“ABC says Ashley Alexandra Dupre sat down with Diane Sawyer on the program ‘20/20.’ Dupre reveals how an ‘upper middle-class, girl next door got into the profession and the psychological journey she continues to experience.’” [Link]
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“We hear the “Baghdad Bombshell” has quietly wed defense contractor Joe Burkett, whose child she’s expecting in January.A friend of the couple confirms, “They got married a few weeks ago in a friend’s apartment in New York City.” Last year, two years after splitting with husband Jason Siemon, Logan, 37, started a war-zone romance with CNN correspondent Michael Ware.” [Link]
“‘We are profoundly saddened to tell you that our dear Anne has lost her struggle for life,’ Guy and Patti Cannady, Pressly’s parents, said in a statement posted on the KATV Web site. ‘It was our hope, as was yours, that Anne would overcome the injuries inflicted upon her in the brutal attack at her home. We were with her in her last moments, and although our hearts are broken, we are at the same time comforted by our faith knowing that Anne is now with our Heavenly Father. ” [Link]
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“‘The Rachel Maddow Show,’ her left-leaning news and commentary program, has averaged a higher rating among 25- to 54-year-olds than ‘Larry King Live’ on CNN for 13 of the 25 nights she has been host. While the average total audience of her program remains slightly smaller than that of Mr. King’s, Ms. Maddow, 35, has made MSNBC competitive in that time slot for the first time in a decade. The channel at that hour has an average viewership of 1.7 million since she started on Sept. 8, compared with 800,000 before.” [Link]
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“The shock jock’s syndicated morning radio show once drew a national audience of 12 million, but since jumping to satellite radio three years ago, his listeners have dwindled to a fraction of that. Where once Stern routinely commanded a parade of Hollywood’s hottest stars — George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Julia Roberts — today publicists are left to tout studio appearances by the likes of Chevy Chase, Joan Rivers or Hulk Hogan.” [Link]
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“The FCC says Comcast should carry the league’s NFL Network on its popular digital cable package. The commission ruled that Comcast discriminated against the NFL Network by agreeing to carry the channel only on a more expensive sports cable service.” [Link]
“At the start of this month, the newspaper said it was desperately seeking cash. It supposedly raised ‘a lot’ of money in the following two weeks, but then came a brutal Wall Street meltdown that appears to have ended any hope for new benefactors.” [Link]
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“American Idol alum Clay Aiken and newborn son Parker pose for their first photos AND Aiken officially comes out. Parker Foster Aiken was born on August 8 in North Carolina to Aiken’s good friend Jaymes Foster, 50.”[Link]
“According to Nielsen’s preliminary estimates, NBC’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ coverage averaged about 19 million viewers during prime time, almost 7 million more than the 12.2 million viewers who watched the Emmy’s from 8 to 11 p.m.” [Link]
“Attacking the New York Times — and the media generally — is a smart strategic move when it comes to uniting the Republican base behind McCain. While that base has never felt warmly toward McCain, they feel even less warmly toward the media in general, and the New York Times in particular. It’s the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ argument and it has worked extremely well for the McCain campaign to date.” [Link]
“On Saturday’s (September 20th) ‘Election HQ,’ Greg Jarrett teased the upcoming segment with the comment that both Barack Obama and John McCain are each ‘getting a turn on the couch; but one had a rougher ride. Are the ladies of The View seeing things from only one side?’” [Link]
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“According to a National Enquirer source, ‘Elisabeth feels she can’t win at The View, but she’s been told by friends at Fox News that they’d find a spot for her without hesitation.’The insider adds that the mom of two feels like she can’t win. ‘Elisabeth is just as tired of the ladies at The View as they are of her! She feels she constantly has to defend herself.’” [Link]
Gospel Today Magazine With Women Pastors
“The group says women pastors go against its beliefs, according to its interpretation of the New Testament. The magazine was taken off stands in more than 100 Lifeway Christian Bookstores across the country, including six in metro Atlanta. Published for nearly 20 years, Gospel Today is the largest and most widely distributed urban Christian publication in the country, with a circulation of 240,000. The magazine’s publisher, Teresa Hairston, said she was just reporting on a trend, not trying to promote women pastors. ‘They basically treated it like pornography and put it behind the counter,’ she said. ‘Unless a person goes into the store and asks for it, they won’t see it displayed.’” [Link]
“Terri Hughes, who is African-American, alleges that when a host of another Playboy show — who was also an African-American woman — requested for Hughes work on her show, the executive producer of Playboy Radio warned, ‘I don’t know how to say this, and it might offend you, but I’m just going to say it anyway — no Negro shows.’” [Link]
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“Through the first three days of the week, half a million viewers have been watching CNBC during the business day, nearly double the number that watch on an typical day. On Monday, the network drew an average of 488,000 viewers between 5 a.m. and 7 p.m.; on Tuesday, that average grew to 523,000, the network’s biggest audience since 2001; and on Wednesday, the number only dipped slightly, to an average of 495,000.” [Link]
“Former Eagles quarterback turned entrepreneur Ron Jaworski is being sued in Superior Court here by the owner of Running Deer Golf Club, under claims his allegedly deceptive business practices forced the club to file for bankruptcy. The civil suit was drawn up on behalf of Edward Carman, who designed, built and has operated the Pittsgrove links alongside his family since its creation in 1998.” [Link]
“Coco, real name Nicole Austin, married Ice in 2005 and has since made a name for herself by wearing raunchy outfits on the red carpet next to her fella. She posed for Playboy earlier this year but she hopes her official magazine, filled entirely with shots of herself, will prove a bigger hit.” [Link]
“According to an article appearing in The Sun, while promoting her new line of fine beddings for Macy’s during New York’s Fashion Week, Eva Mendes revealed having had sex in all 50 states, going on to say, ‘A lot of it was on a road trip I took when I was younger,’ and noting that the best sex she had was in Colorado, ‘maybe [because of] the clear air, or the quiet, or the endless sky.’ Calling the report a ‘complete fabrication’ and ‘entirely untrue,’ Mendes’ rep went on to note, ‘Ms. Mendes wasn’t even present at the event at which these comments were supposedly made. The entire thing is absurd and offensive.’” [Link]
“The Vaughan Hannigan photo agency, which has represented the disgraced, excrement-obsessed photoshopper Jill Greenberg, has just dropped her from its client list. Bill Hannigan, who runs the agency, told me a few minutes ago that Greenberg and the agency had ‘different views on how to conduct business.’” [Link]
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“The net appears poised to continue modest growth via a fall lineup that welcomes WWE ‘SmackDown’ — wrestled from the CW — on Friday nights; ‘The Tony Rock Project,’ starring Chris Rock’s comedian bro; and new episodes of ‘Magic’s Secrets Revealed.’ ‘Celebrity Expose,’ a net staple geared to draw women, returns; so does ‘Jail,’ from the same team behind ‘Cops.’ ‘We expect we’ll do a lot better on Friday nights,’ Meidel says. ‘ ‘SmackDown’ is a mirror image of who really watches our network. This isn’t like putting square pegs in round holes.’” [Link]
“More than 40 million people tuned in last week to listen to the speech from Palin, the 44-year-old first-term governor whom McCain announced as his surprise vice presidential pick just days before. Since then, that basic script is all anyone has heard from her publicly, and her only interaction with the media was a brief conversation with a small group of reporters on her plane Monday — off the record at her handlers’ insistence. Associated Press reporters were not on the plane, but an aide told the journalists on board that all Palin flights would be off the record unless the media were told otherwise. At least one reporter objected. Two people on the flight said the Palins greeted the media and they chatted about who had been to Alaska, but little else was said.” [Link]
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“Asked on Fox & Friends about the ‘damage done’ by having Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews anchor MSNBC’s election coverage, the Media Research Center’s Tim Graham responded, ‘Not only is the damage already done, the damage continues. I mean, not only are they keeping these people on for an hour a night, they’re adding this lesbian Air America radio host, Rachel Maddow, on every night.’” [Link]
“Why doesn’t News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch just make it official? His wife, Wendi Deng, serves as ‘chief strategist’ for MySpace China, the media conglomerate’s Internet outpost in her homeland. MySpace China CEO Luo Chuan has just quit. Just promote her already, Rupert!” [Link]
“The Silver State bank of Henderson, Nevada was closed by Federal bank regulators on Friday. On or about July 27, a scant six weeks ago, John McCain’s son Andrew McCain, resigned from its Board of Directors for ahem, ‘personal reasons.’ This closure is significant for two reasons. First, one wonders if there is more to Andrew McCain’s resignation than ‘personal reasons.’ Second, remember John McCain’s involvement in the Keating Five bank scandal of the late l980’s? After all was said and done, he was accused of exercising ‘poor judgment.’” [Link]
“On this peaceful, pleasant Atlanta Saturday morning, my colleague Cynthia Tucker, syndicated columnist and the AJC’s editorial page editor, was returning from a trip to the grocery store when she was ‘ambushed’ on the sidewalk in front of her home by a three-person crew sent by Fox’s Bill O’Reilly.” [Link]
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