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CNN's ratings are so deep in the toilet that they now agree with Donald Trump on his desire for televised trials in his federal court cases. Although it is improbable that this would happen, since it is a general rule to not allow cameras into federal courtrooms, they are so desperate for the huge numbers of viewers such televised trials would generate -- O.J. Simpson trial numbers!? -- that they are able to put their loathing aside to agree with Trump on this issue.An example of this thirst for viewers came on Monday when CNN's legal analyst Elie Honig appeared...

Finally Court TV has something worth watching: Tiger Team - NEW! TODAY [Tuesday, December 25] at 11:00pm and 11:30pm E/P This vérité action series follows Tiger Team – a group of elite professionals hired to infiltrate major business and corporate interests with the objective of exposing weaknesses in the world’s most sophisticated security systems, defeating criminals at their own game. Tiger Team is comprised of Security Audit Specialists Chris Nickerson, Luke McOmie and Ryan Jones who employ a variety of covert techniques – electronic, psychological and tactical - as they take on a new assignment in each episode. TV-PG L...

DANBURY — Western Connecticut State University graduate Krista M. Lindstedt wants an apology from commencement speaker Catherine Crier, who turned Sunday's graduation ceremony into "more of a political rally than a commencement speech that should be positive, motivational and happy." "Overall she offended a lot of people," said Lindstedt, 33, of Crier's speech, which lasted at least 20 minutes. "It was completely, completely inappropriate. It was a slap in the face to veterans" — and soldiers like herself. An Air Force staff sergeant, Lindstedt is a medical services "craftsman," doing everything a civilian nurse does, although she cannot give intravenous...

Dune Lankard, an Alaskan environmental activist, is featured in an episode of "The Sierra Club Chronicles." ... The two liberal groups see this as only the beginning of more such shows to get their messages out. "The Sierra Club Chronicles" is a monthly series ... It had its national premiere on the Link TV satellite channel last month; a new episode will be broadcast Sunday night on that network. Both Court TV and Link are now showing "The ACLU Freedom Files," a series of 10 30-minute episodes featuring real cases... The series is also shown on Zilo TV, a college...

Less than 24 hours after anti-Bush peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested for "unlawful conduct" at last night's State of the Union address, the charge is being dropped and federal officials are apologizing. "The officers made a good faith, but mistaken effort to enforce an old unwritten interpretation of the prohibitions about demonstrating in the Capitol. The policy and procedures were too vague," said Capitol Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer. "The failure to adequately prepare the officers is mine." Sheehan was taken into custody shortly after unzipping her jacket, revealing her T-shirt, which had the message, "2245 Dead. How many...

While much of the country will be focused this week on the highly partisan battles expected during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, five Milwaukee Democratic activists will be fighting their own battle: They are going to trial for allegedly slashing tires outside a Republican Party office during the 2004 presidential election. The sons of a first-term congresswoman and Milwaukee's former acting mayor are among the five charged with slashing the tires of vans rented by Republicans to drive voters and monitors to the polls on Election Day. Sowande Omokunde, son of Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., and...

Foxy lady: The mayor's wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, tells us she's about to leave Court TV to take a job with the "fair and balanced'' Fox News network. Guilfoyle Newsom says she'll be anchoring her own weekend legal and crime show, "The Lineup,'' plus working as a prime-time legal analyst during the week. But on Fox? "I'm not responding to that,'' she said. "I have a lot of colleagues at Fox who I have tremendous respect for, and I'm looking forward to going over there and doing great TV and great journalism.''

Dear Friend, We've always known that it's essential for the ACLU to engage a broad cross-section of the country in protecting our fundamental freedoms from a sustained governmental assault. That is why I am so excited to tell you more about The ACLU Freedom Files TV series, and to ask for your participation in a new kind of information activism. That is also why I'm thrilled to give you advance notice that Court TV - which reaches 85 million households - will start showing our ground-breaking TV series, beginning in January with the episode on religious freedom. We've seldom had...

By JON FRANK, The Virginian-Pilot © September 10, 2005 Last updated: 12:02 AM VIRGINIA BEACH — Citing national security concerns, a Navy admiral has asked that cameras be kept out of the courtroom when a Navy SEAL goes on trial in January in the 2004 murder of a fellow SEAL .In a letter to defense attorney James O. Broccoletti filed in Circuit Court, Rear Adm. Joseph Maguire, commander of the Naval Special Warfare Command in San Diego, objected to photographing or filming the trial of Ronald J. Gasper. Maguire said such filming “could expose the identities of our personnel and...

New York, NY, May 10, 2005 - Court TV's recently renamed daytime schedule, Court TV News™ continued its hold on the #2 cable news spot for the second week in a row, behind only Fox News Channel. Keeping the momentum going, for the week of May 2, in the 9 am - 6 pm time period, Court TV led all other news networks, finishing #2 in HH ratings and in the key adult demographic, 18-49. During that period, Court TV featured its regular daily schedule which includes Court TV News' shows, Nancy Grace: Closing Arguments and Catherine Crier Live. Quipped...

After months of growing rumors, it's official -- San Francisco's Camelot couple are splitting up. Mayor Gavin Newsom and his Court TV analyst wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom, announced "with great sadness" the end of their 3-year-old bicoastal marriage in a brief statement issued late Wednesday by the mayor's City Hall press office. "Unfortunately, the demands of our respective careers have made it too difficult for us to continue as a married couple," the pair said in the statement. "Over the past 10 years, we have developed a tremendous bond of love and respect for each other. That will never change....

(12-02) 12:03 PST NEW YORK (AP) -- If you don't think the First Amendment is a burning issue, you've already forgotten the ruckus over "Saving Private Ryan" just three weeks ago. Spooked by how the Feds might punish them, 66 ABC affiliates played safe by squelching that acclaimed, ultrapatriotic war film. Their excuse was its handful of swear words A case of prior restraint imposed by the government? Not exactly -- but, with 66 stations caving in to a perceived threat from the Federal Communications Commission, it's the next best thing. This is an excellent time, then, for "The First...

November 13, 2004 Of Course Scott Peterson Is Guilty - Court TV Channel Has Been Screaming The Verdict For Months by: Dennis M. Becklin Medford, Oregon - Off with his head, I guess. I don't personally know if Scott Peterson is guilty. I didn't personally hear any of the evidence. But, it's obvious that he's guilty because Nancy Grace of CourtTV, and Geraldo Rivera and Gloria Allred of FoxTV have all been screaming for his head on national TV for months. How could they possibly be wrong? It's shades of the coliseum again. 82-percent of American TV watchers signaled with...

How far into the "On the Record" before Greta covers the "oh, so lightly" covered Scott Perterson trial?

Here we go again. Scott Peterson winding up, she now Greta now has her new bloody murder case to bludgen us with.

TV or no TV? That is one of the media-access questions facing Chief District Court Judge Terry Ruckriegle in the Kobe Bryant case, as the uneasy tension between the press and the criminal justice system took center stage Monday. Even as a divided Colorado Supreme Court was issuing a 4-3 ruling upholding, for now, the prohibition placed by Ruckriegle on media use of transcripts from hearings on Rape Shield Statute issues, prosecutors, defense attorneys and the lawyer representing Bryant's accuser debated future public Internet access to court filings. They unanimously opposed Court TV's request to televise the trial. Pleadings and...

DENVER (Reuters) - Allowing television cameras into the rape trial of basketball star Kobe Bryant (news) would destroy the remaining dignity of both accused and accuser, his attorneys said in a filing made public on Friday. The trial of the 25-year-old Los Angeles Laker is scheduled to begin in Eagle, Colorado, on Aug. 27 with jury selection. Media attention has been intense since a woman hotel staffer in the Vail area accused Bryant of having raped her when he was a guest in the hotel. Bryant denies her account, saying the incident on June 30 last year involved consensual sex....

DENVER (AP) -- When Kobe Bryant goes on trial later this year, jurors will be allowed to submit questions for witnesses in the sexual assault case under what is believed to be the first rule of its kind. The possibility of juror questions in criminal cases is both exciting and scary to judges and attorneys. "I'm hopeful this will be beneficial, even though I'm nervous about this. The reality is, no one knows how this will work," said Scott Robinson, a Denver criminal defense attorney. Jurors have been allowed to ask questions in Colorado civil cases for the past five...

PROGRAMME FOR UN OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL TOLERANCE DAY (17 NOVEMBER) TO BE EDITED AS FEATURE FOR COURT TV In cooperation with the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), Court TV –- the Courtroom Television network –- is to produce a programme for the United Nations Headquarters in observance next Monday of the International Day for Tolerance. Entitled “We Are Family: Educating Our Children for a Safer World”, the one-hour programme will take place in the Dag Hammarsjköld Library Auditorium on Monday (17 November) beginning at 1 p.m. It will be webcast live on both the United Nations and Court...

Florida Man Wades into Kobe Drama Lawyer asks judge to bar cameras from court to keep filth off television By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News August 20, 2003 The peanut gallery surrounding the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case keeps expanding and is making itself heard loud and clear. On Tuesday, one day after a Boulder couple associated with the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation filed papers in the Bryant case which one legal observer labeled a "legal version of junk mail," a Florida attorney with no previous connection to the Eagle County proceedings waded into the Bryant drama with a motion...