Published at 4:35 pm
LOS ANGELES -- She's something of a pioneer already; a gay woman who assembled a daytime talk show featuring six famous moms which will slide into a timeslot once held by the oldest soap opera ...
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 5:18 pm
Now that the National Association of Black Journalists has released its own announcement, I can reveal the news: I have been asked to appear with Shirley Sherrod Thursday, joining a panel of journalists at the ...
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 4:56 pm
Well, you can watch all day long and night at the Fantasyland Video store in Drew Park. If you don't mind all the swingers, fags, drunks, crackhead, jerks, perverts, voyeurs, idiots, dirtbags, undercover cops and ...
Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by fasanotampa
Published at 9:14 am
As you read this, I am probably winging my way to Los Angeles, preparing for the Tuesday start of the TV Critics Association's summer press tour. For the next nine days, I'll be sitting in ...
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 9:56 am
Some Mad Men fans are bound to be snarked off, but I'm doing this, anyway. I'm going to talk a little bit about what happens Sunday, in the series' first episode of its fourth season. ...
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- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:57 PM
- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:57 PM
- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:57 PM
- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:57 PM
- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:57 PM
- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:57 PM
- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:57 PM
- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:57 PM
- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:57 PM
- Daniel Schorr, NPR news analyst and the last working colleague of Edward R. Murrow, has died at age 93 | 05:56 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Mad Men returns Sunday: New year, new agency, same angst about history and identity | 01:12 PM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:12 AM
- Parsing Sherrod on CNN with Rick Sanchez: Will media (and government) learn any lessons? | 11:11 AM
Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 11:36 am
Besides the journalistic bankruptcy of certain ideologically-slanted news organizations, what struck me most about the media circus surrounding the demonization then deification of ousted USDA official Shirley Sherrod, was a sad truth. More than 40 ...
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- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
- Four decades after America's civil rights breakthrough, why can't we talk honestly about race? | 03:13 PM
Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 5:33 pm
(UPDATE: First posted blog item before seeing L.A. Times piece saying Chen will no longer be a daily anchor on the Early Show, though she will still appear there. Which means she'll only have two ...
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- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO have three jobs on the network? | 08:58 PM
- Julie Chen gets View-style talk CBS show; should wife of CEO get three jobs on the network? | 08:33 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
- Shirley Sherrod, race and media: How ideologically slanted media organizations are hurting America | 12:34 PM
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 9:25 am
I’ll be honest: These are wearying times for a media critic hoping to hold news outlets to some standards of independence, integrity and consistency. Nowhere is that struggle more obvious than on cable TV, where ...
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 12:49 pm
Ace WUSF-FM (89.7) reporter Bobbie O'Brien has scored a national honor: winning a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism to develop a special reporting project on issues among military personnel and their spouses. The ...
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 10:18 am
The past few days have brought some good news to community radio station WMNF-FM (88.5), which has seen its devoted listenership respond strongly during a summertime fund drive aimed at raising $116,000 by this afternoon. ...
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 8:39 pm
Tampa bartender Annie Whittington has not had much luck on CBS' summertime reality show Big Brother 12. Last week, she lost out on $10,000 when her team failed to win a challenge. And tonight she ...
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 7:29 am
According to the Los Angeles Times, America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan just overcame a major hurdle to taking over Larry King's prime 9 p.m. real estate at CNN, finalizing a contract with the Peacock ...
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 6:20 pm
I'll lede with the big news: Glee returns to new episodes Sept. 21. Fox announced premiere dates for its fall TV season, bringing back Saturday mainstays COPS and America's Most Wanted nine days before the ...
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Posted in General, Pop Culture | Posted by Eric Deggans
Published at 4:19 pm
When I wrote back in 2006 about movie star Mel Gibson's multiple apologies after a drunken, anti-Semitic rant during a drunk driving arrest, the big question was: Did Mel change his ways? It took four ...
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