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Via Digital Spy
ASA clears Fox News “balanced” claim
By Dave West, Media Correspondent

News Corporation is free to claim its Fox News channel is “fair and balanced” in adverts describing the service, the Advertising Standards Agency has ruled.

Two people complained after the media giant placed adverts celebrating its achievements in the British national press.

The advert was headed “defying conventional wisdom for six decades” and said: “Time and again, they said it couldn’t be done. Time and again, we did it. In the process, we’ve given new choices to billions of people around the world.”
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Via CNN
CNN’s Candy Crowley wins New Hampshire Primary Award

The New Hampshire Political Library is awarding CNN’s Candy Crowley with a New Hampshire Primary Award Wednesday for her outstanding political coverage.

Serving as CNN’s Senior Political Correspondent, Crowley braved the New England cold to report extensively on the New Hampshire primary earlier this year.

Former Sen. Bill Bradley, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and former New Hampshire Gov. Walter Peterson are also among those who are to be honored Wednesday evening.

The New Hampshire Political Library describes itself as a non partisan, non-profit organization with a mission of promoting the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary status.
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Via Examiner
Fox correspondent getting married

>Thanks to Cella for the tip.

Jim Angle, Fox News’s chief Washington correspondent, is finally taking the plunge. Angle is engaged to Patrice Pisinski, a former senior adviser at the Department of Energy.

“We met at a charity dinner,” Angle tells us. “Then she and a friend tried to set me up with a third person and she and I wound up getting involved instead.”

“This is a pretty big deal for me inasmuch as I am a lifelong bachelor,” he said. Plus, he adds that she has two children, ages 6 and 11. “So I am not only taking the plunge, I’m diving into the deep end of the pool.”

The May 17 wedding will be a small, private affair in the D.C. area.

Via BlackVoices
Tips for J.C. Watts to Become The Black Ted Turner
By Madison J. Gray

Turns out that of all people, conservative Republican former Congressman J.C. Watts is trying his hand at what BET has said loud and clear that they didn’t give a crap about: the news and black people.

So enter Watts and his new enterprise the Black Television News Channel, which he hopes will fill the void of African American-focused news and features. Great idea, actually. But it’s not the first time someone has attempted to do news aimed at black people.

BET actually had an excellent news department that focused quality journalism on topics pertinent to our community, as well as throughout the African diaspora. However, once executives at the network decided to pull the plug on its broadcast news division, we were left without a major national television news outlet. TV One, the black-owned media company headed by radio entrepreneurs Cathy Hughes and her son Alfred Liggins offers news programming through their daily schedule, as does BET, but not on the scale that Watts is talking about. This is a deal with Comcast Cable for a multi-city market to launch in 2009.

Now the question is: how will Watts successfully fill the gap left by BET when they decided to replace legitimate news with gold teeth and booty shaking?

Here’s some tips for the BTNC that will help them to grab and keep a hungry black news audience …
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Via Telegraph
The most influential US political pundits: 30-21

>Earlier: 40-31