Haiti: A View From the Middle East

Staff / Truthdig Jan 23, 2010 How are Middle Eastern media outlets reporting the crisis in Haiti? Mosaic Intelligence Report analyzes how some TV networks are seeing parallels between Port-au-Prince and Gaza, or pointing to the hypocrisy of the U.S. sending aid to one country while bombing others. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

European Human Rights Group, U.S. Media Decry SCOTUS Ruling

Staff / Truthdig Jan 23, 2010 The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to loosen corporate restrictions on campaign finance didn't sit well with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an international human rights coalition of 56 European nations, but somehow we doubt that the top court's conservative justices are going to lose sleep over that particular critique. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lou Dobbs for President?

Staff / Truthdig Nov 21, 2009 Now that he's been cut loose from his contract at CNN, former anchor Lou Dobbs is free to do his thing unencumbered by any constraints imposed by media bosses or by archaic notions of journalistic objectivity What, you might wonder, would "his thing" be? Well, it seems as if this self-declared champion of the middle class isn't ruling out a run for office yes, even that office. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Oprah Sets Her Show’s Expiration Date

Staff / Truthdig Nov 20, 2009 So long, "Oprah" -- in 2011, that is. Oprah Winfrey's eponymous show went national in 1986, and, on Thursday, the talk show host and international media mogul gave notice when she'll call it a wrap: Sept. 9, 2011, just a day over 25 years since her daytime reign began. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Dobbs Blames It on Obama

Staff / Truthdig Nov 18, 2009 The folks at Fox News are going to love this one: Lou Dobbs may have left his desk at CNN, but that doesn't mean he'll cut out the crazy talk anytime soon. He believes his decline at the network began when President Barack Obama was elected. However, it's unclear how exactly that might account for the drop in his ratings. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN

Staff / Truthdig Nov 12, 2009 We may not have seen the last of him on TV, but Lou Dobbs is done at CNN, having struck a deal to leave his anchor post at the cable channel immediately. In regard to what he's doing next, Dobbs played coy while announcing his departure on camera Wednesday, saying only that he was "considering a number of options and directions." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CBS: 2, Rather: 0

Staff / Truthdig Sep 30, 2009 Former CBS anchor Dan Rather has come up short -- $70 million short, in fact -- in his bid to sue his ex-employers at the network for relieving him of his desk duty following a 2004 report he delivered about then-President George W. Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam War era. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Walter Cronkite, TV’s First Anchor, Dies at 92

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2009 One of the news industry's longest-living legends, Walter Cronkite, died of cerebrovascular disease Friday at the age of 92 Over the course of his storied career as the anchor of CBS News, Cronkite covered some of the biggest events of the 20th century He himself coined his famous and often-quoted sign-off line: "And that's the way it is  " . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

FCC Still Obsessed With Janet Jackson’s Nipple Slip

Staff / Truthdig Nov 22, 2008 Now, this is just getting weird: Nearly five years after the shocking (!) "wardrobe malfunction" that shamed exposed nipple owner Janet Jackson and seared the tender eyeballs of select members of the federal government, the FCC is soldiering on in its quest to slap offending network CBS with a $550,000 fine. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama’s Network TV Blitz

Staff / Truthdig Oct 30, 2008 What's that? An Obama infomercial? Network TV? Wednesday night? Oh, right -- here it is, in case you missed it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

ABC Pushing ‘Daisies,’ Not Democrats

Staff / Truthdig Oct 28, 2008 The Obama campaign is running a big media blitz on Wednesday night, with CBS, Fox, NBC and Univision all airing the Democratic presidential candidate's muy mysterioso half-hour advertisement at 8 p.m., but ABC and the CW won't be joining in the Obamathon. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CBS Partners With YouTube

Staff / Truthdig Oct 14, 2008 While sister company Viacom is still suing YouTube for $1 billion, CBS is hoping to get some cash out of the Web video mecca a more polite way. The Tiffany Network has had some success online, and currently has one of the more popular YouTube channels, but the eyeball business isn't as straightforward as it used to be. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )