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“Hello everyone, I am the artificial intelligence news anchor on National Business Daily. I am the virtual twin of the original host. I have been running—reporting the news—undetected for 70 days now,” the AI news anchor N Xiaohei revealed itself to its television viewers on Dec. 20, 2021, after 1700 hours of a continuous live news broadcast. On the same day, the Chinese state-controlled media National Business Daily (NBD) and the AI company Xiaoice jointly announced the official launch of their collaborative live news broadcasting TV programs run entirely by AI—the first of its kind. The TV program is named...

A Ukrainian broadcaster demonstrated remarkable composure after she nonchalantly caught her tooth after it fell out during a live read, as seen in an incredible clip circulating local media. According to the post, the TV presenter was reporting live on the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday morning when she felt her front tooth come loose in the middle of the broadcast. The Ukrainian reporter demonstrated professionalism under pressure. Fortunately, instead of losing her head, the steel-nerved newscaster can be seen in the 24-second clip calmly collecting the chomper with her hand and completing the read as if nothing had happened —...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists called for Rudaw anchor Omar Kalo's immediate release by the Syrian government on Wednesday. "The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Syrian authorities to immediately release Omar Kalo, a news anchor for the Iraqi Kurdish satellite news broadcaster Rudaw," stated CPJ on Wednesday. Rudaw Media Network issued a statement on Tuesday that Kalo was being held by military intelligence in the city of Aleppo. Kalo, a native of Kobane, was traveling to Aleppo to renew his passport with his family when they were separated at a Syrian government...

A Russia Today anchor quit live on air Wednesday, declaring she cannot work for a station that “whitewashes the actions of Vladimir Putin.” Liz Wahl, who works in the network’s Washington DC bureau, said her grandparents came to the United States to escape Soviet oppression. “And that is why personally I cannot be part of a station funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the action of Putin,” she said, reading from a statement. “I’m proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth. And that is why after this newscast I’m resigning.” Earlier, Ms. Wahl had tweeted:...

If Democrats want a single illustration in this election cycle of the hopeless disconnect between the coastal liberal elites and ordinary Americans, it might just be this: Failing news anchoress Katie Couric has recently deigned to leave her Upper West Side studio to mingle with the common folk in the "middle of the country."

NEW YORK — Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the U.S. networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.

An NBC news anchor thinks the mic is off while on commercial break. It wasn't. I laughed out loud. Pretty funny. 30-second video also includes her apology.

ABC has Gotcha Gibson. NBC has Williams. CBS has Couric. Fox has............ Nothing. There is no national broadcast coming from Fox news. This needs to change.

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Maria Shriver said that she won't resume her television news career and the late Anna Nicole Smith is the reason why. Shriver said the media circus surrounding Smith's accidental drug overdose death last February led to her decision. "It was then that I knew that the TV news business had changed and so had I," Shriver said Wednesday. She said that she called NBC News and told them she wasn't coming back. Shriver took an extended leave from the network when husband Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for California governor in 2003. Her remarks came during the annual...

Longtime KTLA Channel 5 anchor Hal Fishman has been diagnosed with colon cancer, which has spread to his liver, the station said Friday. Fishman was hospitalized after collapsing at his home on Wednesday, the station announced during its Thursday 10 p.m. newscast. Doctors discovered the cancer while treating him for an infection, said Rich Goldner, KTLA's interim news director. "Hal is awake and thanks everyone for their well wishes, and says he's going to fight this illness," Goldner said. "He is looking forward to coming back when he gets better." Fishman has anchored the station's 10 p.m. newscast since 1975....

Katie Couric's move from the "Today" show to "The CBS Evening News" brings a "journalist" long known for a distinct liberal bias into the anchor chair once occupied by the revered Walter Cronkite. "Since becoming co-host of NBC's ‘Today' in April 1991, Katie Couric has often used her perch to salute her liberal heroes (including Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter) or complain about ‘right-wing conservatives,'" notes the Media Research Center, a media watchdog group. Here are some other examples of Couric's bias – and bloopers: It must have been a Freudian slip when Couric said last year that Saddam Hussein...

........."This was a man who moved with a surefootedness and determination that if it wasn't ruthlessness, it was just short of it." Terrence Smith.... said that for two decades the take on Rather was "great reporter, awkward anchor." "And, yet, nobody said it in public.... "Now you hear some of the most senior and respected voices at CBS - Andy Rooney, Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite - saying these things. ... So, the question is: Why the bruising comments as he goes out the door?" Smith suggests that while the flawed story on Bush is a key part of the...

Look closely at this photo of Brian Williams and tell me there's nothing weird about it...

He reported the death of John F. Kennedy, made Richard Nixon squirm over Watergate and helped show the world a myriad of abuses perpetrated by U.S. soldiers at Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison. But as Dan Rather prepares to leave the top anchor chair at CBS News in March, he is more likely to be remembered for a series of controversial memos whose validity he was never able to prove. Rather didn't mention his controversial 60 Minutes story in the announcement that he would leave the CBS Evening News on March 9, 2005 - his 24th anniversary as the network's...

The commercials are as patriotic as those created for any presidential candidate. As wistful piano chords provide the soundtrack, a parade of Rockwellian images - front porches, mothers and children, construction workers and an American flag - passes by. These ads, however, were not created for President Bush or Senator John Kerry, but for Peter Jennings, the longtime anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight.'' And they are a result of an extremely rare moment in television news. On Dec. 2, for the first time in 21 years, one of the big broadcast networks will replace the anchor of its evening...

I just had a fantastic morning listening to Star Parker, one of the most dangerous weapons for spreading conservatism whom I am aware of, much less having had time to address!!!She is from a broken home, had a terrible adolescence in the worst sort of inner city life you can imagine! She bootstrapped herself into running her own telemarketing company which was BURNED TO THE GROUND in the LA RIOTS. She is a TRIPLE THREAT to the BLACK CAUCUS, THE RAINBOW COALITION, and the LIBERAL PRESS. She is BLACK, she is BEAUTIFUL!!! and she is a total advocate of Conservative...