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Reminder: Just in case you haven't lost the heart to tune in, Whitney Houston's wake the 54th annual Grammy Awards will air tonight at 8/7c on CBS. More »
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Ladies and gentleman, grab your tissues because this is one emotional roller coaster of an animal rescue story. Okay, here we go... While stationed in Afghanistan, some marines were on patrol when a man walked up and handed them a box with a tiny puppy inside. He was only about 10 days old and clinging to life. The marines, God bless them, nursed the puppy, whom they named Bill, back to health. More »
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After "serious complications" following a surgery, Andy Rooney is in the hospital. According to CBS, the 92-year-old's condition is stable, but the network declined to give further information. Three weeks ago, America's cranky grandfather delivered his last sign-off on 60 Minutes; he'd been reading his essays for 33 years. Even if he often elicited an eye roll, he was sometimes the most reliable thing in our lives, like the nation's constant. No matter what happened out there, we could always count on Andy Rooney being annoyed with something. And with that, he earned a degree of our affection. More »
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It's the end of an era: Andy Rooney has decided, after 33 years on the job, that he's going to stop doing his commentary segment at the end of every 60 Minutes. But don't worry the 93-year-old curmudgeon plans to keep his office at CBS; so his coworkers will probably continue to enjoy regular riffs on how computers have ruined everything. More »
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When the economy was flush, Michael Patrick King produced a little show called Sex And The City, where women lived in a New York full of champagne brunches, lavish parties and Manolo Blahniks. Last night, CBS aired King's latest show, 2 Broke Girls, where New York gals wait tables, carry tasers and work two jobs. Times, they are a changing. More »
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Here on the East Coast, the only thing being covered on the morning and local news is the impending hurricane coming straight at us, and that certainly gets boring after a while. Trust us. So you can imagine our delight when we saw a segment on local fashion! More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5834765&view=rss&microfeed=true Katie Couric has confirmed that she's leaving her job anchoring CBS Evening News this spring. She will be replaced by Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes. More »
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If the rather confident AP report that Katie Couric is leaving the anchor post proves true, it will surprise no one. More »
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As Egypt celebrated Hosni Mubarak's departure Friday , a journalist became a target: CBS reporter Lara Logan was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted. More »
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CBS is developing a half-hour sitcom called The Mother of All Something, written by Canadian blogger, tweeter and former model Kelly Oxford. Jessica Alba is getting involved as executive producer. More »
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CBS, the network behind I Get That A Lot — in which celebs do "ordinary" jobs — will soon air The Same Name, a show in which a celeb switches lives with a normal person with the same name. More »
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Well, it's here — The Talk, CBS's answer to The View. It makes Barbara and company seem both genuine and serene. And did you know Christine Brinkley does leg lifts while she brushes her teeth? Now you do. More »
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• Crystal Renn is in an ad for Chanel's downtown New York store, which is reopening this fall. She poses alongside Lagerfeld boytoy Baptiste Giabiconi, whom she calls "the most gorgeous man I have ever seen, hands down."

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After a failing grade from GLAAD CBS's programming head has promised to add gay characters, including a gay brother for Julianna Margulies on The Good Wife, a lesbian surrogate on Rules of Engagement, and someone on S#*! My Dad Says. More »
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Sumner Redstone, the 87-year-old media-honcho already making headlines for his infatuation with girl-band Electric Barbarellas, has apparently been pushing another youthful protegee. Redstone allegedly encouraged her to "pick her job" at CBS — in the midst of a hiring freeze. More »
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MTV is the first channel to receive an "excellent" grade from GLAAD's annual Network Responsibility Index for LBGT representation. Too bad its low ratings mean it won't be evaluated next year! On the other end of the spectrum, CBS sucks. More »
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Do we need another version of The View? CBS says we do. But this one is Moms Only. More »
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Forget Mel Gibson. Legendary 87-year-old Viacom/CBS chairman Sumner Redstone has his own threatening message! The subject? "Revolutionary" all-girl band "Electric Barbarellas," which we have not heard of but does not sounds revolutionary. More »
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Two of the women on CBS show Criminal Minds have either been eliminated or had their hours reduced. And fans are crying sexism. More »
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• Calvin Klein confirmed Lara Stone is the new face of its main brand, Calvin Klein Jeans, and ck Calvin Klein for fall. Stone will walk no other runways, and appear in no other advertising campaigns for the fall season. [WWD]

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Lindsay and Dina took to CBS today to defend Lindsay and "set the record straight." She says that she loves to act, is working and "surrounded by good people." Like Dina, who clearly wanted to get a word in. More »
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• Paulina Porizkova says news of Kate Hudson's breast augmentation "headed straight to my heart...The availability and ease of transforming our bodies is completely losing our identities and uniqueness. No one ages anymore, no one has imperfections of any kind anymore:

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"I'm just standing for something." Throughout the entire Super Bowl anti-abortion advertising controversy, Tim Tebow has done a fantastic job falling on the sword for his cause. Too bad consumers, football fans, and activists are being played by CBS. More »
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CBS Cares has a special message for ladies - and the men who love them. Get a pap smear, or schedule one for a woman you care about. Nice sentiment, but this is a recipe for serious present face. [CBS] More »
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This morning Asha Mandela broke the Guinness World Record for longest dreadlocks on a woman with one strand measuring in at 19 feet, 6 inches. She told The Early Show that her hair weighs over three pounds. [CBS] More »
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• Last night, David Letterman revealed that a CBS News employee is accused of trying to extort $2 million from him because he had sexual relationship with female employees.

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CBS's Early Show told the story of Ella, a dog who was in a car accident with her owners. For two weeks Ella stayed at the crash site collecting her family's belongings, which led to their reunion. Clip at left. More »
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Have you been up all night crying over yesterday's frontpage Wall Street Journal exposé that cankles are hideous and offensive to those around you? Bad news: the morning shows are refusing to drop the story. More »
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• That compromise bailout plan intended to save the economy? Yeah, it failed. [Washington Post]
• The Dow proceeded to drop 778 points, the largest one-day loss in nearly 2 decades. Many people just kissed their asses and life savings goodbye. [Washington Post]
• Republicans blame Nancy Pelosi for giving an offensive speech before the vote, which included partisan remarks like recognizing that Bush inherited surpluses and now the economy sucks. [Politico, Swampland]
• Barney Frank responded to those criticisms thusly: "Because somebody hurt their feelings, they decide to punish the country." Fucking crybabies. [Huffington Post]

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If you thought Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin couldn't have gotten any worse, well, you were apparently wrong. Reports have surfaced that CBS has footage that is more painfully stupid than what they actually aired. This is the second time that CBS News has gone out of its way to protect the McCain campaign. In July, they edited a portion of John McCain's interview with Katie Couric in which he screwed up a question about The Surge and the Anbar Awakening to make him look as though he knew what he was talking about. Why is CBS so invested in making Americans believe that McCain-Palin are less wrong than they are? [Daily Kos, Washington Post, Media Matters, Attackerman] More »
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Though Katie Couric has been dogged by bad press since she took the CBS Evening News anchor job two years ago, things started to look up for Couric during the conventions. According to Times media critic/junkie memoirst David Carr, "this campaign has moved into Ms. Couric’s wheelhouse." Couric says, “This is a great story for everyone, clearly but with the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and the emergence of Governor Palin, it is also worthwhile to have a female perspective on the news as well…You’d like the gender issues to fall away, just as you hope that at some point the race thing will fade. The road to gender equality really starts when the novelty wears off. And I think my presence anchoring a nightly newscast is much less jarring than it might have been initially." [NY Times] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5050161&view=rss&microfeed=true Elaine Donnelly is a crazy right-wing lady who hates the idea of gays in the military so much that she just can't stop thinking about all the perverted things they do to one another and how other completely heterosexual people like her might get caught up in homosexual behavior. And if that sounds like the start to, like, every gay porn flick you've ever seen, well, that's because Elaine missed her calling as an erotic writer/lesbian and is instead writing porn into her Congressional testimony. Her lesbian fantasies, plus Joe Lieberman's delusions, John Hagee's godliness, Nas's hotness, Joe Scarborough's looniness about bloggers and a defense of our friend Spencer Ackerman against scurrilous accusations that he eats Cheetos are after the jump with me and Moe. More »
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"You get the opportunity to just pound and pound and pound somebody," says one player. "It's not powder puff. It's not flag. It's real, tackle football and people are surprised by the collisions and the hits," says another. "They're fundamentally much stronger than the guys are," says their coach. Click here to meet The Force, an undefeated, all-female football team in Chicago that is one game away from the Independent Women's Football League Superbowl. And don't forget to watch the video. [CBS News] More »
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Swingtown is a new nighttime soap that promises to fulfill our need for adult television in these dry summer months. The show makes big promises: It has extramarital sex! And cheesy '70s references! And drugs! And it's on, uh, CBS? Yes, the network for geriatric curmudgeons and the game show hosts that love them is getting hip. This series follows the Millers (Jack Davenport and Molly Parker) as they move into an upper-middle-class neighborhood in the suburbs of Chicago. They quickly come into contact with a swinging couple (Grant Show and Lana Parrilla) much to the chagrin of their conservative best friends from their old neighborhood (Josh Hopkins and Miriam Shor). It sounds like things could get saucy, but naked flesh and sex scenes are decidedly absent. Instead: '70s references and a soundtrack curated by Liz Phair. Is it worth tuning in? The reviews, after the jump. More »
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Sometimes it isn't just the starlets who get stuck with the stereotypical parts in films. Serious Actresses can get stuck with stupid shit too, especially since most aren't getting lead roles anytime soon! In the latest round-up of new castings in Hollywood, Natalie Portman sets her sights on an adaptation of Wuthering Heights and Marcia Gay Harden is set to star in a sure-to-be-cancelled new drama series on CBS about journalists who help save the world. Also in the mix, two well-known Spanish actresses lower themselves to supporting roles in American films, but the good news is they are probably getting paid more than they did in any starring role in their Spanish films. More on the latest hookers, victims and doormats in Hollywood, after the jump. More »
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"Do women who look at these ads think they'll look like her if they wear these clothes... what there is of them?" asked Andy Rooney on last night's 60 Minutes. Good question! Armed with a stack of women's magazines marked with Post-Its (September 2007 Vogue, November 2007 Harper's Bazaar) the legendary grump questioned the advertising seen in periodicals sitting around the 60 Minutes offices. "I often wonder whether the magazines are doing the right thing for themselves," he mused after critiquing ads and models shilling for Dior (Jessica Stam), Michael Kors (Carmen Kass), and Lord & Taylor (Carolyn Murphy). Interestingly — tellingly — Rooney made no distinction between paid advertising and fashion editorial, even though he was ostensibly talking about "ads". Too bad he was looking at last fall's issues; we'd love to know what he thinks of those ridiculous Balenciaga boots. More »
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You know how reality TV in general is condescending and exploitative, to its audiences and participants both? Well CBS' new reality show Kid Nation — think Lord of the Flies without Simon plotting to kill and without Piggy tumbling to his death — is all these things but worse. Because, naturally, it involves children. So while last night's episode had the kids in question crying about being homesick and yearning for a stinky-free bathroom, it had critics crying for America's children and yearning for a less banal hour of television. (Pretty bad when Gossip Girl starts to look like Masterpiece Theatre, eh?) The critics speak, after the jump. More »
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