Month: December 2023

• Dragnet: The Big New Year (11 November 1954).
• MediaBuzz: Ballot battle, DeSantis, Nancy Mace.
• Playing favorites: How CNN treats Vivek vs Nikki.
• Bill Melugin debunks false video: ‘Lying for clicks’.
• FNC’s Jonathan Turley the latest victim of ‘swatting’.
• Sunday night’s New Year’s Eve specials.  Sunday talk.
• That Girl: Should
  All Our Old Acquaintance
  Be Forgot.
• Katherine McPhee:
  What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

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• MSNBC wants exemption from rules for the blind.
• CNN reveals threats to justices…but there’s a catch.
• Year in Review: Pressure on CNN et al to ban Trump.
• Video: Steve Allen’s 1961
  Christmas at Home
  Special.

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Every year on this day we present Stan Freberg’s enduring Christmas parable. Produced well over 50 years ago, its message remains relevant in the 21st Century:

• Stan Freberg: Green Chri$tma$  
  listen

Classic Christmas memories:

• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Red Mystery Matter  listen
• That Girl: Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid  
  watch
• Mary Tyler Moore: Christmas and the Hard Luck Kid II  
  watch
• The Honeymooners Christmas Special (1978) 
  watch
• The Lemon Drop Kid  
  watch
• Judy Garland: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 
  watch
• Vince Guaraldi: Christmastime Is Here 
  listen
• Affiniti: O Holy Night 
  watch
• Christmas in Washington (1989) with President and Mrs Bush, Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Vic Damone, et al  
  watch

Merry Christmas from johnny dollar’s place.

• MediaBuzz: Trump-Hitler, ballot ban, Ted Cruz.
• Krakauer: Obama’s ominous movie.  Sunday talk.
• A CNN/CBS tie-up could transform the industry.
• Charlie Kirk says rift with Fox News alive and well.
• Sweet Talk Radio:
  Rooftops.
   Stan Freberg:
  Yulenet.
• Marlo Thomas in
  It Happened One Christmas
  (1977).

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• WB mulls buying Paramount, marrying CNN with CBS.
• NewsNation anchor is given a breast cancer diagnosis.
• Fox Corp donates $2M to Homeless Veterans program.
• TV newsers discuss how their shows will evolve in 2024.
• TV newsers discuss overcoming 2023 on-air challenges.
• Somerby: Could a ‘news show’ get dumber than Gutfeld?
• Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Nick Shurn Matter part four:
  

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