voting for Barack Obama in the 2012 election. Candace Gingrich-Jones, a gay rights activist, said in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that she and her older half-brother, the former speaker [...]
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