By Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter!
Make the country so fucking shit that no one wants to stay, trapped in an endless fucking cycle of hold music and fear. On purpose! You nasty, heartless fuckers.
Posted on April 23, 2018
Harry The Hat
A Liar, A Thief, A Braggart, A Cheat
“Most people know Harry Anderson as Judge Harold T. Stone, the affable star of NBC’s Night Court, which ran for nine seasons from 1984 to 1992,” David Hill writes at The Ringer.
“To Anderson, however, playing Judge Stone was just a job. He never set out to be an actor, and his arrival at the center of a hit sitcom was something of an accident. Harry Anderson was no actor. He was a magician. He was a comedian. He was a storyteller and a showman. At his heart, however, Harry Anderson was a hustler.”
True. Night Court was the least of it.
Posted on April 19, 2018
Thanks, Tribune Media, All You Did Was Weaken A Country
By Tim Karr/Free Press with The Beachwood Added Value Affairs Desk
In a tweet Monday morning, President Donald Trump praised conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is seeking his administration’s approval of a proposed $3.9 billion merger with Tribune Media.
Free Press, which has asked the FCC to deny the transfer of Tribune broadcast licenses to Sinclair, has called on Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to recuse himself from the merger proceeding. The agency’s inspector general’s office is investigating rulings during Pai’s tenure that have helped pave the way for the proposed deal by removing limits on how many stations a company can control in a single city.
If approved, the merger would give Sinclair control of more than 233 local TV stations reaching 72 percent of the country’s population, far in excess of congressional limits on national broadcast audience reach.
The president’s tweet follows a viral video made by Deadspin showing local Sinclair newscasters in several markets forced to read from a script repeating many of Trump’s talking points about “fake news” coverage, a favorite theme of his administration.
Posted on April 3, 2018
The Gender Pay Gap (That Isn’t?)
By Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter!
“I thought I was supposed to be interviewing a feminist.”
“I am a feminist.”
Posted on April 2, 2018
WYCC Is Back, Sort Of?
By Steve Rhodes
“Chicago public TV station WYCC-Ch. 20, which went off the air in November, is set to return next month thanks to a channel-sharing agreement with former rival WTTW-Ch. 11,” the Tribune reports.
“The new channel, dubbed WYCC MHz Worldview, will borrow a portion of WTTW’s airwaves beginning at 5 a.m. April 23 to run the full slate of international dramas and newscasts that formerly aired on one of WYCC’s secondary digital channels.”
Posted on March 26, 2018
Flint Town
‘An Alarming Portrait Of Cops, Politics And A Reeling City’
“From an American dream to an American crisis, Netflix’s new original documentary series, Flint Town – the story of Flint, Michigan through the eyes of the city’s police department – explores the struggles of living in a constant state of emergency and the team of underdogs fighting against all odds to save the city.”
Posted on March 14, 2018
Free Press Sues The FCC For Dramatic Reversal Of Media Ownership Limits That Pave Way For Media Mergers
By Tim Karr/Free Press
WASHINGTON – Free Press has joined Common Cause, Communications Workers of America and the Office of Communication, Inc. of the United Church of Christ to file suit against FCC efforts to repeal local media ownership limits.
The petition for review, just filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, explains that the agency has failed to consider the impact of its decisions on localism, diversity and competition in broadcast ownership.
In particular, the petitioners highlight recent FCC decisions to relax cross-ownership and local television limits and its decisions not to properly account for stations’ use of Joint Sales Agreements and Shared Services Agreements (JSAs and SSAs) to evade ownership limits.
Posted on March 9, 2018
NRA TV Is Even Worse Than You Think. Way Worse.
By Adam G. Klein/The Conversation
As the National Rifle Association comes under pressure from victims’ groups and gun control advocates, internet companies like Amazon, Apple and YouTube are finding themselves uncomfortably close to the center of the controversy. These are among the companies that currently stream the NRA’s official video channel, NRA TV.
NRA TV has become a central focus in what could be a threshold moment in the national gun debate. In the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that claimed 17 lives, a consumer activist movement has worked to peel back the tight grip the NRA holds over the country’s gun policy. The effort has driven some airlines, insurance companies, car rental companies and banks to sever their commercial and professional ties with the NRA. Now gun control activists are turning their full attention to the Internet.
Posted on March 7, 2018
The Autobiography Of Director Jerry London (Hogan’s Heroes, Rockford Files, Happy Days, Brady Bunch, Six Million Dollar Man, Mary Tyler Moore Show)
By Samera Entertainment
As one of the most prolific directors in Hollywood, Jerry London’s career spanned over 40 years and saw him direct more than 350 episodic television shows.
London was also at the helm of over 40 Movies-of-the-Week and 11 blockbuster mini-series, including Emmy Award-winning Shogun and Ellis Island.
London directed some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, such as Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Whoopi Goldberg and Annette Bening.
In his new book, From I Love Lucy to Shogun . . . and Beyond: Tales From the Other Side of the Camera, London and his writing partner Rhonda Collier humorously detail the story of how a scrawny kid standing in the middle of the tennis courts at Alhambra High School in the San Gabriel Valley went on to become one of the most sought-after directors in television history.
With unflinching candor and wit, their book leads the reader through the closed-door deals, absurd antics of the famous and near disasters on exotic locations and film sets all over the world.
Posted on March 7, 2018
NRA TV
Dear Lying Media: Your Time Is Running Out!
“NRATV is a revolutionary new network that broadcasts in streaming HD 24 hours a day. On it, you can watch live news updates and interviews at the top of each hour and browse 22 original series to watch episodes on demand 24/7. Enjoy the world’s most comprehensive video coverage of Second Amendment issues, events and culture on Apple TV, Roku, Google Chromecast, Amazon FireTV and on NRATV.com.”
1. “Dear lying media. Your time is running out.”
Posted on March 5, 2018