video There is no love lost between NBC and Fox News, best evidenced by the following clip of Bill O'Reilly and guest Bernie Goldberg taking great joy in the recent late night programming decisions at NBC involving Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien. Not only do they take repeated shots at NBC Chief Jeff Zucker, but they make the worst insult of all - they compare him to, gasp, Barack Obama! (more...)

video 9:27amET, CNBC: We do a lot of these Chyron of the Day posts, and we usually try to avoid the simple spelling error. But we had to do it here, because of the context. In a report by Bertha Coombs about her boss' boss' boss, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, the CNBC chyron had 'Immelt' spelled wrong. (more...)

It has been a full week since news of a deal between News Corp. and GE (or, more specifically, between Fox News and MSNBC) broke, and the story continues to evolve. Today, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reveals some behind-the-scenes insight about the "war" - and the revelations continue to hurt MSNBC host Keith Olbermann far more than his FNC foil, Bill O'Reilly. (more...)

Howard Kurtz reports in today's Washington Post that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel pressured the corporate CEO's of the parent companies of TV networks to run Obama's press conference during prime time, instead of communicating directly with the network heads themselves. Bob Iger (CEO of ABC's parent company Disney), Jeffrey Immlet (CEO of NBC's parent company GE), and Les Moonves (CEO of CBS, which includes CBS Network among other media outlets) all received calls from Emanuel in a plea to broadcast President Obama's recent health care focused press conference, despite the hit their networks might take in the ratings. (more...)