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OPINION

Cable News Was Biggest Convention Winner

Broadcasters cede historic role as political pundits

Sep 1, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democratic Convention made it official, writes Scott Collilns in the Los Angeles Times: The broadcast networks have passed the political torch to the cable networks. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC not only delivered “wall to wall coverage” compared to the broadcast nets' paltry hour of nightly programming. Their... More »

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NBC • cable TV • MSNBC • Democratic National Convention • Fox News • CNN • PBS • broadcasting • CBS News • ABC News • Republican National Convention

 ABC Producer Busted
 Filming DNC Bigwigs

Sheriff's deputy gets rough with newsman probing role of VIP donors

Aug 28, 08 5:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - An ABC News producer was busted in Denver while filming senators and big donors leaving a hotel meeting near the Democratic National Convention. He was manhandled into traffic by a sheriff's deputy, handcuffed and hauled away on charges of interference, trespass, and failure to obey a lawful order, reports ABC... More »

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Denver • Democratic National Convention • arrest • journalist • ABC News • television news

 Sunday Pundits 
 Dissect Biden Pick

Biden dominates Sunday talk shows

Aug 24, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The newly announced Obama/Biden ticket predictably dominated the talk shows today. Politico gives the run-down:
  • Obama VP adviser Caroline Kennedy told Meet the Press she hoped Joe Biden would prove to be as sage a pick as her father's choice of LBJ.
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned Biden's
... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Biden • Rudy Giuliani • Fox News • vice president • Obama 2008 • NBC News • Meet the Press • Barack Obama supporters • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • ABC News

Leno Could Doom Nightline with ABC Move

Host's retirement may set off cascade of late-night dominoes

Aug 11, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - These should be banner days for ABC’s Nightline, John Edwards’ confessional outlet of choice. Instead, staffers fear Jay Leno's departure from NBC will wind up costing them their jobs, the LA Times reports. ABC appears to be Leno's most likely destination after he retires next year, which would... More »

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Jay Leno • late night host • Conan O'Brien • David Letterman • ABC News • television news • Nightline • Ted Koppel

Obama Wants Probe of VA Drug Tests

'Outrageous' that suicide-linked drugs were tested on vets

Jun 18, 08 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John Cornyn are seeking a probe into reports that veterans had been recruited for tests on drugs linked to suicide, ABC News reports. An ABC News/Washington Times story noted that vets were given the anti-smoking drug Chantix in government tests, but for more than... More »

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Barack Obama • veterans • suicide • veterans' health care • White House • John Cornyn • ABC News • Chantix • Veterans Administration

 McCain, Obama Reject
  ABC Town Hall Meeting 

But campaigns are enthusiastic about new approach

Jun 9, 08 3:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain and Barack Obama turned down an invitation from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ABC News to hold the first town hall meeting in New York, AP reports. While the candidates are both enthusiastic about the idea of such a forum, they want it to be broadcast by multiple stations.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Michael Bloomberg • town hall meeting • campaign stops • ABC News

 Obama, Clinton
 Spar on Iran, Gas 

Dems hit competing morning talk shows

May 4, 08 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Obama likened Hillary's stance on Iran to George Bush's "cowboy diplomacy" on Meet the Press today, while Clinton took to ABC to defend the gas tax and told voters mired in the Jeremiah Wright controversy "We should move on." Tim Russert ignored her advice, however, and devoted... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • NBC • ABC • Tim Russert • Clinton 2008 • Obama 2008 • NAFTA • NBC News • gas tax • campaign • George Stephanopoulos • Meet the Press • Election 2008 • ABC News • Indiana primary • North Carolina primary • Iran war

Race Heats Up for Sunday News Anchors

Oh, and the candidates, too—though they may claim unfair treatment

May 3, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - They are locked in an epic struggle for the nation's heart, the grizzled veteran versus the up-and-comer, both popular, both controversial. No, not Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Tomorrow, the real showdown is between Tim Russert, who is interviewing Obama, and George Stephanopoulos, who is interviewing Clinton at roughly the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • media • MSNBC • Tim Russert • George Stephanopoulos • ABC News • media bias

Stephanopoulos Sticks Up
for Tone of ABC Debate

Focus on electability mirrored campaign trail chatter, pundit says

Apr 17, 08 7:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - George Stephanopolous has drawn fire for posing too many "gotcha" questions at last night's Democratic presidential debate on ABC, but the pundit is sticking to his guns. Stephanopolous says he didn't focus on electability over policy issues by accident. "It's not only, who will be the best president,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • ABC • presidential debate • Democratic debate • Democratic presidential candidates • George Stephanopoulos • Pennsylvania primary • ABC News

ANALYSIS

 ABC Debate Hosts 
 'Shoddy, Despicable' 

'Barely news,' gets even worse, says Shales

Apr 17, 08 6:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - No winner emerged in last night's Democratic presidential debate, but for one columnist the loser was clear: ABC News. Over the course of a commercial-crammed broadcast, moderators Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous dwelled on petty half-controversies to incite Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to get nasty, writes Tom Shales of... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • presidential debate • George Stephanopoulos • Pennsylvania primary • Election 2008 • ABC News • Charles Gibson

CBS in Talks
to Outsource
News to CNN

Deal would mark watershed for mother
of network news

Apr 8, 08 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - CBS, the network of Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite that is widely credited with inventing television news, is considering outsourcing some of its news gathering activities to CNN, according to the New York Times. No deal is imminent but talks are reportedly taking place at the highest level at... More »

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Time Warner • NBC • Katie Couric • CBS • Dan Rather • CNN • Good Morning America • CBS News • ABC News • Today show • television news • CBS Evening News • The Early Show • TNS Media Intelligence

Reporters Wounded in Iraq Win Peabody Awards

Woodruff and Dozier honored for their war reporting

Apr 2, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two journalists seriously injured in Iraq won Peabody Awards today for their stories on wounded veterans, the AP reports. Bob Woodruff of ABC and Kimberly Dozier of CBS each won for their profiles of soldiers returning home from Iraq. Woodruff suffered a brain injury in an IED attack in 2006,... More »

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Iraq • television • 30 Rock • Bob Woodruff • The Colbert Report • CBS News • ABC News • Iraq war • Kimberly Dozier • Peabody Awards

Spitzer Flap Frees Sawyer's Hooker Special

Prostitution show, stalled for 2 years,
to air this week

Mar 17, 08 4:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Diane Sawyer special about sex workers will air this week after 2 years on the shelf, Rush & Molloy report in the New York Daily News, and the ABC newshound can thank Eliot Spitzer. Previously considered too sensational for prime time, the show is now closer to "... More »

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media • prostitution • sex scandal • Eliot Spitzer • ABC News • prostitution ring • call girls • Diane Sawyer • Ashley Dupre

Woodruff Fights for Words

Wounded ABC newsman describes continuing struggle

Feb 25, 08 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - When ABC's Bob Woodruff reported recently from North Korea, he appeared fully recovered from horrific head injuries he suffered in Iraq. In fact, he has a lingering disorder that could have ended his career as a journalist. He discusses working with expressive aphasia, a struggle to remember words, with Christine... More »

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Iraq • roadside bomb • stroke • Bob Woodruff • ABC News • expressive aphasia • receptive aphasia • traumatic brain injury • TBI • National Aphasia Association • Lee Woodruff

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