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Via Fox News
FOXNews.com Live Streaming Coverage of the Kentucky and Oregon Primary Returns
By FOXNews.com

Join FOXNews.com Tuesday night for live streaming of two exclusive programs covering the Kentucky and Oregon primaries.

The special online programming begins with the latest installment of “The Strategy Room” at 7:30 p.m. ET, where readers can watch, hear and help participate as FOX News’ Shepard Smith moderates a freewheeling discussion among some of America’s leading political minds. Smith and crew will also appear live on FOX News Channel throughout the evening’s coverage, discussing the vote results and working their own sources to report new information.

Smith will follow with his own streaming feature. FOX News viewers will get a behind-the-scenes look as he prepares for and delivers his live shots for FOX affiliate stations around the country, updating viewers and FOXNews.com users with the latest analysis.

A series of guests and FOX News personalities will also be on hand to participate in the streaming. Among those scheduled to participate include:
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Via Radio Ink/Newslab
Geraldo Rivera Challenges Hispanics, Criticizes Broadcasters

MIAMI — May 19, 2008: Holding nothing back, Fox News Channel’s Geraldo Rivera today charged that CNN’s Lou Dobbs revived his career with the immigration debate, and charged that Dobbs and others who support stricter immigration enforcement and the deportation of undocumented immigrants are twisting and — in some cases — even fabricating data to support their position. Rivera also criticized fellow Latinos who don’t support immigration reform and challenged radio to balance out those who oppose such reforms.

“Lou Dobbs has resuscitated a failed career as a business journalist on the back of this vulnerable population,” Rivera said in his keynote address at the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference. “You cannot watch Lou Dobbs on CNN without seeing a picture of a young Mexican kid scaling the wall — climbing the border.”

Rivera continued, “They go through the most amazing contortions to make immigration from Mexico part of the news that they’re covering in a way that distorts reality — that is not just un-factual, it is anti-factual.”
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Via TVDecoder
Is MSNBC a Political Liability to NBC?
By Brian Stelter

Monday’s letter from the White House aide Ed Gillespie to the NBC News president Steve Capus was a high-profile complaint about NBC News and MSNBC — ­ but it was far from the first.

Critics are increasingly citing MSNBC for what they say is left-leaning partisan political coverage and commentary. More and more, NBC shares staff, office space and an identity with MSNBC, exposing the news division to complaints about opinionated cable hosts like Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews.

Mr. Gillespie’s letter — although focusing on an interview conducted by an NBC correspondent on Sunday — purposefully tied the news on NBC and the opinion on MSNBC together. The letter requested reassurance that Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews, who are vocal critics of the Bush administration, “don’t hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.”

In a series of “special comments” on MSNBC, Mr. Olbermann has repeatedly condemned the Bush administration. Last week, in a 12-minute commentary about the president’s professed decision to give up golf in a time of war, Mr. Olbermann implored Mr. Bush to “shut the hell up.”
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Via CJR
CNN Does=Politics! (Domestic Politics, At Least)
By Liz Cox Barrett

According to the new Campaign Coverage Index by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, last week “cable news devoted 74% of airtime to the election despite significant breaking events such as the Chinese earthquake and ongoing coverage of the Myanmar cyclone.”

Beyond cable, “stories about the race for president captured 37% of the overall newshole last week. “

Another recent PEJ finding: 3:1 is “roughly the amount of coverage Michelle Obama has received this year compared to Cindy McCain.” But “the attention given both wives is dwarfed in comparison to that given the other political spouse this season, former President Bill Clinton. The husband of candidate Hillary Clinton appeared as a lead newsmaker in nearly four times as many stories (298) as the other spouses combined (78).”

Via Paid Content
CNBC’s Content To Serve As Backbone For AOL Money & Finance; Cross-Platform Ad Deal Included
By David Kaplan

Nearly a year after AOL began revamping its Money & Finance channel, the site’s video content is about to get its biggest makeover to date, courtesy of CNBC, the Time Warner unit told paidContent. While the NBC Universal cable business channel remains dominant on TV, CNBC was fairly slow to make its website as credible a threat to other financial sites.

While the company has been attempting to remedy the site’s ad situation in December by handing over most of the display and contextual ad serving duties to Microsoft, the deal with Microsoft had nothing to do with getting CNBC’s content out to other sites.

CNBC’s new deal with AOL has both. In addition to CNBC providing content for AOL’s Money & Finance videos, AOL is boasting that advertisers will be able to reach CNBC TV, CNBC.com and AOL as part of a single campaign, though that doesn’t mean that Microsoft is being cut out. For those who remember, CNBC’s previous web effort was with MSN Money, a rival to AOL Money, but that deal went away at the end of 2006.

Via Star Community Newspapers
Group to protest NBC’s presidential coverage in Frisco
By Ann Marie Shambaugh

A group of protestors is expected to march to the NBC 5 satellite office in Frisco Square (TEXAS) on Tuesday to object to the network’s coverage of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The protest is part of a one-day nationwide boycott against NBC and MSNBC for comments that the protestors perceive as sexist and biased.

Local protest organizer Rosie Miniscalco of Frisco said that she is upset by remarks made by MSNBC commentators Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, although she did not give a specific example.

“It is so important that the facts get reported fairly and that all of the facts are reported, and that is what our agenda is,” Miniscalco said. “The media is very powerful and it has a responsibility to the public to get what is true out there instead of making biased reports.”
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