MediaSnob

  • Crusing the Web for a break on all things Michael Jackson related and I found this story on Black Voices caliming that Oprah had denied Jesus as the only path to God. Suddenly the Scooby Sense in my brain went “Ruh-Roh!” knowing this was NOT going to go over well with Oprah’s Christian base and…

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  • Of course, Carlos doesn’t get a big fancy primetime show. (Yet you can watch Keith Olbermann three times a night and Lock Up ALL WEEKEND LONG!) He gets the 11 a.m. news block to watch over, but that’s nothing to sniff at. He runs the site The Stimulist (which is an awesome site) and is…

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  • Remember when CNN employed Roland Martin as Campbell Brown’s seat-filler and folks bemoaned it? Well, Campbell returned. They renamed the show. And … sacre bleu! It’s actually doing WORSE! More after the jump.

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  • The Civil Rights Movement and whatever Bill O’Reilly does for a living should never, ever be in the same sentence together. But, you know that right, Juan? Mr. Eyes On the Prize? Of COURSE Bill O’Reilly calling an abortion doctor a murderer and dealing with the fall out when that doctor gets murdered is JUST

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  • Bill Maher has been all over the cable news talking about the president’s over-exposure, criticizing what he sees as inaction on Barack Obama’s part to enact change. He even goes so far as to say Obama needs to be more like Bush (only with demonstrably better ideas). He also makes the argument, one that I…

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  • Seems the Congressional Black Caucus are blasting political TV talk shows for their lack of diversity. Or, as Gawker joked, “Clarence Page can only be one place at a time!” The CBC is referencing a recent Urban League report that put a spotlight on how even when minority issues are being discussed there are often…

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  • It’s been bollocks here in the US. If you want to stay up the two best live blogs on-line I’ve found are on Huffington Post and Andrew Sullivan’s “The Daily Dish.” Not to mention Twitter. I can’t believe how pathetic the coverage on this story has been in the states. Makes me seriously wonder how

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