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Current TV Founders Comment On Euna & Laura's Release - Posted August 5, 2009
Yesterday, after the announcement that North Korea was going to release imprisoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, their bosses at Current TV posted a comment about the whole mess. "All of us at Current are overjoyed at Laura and Euna's safe return," Current Media founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt said... [FishBowlNY]

Lee & Ling Back in the USA - Posted August 5, 2009
Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee just arrived safely back in the United States, in Burbank, CA. Their release from North Korea was negotiated by former President Bill Clinton yesterday. He accompanied the women home today and released this statement by email: "I am very happy that after this... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 08.05.09 - Posted August 5, 2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. Happy Birthday to Taylor Griffin! What we know and what we're reading this Wednesday morning... TV | ONLINE | WEST WING REPORTAGE | NEWS NOTES |... [FishBowlDC]

BREAKING: Two US Journos Pardoned by North Korea - Posted August 4, 2009
CNN confirmed two US journos Laura Ling and Euna Lee working for the Al Gore owned Current TV were pardoned by North Korean President Kim Jong Il after a visit from former President Bill Clinton. Phew. Previously on FBLA: President Clinton: Soon-To-Be Patron Saint of Political Prisoner Journos... [FishBowlLA]

Clinton (Bill, Not Hillary) Heads to North Korea to Negotiate Release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee - Posted August 3, 2009
FishbowlDC reports former Pres. Bill Clinton has arrived in North Korea to help negotiate the release of CurrentTV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee who've been in custody since March. Clinton's VP, Al Gore, is a founder of CurrentTV. > Earlier on TVNewser: Laura Ling, Euna Lee Convicted; Sentenced to 12 Years...... [TVNewser]

More RTCA Dets: A Dinner Preview With Tonight's Emcee, Pre & After Parties - Posted June 19, 2009
A few more details about tonight's dinner... • The MSNBC after-party is being thrown by the former social secretary to Vice President Al Gore, Philip Dufour of Dufour & Co. Playbook hears the party will have a hip, modern vibe and a Starbucks coffee bar. If you last til 1am, mini breakfast... [FishBowlDC]

Rodale First Quarter Revenues Drop 23.3% - Posted May 6, 2009
Men's Health publisher Rodale announced its first quarter results today, revealing a 23.2% dip in revenues compared to the first quarter of last year. Not surprisingly, Rodale's president and CEO Steven Pleshette Murphy chalked the decrease up to an anemic ad market but pointed out that the company's consumer products are still... [FishBowlNY]

Rodale First Quarter Revenues Drop 23.3% - Posted May 6, 2009
Men's Health publisher Rodale announced its first quarter results today, revealing a 23.2% dip in revenues compared to the first quarter of last year. Not surprisingly, Rodale's president and CEO Steven Pleshette Murphy chalked the decrease up to an anemic ad market but pointed out that the company's consumer products are still... [FishBowlNY]

Fox's "Family Guy" Takes Shots at Fox News Channel - Posted March 26, 2009
On Sunday's "Family Guy," Lois Griffin becomes a reporter for Fox News Channel. And the show's producers didn't hold back in their stereotypical portrayal of FNC. Brian, the family dog, says Fox News is "evil and they distort the truth and they do the bidding of the Republican party." On the... [TVNewser]

Mediabistro Blog-Family Roundup - Posted March 25, 2009
New book from Al Gore about solutions to global warming- GalleyCat Layoffs at Brides.com due to Conde Nast's digital consolidation- FishbowlNY Bill O'Reilly launches "Post-Game" web show- WebNewser National Journal's bipartisan breakfast panel agreed on one thing- a timeline for healthcare reform- FishbowlDC Teen Confesses... [FishBowlLA]

Unpaid Plenty Writers Consider Lawsuit - Posted February 10, 2009
Was anyone paid for the last issue of Plenty? Certainly not any of the five contributors FishbowlNY has spoken to in the last few days, all of whom are owed money for pieces that were published in the Dec/Jan '08 issue, which was the last to hit newsstands, and some of... [FishBowlNY]

Unpaid Plenty Writers Consider Lawsuit - Posted February 10, 2009
Was anyone paid for the last issue of Plenty? Certainly not any of the five contributors FishbowlNY has spoken to in the last few days, all of whom are owed money for pieces that were published in the Dec/Jan '08 issue, which was the last to hit newsstands, and some of... [FishBowlNY]

Around the Fishbowls: Stephanopoulos, Amanpour, Coleman... - Posted January 30, 2009
• FishbowlDC's Patrick Gavin asks "Is Rahm Emanuel Stepanopoulos' #1 Source?" Gavin brings up a phone call George Stephanopoulos received during a Q&A Cafe session. • FishbowlNY's Glynnis MacNicol has video of CNN's Christiane Amanpour at the duPont Awards Winner Circle. Amanpour won a duPont for her special, "God's Warriors." • FishbowlLA's Tina... [TVNewser]

Weather Channel Founder an Earth's-Not-Getting-Anymore-Hot Head - Posted January 29, 2009
Fox News enlightens us: The founder of the Weather Channel is ridiculing Al Gore over his calls for action on global climate change, saying in a column that global warming is a "hoax" and "bad science." John Coleman, now a weatherman at San Diego's KUSI, wrote on his station's Web site Wednesday... [FishBowlLA]

Former VP Gore On Biden & Cheney - Posted November 22, 2008
In his first interview since the election of Barack Obama, former Vice President Al Gore speaks to CNN's Fareed Zakaria about foreign policy, the election, and the outgoing administration: ZAKARIA: A lot of people feel Cheney has effectively changed the nature of the vice presidency forever, that these institutional aggrandizations of... [TVNewser]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted November 21, 2008
Meet The Press: Former Secretary of State James Baker, former Commerce Secretary William Daley, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and a roundtable with CNBC's Erin Burnett, former Wall Street Journal Detroit bureau chief Paul Ingrassia and NBC political director Chuck Todd. Face the Nation: Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee. This... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 11.13.08 - Posted November 13, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Roberts: "My Goal Is To Be An Equal Opportunity Holder Of Feet To The Fire" - Posted October 15, 2008
With the presidential election just 20 days away, Media Life Magazine's Diego Vasquez profiles CNN's John Roberts about politics and media. Vasquez asks Roberts if he thinks the media has shown bias during the 2008 election in particular. "There are certain media outlets, without naming names, that may have, but all I... [TVNewser]

Who Is This 40 year old? - Posted October 14, 2008
Find out after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 09.19.08 - Posted September 19, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Is Coverage of the Online Glass Ceiling Just Reinforcing It? - Posted July 30, 2008
Lots of talk today about women and blogging, much of it kicked off by the NYT's coverage of the annual BlogHer conference in San Francisco last week-end. The article was widely criticized by women in the blogosphere and many questioned whether the NYT was merely reinforcing the glass ceiling that... [FishBowlNY]

Luke Hayman to Oversee 02138 Redesign - Posted July 18, 2008
We confess that we cancelled our subscription to 02138 magazine shortly after the September/October 2007 issue's cover photo of a seemingly dyspeptic/vaguely menacing Al Gore (pictured at right) gave us terrible nightmares, many of them involving Carl Sagan. But today's news that Pentagram's Luke Hayman will be leading a redesign of... [UnBeige]

Morning Reading List, 07.18.08 - Posted July 18, 2008
Good morning Washington. Above, Luke Russert and James Carville spearhead XM radio's coverage of the MLB All-Star Game. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got... [FishBowlDC]

VSA's Jeff Walker Uses His Ecomagination - Posted January 19, 2008
So all this talk about sustainability here at Compostmodern is great, but what about those evil gigantor corporations that Alex Steffen showed slides of in his presentation? You know, like, say, um...General Electric? VSA Partners' Jeff Walker (who we are not related to, but did share a cab with last night)... [UnBeige]

UnBeige Looks Back: The Year In Chowder - Posted December 31, 2007
Tracking the comings and goings of Brian Collins could fill an entire blog with posts that sound more like the frenetic tour schedule of the Blue Man Group (BEIJING! NEW YORK! BIRMINGHAM! DENVER! MARTHA'S VINEYARD! ONE NIGHT ONLY!). First he bailed on his gig at BIG for a limited engagement dishing... [UnBeige]

Morning Reading List, 11.14.07 - Posted November 14, 2007
Good morning Washington. You find NBC's Green Week theme journalistically troubling. An ABC release announced, "For the week of November 5-9, 'World News with Charles Gibson' won among Households (6.3/12) and tied for first place among the Adult 25-54 rating (2.3/9). Among Total Viewers, the ABC broadcast averaged 9.18 million, with just... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 11.13.07 - Posted November 13, 2007
Good morning Washington. You think The Washington Post's reaction to Tim Page was too harsh. "Mitt Romney Loses Coveted Endless Simmer Endorsement" Is that CBS's Matthew Felling hosting the Kojo Nnamdi Show today? Get ready for tomorrow's Meet the Press party...and Rush Limbaugh?!? New York Times presents, "Stray Questions for: P.J. O'Rourke" New York Post reports,... [FishBowlDC]

Abort Clambake! Brian Collins Launches COLLINS With The Martin Agency - Posted November 12, 2007
If you're en route to Nantucket right now for a bowl of that creamy, chunky chowder that Brian Collins promised you earlier this year, put your brakes on. Turns out that the former BIG man on campus also spent those few months weighing his options at his Cape Cod palace on... [UnBeige]

Morning Reading List, 10.18.07 - Posted October 18, 2007
Good morning Washington. It's a close one, but it looks doubtful that Stephen Colbert's presidential bid in SC will do any major damage. Roll Call announced that Jay Heflin is going to be joining the CongressNow staff full-time beginning today. He will be covering taxes and trade. An ACLU release announced, "The American Civil... [FishBowlDC]

Official UnBeige AIGA NEXT Roundup - Posted October 16, 2007
Even though we still can't get that Command X theme music out of our head (damn you all, Open, Agoraphone and The Plasticines!), we've finally had a few days to contemplate the AIGA NEXT conference in its entirety. Although we had a slight peek at the innerworkings while serving on the... [UnBeige]

Command X: Get Out the Vote - Posted October 13, 2007
Here we are at the final round of Command X, the world's first graphic design reality show held live at the AIGA NEXT conference in Denver, Colorado. Because we know you're wondering, yes, judge Brian Collins is back, and got to hang out with Nobel Prize-winning Al Gore yesterday in San... [UnBeige]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted October 12, 2007
Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize, Our Favorite Photo Award: We love this image of Lessing, the oldest-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, sitting on her stoop like the 87-year-old landlady of a murder suspect. If we didn't know better, we'd imagine she's telling all those microphones, "He was a... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 09.25.07 - Posted September 25, 2007
Good morning Washington. You think Jon Stewart could totally take Tucker Carlson in a fist fight. CBSNews.com's Matthew Felling -- fresh back from his stint on "Morning Joe" -- is hosting today's "Kojo Nnamdi Show" on WAMU 88.5FM from noon to two. "Printing poll on Iraqi deaths would be irresponsible" Keith St. Clair,... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 09.18.07 - Posted September 18, 2007
Good morning Washington. You think the Yankees will make it to the playoffs. Starting on Friday, C-SPAN Radio 90.1 FM in the Washington/Baltimore area is now broadcasting three channels in HD. If you have an HD radio, you'll be able to hear these three C-SPAN Radio stations for free at 90.1. For more... [FishBowlDC]

Trade Round-Up: Sept. 14, 2007 - Posted September 14, 2007
Johnson Helps Clinton Campaign Following up on Oprah's ritzy fundraiser for Barack Obama last weekend in Montecito, Variety gives the deets on another campaign party planned for Southern California this weekend but this time it's Magic Johnson hosting a bash for Hillary Clinton. Variety's Ted Johnson writes that some are calling the... [FishBowlLA]

Trade Round-Up: Sept. 14, 2007 - Posted September 14, 2007
Johnson Helps Clinton Campaign Following up on Oprah's ritzy fundraiser for Barack Obama last weekend in Montecito, Variety gives the deets on another campaign party planned for Southern California this weekend but this time it's Magic Johnson hosting a bash for Hillary Clinton. Variety's Ted Johnson writes that some are calling the... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 09.06.07 - Posted September 6, 2007
Good morning Washington. You think tattoos are low rent. An ABC release announced, "For the just-completed Memorial Day to Labor Day period (May 28-September 2), 'World News with Charles Gibson' was the #1 evening newscast among Total Viewers, Households and Adults 25-54. In summer 2007, the ABC broadcast averaged 7.7 million Total Viewers... [FishBowlDC]

Obama First Pol To Grace GQ Cover In 15 Years - Posted August 13, 2007
First on FishbowlDC... GQ asks: Does "the new star of the Democratic Party" have "the nerve, the political spine, and the will to do the (sometimes dirty) work it takes to get to the White House?" That was then (Nov. 1992)... ...this is now (Sept. 2007)... FishbowlDC has learned that Sen. Barack Obama will grace... [FishBowlDC]

Media Falls All Over Itself To Cover Live Earth - Posted July 6, 2007
Courtesy of a trigger-happy rep for Lenny Kravitz named Tito, FishbowlNY broke the news yesterday that Live Earth Brazil will go on, despite reports of its cancellation. We're not alone in our interest in Al Gore's planet-saving concerts, of which the U.S. version will take place tomorrow at Giants Stadium. (NOTE:... [FishBowlNY]

At Least It Was A Hybrid ... - Posted July 5, 2007
The big media news story comes out of L.A. for a change: Al Gore III, son of Al Gore and associate publisher of Good magazine, was busted in the wee hours of July 4th while driving at about 100 m.p.h. in his Toyota Prius hybrid on a Southern California freeway: The deputy... [FishBowlNY]

AL Gore, III Arrested on Drug Charges in OC - Posted July 4, 2007
AL Gore, III , the associate publisher of GOOD, was arrested early this morning in Laguna Nigel. From the AP: Al Gore III, 24, was driving a blue Toyota Prius about 100 mph on the San Diego Freeway when he was pulled over at about 2:15 a.m., Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim... [FishBowlLA]

Celebrating 25 Years, Ken & Barclay Get A Nice Phone Call - Posted June 22, 2007
We got a sneak peak at Monday's U.S. News & World Report: "Hey Ken Walsh," our surprised White House correspondent heard June 13 when he and his wife Barclay were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in a hilltop restaurant overlooking the Athens Acropolis. "It was Al Gore," says Walsh. Seems the former veep... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 06.19.07 - Posted June 19, 2007
Good morning Washington. An ABC News release announced that the network received seven Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. "ABC News Radio was recognized with six awards and 'World News with Charles Gibson' won for best feature reporting." An NBC release announced, "NBC News has been honored with... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 06.15.07 - Posted June 15, 2007
Good morning Washington. You think there is no White House run in the future for Newt Gingrich or Al Gore. New York Post reports, "Advertising spending in 2007 is expected to be the weakest since the ad recession in 2001. Ad tracker TNS Media Intelligence predicts U.S. ad expenditures will grow just 1.7... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 05.31.07 - Posted May 31, 2007
Good morning Washington. An ABC release announced, "For the fifth consecutive week, ABC's 'World News with Charles Gibson' was the #1 evening newscast among Total Viewers, Households and Adults 25-54. The last time that ABC won five straight weeks in these categories was more than ten years ago in October 1996." "World... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 05.30.07 - Posted May 30, 2007
Good morning Washington. You would rather have 15 hour work days and a three day weekend. An ABC release announced, "According to Nielsen Media Research for May Sweeps, ABC News 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos' averaged 2.55 million Total Viewers, marking the program's best May sweep among Total Viewers since 2002. In addition,... [FishBowlDC]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted May 25, 2007
The Tina Daunt Treatment: Cause Celebre columnist Tina Daunt interviews Al Gore about the prospects of running for president in 2008. It's a good, but ultimately maddening, read. You're Not The Only One Who Missed Jordin's Win: Nearly 6 million fewer people watched American Idol's finale this year than last -- a... [FishBowlLA]

Crude: Sundance CEO Tells Partygoers To 'Shut The F*ck Up' - Posted April 13, 2007
Crude Awakening: Al Gore's Syriana Robert Redford's new, earthy Sundance Channel programming, dubbed "The Green," had its screening and splashy launch party in New York. Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack's A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, one of the documentaries debuting on the channel, is the sort of like Syriana if... [FishBowlNY]

Gore's Live Earth Concert Set For Giants Stadium - Posted April 10, 2007
After weeks of rumored cities and venues — from Chicago to D.C. to Flushing, Queens — the U.S. leg of this summer's Live Earth concert — the "concert for a climate in crisis" slated for July 7 — is now set: Giants Stadium in East Rutherford. The preliminary lineup is set,... [FishBowlNY]

Discovery Downsizes 200/Announces New Season - Posted April 10, 2007
Discovery laid off some 200 employees, mainly from the Silver Spring HQ. Hardest hit was the US Networks group, including the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, and other positions in the production, corporate communications and technological services divisions. Discovery Channel's new season includes: Last Man Standing Six young Western athletes... [FishBowlLA]

Complete This Helvetica Statement - Posted April 6, 2007
From here, it certainly seems like Helvetica is going to change the world. We loved it. Alice Rawsthorn, CNN and the Boston Herald can't be wrong. Most screenings so far have sold out. Tonight's NY screening has been sold out for weeks. The LA screening sold out in one day. And... [UnBeige]

Governator Goes Green - Posted March 19, 2007
Another globally-warmed day, another consumer magazine — this time Outside — devotes an issue to the oh-so-trendy "green revolution." In a green twist, Outside went with California actor-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, bumping the popular cover choice for all things environmental, Al Gore, off its cover. The magazine is donating $1 of each newsstand... [FishBowlNY]

Anderson Cooper To Fill In For Philbin | New York Moves | Radar-Page Six | Shocket | Gore | 'Raging Crystal Meth Habit' - Posted March 13, 2007
Anderson Cooper: To fill in for Regis during Philbin's triple bypass surgery. [B&C] New York Mag: To move to 75 Varick Street. [NYP] Rachel Sklar: Fairy blogsmother in Radar-Page Six spat. [ETP] Seventeen Editor Shocket: No overhaul. [WWD] New CBS Evening News EP: Friend of Clintons, but can he stay... [FishBowlNY]

Jens Gehlhaar and Somi Kim Dish On Graphic Design - Posted March 10, 2007
Two Brand names took the stage for the first session of the Schools of Thoughts conference: Jens Gehlhaar of Brand New School and Somi Kim from LA's Brand Integration Group (you heard us right, it seems BIG/NY is "Innovating" while BIG/LA is still "Integrating"). The question "What is graphic design and... [UnBeige]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted February 26, 2007
Blow-By-Blows Kinda Blow: We are puzzled by the pervasiveness of online minute-by-minute accounts of awards shows. Is it really important to note that at "5:35 p.m. -- The nominees stand up in the auditorium, a record 177 artists and craftsman, applauding themselves and one another"? We don't think so. But, if... [FishBowlLA]

Reviewing Good's Media Issue Like A Rock Record - Posted February 23, 2007
Good, the Los Angeles-based startup for "people who give a damn," has made it to its 3rd issue, and already has the gumption (nay, balls) to put out a "media issue." They seem to have a fan in Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, who contributes a foreword-style essay on his favorite... [FishBowlNY]

An Inconvenient Number of Producers in Documentary - Posted February 21, 2007
Tom Roston, writing in Premiere.com, tries to tie the "how many producers can grab an Oscar" semi-crisis to the documentary category. Documentaries nominated all get space for one producer and one director. Davis Guggenheim, the director of An Inconveient Truth, will bound up to the stage alone should... [FishBowlLA]

An Inconvenient Number of Producers in Documentary - Posted February 21, 2007
Tom Roston, writing in Premiere.com, tries to tie the "how many producers can grab an Oscar" semi-crisis to the documentary category. Documentaries nominated all get space for one producer and one director. Davis Guggenheim, the director of An Inconveient Truth, will bound up to the stage alone should... [FishBowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted February 12, 2007
Another "Thumping" For Bush: Don't get us wrong, the Dixie Chicks totally deserved their wins. But we doubt they would have cleaned up the way they did if Grammy presenter Al Gore (officially) won back in 2000. Blu-ray and HD DVD Does Dallas: The makers of competing technologies are discreetly courting... [FishBowlLA]

Helvetica: The Inconvenient Truth of Design? - Posted January 23, 2007
As our favorite Keynote presentation was given an Oscar nod today, we were sifting through some of the images on the site for Gary Huswit's forthcoming documentary Helvetica, the first feature-length film about design. And we started thinking... What if, like The Al Gore Show did for green, Helvetica does for design?... [UnBeige]

Helvetica: The Inconvenient Truth of Design? - Posted January 23, 2007
As our favorite Keynote presentation was given an Oscar nod today, we were sifting through some of the images on the site for Gary Hustwit's forthcoming documentary Helvetica, the first feature-length film about design. And we started thinking... What if, like The Al Gore Show did for green, Helvetica does for design?... [UnBeige]

Condi Loves Harry, Fox | No MSG For Dems In '08 | I'm With Rolling Stone Tanks | Croc Hunter's Final Film | A Convenient Book Editor | Time vs. Newsweek | Page Six's Latest Mastheader - Posted January 11, 2007
Condoleezza Rice: Likes CBS anchor Harry Smith, loves "Fox guys, I love every single one of them." [Reuters] Bad Ratings: For Rolling Stone reality show debut. [WWD] Croc Hunter Steve Irwin's: Final film Jan. 21. [USA Today] Editor Of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth: Gets her own Rodale imprint. [Page... [FishBowlNY]