Television Review | 'The Â½ Hour News Hour': Itâs Reported, They Mock, You Decide
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With Fox Newsâs âThe Â½ Hour News Hour,â sometimes the humor is so heavy-handed that it seems almost like self-parody.
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Still, it&#39;s careful to follow TV&#39;s new rules: Shows can be as smart as they want, but only if they solve a straight-ahead case each hour.
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Comment is free: Carol Sarler: It's time to stop mocking the States. They could sure teach the Brits a thing or two.
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CBS braces for a report from investigators that could be sharply critical of the outgoing anchor. By Scott Collins and Sallie Hofmeister / Los Angeles Times.
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TV court shows offer campy, hammed up summary justice, but they feed the viewersâ vicarious craving for told-you-so retribution.
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An independent panel found that a "60 Minutes" program on the president's military service was misleading, dealing a blow to a CBS News unit already under duress.
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I wonât apologize for being suspicious of âFacing Reality: Choice,â a one-hour special tonight on Fox News Channel.
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As Jon Stewart tells it, he and his staff of 13 writers at The Daily Show  were looking for a project."Life was too balanced," he says with a straight face. "It was too good for us."They considered a "roads project, a civic improvement," but when they looked around their offices in Manhattan, "we mostly had computers."So they wrote a book.America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner, &#36;24.95) will be published Monday after nine months of checking a few facts and making up a lot more. (Related story: Daily Show is a no-stump zone)Just as his TV show on Comedy Central is a parody of a news show, the book is a graphic-heavy parody of a textbook. Chapters include "Congress: Quagmire of Freedom," "The Media: Democracy's Valiant Vulgarians" and "The Rest of the World: International House of Horrors."The foreword is by Thomas "TJ" Jefferson, who inquires in a postscript: "Is it true Halle Berry is once again single?"Stewart's favorite part?"I like the ending," which offers a Certificate of Completion, qualifying readers to "practice, participate in, or found a democracy."Too often, he says, "you finish a book and ask, 'What's in it for me beyond self-improvement?' Our book gives you a certificate in nation-building. ... If you just smash together the basic ideas, you're bound to wind up with something better than North Korea."Stewart wants to be known as a comedian, even though The Daily Show was voted best news show by TV critics this summer. He dismisses praise from journalists such as Eric Alterman, media critic for The Nation, who recently wrote that Daily Show offers "a truer picture than ... the Sunday-morning gabfests and cable food fights."Stewart, 41, says, "It's more a sign of frustration with the information people are receiving than a sign of our entrepreneurial spirit of journalism. ... It's a '(expletive) you' to real news, not a 'hallelujah' for our fake news."The book mocks both President Bush, "hurdling the lowered bar," and Democrat John Kerry, "monogrammed for greatness." But Stewart acknowledges that The Daily Show delivers more jokes at the expense of Republicans."They're in power," he says. "Comedians in biblical times did more Goliath jokes. The David stuff didn't fly."He says he worries less about being partisan than being boring, strident or redundant, "the death of comedy."Stewart's appearance at a booksellers' convention in June, which featured former president Bill Clinton, won rave reviews. Publishers Weekly said Stewart "out-Clintoned that other guy," prompting his publisher to boost the first printing of America from 500,000 copies to 700,000.
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The Anchor Behaving Badly show seems to be in reruns.
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Headlines can tell you both more -- and less -- than they intend.
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Some say talk is cheap. But not for the best-paid talk show hosts on television and radio.
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A look at how network news divisions have dealt with charges of faulty reporting:
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Some celebrities and their handlers are now claiming that the news media have a double standard.
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Here's the piece that '60 Minutes' killed for its report on the Bush Guard documents.
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By LYNN ELBER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Toss a water-cooler barb at a TV show, and the remark disappears as fast as a weekly paycheck. Post it on the Internet, and it might end up influencing what other viewers see.
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CBS News is ready to admit it used fake memos in its 60 Minutes report on President George W. Bush&#39;s disputed Texas Air National Guard Service.
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The heated network news competition is still complicated by how much network newscasts squander or build on the programs that precede them.