CBS News correspondent Harold Dow died suddenly last weekend at the age of 62.
New Jersey resident Dow, a "staple" on CBS property 48 Hours, passed away on Saturday. The newsman is survived by a wife and three ...
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ESPN panelist and Fanhouse.com writer Jay Mariotti was arrested overnight in LA, and the LA Times is reporting that the arrest was due to a "domestic incident" involving Mariotti's girlfriend.
Details surrounding the incident were scant, but the ...
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We see them just about everyone plastered with MickyDee's and other fast food restaurant ads but this has to be one of the coolest billboards I have seen.
via Neatorama
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Like Rosie O'Donnell before her, mentioning "future husbands" on her show seemed to be doing a pretty good job of keeping radio talk show host Stephanie Miller in the closet until the age of 48.
Miller decided to ...
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the controversial talk show host who dispenses questionable advice in a Los Angeles based radio program, has spent the past day or so continuously apologizing for a rant directed at a black caller who ...
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These fake vintage ads for Facebook, Skype and Youtube created by Brazilian ad agency Moma for a media seminar called "Everything Ages Fast". They are just brilliant.
Thanks to Laughing Squid.
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Shirley Sherrod, the USDA official fired for remarks she made that were deliberately misrepresented by Andrew Breitbart's conservative blog BigGovernment.com, plans to sue for the incident.
Sherrod made her plans known this morning at a National Association of ...
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ESPN producer Leah Siegel, who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer after the birth of her third child in 2008, died in a hospice early today.
Husband Eric Loehr updated her Caring Bridge blog today to inform ...
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Daniel Schorr, a veteran journalist who worked for decades in Washington with CBS News, CNN and NPR, has died after a "short illness."
93-year-old Schorr passed away this morning in a Washington hospital, and NPR posted a lengthy ...
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Louis CK, who is probably the funniest comic out there right now, may have gotten NPR's Fresh Air banhammered in the state of Mississippi.
CK appeared on the show on July 7th, and chatted a bit about sex ...
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Public-supported news, or as the news industry would have us believe - state run propaganda machines, is a hotly contested sore point in the US. Of course not all countries look at this way as evidenced by ...
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Who says that ads have to be boring or involve a hot guy with no shirt. Me, I'll go for the sparkling water anytime.
Presenting Dita Von Teese as the next spokesperson for Perrier sparkling water ...
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Pennsylvania's Wink 104 announced the sudden death of one of their morning show DJs today.
35-year-old John Beaston was found dead in his Susquehanna home Monday morning after he failed to report to his job as a morning ...
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VeriSign isn't having a good time in court lately, with their recent attempt to become the default .com provider falling apart at a very quick rate.
VeriSign filed a suit in which they requested that they be allowed ...
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Author, journalist and prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens has had to put the breaks on the tour for his latest book Hitch-22, in order to undergo chemotherapy for cancer of the esophagus.
Hitchens, 61, gave up smoking in 2008 ...
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Larry King posted on his CNN blog tonight that he's leaving the show in December, although he will still work with CNN.
King stated in the statement, quoted in full below, that the decision was his and made ...
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Just as the movie business, television and theater business have their yearly awards to pick the best of the best so does the outdoor advertising business with its yearly Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
The 10 ads in ...
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Helen Thomas, the fiesty veteran reporter who has covered the White House since approximately the Cleveland administration, is retiring after remarks she made about Israel caused a bit of scandal.
Thomas, who will soon turn 90, is not ...
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Popular polling aggregation site FiveThirtyEight.com will be relaunched under the New York Times umbrella, blogger Nate Silver announced today.
The site rose to prominence during elections in 2008 when Silver posted several very accurate predictions. Silver says the ...
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One doesn't think of emotion when watching ads regardless of how much spin advertisers might like to to wrap their usual dreck in. Nor does one think of seeing a homeless man as the center piece of ...
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People complain that advertising is boring and mind-numbingly stupid except every once in a while a real gem comes along that you just can't help but stop to watch.
This latest Kia commercial that appears to have hit ...
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Demand Media, an online content mill that pays an army of work at home moms and the like notoriously low rates to churn out a huge amount of content based on search trends, has inked a deal ...
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