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Eat your heart out, Janet. [NBC] More »
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Freelance political soundbyte-for-hire Sarah Palin appeared on Fox News yesterday to provide some expert analysis on the Iowa caucuses, and also to dazzle the viewing audience with her new, wavy hair. More »
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Fans of the Today Show should start preparing themselves now: Matt Lauer's contract is up at the end of 2012, and it's as-yet unknown whether or not he'll renew. NBC is thinking ahead, however, and courting a possible replacement: Ryan Seacrest. As if he hadn't already violated our televisions enough? More »
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does it take to be a repeatedly steamrolled female cohost to a loudmouth morning television personality? Mothering, exercise, and sexy female assistants, that's what! More »
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In this raw video of ABC News in Joplin — only a day after the first deadly tornado — a clearly rattled Diane Sawyer struggles with the unfinished story she's about to report. A confused producer gives her unclear directions. Communication with the New York City newsroom is spotty. And all the while, dangerous thunderstorms are looming. Sawyer is clearly unnerved; watching the video, you might be as well. More »
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Shudder-inducing fanfic of the week: The new issue of Newsweek features a story called "Diana At 50: If She Were Here Now," by none other than Tina Brown. The digital artwork on the cover reanimates Diana so that she is walking alongside daughter-in-law Kate Middleton, who is gazing adoringly at the People's Princess and ignoring the fact that if this is really happening, Di is a zombie. The Atlantic Wire asks, "How Creepy Is Princess Diana's Ghost on the Cover of Newsweek?" Answer: Very! More »
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This morning on MSNBC, things got awkward when Mika Brzezinski attempted to report the story of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest and sexual assault charges. Joe Scarborough seemed intent on making light of the situation, and Brzezinski had to scold: "I'm trying to keep you from making jokes about a serious rape charge." Also, apparently none of these people are mature enough to respond appropriately when the word "sodomized" is used. They should be ashamed and embarrassed. Lean forward, indeed. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802433&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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This is so obvious it's hard to believe it isn't already in the works at MSNBC. More »
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A new study found men retain less information when the woman delivering the news wears a sexier outfit. Could shorter skirts and form-fitting blazers be the reason that the 24/7 news cycle is leaving Americans more ill-informed? More »
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The high-school cheerleader who was kicked off the squad after refusing to cheer for her alleged rapist is going to the Supreme Court. More »
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A very, very old racist lady recently called in to C-Span to ask why everyone hasn't gotten over "the slavery" thing yet. But don't worry, she's not a racist—she probably even has a few "colored" friends herself. More »
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Last month, Mattel launched "Newsanchor Barbie," a 12" career woman in a skin-tight pink-and-black jacket, a ruffled miniskirt, and platforms. Insulting — or too accurate? More »
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When it rains, it pours: a mere week after the announcement of Al and Tipper Gore's separation, sources close to the family confirm that their eldest daughter, Karenna Gore Schiff, is also separating from her husband of 12 years. [People] More »
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A 14-year-old girl has been arrested for the murder of Robert Daley, 45, who was found dead in his London apartment on Friday evening. Daley had just been freed from rape charges. More »
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Today's Reliable Source column refers to a political dustup between Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher and Hadassah Lieberman as " a catfight," and somehow, Kathleen Parker spins the situation into a screed about antifeminism and bloggers ruining media? Holy leaps of logic, Batman! More »
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Osama Bin Laden released a new tape on September 13th, explaining the 9/11 attacks and offering suggestions for how the US and Al Qaeda can work toward a solution. Problem is we've heard it all before... in 2002. [NY Times] More »
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Diane Sawyer isn't the only TV newswoman getting her own show — Christiane Amanpour is now slated to host a talk show for CNN starting this month. More »
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News networks are reportedly mulling a new pay model for online news, but if news means stories about kidnapper Phillip Garrido, then Simon Dumenco of Advertising Age doesn't think it's worth our money. More »
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Come January, two of the three big nightly newscasts will be anchored by women. But are women taking over the evening news only as it sinks into irrelevance? More »
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While the percentage of women working in local radio and TV news hit a high this year, the percentage of minorities declined. 41.4% of TV news employees are women, but only 21.8% are minorities, down from 23.6% last year. [Mediaweek] More »
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In case you were feeling too good about life, or had decided to suspend your cynicism and enjoy the romance and open bars of wedding season, a blitz of today's articles will kill that buzz faster than Spencer's fleshbeard. More »
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2008 was a big year for Katie Couric: she was almost fired, conducted an infamous interview with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and confronted widespread sexism. And she's not going away anytime soon. More »
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Today on Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer was forced to face off with Dr. Mehmet Oz by keeping her arm in an icy bucket of water until she couldn't stand the pain anymore. More »
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More on the melamine-tainted baby formula responsible for sickening thousands of babies China: the situation is much worse than previously thought. This morning, the Chinese government announced that melamine has been found in 69 batches of baby formula from 22 different producers. The government also increased the number of sickened Chinese children to 6,244, including 158 who had acute kidney failure, and the Ministry of Health has reported a third infant death. So far, four dealers have been arrested for adding melamine to their milk to defraud nutrition tests. [WSJ] More »
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Hey ladies! Self-professed (but not actual) Jon Benet murderer, famewhore extraordinaire, and total creep John Mark Karr is single again. • Eva Mendes' role in The Women continues the prevalent stereotype of Latina women as being not only hypersexualized but "superaggressive spitfires" who are overly passionate and emotional, as well as violent. • Perhaps the Times was inspired by our own Tracie Egan when editors made a man walk in heels. (The consensus? Heels hurt!)• Twenty-two Afghan women joined the ranks of the Afghan National Police after completing five months of training, making them the first policewomen in Afghan history. • More »
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• We met an Austrian man who locked his daughter and their children in his cellar for 24 years. Sometimes the eyebrows can reveal the psychopath inside! • Sometimes we eat our trash, it is sort of like recycling! • We told old people to get off Facebook or at least un-tag us from unflattering boozy pictures! • Miley posed in a sort-of sexual picture in Vanity Fair, Disney blamed the lesbian. • But where was the widespread outrage when Annie Leibovitz was casually racist, again and again and again? • Tyra introduced us to a dad who not only pimps out his daughter but also gives her at-home bikini waxes. • We met 5 types of extreme shoppers, all of them annoying! • We met some scrappy young sorority girls who brand pledges in the groin with forks. • We took a look back at our favorite Tyra episodes with almost as much glee as she has in talking about herself. • We told Elisabeth Hasselbeck to STFU already. • We found out we aren't in a recession! But the world is going to shit. • Oh yeah! And Mimi got married! And, uh Latina magazine broke the story? More »
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• Avril Lavigne teaches young girls the importance of narcissism. • Indianapolis is the most sexually satisfied city? Uh, okay. • France's only female 3-star chef is opening a cooking school in Valence. • Scientific breakthrough! Sexually inhibited women have a harder time getting off. • Men are the "vanilla gender" and are what female job performance is based on. • Women are often "being cheated" by microfinance programs, according to Time. We still gave to Kiva. • Prozac may cure lazy eye. • Accused rapists will not be prosecuted because the mentally disabled woman and alleged victim is not a "reliable" witness. • Almost 3,000 websites produce the bulk of child porn on the internet. More »
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If you haven't heard already, all the major news organizations are buzzing about the Wall Street Journal's scoop about how Katie Couric is set to get canned from her anchor position at CBS News. Couric, 51, is being paid about $15 million a year, and, though almost two years have passed after her much-buzzed debut — she began in September 2006 — her ratings have remained consistently in third place (several million viewers behind her closest network competitor). The real question is not when Katie will leave or where she'll end up, it's why is her tenure at the CBS Evening News such a complete and unmitigated disaster. According to the Washington Post, "Network executives are unsure whether Couric's difficulties are based in part on viewers' discomfort with the first solo female anchor of such a broadcast, sentiment that her personality is better suited to morning television or some other explanation." More »
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Today's female anchors have to worry about such pressing matters of international importance like whether their highlights are blond enough or if they're hot enough to make local magazine covers, but back in the 40s, female news anchors were actually, um, making news history. The Nation reminds us that Martha Rountree was the first (and to date, only) female host of Meet the Press. She even invented the format, which was based on Rountree's radio show, "Leave it to the Girls". More »
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