Re: [TV orNotTV] Jenny McCarthy to The View???

2013-07-20 Thread PGage
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Melissa P wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/business/media/jenny-mccarthy-to-join-the-view-on-abc.html?emc=eta1 > > > ** ** > > According to Carter, one mothers group -- “Every Child By Two” – did weigh > in. > > ** ** > > As I posted on FB, I’d

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jenny McCarthy to The View???

2013-07-20 Thread Kevin M.
I'd be fine if The View was just another show I don't watch, but the combined hosts can sway their cult of viewers in much the same way Oprah could at the height of her crapfest. So if Jenny vomits nonsense from her face the way she ALWAYS does and people take her seriously the way cult audiences A

RE: [TV orNotTV] Jenny McCarthy to The View???

2013-07-20 Thread Melissa P
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/business/media/jenny-mccarthy-to-join-the- view-on-abc.html?emc=eta1 According to Carter, one mothers group -- "Every Child By Two" - did weigh in. As I posted on FB, I'd like to see scientific organizations like AAAS and the National Academies speak up abo

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jenny McCarthy to The View???

2013-07-20 Thread PGage
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:44 PM, PGage wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Karen Owen wrote: > >> Barbara Walters announced it at the beginning of today's (Monday) >> View show. She didn't say which of the departing panelists >> McCarthy would be replacing. The rest of the show was about

[TV orNotTV] White House correspondent Helen Thomas dead at 92

2013-07-20 Thread Kevin M.
I will remember Thomas for her regular back-and-forths with Bush's press secretary Ari Fleischer, which revealed the extent of the administration's bullshit. If only she'd been taken more seriously at the time. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/media/helen-thomas-who-broke-down-barriers-a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Nate Silver Taking His Talents To Bristol

2013-07-20 Thread Greg Diener
I hope this doesn't mean that certain aspects of fivethirtyeight will now be in that (sarcasm) oh so lovely (/sarcasm) ESPN Insider Paywall since the site will now be a part of ESPN. It's funny to see Olbermann bring in Silver, because I can totally see ESPN's village idiot Skip Bayless being a

[TV orNotTV] Nate Silver Taking His Talents To Bristol

2013-07-20 Thread PGage
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/business/media/nate-silver-blogger-for-new-york-times-is-to-join-espn-staff.html?=_r=6&_r=0 I am not surprised that Nate is leaving the Grey Lady, or that he would prefer ESPN to NBC (his talents are kind of wasted in between election cycles, and he does love the