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CNN’s comedy show breaks hard news

Posted October 24, 2008

When PRWeek asked experts the reasons why serious news sources are bolstering their offerings with comedy, a few answers stuck out: increasing consumer distrust of media, comic relief for viewers, and the public’s demand for commentary.

Yet at the October 23 taping of the premiere of CNN’s DL Hughley Breaks the News, the show broke some hard news of its own. Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan endorsed the presidential bid of Sen. Barack Obama, becoming the second former Bush administration official to do so in one week, following former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

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Filed under: 2008 Campaign, Media, Politics

Tags:Barack Obama, Bush Administration, CNN, Colin Powell, DL Hughley, DL Hughley Breaks the News, Scott McClellan

If satire isn’t your thing…The New Yorker isn’t for you

Posted July 15, 2008

If the goal of The New Yorker’s July 21 was to grab attention, it has succeeded – maybe beyond the wildest dreams of the magazine’s editors.

Here’s some reaction to the cover – which depicts, satirically, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and his wife in garb associated with al Qaeda and a 1960s radical leftist group, respectively – from around the Web: Read more »

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Filed under: 2008 Campaign, Blogs, Culture, Media, Politics, Web sites

Tags:Andrew Malcolm, Barack Obama, Black Panthers, Bush Administration, David Remick, Huffington Post, Jeffrey Feldman, John McCain, Los Angeles Times, Michael Scherer, Michelle Obama, Oval Office, Rachel Sklar, Supreme Court, Swampland, The New Yorker, Time, William Rehnquist

Much ado about McClellan’s memoir

Posted June 2, 2008

Checking in with PR and public affairs professionals around town, I find that the new Scott McClellan tell-all (or tell-some) book about his days as Bush administration press secretary is generating a lot of interest. But does it mean much in the long run? We’ll see.

One former member of the Clinton administration suggested its contents aren’t necessarily anything new – that people already knew the Bush administration used faulty intelligence to argue for the Iraq war; that Rove and Cheney shaded the truth about what they knew or revealed about Valerie Plame’s job with the CIA; etc. Read more »

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Tags:Bush Administration, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Scott McClellan

McClellan nonsense

Posted May 30, 2008

That the PRSA should censure or rebuke Scott McClellan for his about-face regarding the Bush Administration has gotten . Which is ridiculous. Unless McClellan is an active member, which I highly doubt, why would this be its purview? Anyone have an answer?

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Tags:Bush Administration, PRSA, Scott McClellan

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