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>>Clueless Louisville TV critic canned after 32 years
>>Did Chicago media writer spread 'em on his bosses' orders?
>>Elusive deer-in-the-headlights anchor ducks interview requests
>>Attorney-turned-reporter denies conflict of interest
>>Luke Russert as BriWi's "cathartic salve"
>>Cable squabbling reaches mile-high peak
>>TV critics blast cable noise convention bloviation
>>New York stations plan live coverage of 9/11 weepfest
>>Irish applaud Larry Mendte's apology tour
>>Furious Lane plans to speak up in federal court
>>And the Emmy for "Most Cluttered Screen" goes to....
>>Get your "First Alert Weather Team" action figures now
>>Tallahassee news director quits after six months
>>Waco station hires "Boom Goes the Dynamite" sports guy
>>Restless local newsies launch Nomad News
>>Mrs.B compliments your use of complement

Tuesday, August 26
>>Former news director runs S&M website, plans book and TV show
>>Portland reporter considers defamation lawsuit
>>Fox News accuses ND of wearing "dog collar and nipple clamps"
>>Did Mendte screw the pooch with Friday news conference?
>>Philly attorney says Lane may push for jail time
>>Chuck Gibson bigfoots Chicago news crew out of Denver skybox
>>ABC airs "No World News" in low-def high-def
>>CNN to engineers: No brew for you
>>Beer-less Fox studio has "plastic-y smell"
>>Stewart calls cable news "brutish, slow-witted beast"
>>FNC's "fair and balanced" slogan an insult "to people with brains"
>>Media-types interviewing media-types and acting like it's news
>>Philly anchor pulling brutal split-shift during conventions
>>Sacramento station hires new primary anchor from Seattle
>>Making News Savannah Style profiled
>>Tribune expands news in St. Louis, moves CW 
>>Fox News masters stick and carrot news dissemination
>>Mrs.B, meanwhile, examines meantime

Monday, August 25
>>Larry and Alycia's l'affair fromage
>>Sad paranoia and career desperation in Philly
>>Beijing Olympics most watched event in television history
>>Pennsylvania governor opens a can of bias worms
>>CNN first to break Obama running mate news
>>CNN pours brewskis, spends $100K to rent Skycam
>>Chicago anchor says she wasn't drunk in Denver
>>Howard Dean shows Katie Couric his vagina
>>Most experienced political convention anchor? Jon Stewart
>>Well-traveled Phoenix sports anchor quits to promote book
>>Fired Vegas sports reporter explains his hit and run arrest
>>Glitchy shows plague new Fox San Diego affiliate
>>Texas GM out the door after 15 years
>>News director changes in Salt Lake, Albuquerque, Phoenix
>>Remembering the monkey spankers
>>Mrs.B has your number

Friday, August 22 
>>Former Philly anchor pleads guilty to felony
>>Admits to "flirtatious, unprofessional and improper relationship"
>>Mendte blames Lane for undermining him at work
>>WCAU has security surveillance tape of anchor vandal
>>Charges not pressed for fear of exposing love affair
>>Jailed batterer has sex tape of Boston sports reporter
>>Miami crime reporter victim of smash and grab
>>Belo cuts 14 jobs at Dallas flagship, 5 p.m. anchor out
>>Former CBS blogger headed north to Alaska
>>Cincinnati chief meteorologist undergoes cancer surgery
>>CBS hires new morning weather guesser in Minneapolis
>>El Paso gets an interim ND on the bounce
>>Former CNBC stock-picker goes belly up
>>MSNBC counter-programs Fox conservatism
>>Agent shopped Maddow to Fox News first
>>ABC news actress examines dead babies
>>NewsBlues headquarters in the eye of the storm
>>Orlando NBC affiliate misses world record Olympic run
>>Mrs.B is in a subjunctive mood

Thursday, August 21
>>New owners boot despised Alabama general manager
>>Richmond news director bolts before new owners arrive
>>CBS plans orderly GM change at El Lay duopoly
>>Tribune puts The CW on notice, orders logo rebranding
>>Greenville ND jumps to Tribune's Houston CW
>>CBS, AP, cable nets, newspapers make premature death call
>>Savidge leaves NBC for international news show
>>Fox News says no brew for you in Denver
>>Legendary Denver news anchor dead at 77
>>After 226 days in prison, videographer hired by newspaper
>>Austin news anchor sentenced in reckless driving arrest
>>In search of truth, discovering spin in Philly
>>Longtime Richmond news anchor calls it quits
>>Chopper Chip grounded in Dallas
>>Senate grants five-year exemption in digital switchover
>>Telemundo debuts new morning show on Monday
>>Miami primary anchor pregnant with twins
>>Happy birthday Connie and Harry
>>Auntie Fay come to visit, won't leave
>>Mrs.B hopes your antecedent is agreeable

Wednesday, August 20
>>Top-level discussions underway to shutter The CW
>>El Lay CBS general manager expected to jump to Tribune
>>Meredith boots Las Vegas GM after four years
>>MSNBC shuffles prime time, demotes Abrams
>>CNN expansion means cutbacks in Chicago
>>News Corp. doubles Roger Ailes's paycheck
>>ABC to sponsor entire issue of TV Guide
>>Firefighters flood Cleveland TV station
>>Vegas reporter fired for soliciting sex online
>>Larry Mendte's final 48 hours of freedom?
>>Agent shopping DeMentri on the East Coast only
>>ESPN plans to bid for 2014 Olympics
>>Olympic Sap-O-Meter spikes on "mom"
>>Iowa sports boneheads on a Vietnamese roll
>>Fay avoids NewsBlues International Headquarters
>>Mrs.B is on top of the weather

Tuesday, August 19
>>NBC converts Russert's office into a conference room
>>Furniture not "busted up" at family's request
>>Homeless man tries to kill himself in front of Philly TV station
>>Put a fork in Vince DeMentri, he's done
>>NBC Olympic host traveling while on probation
>>New LA Times publisher looks to KTLA
>>CBS News hires former Bush counselor
>>Tech companies square off with TV for valuable bandwidth
>>More problems for Manny
>>Veteran Knoxville TV host calls it quits
>>Fake TV reporter won't ask hard questions
>>Baltimore station dumps noon newscast
>>Tampa station dumps weather guesser, demotes another
>>Rain coming, break out the "exclusive storm track"
>>Mrs.B is confident in her use of confidant

Monday, August 18
>>For NBC, it's not easy being green in China
>>BriWi's son gums up the cable feed in Syracuse
>>Cable noise channels licking their lips in anticipation
>>TV news courts the kids who don't watch TV news
>>Russert's DC Bureau office demolished
>>As budgets tighten, DC bureaus close
>>Colon cancer claims longtime Koppel producer
>>Divorce granted to Lara Logan love interest
>>Huntington EP promoted to news director
>>Lexington station dumps news for Judge Judy
>>Lansing anchor jumps 102 markets to Houston
>>Little Rock morning anchor out the door
>>Boston news personalities land movie gigs
>>A training guide for aspiring TV journalists in Orlando
>>NewsBlues braces for Fay, due tomorrow
>>Mrs.B visits Ossetia and Abkhazia

Friday, August 15
>>Disney looking to sell its ABC O&Os for $4.8 billion
>>Young says KRON talks are continuing "with several parties"
>>Fox News crew escapes "crazed Ossestian wielding pistol"
>>Georgian reporter winged by sniper during live shot
>>Chinese cops rough up British TV reporter at demonstration
>>Journalists angrily confront Olympic officials later
>>NBC sells another $10 million in Olympic ads
>>Fox News plans presidential documentaries
>>Boston hip-hop group sings "Kill Bill O'Reilly"
>>Masturbation keeps Ernest Borgnine young
>>PBS ombudsman lashes out at NewsHour decision
>>Critic: Local news has a problem
>>Gannett eliminating 1,000 newspaper jobs
>>Orlando's only Spanish-language newspaper folds
>>Holy Toledo, two anchors head south
>>NATAS to honor McKay, Buckley, Snow
>>What the hell is Bela Karolyi saying?
>>Mrs.B says there's a JING in Beijing

Thursday, August 14
>>Missing toddler turns Orlando media inside out
>>Newspaper trails TV in sensational coverage
>>Tribune posts $3.8 billion loss in second quarter
>>KYW withdraws three Larry Mendte Emmy nominations
>>Al Jazeera English nominated for International Emmy
>>McCain misspeak: "Nations don't invade other nations"
>>NBC originates Olympic coverage from "Saturday Night Live" studio
>>Will someone slap some sense into NBC's "Today"?
>>San Diego station fires primary anchor, refuses to admit it
>>Palm Beach anchor duties expanded, despite cancer treatment
>>Dumped Knoxville anchor lands in Winston-Salem
>>CLTV hires former Reno weather guesser off the beach
>>Euphemistically speaking, a one-man band is....
>>CNN to "redefine" nine staffers
>>Poppy Harlow didn't get the vagina memo
>>David Gregory is as funny as....
>>Mrs.B allegedly has a grammar lesson of value

Wednesday, August 13
>>CNN to expand "one-man band" reporting in 10 cities
>>Network news bureaus being replaced by "digital journalists"
>>TV offered no perspective, depth to Russia-Georgia story
>>John Edwards's mistress came from our neck of the woods
>>Dan Hicks calls Olympic swimming like a golf tournament
>>NBC admirably resists Olympic screen clutter
>>Despite West Coast bitching, Olympics pull huge viewership
>>NBC pages get new outfits at 30 Rock
>>Unabomber upset with Newseum, FBI
>>Univision names new president of 63-station group
>>Evening Post pulls FCC end run in Corpus Christi
>>Christian group offers $5.3 million for Roanoke station
>>Veteran news reporter turns Garage Sale Gal
>>Mrs.B has a deadly grammar lesson

Tuesday, August 12
>>When "Today" is tonight in Beijing, all eyes are red
>>Coastal confusion means "live" is on tape
>>Viewers turn to TV for Olympics, ignore web
>>GE rakes in millions supplying Olympic industrial products
>>Critic blames "ethical bugaboos" for media's Edwards failure
>>Libel lawsuit exposes incestuous El Paso TV dealings
>>Hispanic Journalists honor Avila, forget Aguilar
>>Fox correspondent hired to anchor Chicago news
>>Mexico City reporter named San Fran primary anchor
>>Newseum's manager of technical ops profiled
>>Nick Clooney to teach at American University
>>Skip Caray, Buck Kinnaird memorialized
>>Shrill Kathie Lee sheds 200,000 "Today" viewers
>>Has Oprah jumped the news lead-in shark?
>>Mrs.B casts a curious eye on irregular verbs

Monday, August 11
>>Mainstream media stubbornly ignored Edwards blockbuster
>>Confession scheduled opposite Olympics, ABC pulls end run
>>NBC plays digital whack-a-mole with opening ceremony
>>Giving Fox the business in Chicago
>>Forget the rumors about GE spinning off NBC
>>California Supremes rule against non-competes
>>Cerberus Capital tightens down in Salt Lake and Austin
>>Unpredictable news manager heads to Arabian desert
>>Acting El Lay news director calls it quits
>>Knoxville morning anchor quits after six months
>>Florida Senate candidate opposes TV station sale
>>Alycia Lane snubbed in Emmy nomination
>>Is that a live snake in the meteorologist's pants?
>>Looking for a spokesmodel at the plastic surgery clinic
>>Beware of those fake CNN email alerts
>>Poor Shep
>>A decade of NewsBlues celebrated
>>Mrs.B has low "moral"

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