It gets frustrating at times when you work in the media and find yourself in a profession that is constantly blasted by people accusing you of being biased, and you then see that the media outlet with the reputation for being most biased happens to be getting high ratings.
It’s such an obvious double standard.
Veteran journalist Terry McDermott, in this month’s …

Appearing on Larry King Live to talk about the death of his best friend, Corey Haim, fellow actor Corey Feldman delivered a challenge worth keeping in mind:
“I think that we all need to grow up, and we need to think about every time we laugh at somebody in the tabloids, or poke a finger at somebody, and say ‘They’re a …

If you’ve reach the point of “disaster fatigue” and don’t want to hear anything tonight about the crisis in Haiti, tonight will be a good night to keep the television turned off.
That’s because a mammoth number of networks are airing Hope for Haiti Now, a global telethon designed to raise money for relief efforts.
You’ll find it at 8:00pm tonight on — …

Kathy Griffin, the comedienne whose humor usually escapes this blogger, may not be back on CNN after dropping an ‘F-bomb’ during the network’s New Year’s Eve coverage.
As anchor Anderson Cooper held up a photo of the balloon boy, Falcon Heene, and referred to him by name, Griffin asked for clarification of how the boy’s first name was correctly pronounced, …

This morning on Today, the couple accused of crashing the president’s first state dinner appeared to give their side of the story.
At least, that was what Today expected.  At one point, Matt Lauer asked Tareq Salahi about a phone call between the two of them prior to the appearance:
“We spoke in the middle of the day and you led me …

During an appearance last night on Larry King Live, comedian George Lopez reached a point of embarrassment over the sheer number of promos for CNN’s upcoming special, Latino in America.  The network has been running promos for the show incessantly, seemingly in every single commercial break.
During King’s show, there was a bumper in which they sat on a wide shot …

When that now-infamous UFO-looking balloon started its trek across Colorado, presumably with a six-year-old child trapped inside, it quickly became a national sensation.
And, predictably enough, fodder for media critics who never cease in their search for something to whine about. The critics argue that the media shouldn’t have made such a sensation out of this silly story, which turned …

Fox News is coming under fire over an ad about last weekend’s anti-tax (and anti-Obama) rally in Washington, DC that they seem to want everyone to believe was covered exclusively on their channel.
Full-page ads that ran on Friday carried the headline, “How Did ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN Miss This Story?” That question was superimposed over shots of the …

A reporter on CNN was interrupted by an unruly mob of protesters on Capital Hill during a live shot. These people say they’re being ignored by the media at every turn, yet when the media shows up to cover the fact that they’re there, they start shouting and chanting so loudly that the reporter can’t actually do a standup. …

Larry King is still talking about Michael Jackson.  I’m beginning to think that he truly believes that if he stays on this same topic long enough, Jackson might call in from his hidden retreat where he’s now residing — likely just down the street from Elvis.
It was one week ago today when the media circus reached a fever pitch as …

For a few moments earlier tonight, I was flipping through the channels when I landed on CNN’s Larry King Live. Even though the show was devoted to Michael Jackson, I stopped for a minute, because Larry was interviewing Lou Ferrigno, TV’s “Incredible Hulk.”
The muscle-bound star described his close friendship with Jackson. He explained that he also had an …

By now, you’ve certainly heard about angry Twitter users-turned-media critics who posted a storm of tweets about CNN’s coverage of bloody protests in Iran, coverage that the Twitter users involved say was grossly lacking.
CNN went on the defensive, trying to argue that they had more coverage than the other cable outlets, but they simultaneously beefed up their coverage of the …

If Fox News is regarded as the Conservative-friendly cable network, and CNN is regarded as the liberal counterpart, it might be interesting to note that for the first time since 2001, CNN managed to beat Fox News for one full quarter of the year in the category of news viewers most desirable to advertisers. That’s according to Nielsen, the …

Actually heard from a reporter on CNN last night:
“So here’s Hillary Clinton criticizing Barack Obama for criticizing her for her critical ad.”

I am not making this up.  Politics is alive and well this year.

Recently, I wrote a post about Fred Thompson’s appearance on NBC’s Today show, during which he complained about the media running with a story that he was rumored to be on the verge of dropping out of the race — of course, he has dropped out, but let’s ignore that little part — then said that the media ought …

Ah, the joys of live television.
You may have heard that a strange thing happened on Headline News earlier this week: an electrical fire broke out while anchors were on the air.
You can see the video of the confusion (though nobody bothered to tilt a camera up at the ceiling to actually show the fire that brought their coverage to …

CNN was forced to explain itself earlier this week when a giant black X flashed over the face of Vice President Dick Cheney during a live broadcast.
According to a statement, the network’s senior managers immediately began an investigation, and concluded that the problem came not because of operator error, but from a momentary glitch in a switcher, the device that …

Where is Osama bin Laden? CNN turned to its experts for the elusive answer to that question and this, apparently, is the best they could do.
Makes you wonder who these experts are and what their particular area of expertise happens to be, doesn’t it?
(This is what happens when you pay more attention to getting a headline ticker on …