Al Allen, a longtime fixture on Detroit Fox owned station WJBK, has died. He was 79. Fox 2 said that Allen passed away at a Metro Detroit hospital Tuesday night. in after working in radio in Little Rock Arkansas and stayed there until he retired in 2012. Allen was born Andrew Long and lived in…
WPLG reporter Roy Ramos helped free a truck driver who was trapped in his cab after an accident. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a tractor-trailer truck with a container carrying wine crashed along the Florida Turnpike’s southbound lanes in Hollywood. The reporter for the Miami ABC affiliate said he and another witness pulled the…
Lindsey Moppert is leaving WGRZ in Buffalo after more than two years. The sports anchor and reporter joined the station in 2022. Buffalo media writer Alan Pergament said the NBC affiliate’s news director Jeremy Settle told the staff in an email that Moppert is leaving to “return home and be closer to her family.” “Lindsey…
Chuck Goudie will join the investigative team for NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ) beginning Monday, February 10 He left WLS in December after nearly 45 years on the air at the Chicago ABC owned station. Goudie will join the ‘NBC 5 Investigates’ team which features Bennett Haeberle along with veteran producers Katy Smyser and Lisa Capitanini….
WLS investigative reporter Chuck Goudie has left the Chicago ABC owned station after more than 40 years. Goudie started working at the station in 1980 as a general assignment reporter. “Chuck Goudie was a valued member of our ABC7 team for many years and we thank him for his groundbreaking contributions,” spokesperson Jayme Nicholas told…
A 29-year-old man is facing charges in connection to the death of former WOIO reporter Bill Safos. The reporter for the Cleveland CBS affiliate died from his injuries after being hit by a vehicle on December 11, 2024 in Lakewood, Ohio. Zachary Saliba has been charged with felony aggravated vehicular homicide. Lakewood police said Safos…
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina CBS affiliate WNCN has promoted two newsroom staffers. Reporter Deana Harley has been named statewide Capitol Reporter and Leslie Nash has been promoted to assistant news director from executive producer. “In the years Deana has been at CBS 17, she’s proven herself to be a smart, talented, enterprising reporter, who knows how…
WTAE reporter Bob Mayo said he is retiring on December 31. TribLive points out that this is the “third significant on-air retirement from Pittsburgh TV stations this quarter, following the departures of KDKA-TV’s Jon Delano and WPXI’s David Johnson.” “I’m grateful for my years at WTAE, a station I’ve watched since I was a kid…
Investigative reporter Chris Nakamoto will join Baton Rouge, Louisiana CBS affiliate WAFB in January 2025. Nakamoto will serve as the station’s chief investigative reporter and will co-anchor the 5 p.m., alongside anchor Tisha Powell. “For decades now, WAFB Channel 9 has been the gold standard when it comes to news, weather and sports in the…
If you thought they only showed up when you wanted to sleep in, a Maryland man armed with a leaf blower tried to disrupt the media presence outside the former school of alleged assassin Luigi Mangione. WBFF reporter Shannon Lilly was doing a live shot outside the Gilman School, where the man accused of killing…
Stephen Stock will join New Orleans Fox affiliate WVUE as chief investigative reporter. “Stephen has a proven track record of uncovering impactful stories and a steadfast commitment to truth and transparency,” said WVUE-FOX 8 news director Kristen Palestina. “His investigative journalism will strengthen WVUE’s dedication to deliver the in-depth reporting our community deserves.” Since 2003,…
Charles Watson has joined NBC owned New York station WNBC as a general assignment reporter. Watson most recently worked for Philadelphia ABC-owned station WPVI. Before that, he was a national correspondent and multimedia reporter for Fox News Media, covering eight southern states. Watson started his career as a reporter, morning anchor and producer for WRDE…
Joy Addison has joined Houston NBC affiliate KPRC as a reporter. Addison comes from Fox News where she was a multimedia reporter. Houston media blogger Mike McGuff reported that he “recently posted how Addison apparently had left Fox News after the cable news network announced new hire Sarah Alegre.” Before Fox, she was a marketing…
Winnie Dortch is out of the Intensive Care Unit and continues to make a “miraculous” recovery, according to Cleveland CBS affiliate WOIO. Dortch was shot in a domestic incident earlier this month. WOIO said Dortch still has months of therapy ahead of her, but is “doing well and can’t wait to get back to work!”…
Melissa Torres is leaving WWLP in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Nexstar NBC affiliate said Torres is moving out west to work at another Nexstar station. By the goodbye photo we posted, it looks like she’s going to KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “I’m filled with a multitude of emotions as I close this chapter in my…
Hana Altenburg has joined Reno, Nevada ABC affiliate KOLO as a morning reporter. “Made my official TV debut today with @kolo8newsnow as their new Morning News Reporter and MMJ,” she posted to social media after her debut. “I’m so excited to be starting this journey with the local news station I grew up watching. Catch…
WMAQ reporter Lauren Petty is leaving local TV after more than 20 years. Petty joined the Chicago NBC-owned station in 2012. She posted the news to social media saying that working in local tv was a dream come true. “After 22 years in television, tomorrow is my last day on the air,” Petty posted on…
It must be slow in the Capital these days; it seems that although our world is going crazy, the president and his staff have taken time out to wage a media attack on Fox News, making the rounds on all the Sunday morning talk shows, with one glaring exception: Fox. The gloves were certainly off as Obama’s team struck back at Fox News accusing the network of opinionated reporting. Some of the quotes from the barrage include:
Fox is “not really a news station,” said David Axelrod.
Fox, said Rahm Emmanuel, “is is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective.”
They also urged the other networks not to treat Fox News as a news station because the White House certainly did not think of Fox as news-oriented. A week ago, communications director Anita Dunn opened the White House offensive on Fox on a Sunday show: “Let’s not pretend they’re a news organization like CNN is.” She then stated that Fox was the communications arm for the Republican Party.
The cable news networks are highly competitive, and Fox is not only the second highest- watched cable TV network, but it carries 9 of the top 10 cable news shows as of Q1 of 2009. Despite the heavy competition, the White House’s attack has actually begun to backfire.
Helen Thomas, the senior White House reporter in Washington (serving from JFK to
present) warned the Obama administration: “Stay out of these fights,” and Washington Post’s blog stated: Where the White House has gone way overboard is in its decision to treat Fox as an outright enemy and to go public with the assault.
Some have even called the attack “Nixonian” in nature. However, the White House has an out. If the strategy fails, Anita Dunn can be tucked away easily, as she is expected to leave the administration by the end of the year.
While Fox has not attacked Obama directly, they’ve unloaded on his aides, especially Dunn. Her statement naming Mao Tse Tung as one of her favorite politicians did not help nor did her speech explaining the censorship-like control exercised during the election. If team Obama felt they couldn’t control the message, or the press, they would use YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook to communicate.
While America thought that the Obama Campaign was tech-savvy, it was really just an exercise in message management.
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