Media Pack Descends on Cleveland

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Media Pack Descends on Cleveland

A hotel near the scene of the Cleveland House of Horrors only has a couple of rooms left.

That just doesn't happen in early May in northeast Ohio.​

The rooms are filled mostly with members of the media.​

The media circus has moved into Cleveland, bringing with them all 3 rings. ​

"It's a sea of reporters at the scene of both (victims) homes," says Dan Salamone, news director at Raycom's WOIO. "It presents a challenge for the police, and also for us as we continue to try and bring the story home for local viewers. It's a mad scene."

News media, tabloids and websites from all over the world are in Cleveland and they are now looking for the exact same thing.

What it is and more after the jump.  ​

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"It Was Important For Me to Go Back"

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"It Was Important For Me to Go Back"

It was a quick trip, but it was a very important one for NBC's Richard Engel.

The Peacock's foreign correspondent Richard Engel made his first trip to Syria since he and his team were kidnapped and held captive there last December.

Engel traveled with photographer John Kooistra, who was kidnapped with him in December.

Engel says that his bosses at NBC weren't anxious to send him back to Syria. But he said it was important to go because of the story.

"It did make me feel better," he said via telephone from Turkey on Wednesday. "It was important for me to go back, but I won't say that I went back to prove to myself that I could do it."

More after the leap.  ​

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Rob Morrison Doesn't Want His Career to End This Way

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Rob Morrison Doesn't Want His Career to End This Way

Rob Morrison was fired (officially he resigned) after being busted by police for choking and assaulting his wife Ashley, a CBS MoneyWatch anchor who continues in her job.

He is hoping that this isn't the end of his career in TV news. ​

“I would hate it if my career ended in scandal,” Morrison tells Tuned In. “I gave everything I had to it. What’s happened here is definitely unfortunate.”

Morrison continues to profess his innocence about the alleged events on the Sunday morning at their house that led to his arrest.  Morrison says once details from the case are made public, he thinks that will go a long way toward restoring his image.

“I’m not guilty of what I’m accused of and I’m hoping when that is proven people will understand it and I’ll get another opportunity somewhere.

More after the hop.  ​

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Um Excuse me! You're Stabbing our Lights!

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Um Excuse me! You're Stabbing our Lights!

WPLG reporter Ross Palombo and a photographer Shane Walker had a bit of a scare last night while getting ready to go live on Local 10 News at 11. They had set up their live shot right in front of the gated house, on a public street, of a homeowner who had allegedly failed to pay his taxes on time and who became very agitated when he saw the TV crew in front of his house.

It was all caught on camera as the man walked out and threatened Palombo and Walker

Homeowner: I’m gonna ask you to take the camera off me once.
Palombo: Are you threatening me?
Homeowner: I am promising you, that I will rip that thing off your shoulder so quick and beat you down with it.

More plus the video after the jump.  

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The Anchor vs. The TV Critic

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The Anchor vs. The TV Critic

Call this one The Anchor vs. The TV Critic.​

Or the Clash of the Egos!

In one corner you have WGRZ (Buffalo) News Anchor Maryalice Demler.​

In the other corner you have Buffalo News TV Critic Alan Pregment.

Two people working in a dying TV market that both think they are God's gift to journalism. ​

Pergament wrote an article about Demler giving her thoughts and doing commentaries on her station's newscast.

It's nothing new, in some markets anchors have been doing commentaries for 40 years.

But, you must remember things don't move very fast in Buffalo.

When Demler started given her opinions on the newscast, Pergment lashed out in a column. His thought is that an anchor should just deliver the news and not give their opinions. 

More on this plus one giant ego video commentary after the jump.   ​

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It's Not Over Yet

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It's Not Over Yet

The verdict came in, Jodi Arias was found guilty of First Degree Murder. ​

All the Phoenix stations ​went wall to wall with the coverage (remaining calm while doing do) of the verdict. As expected, none of the networks broke into programming with coverage.

The cable nets were all over it and no network was more sad to see a verdict than HLN. Not because of of the guilty verdict, but because their obsession with the trial that ​has boosted their ratings is coming to an end.

But, there is still the death penalty phase and that should eek out a few more days of coverage for Nancy Grace and her gang of hooligans over at HLN. ​

The tweet you have to see about Grace's coverage after the jump.  ​

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Looks Like a Cold Front of Republicians are Moving in

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Talk about a strange forecast.​

WFAA weatherman Pete Delkus was looking at a very old map behind him during his weather report and the map had nothing to do with the weather. 

Forget the highs and the lows, Delkus forecast was red states and blue states forecast from the 2012 election.

The station is blaming a new weather map system the recently installed.

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Ann Curry has No Plans for Tell All

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If you're waiting for a tell all book from Ann Curry about her canning from The Today Show....you might be waiting a longtime.​

“Ann isn’t writing a tell-all book, memoir, expose, work of fiction. Nada. She has moved on from the drama of being fired from Today last year. She isn’t focused in the past and is focusing on her work. Ann has been getting more on screen time at NBC, and she is pursuing stories of interest to her that aren’t getting the attention from the media,” a source told RadarOnline.com.

​Media reports have circulated this week that Curry is being courted by multiple publishers to write a revealing memoir about her demotion from the morning news
program.

There just comes a point when enough is enough, and that time is now,” the insider said.

Amen to that!​

Chicago Weatherman's Brother to Get out of Jail Early

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Former Enron CEO and current jailbird Jeffrey Skilling should be out of jail in just four years, skipping nearly a decade of his prison sentence for corporate fraud and graft.

How is he able to get out so early? Skilling is expected to get early release with a combination of cash payments and legal maneuvers.

Word is that Skilling is paying Enron's victims some $40 million and has agreed to stop the lawsuits that are involved with his conviction and sentence in 2006.

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Skilling's promised payments would equal 0.1% of the $40 billion Enron stole under Skilling's leadership. He was originally sentenced to 24 years behind bars, but his total sentence would be half of that if his lawyers get approval.

The TV news tie in?

Jeff Skilling is the brother of WGN Chicago Weatherman Tom Skilling. ​

Washington Weatherman to Retire

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Washington Weatherman to Retire

Weather forecaster Bob Ryan, a fixture on Washington TV for decades, said Wednesday that he intends to retire next month from WJLA.

Ryan has been forecasting the weather on Washington’s airwaves for more than 30 years. He spent most of his local career at WRC, before moving to rival WJLA in 2010.

With a friendly but no-nonsense style, Ryan, a certified meteorologist, has guided Washington area viewers through blizzards, droughts, hurricanes and tornadoes. His presence helped make NBC-owned WRC, the leading news station in the region.

More after the jump.   ​

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Chris Cuomo Delves into Amanda Knox's Sex Life

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Chris Cuomo Delves into Amanda Knox's Sex Life

CNN's Chris Cuomo is catching some heat for his interview with Amanda Knox last night. 

Gawker writes that it appeared that Cuomo felt he had been hired by the morality polizia to interrogate Knox about her role as a sexfun badgirl.

"Knox is into some freaky sexual things!" he barked at her.

"Were you into into deviant sex? Insensitive question, but hey..."

"Still smoke weed?"

Throughout the interview, Cuomo seemed to be working a sort of good cop/bad cop angle in which he was the bad cop and the only good cop is a bad cop so he was also the good cop (a bad cop).

More and some video after the hop.   ​

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We have a Verdict in Jodi Arias Case (Upadted)

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We have a Verdict in Jodi Arias Case (Upadted)

It's been a very bust news day to say the least.​

Both Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus are home. They are two of the women that were abducted in Cleveland and held for more than 10 years.​

Now word is coming down that the jury has reached a verdict in the Jodi Arias case.

The jury in the Jodi Arias trial has reached a verdict after deliberating for more than 15 hours.

After months of sometimes-gory evidence and shocking testimony filled with sex, lies and allegations of brutality, Jodi Arias is just minutes away from learning her fate.

Update: Arias was found Guilty of First Degree Murder. More after the jump 

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