AILES RAILS OVER PALIN’S DISLOYALTY TO FOX
Sarah Palin’s future as a Fox News commentator appears to be in doubt following a New York magazine report that she angered Roger Ailes, the conservative news network’s chairman, by making her announcement that she will not run for president on Mark Levin’s radio talk show instead of Fox News. The magazine, citing unnamed sources, [...]
AILES COULD JUMP FOX NEWS’S SHIP
October 6, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Fox News chief Roger Ailes maintains that he has not made a decision yet about whether he will remain with the cable network after his contract expires in less than two years. In an interview with the Associated Press, he also left open the possibility of entertaining offers from competitors. “The bad news is, I [...]
PALIN DOCUMENTARY WON’T CONCEDE DEFEAT
July 25, 2011 by admin · 3 Comments
After attracting mostly Sarah Palin fans — and not many of those — during the past two weeks, Stephen K. Bannon is withdrawing The Undefeated from theatrical release and plans to release it on video on demand and pay-per-view beginning Sept. 1. It will then be released on DVD on Oct. 4, ARC Entertainment announced [...]
SARAH PALIN FILM: A HIT OR A MISS?
July 18, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Director Stephen K. Bannon’s Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated may only have grossed around $68,000 in its limited debut in ten theaters over the weekend, but Bannon regards that amount as a big success. Bannon noted that the filmmakers used social media and word of mouth rather than expensive advertising and publicity to promote the [...]
FEY/PALIN IS BACK
May 9, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live as Sarah Palin this weekend, participating in a skit modeled after the first Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox News earlier in the week. “It’s so great to be back on Fox News, a network that pays me and shows me the questions ahead of time,” Fey’s Palin [...]
BOOK REVIEWS: BOSSYPANTS BY TINA FEY
Tina Fey is garnering some of the most admiring reviews since her take-off on Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live during the 2008 election campaign. Only this time, they’re coming from book reviewers, who are praising her comedic writing skills
PALIN’S ATTACK ON NEA DRAWS LITTLE RESPONSE
March 17, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Sarah Palin’s call last week for defunding the National Endowment for the Arts has remarkably drawn little response from supporters of the agency. Appearing on Fox News’s Hannity, Palin described NPR, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities as “frivolous things that government shouldn’t be in the business of [...]
FOX NEWS DISMISSES PROMINENT NAMES
March 3, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Until Wednesday, Fox News had on its payroll five potential candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. It now has only three after it suspended Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, both of whom have acknowledged that they’re exploring the possibility of making a bid for the nomination. That still leaves three other possible candidates on the [...]
HOWARD STERN IS NO OPRAH WINFREY
Piers Morgan Tuesday night lost more than a third of his premiere audience as 1.3 million watched his interview with shock jock Howard Stern versus 2.1 million who watched Monday’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. Fox News’s Hannity, which edged out Morgan on Monday with an interview with Sarah Palin that attracted 2.2 million, retained those [...]
CONAN O’BRIEN “APOLOGIZES” TO JIMMY KIMMEL
Conan O’Brien took to the Internet Thursday to respond to several Web postings that noted that his recent “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” spoof on TBS, in which Sarah Palin is seen shooting Rudolph, was similar to one produced on ABC rival Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show two weeks earlier. In a tongue-in-cheek message, Conan apologized to [...]