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Louis Gohmert Really Wishes Sandy Hook's Principal Had a High-Powered Assault Rifle

Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson was among the first to opine that the 20 children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday were a testament to the need for more guns in schools, not fewer. That other pundits and politicians would deploy the same argument in the days that followed, casting even ... More >>

Watch Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Tell a Fox News Anchor to Shut Up

U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who coasted unopposed to a 10th term last month, was on Fox News today to discuss the fiscal cliff. Johnson, for those of you who haven't been paying attention, is a Democrat. Fox News host Neil Cavuto is -- well he's a Fox News host. The two of them hit i ... More >>

Pizza Mouth Burn Strips Are (Kinda) Real

SCIENCE IS AWESOME. NBC News (and Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers) reported last week that scientists have cured cancer developed a soothing, dissolvable mouth strip to help alleviate the dumbest feeling ever: pizza mouth burn. We repeat offenders simply refer to it PMB. Symptoms of PMB include ... More >>

Robert Jeffress: Romney's Not A Christian, But Go Ahead And Vote For Him Anyway

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Seems like only six months ago (because it was) that First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress was still casually referring to Mormonism as a "cult." Back then, that word choice earned him a round of appearances on various TV news shows to explain himse ... More >>

Rick Perry On Fox News: "We're Spending Most Of Our Time In The Courthouse Suing The Federal Government "

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Rick Perry dropped by Fox News early this morning to let Steve Doocy know just how happy he is to be your governor. In less than five minutes, he also managed to find the time to diss the feds and defend the voter ID law. Doocy asked if Perry would acce ... More >>

Part II of ABC News's Extremely American Makeover: Home Edition For One Dallas Family

ABC NewsJon and Anna Usry and the family, right before ABC News stole all their stuff​Yesterday we watched ABC News's David Muir do Diane Sawyer's bidding and empty the Snow White Drive home of Jon and Anna Usry of everything not made in the U.S. and A. Though, as several Friends of Unfair Park no ... More >>

Troy Dungan to Appear On ... Channel 11? Yes.

​So, about that local TV news rumor to which I alluded below ... Earlier today we got a call that Troy Dungan, the longtime WFAA-Channel 8 weatherman who stepped down in July 2007 after 31 years on the air, has been seen loitering around the KTVT-Channel 11 studios in recent days, briefcase in ... More >>

It's Official: John Rhadigan Is The New Play-by-Play Voice of Your Texas Rangers

Flickr user: HooverStreetStudios​The rumor's been circulating for days that John Rhadigan would replace ousted-in-October Josh Lewin as the teevee play-by-play man for the Texas Rangers, pairing him with analyst Tom Grieve. The team just made it official in a release that follows in full. But long ... More >>

Anderson Cooper Is Not Amused By Your Explanation, Eddie Bernice Johnson

Eddie Bernice Johnson, who keeps changing her story about those scholarships that went to family members, appeared last night on Anderson Cooper 360 (via telephone). The segment was called "Keeping Them Honest." And Anderson did not disappoint.

Craig Watkins Won't Always Talk to the Media. But He'll Talk About the Media.

Craig Watkins speaking at SMU on Wednesday​Speaking of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins ...This week, SMU hosted a Media and Human Rights Symposium that featured among its guests Watkins, a few profs and even a noted Oscar-winning filmmaker. Watkins delivered his presentation on Wedne ... More >>

KTVT's Expands 4 P.M. Newscast. With What?

​It's been rumored for weeks, but KTVT-Channel 11 made it official this afternoon: Starting Monday, it's expanding its 4 p.m. newscast by another half hour, with Keith Garvin and Tracy Kornet holding down the anchor desk. That means, sorry, no more Inside Edition on Channel 11; it moves to TXA 21 ... More >>

Keith Garvin, Male Anchor: Former ABC News-man to Fill Seat on Channel 21 Newscast

Keith Garvin​Meet Keith Garvin. Or maybe you already know his work from, oh, Good Morning America and ABC World News Now. At this moment, he's an anchor and reporter for the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C., but before that he spent a good long while reporting and back-up anchoring for ABC News, ... More >>

Cowboy Chicken vs Boston Market: Rotisserie Rumble

Alex Flores​Something about America's Northeastern states grates on us Southwestern hicks.OK, so I'm really a Midwestern hick--our distrust of New England is about the same. So the opportunity to pit a local enterprise against a national chain bearing a blue blood name? Couldn't resist.Rotisserie ... More >>

KXAS-Channel 5 Posts Video of Mike Snyder's "Farewell," Only to Leave Out the Best Part

Perhaps you heard Mike Snyder and Jane McGarry's tearful parting of ways this morning on Dunham and Miller, where the closing segment of Monday's 10 p.m. KXAS-Channel 5 newscast seemingly played on a loop. The station's story concerning Snyder's new deal with the NBC affiliate -- as mentioned in May ... More >>

Club Dada To Remain Closed Through The Weekend, Re-Open On Monday

Like a poorly played game of Telephone in elementary school, there's been a lot of erroneous information passed along about Club Dada in the past few days--a lot of it generating from a story we ran here on DC9 that has somehow become mangled up by a few other organizations in their attempts to work ... More >>

Let's Dance

See the news choreographed

Wolfgang Puck Is One Saucy Fellow

Just a screenshot, folks. We tease just like Harlequin. Follow the links below. Thanks to Videogum and, ultimately, our copy editor for bringing ABC News' Nightline's foray into romance to my attention. She shared it because of my Paul Rudd fascination, of which I am obviously not ashamed. But anywa ... More >>

Murphy Martin, Once Dallas's Most Famous Voice, Dies An Hour Shy of 83

Who's Being Foxy Concerning Megan Henderson's Potential Call-Up?

Brad Oldham Says Good Morning America All Christmas Long

Now, That's the Holiday Spirit

Some Things For Reading and Knowing

Leppert and Oakley: Let's Get It On

Because, Apparently, NBC Has Run Out of Actual News, We Get This Sordid Rerun Instead

Malas Noticias

Man Bites Dog

Gina Miller Changes Channels. Sort Of.

Upsides and Bottom Sides

Anchorman II: The Legend of Mike Snyder

Mary, Mary

A virgin in a casino? Who are they kidding?

Ante Up, Virgin Mary

Find the River

Smog's Bill Callahan discovers new sounds and voices...and cleans up with Chloe Sevigny

Letters

All the Best Jai and My New Man Love Her, Hate Her

The Spitfire Girl

Plus: Miss Jackson, if You're Nasty; When TV News Guys Try To Write

Heaven Help Us

Jim Carrey has the power in Bruce Almighty

Best TV News Anchor

Tracy Rowlett, Channel 11

Broadcast News

After layoffs, KERA tries to assuage staffers and make itself more relevant

Seeing Red

Channel 8 is full of evil people--unless they return my phone calls

Look Back in Confusion

2001 brought out the best and worst in local media

Best Local TV News Show

CBS 11 (KTVT-TV Channel 11)

The Product

Heath Ledger's in no rush to be a star. Why's everyone else in a hurry?

Best Local TV News Show

Weeknight broadcasts on KTVT-TV Channel 11

Best TV Journalist

Brett Shipp on WFAA Channel 8

Daddy Deadliest

Millionaire Allen Blackthorne had a unique scheme to regain custody of his kids--have his ex-wife murdered

Filler

For immediate release

Sleeping with the enemy

Channel 11 and the Star-Telegram join forces against Channel 8 and the Morning News

Belo the belt

When Belo got into the cable news business, it set off a war with Time Warner that has both companies fighting over Texas

Letters

Bad news town

Whitewright keeps making headlines--for all the wrong reasons

Dangerous liaisons

To Die For is a witty, monochromatic look at media ambition