March 26, 2013

Bill O'Reilly: I'm the Biggest Target

March 26, 2013/ Scott Jones

Last night, Bill O'Reilly had on his cut from the same cloth buddy Bernard Goldberg to talk about mainstream media's attempt to take down Jay Leno and Matt Lauer.

The two decided that the reason Leno and Lauer have become targets is that the MSM has decided every “famous and wealthy” person in the country is an easy target for a jealous media.

O'Reilly wanted to know why this never happened to the TV News people of Days gone by. He said that something like this would never happen to Walter Cronkite.

After the Hop, Goldberg tells us who's to blame.

March 26, 2013

Do Citizen Journalists Have Same Rights as "Real" Journalists?

March 26, 2013/ Scott Jones

A person is stabbed in a Miami nursing home and a rescue helicopter makes a landing nearby field to pick of the victim.

Taylor Hardy, who says he writes for a website, pulls over to shoot video of the scene. He got out of his car, took out his iPad and started shooting video.

He was well back of the scene but was spotted by two Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedics. They walk across the field to him and tell him he has to leave.

Turn around and walk away! Turn around and walk away!" he yells.

NY Anchor Bumped Up to the Mothership

March 26, 2013/ Scott Jones

Another Anchor is out the door at WCBS in New York.

But this time it isn't because of him being arrested for choking his wife.

Longtime anchor Dahler is heading to CBS News.

He starts April 7 as a New York-based correspondent filing for “CBS Evening News” and “CBS This Morning.”

Did he Just Say, What I Thought He Said?

March 26, 2013/ Scott Jones

KTLA News was doing their bump in tease for the newscast and they were teasing a story about a woman marathon runner.

When it got to KTLA weather man Jim Castillo, swore I heard him say, "I just met her and she has some nice tittes."

And then he tries to recover.

Take a look at the video and see if you hear what I did?

The vid after the Hop

March 26, 2013

NBA Coach Goes off On DC Reporter

March 26, 2013/ Scott Jones

The coach of the NBA's Washington Wizards went off on WUSA Sports Reporter Kevin Jones, after he compared the struggling team to the circus.

Jones asked Wizards head coach Randy Wittman ‘The circus was here this past weekend. Is it a relief to you that this is no longer a circus?’

The exchange after the Jump and the Reporter's Twitter post about the incident after the Hop

March 26, 2013

Leading from the Back of The Pack

March 26, 2013/ Scott Jones

The New Face off CNN (until Jeff Zucker hires another new face) Jake Tapper's show is leading the way when it comes to be last in the ratings.

Tapper's show 'The Lead' is a week old and the good news it has nowhere to go but up.

The Lead was last if Tapper's first week on air. The show pulled in 352,000 Total Viewers putting it firmly in last place in its time slot.

More after the Skip

March 26, 2013

Guy gives Wet Willie During Live Shot

March 26, 2013/ Scott Jones

WCAU in Philly was doing a local angle to the New Pope story. Like most times when a station tries to localize a international story it was boring.

But watch the guy on the back left of the screen give his buddy a wet willie during the live shot.

The guy that shot this video I'm sure had watched it a few times before he decided to record it and post it to YouTube. But he still snickered like a 5th grader as the guy gives his buddy the wet digit.

I'm betting you'll snicker as well when you watch it.

The video after the Jump

March 26, 2013

Miami Station Owner Loses Lawsuit against Nielsen

March 26, 2013/ Scott Jones

We have to admit, we were pulling for WSVN owner Ed Ansin on this one.

Ansin's company, Sunbeam Television, which owns WSVN (Miami) and WHDH (Boston) has lost it's legal battle against Nielsen Media Research.

Sunbeam claimed that Nielsen was a monopoly, which in our opinion they totally are.

But the courts didn't see it that way.

More after the Bounce

March 25, 2013

Howie Kurtz Plays Nice with Candy and Poppy

March 25, 2013/ Scott Jones

Howard Kurtz's show on CNN with the very ironic title of “Reliable Sources” had some good stories to cover this past week.

His show is supposed to be about the media and their coverage of the news.

This week Howie picked a number of topics to cover.

The Jay Leno debacle at NBC. Another new about Fox Boss Roger Ailes. The Daily Caller’s ailing story on Sen. Robert Menendez and a few other stories were packed into Howie's show.

But one story that seemed to get at least as much play as some of those above was CNN's awful coverage of the Steubenville Rape Case Verdict.

Howie's excuse as to why he didn't cover the story after the Jump

March 25, 2013

MSNBC Boss Expects to Pass Fox News Next Year

March 25, 2013/ Scott Jones

MSNBC Boss Phil Griffin is either, Very confident, very optimistic , or he's smoking crack.

Griffin thinks that MSNBC has Fox News on the ropes and the cable giant is going down in the next year.

In a story in The New Republic in which glows so much about Griffin, you might think he wrote it himself. Griffin feels MSNBC is hitting it's stride and will soon be running right past Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and the rest of the gang at Fox News.

What does the gang at MSNBC called Fox News? Find out after the Jump

March 25, 2013

Shepard Smith Talks about His Sleeping Partner

March 25, 2013/ Scott Jones

Shepard Smith has a ritual every morning when he wakes up.

Before he even goes to the bathroom, Shep checks in with his partner that sleeps in bed with him every night.

In the LA Times they ask Shep about sleeping with his Samsung Galaxy phone in the bed with him?

Shep sets the record straight and says that's not true.

He sets the record straight about the Bounce

March 25, 2013

NBC Wouldn't Let Curry Tweet Support for Robin Roberts

March 25, 2013/ Scott Jones

When ABC's Robin Roberts returned to the air just 5 months after a bone marrow transplant, everyone was happy to return.

It was an amazing story of a woman that had courage and the fight to take on a procedure that quite frankly is often fatal to the patient.

When Roberts was leaving GMA to have her transplant, the ousted Today Anchor wanted to show her support in some small way. She wanted to send out a Tweet to her million plus followers showing Roberts that she was in her thoughts.

It was another class act by Ann Curry, but it was never seen by her followers or anyone else.

Find out why after the Hop

March 25, 2013

Judge Clears Scary Larry in Lawsuit

March 25, 2013/ Scott Jones

Former Philly Larry Mendte has been cleared in a lawsuit filed by the co-anchor who's email he hacked. But as Yogi Berra used to say "It ain't over till it's over."

The Philly Daily News writes that Common Pleas Judge Allan L. Tereshko has dismissed the remaining claims filed against the former KYW anchor by ex-colleague Alycia Lane.

But Lane's attorney, Paul Rosen, made it very clear that he planned to appeal the ruling.

More after the Jump

March 25, 2013

Lauer and Agent had ABC Believing he was Headed There

March 25, 2013/ Scott Jones

The long story in Today's NY Magazine about Matt Lauer has a interesting item.

It says that the folks at ABC were sure they had a deal for Lauer to come to their network.

NY Mag writes "For a few days in late March, Iger, Zucker, and Sherwood all believed they had been told by both Lauer and his agent, Ken Linder, that Lauer was coming to ABC. In their minds, the deal was done, with only the legalities to be worked out."

But it didn't and ABC was pissed. Read that after the Jump