CNN Confirms Casey Anthony ‘Will Get $1 Million’ For Interview
ABC affiliate WPBF is reporting that, according to local Florida attorney Spencer Kuvin, his client “Private Elevator Productions” (a group, he says, of “Hollywood producers who wants to remain anonymous”) has offered Anthony $1 million for an exclusive interview. He adds that Anthony agreed to the interview back in July, but that “since then, nothing.”
Risky Bets, Family Values, And The Politics Of Tebowing: A Chat With Fox’s Eric Bolling
If you have turned on Fox News during any hour of the day in the past several months, you know who Eric Bolling is. The host of Fox Business’s Follow the Money and co-host of The Five can be seen on nearly every program– from Fox & Friends to filling in on The O’Reilly Factor, and his swing-for-the-fences opinions have made him as popular as he is controversial on the network. Bolling opens up to Mediaite about how he ended up in the cable news business, his favorite television moments, and what plans may be in store for the future.
Newt Gingrich And Chris Matthews Go Head-To-Head During Hardball Interview
Chris Matthews went head-to-head with flailing Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Gingrich had strong words for fellow GOP opponent Mitt Romney. “He’s not going to be the nominee,” Gingrich boldly declared.
Did CNN Unfairly Edit The Ron Paul Walk Off Interview? Watch The Uncut Interview
The full-length, uncut video of CNN’s contentious interview with Ron Paul has been uploaded to the web. According to a popular post on the social link-sharing website Reddit and Daily Paul, a site for Ron Paul supporters, CNN’s original aired interview was “edited” and “misleading”.
President Obama To Barbara Walters: Biggest Misconception Is That I’m ‘Detached Or Spock-Like’
Barbara Walters‘ interview with Barack and Michelle Obama aired tonight on ABC, and Walters got inside the heads of the president and first lady by asking them questions from Vanity Fair‘s “Proust Questionnaire.” She asked the president what his idea for perfect happiness would be. Obama said he’s at his peak happiness when he is doing things to make those around him feel happier, while the first lady said it was being surrounded by her family.
Matt Damon Would Have Preferred ‘A One-Term President With Balls’
Matt DamonMatt Damon lashed out at President Obama saying he would’ve preferred “a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done.”
Red Eye’s Greg Gutfeld Tells Mediaite About His CNN Guilty Pleasure…And So Much More
Fox News’ brash, snarktabulous star of Red Eye, Greg Gutfeld is riding high on last week’s ratings success averaging a staggering 208,000 demo viewers. For five consecutive days, the show averaged more demo viewers than shows airing in primetime (!) like John King USA, The Dylan Ratigan Show, and Erin Burnett‘s OutFront. All this for [...]
Rush Limbaugh Slams GOP Establishment: ‘We Nominate Milquetoast Moderates And We Lose’
In an exclusive interview with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren, Rush Limbaugh slammed the Republican establishment for thinking a “conservative nominee is route to defeat” and lamented the top-tier GOP candidates were “milquetoast moderates.” Despite these reservations, he said, “I think right now anybody other than Ron Paul could beat Obama if the election were tomorrow.”
TheGrio Editor Goldie Taylor To Mediaite: ‘My Own Personal Politics Are Quite Conservative’
TheGrio.com editor and cable news rising star Goldie Taylor spoke with Mediaite recently about her many notable high-profile television appearances, her politics, and her upcoming news and opinion website.
This Happened: Herman Cain Offered Henry Kissinger Secretary Of State Position
Republican falling star Herman Cain might be lamenting his interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board as damning new video footage continues to trickle out. When asked what people he would consider to be in his administration, the former Godfather Pizza CEO suggested 88-year-old Henry Kissinger, who previously served as President Nixon‘s secretary of state from 1973 to 1977.
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta Talks To Mediaite From Havana On Covering The Cuban Health Care System
90 miles and decades removed from the United States, the island of Cuba persists as a stubbornly living relic of the Cold War, excommunicated from the Western world just enough to make everything from its music to policy to its health care system a mystery. It was to explore this latter element that CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta found himself Havana last week, from where he told Mediaite his first impressions and expectations on the island, and worked on an upcoming documentary on swimmer Diana Nyad‘s attempt to traverse the stretch of water from Havana to Florida.
Comedian Chris Gethard Talks To Mediaite About Finding The Future Of Entertainment Via Public Access TV
If someone flips by the Manhattan public access on Wednesday nights and catches The Chris Gethard Show, it’s unlikely that they’re going to say to themselves, “Ah, now here’s the future of television.” A goofy, low-budget show featuring a bunch of comedians and self-admitted weirdos taking calls from strange and sometimes hostile New York citizens doesn’t initially scream out “innovation.” However, for those that stick around, it gradually becomes clear that Chris Gethard and friends are doing something very interesting. In addition to airing in New York, the show is streamed live out on the Internet and is steadily building a devoted following of comedy nerds across the country. By combining the approach and aesthetic of a cult public access show with the streaming and interactive capabilities of a high-tech Internet property, the show has found a fascinating middle ground between the old and new. In a lengthy conversation, we talked to Gethard about the genesis of the show, his thoughts on public access and social media, and the crazy and wonderful people he shares the network with.
Piers Morgan Wades Through Nancy Grace’s ‘Tot Mom’ Outrage Storm In Fiery Interview
In case anyone were wondering, Nancy Grace is still angry. The fact that Casey Anthony is now a free woman seems to have lit an even brighter fire under Grace as she visited Piers Morgan tonight for an interview. Repeating that she was “let down” by the verdict, Grace took offence to Morgan suggesting she made the case “her own” and shot back at other lawyers who had spoken to Morgan and considered the verdict reasonable: “your experts are wrong.”
Jaycee Dugard Speaks To ABC’s Diane Sawyer: ‘You Just Do What You Have To Do To Survive’
In her first interview since the day in 1991 when she was kidnapped, Jaycee Dugard described a life in captivity to ABC’s Diane Sawyer–saying she endured years of abuse and the birth of two children the best way she knew how. “You just do what you have to do to survive.” Dugard, who’s written a book about her life, shared for the first time the details of her abduction–a disappearance that haunted her family and frustrated police (who we learn came very close at times to finding her).
Dugard says she was walking to school when a car rolled up, the driver’s window went down, and her entire life changed:
Jaycee Dugard On Giving Birth In Kidnappers’ Backyard: ‘I Wasn’t Alone Anymore’
Diane Sawyer has aired the first clip from her exclusive interview with Jaycee Dugard, the California girl kidnapped while walking to school in June of 1991 and held for 18 years. Dugard, now 31, has written a book about her experience, and she tells her story in a two-hour special on ABC Sunday at 9 p.m. In a preview that aired on ABC World News, Dugard tells Sawyer how she gave birth to a daughter–when she was 14–in the backyard prison where she was held. “Very painful, but then I saw her,” Dugard says. “She was beautiful. I felt like I wasn’t alone anymore.”
Rep. Weiner Tells Maddow Twitter Photo ‘Maybe Started Out Being A Photo Of Mine’
Rep. Anthony Weiner finally made his last media stop of the day, this time sitting down with Rachel Maddow– who interviewed Rep. Weiner just as his Twitter account released a skimpy underwear photo. Maddow was by far the least combative of his interviewers, and the approach seemed to have paid off. This time, instead of “I don’t know,” the Congressman told Maddow that it is possible that the photo was of him and had been “taken out of context.”
TJ Holmes Returns To Joplin: Residents’ Reaction ’Renews Your Faith In People’
In order to gain additional perspective on the massive damage sustained by the town of Joplin, Missouri, we spoke with a former Joplin resident – TJ Holmes, host of the weekend morning edition of CNN Newsroom.
Holmes, who once worked for an NBC affiliate in Joplin as well as in other Southern cities dotted across “Tornado Alley,” told us that the damage to the city is so extensive that even one 20-year resident found himself losing his bearings.
Arianna Huffington To New York Times Mag: What In HuffPost Did You Consider ‘Lefty’?
Arianna Huffington sat down with The New York Times to discuss pleasant topics like whether her father, a former newspaperman, would feel about accusations that her site is responsible for that whole death of print thing we keep reading about in newspapers.
The Times broached another contentious and persistent criticism the Huffington Post has been contending with since it’s inception, and especially in the wake of its deal with Aol: That HuffPost is too “lefty.”
Bill O’Reilly Recounts How He Upset “Both Far Right And Far Left” With Obama Interview
Ready to get meta? On The Factor this evening, Bill O’Reilly commented on comments made (often about other comments) about his Super Bowl Sunday interview with President Barack Obama, including “pal” Bill Maher‘s assessment that his conduct was “unpatriotic.”
A ‘Suitably Confrontational’ Bill O’Reilly Discusses His Interview With ‘Thin-Skinned’ President Obama
Calling in to talk to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, Bill O’Reilly took time this morning to talk about his Superbowl Sunday interview with President Obama. Pundits have pored over the interview in an attempt to divine a winner and loser, and O’Reilly’s got his own verdict on the chat: “I got my questions in. I was suitably confrontational in a friendly way.”
Brit Singer Lily Allen Won’t Do Interview With Piers Morgan–Unless He Donates “£1 Million To Charity”
British star Lily Allen isn’t interested in talking to Piers Morgan–either on his new CNN show Piers Morgan Tonight, or on his British show Life Stories–but she’s willing to negotiate. Allen, who went to Twitter to suggest “the terms” of her sitting for an interview, says it would cost “£1 million,” donated to “a charity that helps women overcome the kind of grief that I have had to experience.”
Allen recently revealed she was six months’ pregnant when she miscarried last year.
Sarah Palin To Sit Down With Sean Hannity For First Interview Since Arizona Shooting
Sarah Palin has been roped into ongoing discussion surrounding last weekend’s Arizona shooting during which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head. On Monday, Palin will sit down with Sean Hannity for her first extended interview since the weekend’s shooting.
Brian Williams Nabs First Interview With John Boehner As House Speaker
NBC’s Brian Williams has landed the first one-on-one interview with John Boehner after his official swearing in as the newest House speaker. The interview is set to air on NBC Nightly News this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. ET. According to a press release from NBC, the interview will show “exclusive details on Boehner’s recent transition to the most influential member of the 112th Congress, and the challenges ahead as he prepares to take on Obama’s Democratic policies.”
And that’s all well and good, of course, but Boehner attracts eyeballs (and, thus, either ratings or pageviews, depending on the medium) not only because he is stepping into an important, prestigious and influential role.
Capri Anderson Tells GMA That Charlie Sheen Threatened To Kill Her
Adult film star Capri Anderson gave her first post-Plaza-hotel-Sheen-meltdown interview to GMA Monday, telling George Stephanopolous she was paid $3,500 to escort Sheen to dinner last month, an evening that turned violent in Sheen’s suite at New York’s Plaza Hotel.
Rachel Maddow’s Promo Team Sells Her Interview With Jon Stewart As Boxing Match
Rachel Maddow is very, very excited about her interview with Jon Stewart tomorrow. After being a guest on the Daily Show and openly being a big fan for so long, she finally has the opportunity to discuss with Stewart his role in the greater political arena. But as exciting as tomorrow’s talk is for her, it isn’t exciting enough for any of the ads her crew came up with, apparently taking a page out of Don King‘s promo book.






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