MediaSnob

  • Firstly, does anyone actually watch Campbell Brown’s “No Bias, No Bull” on CNN? I’m guessing most people on this blog watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity — either for serious or for giggles — Bill O’Reilly or absolutely nothing because you hate them all. Or maybe you’re like me and you’re watching “Ugly Betty”…

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  • From Obama Pics DailyFound this quote from her interview in People (via Jezebel), where Michelle explains why she posed for Vogue Magazine: While I don’t consider myself a fashionista,” she says, “I thought it was good for my daughters and little girls just like them , who haven’t seen themselves represented in these magazines, hopefully

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  • Remember that whole deal where the New York Post ran an editorial cartoon that made fun of both the killing of a berserk chimpanzee and the stimulus package and people inferred that the toon was comparing the president to a primate? Yeah. I remember it too. One thousand blogs and articles about WHY putting a…

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  • But the real question is … will Oprah put Michelle on the cover? The Washington Post reports that Winfrey and best friend Gayle King dropped in on Obama for an exclusive sit-down interview for O Magazine. The Post goes on to speculate it’s possible Michelle could wind up being the first person to grace the

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  • This political cartoon by Delonas ran in the New York Post Wednesday drawn by a guy who apparently didn’t get the memo that any doodle of a great age, chimpanzee, gorilla or monkey within 100 yards of Barack Obama is bound to raise some serious eyebrows. Need we remind you of Annie Leibovitz infamous LeBron…

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  • NPR’s Farai Chideya, soon-to-be former host of News & NotesBummed, angry, disappointed that NPR’s News & Notes is getting the axe? Post your comments, insider info, plots to save Farai on the Hot Topics thread. (The Snob got one of her biggest breaks on N&N. LAME, NPR! Super lame.) Also, Athena LaTrelle is ALWAYS looking

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  • Callie Shell, an Aurora Photos for Time photographer based in the U.S., has won the first prize of the Spot News Stories category of the 2009 World Press Photo Contest with this photo of Barack and Michelle Obama during the U.S. presidential campaign. The prize-winning entries of the 2009 World Press Photo Contest, the world’s

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