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Occupy CNN

By RT

1. “It took some time but much of mainstream media is finally showing up to report on the movement that started as Occupy Wall Street and is spreading, across the entire country and even the entire world, to what some are calling Occupy Everywhere.
“But one network seems to not have gotten the memo – CNN, also known as ‘the most trusted name in news.’ They have instead been covering the other ‘Breaking’ news, like Michael Jackson’s doctor’s trial, Amanda Knox’s tearful thank you and Paul McCartney’s wedding.”
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“But what about intrepid reporter Anderson Cooper? He’ll surely pitch a tent with the rest, right? After all, he went to Haiti and Japan after their major earthquakes. But alas, he’s been too busy with his new daytime talk show, interviewing Paula Abdul and learning how to brush a dog’s teeth.”

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Posted on October 13, 2011

Clandestine Team Of Government Agents Protecting San Diego From Numerous Terrorist Threats Gets Renewed For A Second Season

By Adult Swim HQ

Adult Swim has picked up a second season of the 15-minute cop procedural parody, NTSF:SD:SUV::.
Creator and star Paul Scheer (The League) will lead the all-star cast as well as executive produce with Jonathan Stern (executive producer of Childrens Hospital). Principal photography will begin in early 2012.
“The ratings have consistently built throughout the first season and we love what we’re seeing from the show,” said Mike Lazzo, head of Adult Swim, “and how can you not love SUVs?”

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Posted on October 11, 2011

Remembering Winnetka Ratings Guru A.C. Nielsen Jr.

By Steve Rhodes

“If you can put a number on it,” Arthur C. Nielsen Jr. said his father once told him, “then you know something.”
Um, not exactly. But we’ll quibble a little later. First, a tribute.
“It was a lesson the younger Nielsen – who died Monday at age 92 – never forgot,” Scott Collins writes for the Los Angeles Times. “His lifelong efforts remade his father’s once-obscure Chicago market research firm into a sprawling, worldwide measurement giant with a brand name that, in the U.S. at least, became a household synonym for television ratings.
“Today – even after his company has undergone ownership changes, not to mention weathered near-continuous industry complaints of supposedly flawed methodology – TV executives still arise before dawn to check out the Nielsens, foretelling the fate of their shows and their careers with each ratings point. In recent years, the company has expanded into measuring online traffic and other new media.
“Nielsen, who in 1984 retired from the company that now simply bears his surname, had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease. He died in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka.”

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Posted on October 6, 2011

Spock’s Farewell

Says Goodbye To Trekkies

“Leonard Nimoy has attended his final Star Trek convention,” AP reports.
And it was in Rosemont. Let’s take a look.

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Posted on October 4, 2011

John Kuczaj Is Not A Millionaire

Potential Beachwood Investor Blows It

Of all the questions to trip up Chicago guy John Kuczaj, who would’ve thought it would be one about the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue? We here at the Beachwood don’t know John personally, but we have know him comedically and observantly for years and he strikes us as someone who just might still have every swimsuit issue ever published under his bed. Geez, John! We were counting on you!
Alas, John did not become a millionaire on national television on Tuesday. Oh well. Good news for the president . . . one guy now likely to still support taxing the rich.
Here are the deets . . . the questions John faced, his own blog entry on the experience and the latest press release from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire HQ.

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Posted on September 28, 2011

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