Well, I've actually glimpsed a few minutes of Red Eye on occasion. It strikes me as like a cable morning show such as the various forms of Don Imus and the Tucker Carlson wannabe on Morning Joe (Willie Geist, I believe). Yeah, I know Imus is radio simulcast, but that reflects the production values of Red Eye. I suspect Red Eye would consider themselves more 'edgy' than satirical. In other words, if the Half-Hour News Hour played it straight (I know, how could you tell?)
I stand by my inapt/inept McLaughlin group comparison. http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html Ringleader is Greg Gutfeld, who manages to pop up in the Andrew Breitbart online spaces from time to time. So yeah, I think they try and take themselves as seriously as the shows in the other dayparts. David ________________________________ From: PGage <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, June 1, 2011 11:11:45 AM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Big Jaw makes his worst joke theft yet Not to be snarky, but the news here for me is that there is a late night (early morning, apparently) satirical news program on Fox News called Red Eye. I literally have never heard of this program. A search of the archives of this list yields what appears to be one rather oblique mention of it by Dave Bruggeman on Jan 24 of this year, but I'm sure I had no idea what he was referring to at the time "Isn't Red Eye a dumber version of McLaughlin with celebrity guests? Issue Two, much of the CNBC and FBC programming seems to be financial versions of a dumber version of McLaughlin." I thought Fox had given up on satirical news programs, mostly because (and again I mean this literally, though now I feel like that Rob Lowe character on Parks and Recreation) their popular "striaght" news commentary programs like O'Reilly and Beck already fill that niche for them. I take it this is more an attempt (successful, at least in my case) to raise their name recognition that to seriously accuse Leno of Joke stealing. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote: > >On May 31, 12:59 pm, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is certainly up for debate, but I don't think the jokes are either close >> enough, or dealing with a sufficiently unique topic to qualify. If this was a >> song debate, I might see this resolving as unintentional duplication. >> >> But really, an Oakland Raiders suck joke is worth fighting over? > >Yeah, not to mention that's it Fixed Noise's attempt at getting the >libertarian kids ("kids" here translated into males 25-40) who listen >to the Morning Zookeepers making women and black jokes to come to them >and perhaps lower their median age of 65 is the one complaining here. > >And to think that 20 years ago "Foxifying" the news was considered >using jiggly-cams in the studio, playing hip-hop and grunge rocks >snippet into commercial breaks and having a flannel shirt-wearing >entertainment reporter talking about rappers, rock bands and Paris >Hilton. > > >-- >TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected] >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
