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Via BusinessJournalism
By Andrew Leckey
Competition in Broadcast Business Journalism

Though competition in broadcast business journalism is intensifying, the bottom line is still covering complex topics with urgency, accuracy and style.

That’s what business journalists from CNBC, Fox Business Network, Bloomberg Broadcast, “Nightly Business Report” and CNN told journalists attending the Reynolds Center’s daylong “Broadcast Business Journalism” workshop in New York City on April 7th.

The story doesn’t have to be formulaic to be a business story,” said Kathleen Johnston, a senior investigative producer at CNN, whose presentation included video clips of interesting story leads. “You can get the documents and numbers in, but do it in a way that adds to the story and doesn’t turn viewers away.”

The earliest days of broadcast business coverage were recounted by Myron Kandel, founding financial editor at CNN, who said it initially was difficult to get CEOs on the air at all. “The only coverage they’d seen to that point was completely negative, so they wanted no part of it,” said Kandel.

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Via Belleville News-Democrat
Embattled pastor’s eulogy blasts Fox News
The Associated Press

CHICAGO — The embattled former minister of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama fired back at the news media during a Chicago funeral service.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s remarks were reported Sunday in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Wright didn’t mention church member Obama, who has denounced Wright’s inflammatory comments circulated in video excerpts of his past sermons.

But in his eulogy at Saturday’s funeral for the late R. Eugene Pincham, a retired judge, Wright did pillory some of his critics, including Fox News commentators Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.

Wright said Pincham befriended “Jews, Muslims, rabbis, imams, fathers in the Catholic church and (Louis) Farrakhan in the Islamic faith.”

He said: “Fox News can’t understand that. O’Reilly will never get that. Sean Hannity’s stupid fantasy will keep him forever stuck on stupid when it comes to comprehending how you can love a brother who does not believe what you believe.”

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Via Captiol Hill Blue
Fox News Sex Surrogates and their Zombiefied Customers

Ahhh, there she is!!! My morning fix that substitutes for sex in my joyless marriage, the FOX News channel babe. You know the one ! !

She always sits front and center, in a skirt some might say is too short, but not to me and my drooling brethren.

Look, she’s wiggling her hips so seductively. Many, she’s got legs clean up to her… From the depths of my mind, i hear a screeching of sorts, intruding in on my morning brain sex orgy. “Honey, can you help me get dressed?”

Damn, it’s the old battle axe, again rousing me from me dreams of exotic, mind numbing sex with one of the numerous FOX News sex surrogates.

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Via Multichannel News
Google TV Ads: Buy The People, For The People
Internet Giant Preps Public Debut of Auctions For Dish Network’s Local Avails

Soon, anyone with an Internet connection will be able to buy a TV spot — on any one of 94 networks, including A&E Network, Bravo, CNBC, CNN, Discovery, ESPN, Fox News Channel and MTV — delivered to any of Dish Network customers’ 14 million set-top boxes.

Google has been running its TV Ads service in a closed trial, with advertisers by invitation only, since last June. The service sells 15- and 30-second slots in Dish’s local advertising inventory, in online auctions that close 24 hours before air.

Googe TV Ads logoNow in the next few weeks, the search giant will make the service publicly available to anyone who signs up online, said Keval Desai, Google TV Ads product-management director. “We want to open up the floodgates,” Desai said, adding the actual launch date is still a moving target.

Google had fallen behind schedule on the project because it had “completely underestimated the complexity of the deployment,” according to one industry executive, who declined to be identified.

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