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So I just read that Olbermann has been selected as the Golden Child to co-host MSNBC's election night coverage with Chris Matthews. Is anyone else not completely outraged by this???? He's the single most biased personality on cable news. In fact, one of his latest diatribes tore apart our President and the Republican party in general. Is he going to act like this on Tuesday night?? There will be no straight reporting...only his skewed vision of how things are going. SO frustated...

Jeopardy! is celebrating CNN's 25th anniversary this week. According to this press release, the contestants are testing "their knowledge of the world with Jeopardy! questions, some using CNN video of historic events and people over the years." The clever folks at Fox News are helping to celebrate CNN's 25th anniversary with some fun questions of their own in light of CNN's Jeopardy! appearances: 1. Answer: The only niche network in cable history to lose its number one standing to an upstart. Question: What is CNN? 2. Answer: The number of consecutive months CNN has been getting beat by FNC. Question:...

Probe Is Sought on Potential Corruption Wolf Cites Reports on Lobbyists, Casinos By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 25, 2004; Page A23 A member of Congress has asked the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate two instances of what he characterized as potential corruption involving Indian tribes and casino gambling. In letters to Attorney General John D. Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) cited an article published in The Washington Post on Sunday that detailed how a Washington lobbyist and a public relations executive with ties to House Majority...

So, I'm having a little trouble with my local cable company -- Comcast -- and I could use a little bit of help from my friends here who love a good cause. I live in the northern New Jersey area where Comcast execs thought it would be a great idea to shuffle around the more popular channels in their service, i.e. Fox News. Fox used to be channel 20, but has now been banished to channel 95. The reception starts to go bad in the mid-80s, and by 95 it's quite poor. Do I smell some lib agenda here???? That's...

from the ABC.com website: THREAT MATRIX Season 1: Episode 4-- "Natural Borne Killers" Air Date: 10/09/2003 When a trio of young renegades sets out for Las Vegas carrying a highly communicable and deadly virus, Kilmer's team risks exposure to the outbreak to stop them from reaching their destination.

Just saw this on the Fox website: Friday: Savage in the No Spin Zone Controversial talk show host Michael Savage says he knows what's wrong with America and how to fix it. What's Savage’s mission? He'll tell Bill in a no holds barred interview

Miller Takes His Rant to Fox News Wed Jun 18, 4:19 AM ET By Nellie Andreeva LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Emmy winner Dennis Miller (news) has closed a deal with the Fox News Channel to join the cable channel as a commentator. Under the pact, Miller will have a weekly segment on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" debate show. His sarcastic commentaries will run on the Friday editions of "Hannity & Colmes" beginning June 27 and rerun on "Weekend Live With Tony Snow" on Saturdays. Miller won six Emmys for his work on HBO's "Dennis Miller Live," which bowed...

Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger's memo to staff June 5, 2003, 11:34 AM EDT NEW YORK (AP) _ Here is the full text of New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger's memo to the staff this morning. To The Staff: As you can see from the attached press release, this morning I accepted the resignations of Howell Raines, our executive editor, and Gerald Boyd, our managing editor. Both Howell and Gerald have made enormous and lasting contributions to The Times over their long and distinguished careers. Given the events of the last month, however, Howell and Gerald concluded that it was best...