Read more television news stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/28804/television-news.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:41:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74087/lou-dobbs-i-wasnt-forced-out.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLou Dobbs says he doesn't feel as though he was pushed out of CNN, where he worked for all but 2 years of its existence until last Wednesday. "I don't know if people will believe it, but we had a very amicable parting on the best of terms," Dobbs, who...http://www.newser.com/story/74087/lou-dobbs-i-wasnt-forced-out.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73519/white-house-warns-dems-to-avoid-fox.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration has toned down its war of words against Fox News, but behind the scenes, it's warning Democratic strategists not to appear on the network. One consultant who made a recent appearance says he received a call afterward from a White House official who told him, "We better...http://www.newser.com/story/73519/white-house-warns-dems-to-avoid-fox.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 16:50:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72192/another-nyc-anchor-swears-on-air.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAfter one anchor's angry F-bomb and another's strange chicken-copulation metaphor, a third New York local newscaster accidentally slipped in some off-color language last night. WABC anchor Bill Ritter referred to Bernie Kerik, ex-head of the NYPD and briefly nominated to run the Homeland Security Department, as "former New York City...http://www.newser.com/story/72192/another-nyc-anchor-swears-on-air.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 6:00:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71969/in-fight-with-fox-white-house-cant-win.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBy tackling Fox News head-on, the Obama administration has almost certainly bitten off more than it can chew, apparently prioritizing payback ahead of rising above the fray. "While there is undoubtedly a visceral thrill in finally setting out after your antagonists," media columnist David Carr writes for the New York...http://www.newser.com/story/71969/in-fight-with-fox-white-house-cant-win.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 18 Oct 2009 16:24:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70584/court-dismisses-dan-rathers-suit-vs-cbs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against CBS is all but over after an appellate court in New York dismissed his case today. Rather's lawyer vowed to appeal the ruling in the breach of contract suit. Rather initiated the suit following his ouster as Evening News anchor in the wake of...http://www.newser.com/story/70584/court-dismisses-dan-rathers-suit-vs-cbs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 18:16:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69658/gop-blasts-obama-for-fox-news-snub.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRepublican lawmakers are peeved because President Obama is—try not to laugh—snubbing Fox News. Obama will appear on every political Sunday talk show this week, except Fox News Sunday. “If people are going to be on the Sunday talk shows, they should be on all of them,” opined Joe...http://www.newser.com/story/69658/gop-blasts-obama-for-fox-news-snub.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 17 Sep 2009 12:53:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68726/sawyer-nabbed-anchor-job-by-waiting-around.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhat Diane Sawyer has achieved as the second female solo news anchor is “more subtle” than Katie Couric’s ascendancy, writes Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times . Sawyer “is a gorgeous, glamorous television personality who got to the top job by waiting around,” Stanley notes. It has smoothed “bumps in...http://www.newser.com/story/68726/sawyer-nabbed-anchor-job-by-waiting-around.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 06 Sep 2009 6:59:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67292/60-minutes-creator-don-hewitt-86-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDon Hewitt, one of the pioneers of TV news, died today at 86 of pancreatic cancer, CBS reports. Hewitt all but invented television news over the course of his more than 60-year career, directing legends Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. He was behind the 1968 launch of 60 Minutes...http://www.newser.com/story/67292/60-minutes-creator-don-hewitt-86-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 11:48:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66257/what-truce-oreilly-olbermann-back-in-the-ring.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe feud between Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann continues, despite word of a peace deal: On Monday Olbermann said there was no truce and awarded O’Reilly the silver medal for “World’s Worst Person.” Then he gave the gold to Fox News honcho Rupert Murdoch. O’Reilly kept up the battle last...http://www.newser.com/story/66257/what-truce-oreilly-olbermann-back-in-the-ring.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 06 Aug 2009 11:12:35 CDT