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The Cable News Patrol: My Long National Nightmare Is Over!
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyAt the finish line, there were no high-school marching bands, no pyrotechnics – not even a perky young TV reporter cloyingly asking the all-purpose how-do-you-feel question. Instead, at 1:26 pm Sunday afternoon, I rapturously luxuriated in a heavenly choir serenading me with the sounds of silence, as a blessed sense of peace washed over my body. After more than 60 hours of eye-glazed communion with the three major cable news networks (enough time to watch every episode from all three seasons of "Mad Men" twice), the television set was mercifully off. I had set out on this ...
The Cable News Patrol: Rounding Up the Usual Suspects and Subjects
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyAlready, my life feels like it has been reduced to a cheesy Internet banner ad: "New York Man Watches TV at Home – And Is Paid for It, Just Like a Real Job." On Monday, I began my masochistic regimen of watching cable TV news for 12 hours a day in a valiant effort to...err...I dunno...maybe...probe the subterranean depths of the American political psyche. In truth, my motivation had something to do with frustration at being stuck at home recovering from Achilles tendon surgery (I told them that they could start the Trojan War without me). Perhaps others in my situation might be reading ...
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CNN Falls to Last Place in Cable News
By David Sessions - Politics DailyWhen the October cable news ratings are finalized Monday afternoon, CNN will finish fourth and last place for the first time, the New York Times' Media Decoder blog reports. The network that pioneered the 24-hour news format has trailed the Fox News Channel and MSNBC before, but is now also being beaten by its sister network, CNN Headline News. For the first time, MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" beat CNN's prime-time highlight, "Anderson Cooper 360," and Sean Hannity's and Rachel Maddow's programs both finished solidly ahead of "Larry King Live" in the prime-time hours. CNN said ...
Laura Ling, Euna Lee and Bill Clinton: Welcome Home to the TV Feeding Frenzy
By Bob Franken - Politics DailyPity the poor bookers. In the TV world, bookers are the desperate souls sent by unreasonably demanding producers to engage in the cutthroat competition for primo guests on news or talk shows. In this case, they're prima: Laura Ling and Euna Lee. ...
This President is No Cable Guy
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyBill Clinton, whose operatic second term coincided with the creation of Fox News and the rise of stentorian TV talkers like Chris Matthews, was the nation's first true cable news president. George W. Bush was a uniter not a divider in one important way – his polarizing presidency united the conservatives in front of Fox while the beleaguered liberals clicked their way over to MSNBC. ...
No Cable or Satellite? No Election for You
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyThe days of seeing big election coverage on the Big 3 networks is over. If you had to rely on rabbit ears and the big 4 networks last night you would have seen some screen crawls and the occasional newscaster giving a hurried announcement during a commercial break. No analysis. No explanation. 13% of American households still do not have access to cable or satellite TV because they are unable to afford it, live in a rural area, or by choice. For the poorest and most rural, getting news and election coverage at home on the internet is not an option either. The broadcast networks have abdicated ...
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