To be fair and balanced, FNC did report the death of the North Korean dictator on "Geraldo at Large" (and MSNBC barely stopped their weekend prison docs regimen), but while CNN blew out the schedule to report the death, called in Wolf Blitzer and had Christiane Amanpour back to offer her analysis (and BBC World News blew out their recorded weekend programming), Uncle Roger was offering "Huckabee," with the host singing "Merry Christmas, Baby" with the Marshall Tucker Band:
http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/kim-jong-il-dead-69-how-cable-news-covered-news-33749 This morning before leaving the house BBCWN was still focusing on the death (although not pre-empting the bottom-of-the-hour business, "sport" and feature programmes or "HardTALK"), CNN and HLN were the only ones leading with Korea (yes, even perky Robin Meade's "Morning Express"), while the show after Scarborough on MSNBC was leading with the Iowa caucuses and FNC had John Fund of the American Spectator complaining about Barack Obama. -- 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
