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Barbara Walters on Journalists: You 'Don't Know Whether We're Republicans or Democrats' By Scott Whitlock Created 04/09/2012 - 5:10pm What world does she live in? According to veteran journalist Barbara Walters on Monday, the American public doesn't know whether "most" reporters are "Republicans or Democrats." The unbelievable claim came during a View segment on the passing of 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace. Walters, who once recoiled at the prospect of the "scary" Sarah Palin becoming President, insisted, "But, most of us...you don't know whether we're Republicans or Democrats or exhibitionists." (Exhibitionists?) The comment came after comedienne Whoopi Goldberg insisted, "And...

A Catholic advocacy group charges the sports TV network ESPN has failed to respond properly to a graphic rant by anchorwoman Dana Jacobson in which she "attacked Jesus Christ." Jacobson, reportedly intoxicated, was speaking at a celebrity roast in Atlantic City, N.J., when she unleashed a profane tirade, saying, "F--- Notre Dame," "F--- Touchdown Jesus" and finally "F--- Jesus." "Touchdown Jesus" is the popular moniker for a statue on the Notre Dame campus of Jesus raising his arms. Catholic League president Bill Donohue said he pressed ESPN on the issue and received an e-mail with an unsatisfactory statement by Jacobson....

Like most sane people with a life, I hate reality TV shows. Why should I care about wannabe loser nobody's and what eight of them do together in a house or on an island or in an Australian desert? But, based on my viewing of the first two episodes of "Anchorwoman" on FOX, last night, I think this show is an exception. Anchorwoman is Lauren Jones, a completely ditzy excessively-siliconed, peroxided former model and WWE wrestler who wants to become a local news anchor. They'd never hire this idiot, but since FOX owns the small-town Texas TV station and wanted...

As the news director of WTTG-Fox5, Katherine Green gets stacks of tapes and résumés from reporters and anchors who want to work in her newsroom. Some applicants are young and green, some older and seasoned. But the most common characteristic is: Most are women. By Green's estimate, women applicants outnumber men about 3 to 1. Bill Lord, Green's counterpart at WJLA (Channel 7), sees much the same ratio, and he says the percentage of women has increased year by year. "It's actually more difficult now to find a strong male anchor than a strong female," Green says. "Why? I'm not...

There's a controversy that has engulfed the Weather Channel. A 42-year-old former anchor has accused the network brass at the Weather Channel of washing her out of the a high-ranking job to make way for a hot front of sexy young weather babes. "Marny Stanier Midkiff, 42, this week filed a lawsuit claiming she was booted in the fall of 2003 as part of a reputed 'reorganization' of the storm channel, which she believes was really an excuse to get more young female weathercasters on the air. Midkiff says that, in the months before she was let go, her boss...

So how many Freepers are going to watch the new newsmagazine show on broadcast Fox tommorrow? To get up to speed, see this previous thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/684085/posts. It's featuring Geraldo Rivera, Bill O'Reilly, anchored by Shepherd Smith. I also believe Laurie Dhue is going to be on the show based on some of the ads I've seen for it. I think I'll check it out. I wonder if it'll get off the ground.