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ABC Wins Friday as 'Shark Tank' Closes Out with its Best-Ever Finale and Strongest Season Ever
With back-to-back Shark Tanks, including the season finale at 9pm, leading into 20/20, ABC won the final Friday of the season
TV Ratings Friday: 'Nikita' & 'Shark Tank' Finales Rise
ABC was number one in adults 18-49 and with total viewers.
Germany can’t stop Eurozone from another recession
WASHINGTON — The worst is yet to come? What if the worst is already at your doorstep? This is the situation that Germany and the rest of the eurozone faces in the upcoming weeks as economic growth is at a standstill. Unemployment throughout the eurozone sits at 12%, youth unemployment as high as 50% in [...]
Anchors On Australia’s ‘Today’ Pull ‘Anchorman’ Prank On Colleague
Poor Roz Kelly. The sports reporter was delivering the latest sporting news on Australia’s “Today” show when she fell victim to one of the oldest TV news tricks in the book: the TelePrompTer switcheroo. “Today” co-anchor Karl Stefanovic...Show More Summary
Flagstaff Arizona 1992
At a sales conference in January 1992 I got to see some of the scenery around Sedona and Flagstaff Arizona. I've always wanted to go back there. It's some amazing landscapes.
The Smashing Pumpkins Get Their Guitar Center Groove On
If you’re planning on staying home tonight (and have DIRECTV), one of the very best ways to kick off your weekend is available via the satellite cabler’s Audience Network channel 239. At 10 p.m. PT, the live concert series Guitar Center...Show More Summary
Gawker Crowdfunding to Buy Mayor Crack Tape
Forget checkbook journalism—welcome to the era of Paypall journalism. Gawker has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $200,000 so it can buy the video that allegedly shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack. "They will give us the video. We will publish the video. You will watch the...
Viral Video: Chris Hadfield Rocks in Outer Space
Stressed out after a long week? Gravity be gone – we’re off to the moon with Chris Hadfield, who returned with his Russian and American colleagues on Monday night. Yes, Hadfield is Canadian. Who else would take a guitar into … Continue reading
NYT site ‘was subjected to denial of service attacks’ this week
New York Times’ site “was subjected to denial of service attacks” this week… Read more
Study: Twitter ‘has a distinct geographic profile’ from mainstream media
First Monday | Smithsonian | floatingsheep A study of the “geography of Twitter” compares, among many other data sets, what it calls “Twitter versus mainstream news media.” This part of Kalev Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan … Read more
My Agent
On a rare day of high-wattage sunshine that momentarily denuded the stygian gloom that is London in late winter, I spent an interesting hour at my U.K. publishers—Random House—listening to the sales and marketing team strategizing for the imminent publication of my 11th novel, Five Days.
Joe Scarborough’s Obsession With Kate Upton
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough has an obsession with Kate Upton, and he’s not shy about it.
Scarborough mentioned the name of the model (and niece of Rep. Fred Upton (R-Fla.), with whom Scarborough served in Congress) multiple times throughout this morning’s show on MSNBC. Show More Summary
19 Obvious Reasons Why 'Star Wars' Is Better Than 'Star Trek'
I'm fully aware that writing an article about how "Star Wars" is better than "Star Trek" is flame bait. Especially with "Star Trek Into Darkness" hitting theaters this week. You understand this as well as I do. But damn it, it's true. Show More Summary
EU to sanction China over illegal subsidies
WASHINGTON — Europe has formally warned China over its improper and unfair business practices. The European Union’s (EU) European Commission is going to send a formal warning to China over its illegal subsidies to several of its corporations. Telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corporation are under scrutiny because they receive state subsidies. It has [...]
3 Count: Principled Hearing
U.S. House of Representative has hearings on copyright reform, Kim Dotcom wins right to appeal to NZ Supeme Court and BREIN suffers a defeat in the Netherlands.
Blog: Goodale: Pentagon Papers have lessons for AP case
Forty-two years ago next month, The New York Times published the first of the Pentagon Papers, a trove of classified documents on U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, sparking a landmark legal case on press freedom....
You're to Blame for Factory Deaths. Well, You and Walmart
The New Yorker's James Surowiecki has figured out who's to blame for unsafe working conditions for garment workers: people who wear clothing: "The problem isn't so much evil factory owners as a system that's great at getting Western consumers what they want but leaves developing-world workers toiling in misery."
Thursday Final Ratings: 'Hannibal', 'The Big Bang Theory', 'The Vampire Diaries', 'Grey's Anatomy' & 'Office' Retrospective Adjusted Up
Thursday's final ratings.
WFLA Adds Second Meteorologist This Week
Four days after announcing the hiring of meteorologist Bryan Bennett, Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA has announced it’s adding meteorologist Julie Phillips to its “Storm Team.”
“I’m very excited to be adding Julie, and more recently, Bryan Bennett to Storm Team 8.” said chief meteorologist Steve Jerve. Show More Summary
Young and Smart | Par for The Course | Too Bad
GalleyCat: A 17-year-old writer gets his story published on a stamp in Ireland. What were you doing when you were 17? AllTwitter: Pro golfer Ben Crane found a caddie via Twitter. Pretty awesome. FishbowlLA: Speaking of golf, Robin Leach is...Show More Summary
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