Lisa de Moraes Wash Post: Lifetime, the cable network that purports to be about empowering women, has gotten into bed for one of its new projects with Donald Trump, the guy who seems just the teensiest bit dismissive of women who are (a) plus-size, (b) lesbian, (c) over 40 or (d) Angelina Jolie. "Trump Tower" is described by Lifetime as "a juicy nighttime soap set in one of New York City's most glamorous Trump apartment and condominium complexes."
Who is Margie Burns and why is anyone taking seriously her blog musings advising CBS News to replace Katie with Keith Olbermann who, as a sportscaster, can count?
Keith's frequent comedic guest, Mo Rocca, plays a disgraced NYP gossip on NBC's "Law & Order." Mo gets blown up by a car bomb. Ben Widdicombe NYDN
Corning where? Off the air at NYC Fox WNYW Ch. 5 Tee Vee. Richard Huff NYDN New news director Diane Doctor declines to renew Ron Corning's contract.
Grammar and usage lesson to J.K. Rowling from Chickaboomer. "Decimated" means by tens. "It's really decimated my creative work over the last month."
By tens? Rowling shedding crocotears in a Personal Appearance to block a puny publishing house from putting out a Harry Potter encyclopedia. NYDN
The National Association of Broadcasters demanded liberal actor Tim Robbins not give the Las Vegas conventionkeynote speech he wrote and submitted to NAB brass. He performed it anyway.
B & C: Variety described approvingly and at length, calling it "laced with wry irony and winking sarcasm." Other reports from those covering the convention, at this writing, characterized it as "electrifying," "a humorous, profanity-laced attack," and "an historic moment." A few people walked out. At the end, the majority of the crowd gave Robbins a standing ovation.
Newton Minow and Edward R. Murrow are rolling in their graves...
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