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Meck Deck‘s Jeff Taylor talked taxes last night with Fox Charlotte (WCCB) Television.

… and the TV screen

The General Assembly’s interest in annexation reform bills helped John Locke Foundation Legal and Regulatory Policy Analyst Daren Bakst earn some television time one week ago on News 14 Carolina.…

WBTV Laps Field in Coverage of Ditching

I was frankly stunned that WBTV was the only local TV outlet that went to live local coverage of the Hudson River ditching yesterday afternoon. Given the plane was bound…

More chickens coming home to roost

From the Drudge Report: All 3 evening news shows experienced audience drops year-to-year for the week of Oct. 13-19, 2008. I wonder why.

What party was that again?

Do they think we’re stupid?: On Thursday night, CBS anchor Katie Couric began a short news update on Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska by immediately highlighting his party affiliation: “The…

Hanna a TV Weather Dud

Got a good chuckle out of WSOC and WCNC going all Live-Eyey this AM as Tropical Storm Hanna barely brushed the Charlotte viewing area. Even allowing for natural local interest…

Question on TV coverage

Why did BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo cover Obama’s speech but not Palin’s? Did they cover McCain’s speech. For the record, not that it should matter, I watched Obama…

Huck and Pittenger on Fox & Friends today

Walter Cronkite

Just shut up, already. And that’s the way it is.

Anti-CNN revolution brewing?

The last time I was in a Doc-in-a-box emergency medical office in Durham I had the displeasure of being bombarded by CNN’s Health Channel blaring from the waiting room’s TV.…

Walker Lundy and the Intertubes

I totally share Walker Lundy’s disgust with wall-to-wall TV pandervision. But Lundy otherwise misses the big picture by constructing a binary universe of news reporting. Note the omission: The next…

A mixture of snow, ice and college pranksters

Tomorrow’s predicted snowstorm reminds me of that Raleigh snowstorm three years ago made more entertaining thanks to the work of some enterprising NC State pranksters: A cable news channel in…