Morning, Rod .. hi anita ... thanks for the updates. FYI I didn't see any mention of Col. Allard in these links .. but I found it ..:
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###### NBC sinks to new low - Retired Col. Ken Allard on network's precipitous retreat from journalistic and ethical standards. Upset about Bill Arkin & Keith Olberman's slander on Military and Conan O'Brien's slander on Christianity.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/
Allard:
What Relationship Is Allard "Severing?"
"NBC sinks too low for this talking head" is the headline on Ken Allard's latest column for the San Antonio Express-News.
Apparently disgusted by what he calls "the network's precipitous retreat from journalistic and ethical standards," he declares: "With great reluctance and best wishes to my former colleagues, with this column I am severing my 10-year relationship with NBC News."
Except -- he's never had a formal relationship with NBC News! All his work has been on an appearance-by-appearance basis. "Mr. Allard is not under contract to NBC and hasn't appeared on our air in nearly a year," an NBC spokesperson said this afternoon. "In truth, there's really nothing to sever."
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More blurbs:
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Saturday, Feb 17
"The Last One They Took From Us Was Paula Zahn, & Look Where She Went"
Today's Page Six emphasizes Fox's side of the Kiran Chetry story. It says "fast-sinking, second-place CNN picked up top-rated Fox's crumbs" by signing Chetry as a substitute anchor and correspondent.
At the end of the item, a Fox insider says: "Let's see what happens. Remember, the last one they took from us was Paula Zahn, and look where she went."
An e-mailer notes that "there's a history of FNC hastily firing and then absolutely trashing any talent who talk to CNN. Remember Paula Zahn? When Ailes learned she was talking with CNN, he fired her immediately, leading to Zahn being on CNN six months earlier than expected..."
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Tribune Sues FNC For Use Of "Red Eye"
Chicago Tribune Co. is suing FNC for trademark infringement over its new show Red Eye. Crain's reports: "In its February 14 complaint, Tribune says its five-year-old daily RedEye tabloid edition and the Fox show 'contain nearly identical content' and 'viewers are quite likely to assume that Fox and the RedEye products owned by Tribune are collaborating, thereby causing confusion.'"
Red Eye premiered on FNC two weeks ago. The network admits that it didn't run a trademark search before naming the show.
A hearing is set for Feb. 26. FOXNews.com no longer calls the late-night show Red Eye; instead, it's titled "Greg Gutfeld's Show."
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BTW, I LOVE the Mom, who make phone calls to her son, the host of Red Eye. She is just hysterically funny ... kinda like Gracie Allen.
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"Wipe The Drool Off Your Mouths!"
Half an hour into her first broadcast, FNC's Greg Kelly introduced Courtney Friel this way: "Here's the superstar, Courtney Friel. Journalist. Could be a model."
"Could be," Kelly Wright added.
Janice Dean noticed their fawning: "You guys have to wipe the drool off your mouths," she remarked.
She'll be back on Fox & Friends tomorrow morning...
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CNN's One-Hour Deal With Chetry
CNN and Kiran Chetry have been flirting with each other for years.
"I felt she would be a good person to have in the mix, but I also thought there's no chance of her becoming available unless extraordinary circumstances intervened," Jon Klein tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaking of extraordinary circumstances...
"I couldn't believe that this was dropping into my lap," Klein says. After conferring with Jim Walton and Joel Cheatwood, THR says "the deal was done with a verbal agreement less than an hour later."
"I've never been involved in anything like this in 30 years in this business," Klein says...
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Good riddance, Kiran.
Typical driveby media spin. Change the story from the truth, re: "NBC sinks to new low - network's precipitous retreat from journalistic and ethical standards." to, "Allard never actually had a signed contract with us and hasn't been on in awhile.... yada. yada. yada."
Reminds me of the time the Swift Boat Vets came up with the truth about Kerry and the DBMs attempts to "prove" how the Swift Boat Vets were all a bunch of Republican operatives because some of them took money from....drumroll, please.... REPUBLICANS.
Never a word, however, about dems taking money from moveon.org, George Soros, A.N.S.W.E.R, etc, etc.
I finally saw an episode of that Red-Eye show on Fox.
I never stay up late enough to watch it...unless, my granddaughter, who stays up VERY late is here.
After she finally fell asleep at about 1:45 AM..I turned to Fox and Red-Eye was on...
WOW do those people on that show talk FAST!!! It sounded like a show I would like...I just can't stay up late enough to watch it every night though.