Cleveland Case Proves TV Psychic Wrong

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Cleveland Case Proves TV Psychic Wrong

You have to wonder if Psychic Sylvia Browne could have predicted all the backlash she is getting and about to get. 

Sylvia Browne — full-time psychic, part-time facilitator of nightmares, and cornerstone of The Montel Williams Show — is very much caught up on the wrong side of a story gripping the nation with a heartbreaking work of staggeringly bad fortune-telling. In 2004, the professional psychic told the mother of one of the women kidnapped in Cleveland that her daughter was dead. Louwana Miller believed the talk-show psycic, and now she'll never know that her daughter, Amanda Berry, was found alive Monday night: Berry's mother died two years after Browne foretold the future incorrectly... again.

More after the skip.  ​

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Really?!

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Really?!

Just when you think that CNN can't get anymore shallow, they seem to drain just a little bit me water out of the pool.​

The Atlantic Wire writes that Ashleigh Banfield of CNN and Nancy Grace of Headline News, who were updating viewers on the latest from the ongoing and increasingly ugly Cleveland kidnapping story. (Grace being TV's leading expert on deviant crime.) 

At first it seems like a normal TV "remote," as Banfield interviews Grace from another location. Then the channel's graphics alert viewers: both anchors are in Phoenix. That's odd. Also: They're both outdoors, sitting in what looks to be a parking lot. And is that same building behind them?

Then things truly get bizarre. See how after the leap. 

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Fired Chicago Reporter Says She's Sorry

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Fired Chicago Reporter Says She's Sorry

Susannah Collins, the former Comcast SportsNet reporter who left amid a backlash surrounding a mistakenly uttered word on live TV and the personal history it dragged up, on Tuesday apologized and acknowledged missteps.

A week ago, Collins inadvertently said that the Blackhawks had a "tremendous amount of sex during the regular season." Intending to say "success," she immediately corrected herself, but the clip spread wildly on the Internet and became the butt of jokes on late night TV.

On Thursday, Comcast announced that Collins was no longer a reporter with the company, citing "circumstances unrelated to her on-air remarks."

The mistake focused attention on a series of YouTube videos Collins co-hosted for a show called "Sports Nutz" that were often raunchy, sexually explicit and employed potentially racist stereotypes.

What she has to say about those video and her apology after the hop.  ​


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New Vegas Reporter has Tabloid Past

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New Vegas Reporter has Tabloid Past

Las Vegas station KSNV has hired a new reporter, but hasn't made the usual announcement that a new on air member has joined the station.

The Sin City station hired Kristyn Caddell as a reporter.

We're sure that the name doesn't ring a bell with most of you, until we tell you this. ​

​Caddell is the woman that The National Enquirer taped having a cozy dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach in Florida with Chris Hansen, host of NBC’s “To Catch a Predator.” It was reported that Hansen was married.

More after the jump.  

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Former Fox News Anchor Talks about Her Double Life

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Former Fox News Anchor Talks about Her Double Life

At the Downtown Women’s Center’s fifth annual spring luncheon on Tuesday, Laurie Dhue, a media advisor, former Fox News Channel anchor and spokeswoman for Minnesota-based Hazelden Treatment Center, described her struggle with alcohol addiction that led her to sobriety six years ago.

Dhue, who spent eight years with Fox, has made a mission of putting a face on addiction.

Dhue described her drinking years as a dark mix of blackouts, an overdose and moments of sleeping in a fetal position at her office while recovering from hangovers.

“The more professional success I enjoyed, the worse my addiction got,” she said.

More after the hop.   ​

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NBC Scraps Plan for New Tonight Show Set

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NBC Scraps Plan for New Tonight Show Set

NBC was going to plunk down $25 million bucks for a new set for Jimmy Fallon and the Tonight Show, but then they remembered they are owned by Comcast.​

So that ain't happening. ​

Word is NBC spent seven months working on plans that called for the combining of Studios 6B and 8G and turning them into a megastudio for Fallon as well as a showy theater for NBCUniversal to screen movies. Including a balcony, the facility would have fit an audience of 400.

The project, though, recently was scrapped, says an insider, and now when Fallon becomes host of Tonight, he'll have to settle for a mere $5 million renovation of Studio 6B, where he currently hostsLate Night With Jimmy Fallon.

 ​More after the leap.  

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Megyn Kelly to Replace Greta at 10PM?

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Megyn Kelly to Replace Greta at 10PM?

Two of the best-known anchors on the Fox News Channel, Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly, have renewed their contracts, possibly foreshadowing the first change to the channel’s prime time schedule in over a decade.

Van Susteren, who signed a new long-term contract earlier this week, according to her husband, John Coale, may move out of the 10 p.m. time slot that she has held since 2002. That would open up the hour for Kelly, currently an afternoon anchor, who has long been mentioned as a candidate for a prime time position at Fox.

More after the hop.   ​

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Phoenix Station Refuses to Become Part of the Circus

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Phoenix Station Refuses to Become Part of the Circus

KPHO (Phoenix) has tried to cover the Jodi Arias without getting caught up in the hype and reporting rumors.

They plan on staying with that plan for the verdict. KPHO News Director Michelle Donaldson posted a message to viewers on the station's website promising that they will continue with professional coverage of the jury's decision, "we will not add to the circus atmosphere by putting up tents or stages or hiring actors."

​The trial has become a circus to say the least and the KPHO news boss wants no part of that.

Her full message to viewers after the jump.  ​

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Chris Christie to Host Today

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As the Today Show struggles to get it's swagger back, they are hoping that chewing the fat with the New Jersey Governor will help boost ratings.

NJ governor Chris Christie will co-host the second hour of "Today" when the show comes to the Jersey Shore in a couple of weeks.

The Today Show announced their latest sweeps stunt last week. 

The Today crew would all be traveling together for the first time ever.

Starting Monday, May 20, the Great American Adventure will take Matt, Savannah, Natalie, Willie and Al from coast to coast, visiting five U.S. destinations in a single week.

​Chris Christie made news Today when he reveled that he was going to start eating better and exercising.....oh no wait.....he had lap band surgery to try and drop the weight. Not sure how this is news, but for some reason the TV nets think it is. 

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Christiane Amanpour Defends CNN on The Daily Show

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Christiane Amanpour Defends CNN on The Daily Show

Christiane Amanpour was a guest of Jon Stewart last night and found herself defending CNN to the Daily Show host. 

Amanpour said that the network was coming back and would be better than ever. "I want to bet and I will be betting on CNN winning," she said. Stewart said that he only roasted the network because he cared so much about it.

Later, as the two discussed the media, Amanpour again promoted her employer.

"I urge you to keep watching CNN. There is much more intelligent conversation going on," she said.

"Tell me what time," Stewart joked. "Because I do watch it."

"From morning to night!" Amanpour replied. "Are you sure you're watching CNN?" Stewart asked.

The video after the jump.  ​

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Cleveland Hero Turns Down GMA

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Charles Ramsey the Cleveland man that heard screams coming from a neighbor's home and went to investigate -- a decision that led to the discovery of three women missing for years has become not only a hero, but a YouTube hit.

Ramsey, who gave the best interview since Antoine "Hide yo wife, hide yo kids" Dodson has become and Internet sensation as he gave interview after interview to the Cleveland stations. ​

So, you would expect Ramsey to pop up on America's No. 1 morning show, Good Morning America this morning.​

But, GMA host Robin Roberts replied on Twitter that they asked Ramsey to come on GMA, but he said no.​

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Did they offer him free McDonalds?​

Cleveland Stations Get Gift From News Gods this May Book

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Cleveland Stations Get Gift From News Gods this May Book

Cleveland stations got a gift ​from the news gods this may ratings.

Three girls that have been missing for years were found alive after being held captive in a Cleveland home. 

Cleveland police said missing teens Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and a third woman were found in a west side house on Monday.

“This isn’t the ending we usually get,” said MetroHealth Medical Center Dr. Gerald Maloney.

Hundreds of people gathered in the streets near 2207 Seymour Ave. in Cleveland, where the women were discovered. Cleveland police said Berry, DeJesus and Michelle Knight are alive, talking and appear to be OK.

The captures neighbor, Charles Ramsey was the one that helped rescue the girls and he is the one that called 911.

Ramsey was another gift from the news gods when it comes to doing an interview.

The raw interview after the jump.  ​

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Dr. Phil Sues Deadspin

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Dr. Phil is pissed off at the website Deadspin and is suing them for killing his cliffhanger.​

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Dr. Phil landed an interview with the guy who hoaxed football paler Manti Te'o.

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is the guy who created a fictional girlfriend for Te'o. 

Dr. Phil's interview was a 2 parter.  The cliffhanger in part 1 was that Ronaiah would "do the voice" of the phantom girlfriend during part 2.  

According to the suit filed by Dr. Phil's company -- Peteski Productions -- immediately after part 2 aired in a few TV markets ... Deadspin posted footage of Ronaiah doing the voice without permission.  Phil believes it was thievery, because the show hadn't aired in 98% of the country.  

Phil claims ratings significantly suffered as a result of Deadspin's actions.

So Phil is suing Gawker Media, which owns Deadspin, for unspecified damages.

H/T TMZ

Dallas Station Has Reporter Job Open

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Dallas Station Has Reporter Job Open

Are you looking to work in the Big "D"?

Are you just looking to work?​

KDFW has a job opening for a Reporter. 

The job post:

Provide original news content for KDFW FOX 4, myfoxdfw.com, and associated media partners by successfully accomplishing the following responsibilities: gather news information; write news stories, and doing taped and live interviews and reports for KDFW FOX 4, myfoxdfw.com and associated media partners.  Must contribute to social media efforts; Initiate research and enterprise stories; Update and follow up on stories and communicate with managers and assignment editors about past, current and future stories.

More, plus where to send your resume after the leap.  ​

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