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Keystone XL Pipeline Opposition Gets an Unlikely Ally: Rupert Freakin' Murdoch

Is Keystone Pipeline really good idea?Bringing lots of heavy, dirty oil across country, when fracked ,cheaper, cleaner energy available— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) February 15, 2013 Yeah, you read that right. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, wh ... More >>

Mark Cuban Loves Watching Fox News, But Thinks It Could Learn a Thing or Two From Dancing With the Stars

Yesterday, Mark Cuban joined the rest of the universe in parsing the presidential election, putting on his media-critic hat and taking to his blog to assess the state of political coverage on cable. Turns out, Cuban loves Fox News. He watched it all the time during the election cycle, though not as ... More >>

European Election Monitors Find U.S. Elections Are Expensive, "Unduly Politicized," Other Shockingly Obvious Conclusions

At the end of October, highly watchable Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott threatened to press charges against any "U.N. poll watchers" who might "interfere with Texas elections." Not to be outdone, state officials in Pennsylvania and Iowa also started threatening to arrest people. Those "poll wa ... More >>

Beef Products, Inc. Sues ABC News Over Pink Slime Coverage

ABC News was slapped with a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit this morning from Beef Products Inc. as a result of the networks' coverage of the great 2012 Pink Slime Shitstorm earlier this year. Oops, I'm sorry, it was the 2012 Lean Finely Textured Beef Shitstorm. The coverage, a result of a massive ... More >>

A Very Serious Gchat About Montell Jordan's Latest Career Choice

With the recent discovery that R&B singer Montell Jordan is now just singing headlines from MSNBC to people via text, The Overserved columnist Deb Doing Dallas and I had a very serious conversation about what this all means, and I have a moment of panic that my phone had been hacked by MSNBC.

So Why Didn't WFAA Air Colbert's Super PAC Spot? "Old-Fashioned Human Error."

Mark Cuban in the Stephen Colbert Super PAC ad that WFAA did not, in fact, reject.​Here's the boring truth behind Stephen Colbert's WFAA rant last night: The reason our ABC affiliate didn't air Colbert's Super PAC spot about the NBA lockout was "garden-variety human error," according to the statio ... More >>

Methinks Somone At ABC News Loves Forever The Sickest Kids...

Jonathan Cook, as seen on ABC News/Twitter.​I admit, this is about as tangential as local music coverage can get, but it's still kinda funny: Last night, in an ABC News story about the issues Twitter and Facebook faced yesterday as a result of cyber attacks that may or may not be related to the on ... More >>

Wanna Produce Channel 5's Newscast?

​Because, like, you so totally could. Says so in this just-posted job listing on the KXAS-Channel 5 Web site:NBC Universal's Owned and Operated Television station in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, KXAS TV, is looking for a Newscast Producer. As a Newscast Producer, you will produce a live newscast wi ... More >>

VEGA Gets Some Love From... ABC News? Sure, Why Not.

Richard Card With ABC News and Pitchfork Media pairing up for CD reviews and all, maybe it's not so surprising to see former Dallas-based artist Alan Palomo and his VEGA project getting some love from ABC News in this segment the national news organization ran today (sorry--can't figure out how to e ... More >>

As Jeff Brady Departs Local TV, Tracy Rowlett Weighs In On the "Sad and Bad Place"

The head of Jeff Brady, which you'll no longer see on WFAA-Channel 8 in about a month's timeThose interested in the state of local TV news may want to peek at Uncle Barky's item from late last week concerning the March departure of WFAA-Channel 8 anchor Jeff Brady. He's exiting the ABC affiliate to ... More >>

Food For Thought...

"Wine bulletin boards are the equivalent of Fox News and MSNBC, each preaching to their own committed choir and trashing the other." (Eric Asimov in the New York Times)

We'd Rather

The reporting legend discusses JFK's final day

T.D. Jakes Bumped off MSNBC for Big Blue News: Ohio for Obama

Fear Factor

Stupidity reigns at Nokia

Fox News Akin To Southern Rap

Anti-intellectual appeal and red-state focus are just the tip of what these two have in common.

Former Dallas Police Detective Says Good Morning America

Doug Dunbar Is Now Channel 11's Hardest-Working Anchorman

Ginger Allen Has a New Gig

MediaWeak

Talking Head

Bob Woodruff gets personal at Borders

Belo to Get New Life?

Out of Exile, Scott Sams is Back

Dancin' for Bubbas

Tracy Rowlett Talks About Leaving Channel 11, The Good Ol' Days and and Stations Obsessed With "Car Wrecks and Fires"

Best Anchor in Town Calling It Quits

Ed Bark Suffers Sweeps So You Don't Have To

Instant Nostalgia (Or: How Old is John McCaa, Anyway?)

And Now, The Fake News

Channel 4: It's Foxy!

Look at the Big Brain on Brad

Canned News

PR becomes "reporting" at WFAA

Losing Mucho Dinero in Dallas?

Voting Wrongs

Plus: Good News

The Newy Factor

How does someone who calls himself "Newdawg" compete with Dale Hansen? By not being Dale Hansen.

Best TV News Anchor

Brad Hawkins

Good News

Will Ferrell's Anchorman is dumb, and funny, as hell

Best Early-Morning Comedy Routine

Daybreak with Scott Sams, WFAA-TV Channel 8

Gossip Folks

Thanks to The O'Reilly Factor and Pepsi, Ludacris got a bad rap

Enough at 8

So, WFAA loses one reporter. No big deal, right? Wrong.

Best Local TV News Anchor

Jane McGarry, NBC 5 (KXAS-TV Channel 5)

The Cable Gal

Meet the new face of journalism, Ashleigh Banfield

We're No. 3!

Tracy Rowlett and a lot of cash are making Channel 11 better--not that you're watching

Best TV News Anchor

Gloria Campos, WFAA Channel 8

Buzz

Bark, don't bite

Buzz

Caught in the crossfire

Denied his day in court, a former Waco TV reporter, falsely accused of setting up federal agents, becomes the last casualty of the Branch Davidian siege

The Hare, The Tortoise

Channel 5's Marty Griggin and Channel 8's Robert Riggs race for ratings as their stations struggle for dominance of local television news

BeloWatch

The all-O.J. channel

Rushes