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http://blogs.tampabay.com/media/ - The Feed is a blog on TV, media and modern life by St. Petersburg Times TV/media critic Eric Deggans. Possibly the most critical guy at the Times, he has served as music, media and TV critic at various times over 10 years.
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For a public broadcasting nerd like myself, it's like getting asked to shag a few balls for A-Rod.
But the good folks at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer have been very nice about inviting me onto their show today to talk about Oprah Winfrey's decision to leave her legendary talk show after 25 ...
Television
Oprah Winfrey
Now that Oprah Winfrey has confirmed rumors that she plans to end her mega-successful syndicated talk show when her contract expires in September 2011, the next question is simple: Who wins and who loses? Winfrey herself is expected to announce the move during her live show today, though she ...
Television
Oprah Winfrey
Most of conservative pundit Glenn Beck 's book signing events in Florida this weekend will be seriously brisk affairs; he's scheduled to hit seven different cities on Friday and Saturday, culminating with a noon stop in Tampa and a 3 p.m. rally/singing at The Villages retirement community.
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Television
Beck
Rally
Most of conservative pundit Glenn Beck 's book signing events in Florida this weekend will be seriously brisk affairs; he's scheduled to hit seven different cities on Friday and Saturday, culminating with a noon stop in Tampa and a 3 p.m. rally/singing at The Villages retirement community.
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Television
Beck
Rally
The Sarah Palin book tour continues to be the gift that keeps on giving for media watchers.
First, Fox News had to apologize today for telling viewers Wednesday that video from a campaign appearance by Palin last year before adoring throngs was footage from a recent book tour stop. The flub, ...
Television
The Daily Show
Jon Stewart
At a time when some critics insist that content in newspapers is unofficially for sale, Creative Loafing's Tampa edition is about to put that notion to the test.
To raise money for The Children's Home charity, Creative Loafing in Tampa has opened an online auction allowing the highest ...
Celebrities
I've been waylaid for much of today by problems with a virus in my office computer, so apologies for the lack of posts today.
But Nielsen has begun reporting TV ratings reports again after a power outage in Oldsmar during the wee hours Wednesday morning disrupted data collection efforts. ...
Television
Katie Holmes
When I toured The Nielsen Company's $80-million, 475,000-square-foot data processing center in Oldsmar a few years ago, officials presented a facility poised to withstand just about anything the Tampa Bay area could dish out. A fortified data collection area was built to endure a hurricane. ...
Television
Katie Holmes
There have been rumblings for a while that former WFTS-Ch. 28 general manager Bill Carey might land a job as news director at New York CW affiliate WPIX. The station made it official today, announcing Carey as it's new news director, importing him to his New York hometown from a job as ...
Television
The cool kids may never admit they read his books. But I'm not ashamed to say I have been a Stephen King fan since his second book, 1975's Salem's Lot , led me to keep the lights on at night -- every night! -- while in junior high school. So joining a sold-out crowd of hundreds at the Van ...
Celebrities
Stephen King
The cool kids may never admit they read his books. But I'm not ashamed to admit I have been a Stephen King fan since his second book, Salem's Lot , led me to keep the lights on at night while in high school. So joining a crowd of hundreds at the Van Wezel Hall in Sarasota Monday to genuflect ...
Celebrities
Stephen King
As Sarah Palin kicks off a media blitz this week to hawk her new book, Going Rogue , you have to wonder how the national media got hornswoggled into this mess. Even as major interviews with infotainment figures such as Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters air in syndicated TV and on ABC, ...
Television
Barbara Walters
Former St. Petersburg Times publisher Marty Petty has been named CEO of the Tampa-based chain of alternative weekly newspapers, Creative Loafing. Petty, who left a position as the Times ' publisher and executive vice president last month, takes the job once held by Ben Eason , whose family ...
Television
Ever try to get a word in edgewise when two siblings are fighting?
Then you know how I felt on Sunday morning, trying to get in-between Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawick and CNN staffer-turned-conservative talk radio guy Chris Plante on Howard Kurtz media show for CNN, Reliable Soruces. ...
Television
A deputy in the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is suing the owner of CBS affiliate WTSP-Ch. 10 and reporter Mike Deeson , saying the station aired a story unfairly edited to make it appear the officer was laughing at quadriplegic jail inmate Brian Sterner when he was dumped from a ...
Television
A deputy in the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is suing the owner of CBS affiliate WTSP-Ch. 10 and reporter Mike Deeson , saying the station aired a story unfairly edited to make it appear the officer was laughing at quadriplegic jail inmate Brian Sterner when he was dumped from a ...
Television
I'm a TV critic, so I get paid to overthink television series and concepts. But even the guy who spent hours puzzling out the time twists in the latest Star Trek movie couldn't hope to match the level of fan boy deliberation which went into this post on the Dvice blog : Four reasons why V's ...
Television
Star Trek
John King , the host of CNN's Sunday program State of the Union , has been named as the permanent replacement for outgoing 7 p.m. weeknight anchor Lou Dobbs , who abruptly resigned Wednesday after more than 25 years working at the cable newschannel. The choice of King, a former reporter for ...
Television
As Latino groups began to step up their protests against CNN "advocacy anchor" Lou Dobbs , the one time business expert and last remaining anchor from the newschannel's earliest days abruptly announced he was leaving the channel, effective today.
In a long statement, Dobbs told his ...
Television
I'm not sure what's more amazing: That Fox News exposed a falsehood spread by conservative darling Sarah Palin , or that the Daily Show dug up footage suggesting the channel should be fact checking its own programs, too.
( UPDATE: Sean Hannity admitted on his show Wednesday that he used ...
