Jeffrey Toobin

What's It Like To Cover The Sotomayor Hearings? - Posted July 15, 2009
Many of you can probably answer that question for yourself (boring), but for those of you off the Judge Sonia Sotomayor beat this week, Mediaite's Rachel Sklar caught up with a few "legal eagles" for the down-low. Our favorite question from Sklar to The New Yorker and CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, Slate and... [FishBowlDC]

SCOTUS Reporters Reveal Feelings About The Biggest Story They'll Cover All Year - Posted July 15, 2009
For the past couple days, the network and cable news channels have looked more like CSPAN, thanks to the nonstop coverage of Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Although the hearings have been rigidly structured, stuffy and sort of dry, there is always something to keep the media watchers watching. On... [FishBowlNY]

Sonia Sotomayor Hearings Underway - Posted July 13, 2009
The Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings are underway on Capitol Hill. The three cable news channels are covering them live, as is PBS. HLN is keeping a small box in the lower right corner reminding anyone watching in an airport that the hearings are on. And PBS is doing it old-school --... [TVNewser]

Lunch: Hoda Kotb & Bravo's Housewives Hold Court - Posted June 17, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE It was SRO at Michael's today, and although the place was filled to the brim with movers and shakers of every stripe, all eyes were on table one: Today's Hoda Kotb presided over a raucous lunch with a trio of Real Housewives from Bravo's compulsively watchable franchise. Tongues wagged... [FishBowlNY]

Lunch: Hoda Kotb & Bravo's Housewives Hold Court - Posted June 17, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE It was SRO at Michael's today, and although the place was filled to the brim with movers and shakers of every stripe, all eyes were on table one: Today's Hoda Kotb presided over a raucous lunch with a trio of Real Housewives from Bravo's compulsively watchable franchise. Tongues wagged... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Media Menu: January 23 - Posted January 23, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu: President Obama finds out the press may not be so friendly anymore, the New York Times looks to sell part of its building, MSNBC looks for a new host and "What We Learned This Week." You can check out all our shows this week... [TVNewser]

Jeffrey Toobin (and Mom) on Today's "Menu" - Posted January 22, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu we had generations of journalists, as CNN senior analyst Jeffrey Toobin (or, Jeffrey R. Toobin — check the podcast) and his mother, Marlene Sanders, joined us. Earlier we wrote about Toobin following in his mother's footsteps by participating in Inauguration coverage. Sanders covered the 1964... [TVNewser]

Tomorrow's "Menu": Toobin & Mom - Posted January 21, 2009
These two people on the left will be on tomorrow's mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu. They are CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and his mother, Marlene Sanders. Yesterday we wrote about Toobin's note describing how his mother covered LBJ's inauguration 44 years ago. Tomorrow they'll talk about the experience of covering inaugurations, more... [TVNewser]

Inauguration Notes: The Day After - Posted January 21, 2009
• The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley takes a wide look at the spectrum of TV coverage yesterday. "Viewers were never quite sure where to look: Television celebrated a new president making history, but the screen also belonged to those millions in Washington who made history just by showing up," she... [TVNewser]

CNNer Follows In Mom's Footsteps - Posted January 20, 2009
Who is this current CNN correspondent with his mom (a former tvnewser herself)?It's Jeffrey Toobin. TVNewser obtained an email Toobin sent to CNN staff with some publicity photos taken around the time his mother, Marlene Sanders, was a co-anchor for LBJ's inauguration with Peter Jennings for ABC. Toobin is reporting from... [TVNewser]

CNN/TIME Politics '08: Toobin Talks TVNewser - Posted October 15, 2008
After all the stories coming out of the CNN/TIME Politics '08 conference this week, we've got one more today. The Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar has posted her array of videos from the conference, including CNN's Jeffrey Toobin giving TVNewser some advice (although he does check "18 times a day" anyway). After... [TVNewser]

CNN/TIME Politics '08: Greenfield, Graydon and More - Posted October 14, 2008
The CNN/TIME Politics '08 conference kicked off yesterday with Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes saying, "There has never been and never will be a substitute for quality." TVNewser twittered the first panel, moderated by Campbell Brown, and featuring this line of from Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter that got the biggest laughs (on... [TVNewser]

CNN/TIME Politics '08: Late Afternoon Sessions - Posted October 13, 2008
The 10th floor of the Time Warner Center was packed with journalists, college students and others today, as CNN and Time Magazine co-hosted their Politics 2008 conference. TVNewser twittered two of the sessions, and we'll have more on these and others tomorrow. With three panels going on at a time in some... [TVNewser]

The Ticker: Schieffer, Toobin, Matthews... - Posted October 6, 2008
> CBS' Bob Schieffer will have a busy day tomorrow has a busy week. Besides presidential debate coverage, he made his Grand Ole Opry debut Sunday, as his band, Honky Tonk Confidential, takes the stage along with several other acts, including Darius Rucker and Trisha Yearwood. > CNN keeps its BPTOT... [TVNewser]

The New Yorker's Love/Hate Relationship With Labash - Posted October 2, 2008
Remember when Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the New Yorker, had to confess in June that he should have given a "shout-out" to Weekly Standard's Matt Labash for Labash's previous reporting on Toobin's topic (Roger Stone)? Well, call us a conspiracy theorist but, from the look of things, it sure looks like the... [FishBowlDC]

Cable News Snapshot: Pre-Debate Edition - Posted September 26, 2008
The lead in to tonight's debate on the cablers appears to be similar to the usual schedule, but with slight variations. First on CNN, Campbell Brown: Election Center is being called, "Debate Night in America," and is co-anchored by Wolf Blitzer. Jeffrey Toobin joked that tonight they were the "best political... [TVNewser]

Cable News Snapshot: Pre-Debate Edition - Posted September 26, 2008
The lead in to tonight's debate on the cablers appears to be similar to the usual schedule, but with slight variations. First on CNN, Campbell Brown: Election Center is being called, "Debate Night in America," and is co-anchored by Wolf Blitzer. Jeffrey Toobin joked that tonight they were the "best political... [TVNewser]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted September 26, 2008
Meet the Press: Bill Clinton. Tom Brokaw will moderate a debate between Colorado Senate candidates Mark Udall (D) and Bob Schaffer (R). Face the Nation: Barack Obama. This Week: John McCain, and a roundtable with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, The Washington Post's Steve Pearlstein, The American Prospect's Robert Reich, and... [FishBowlDC]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted September 26, 2008
Meet the Press: Bill Clinton. Tom Brokaw will moderate a debate between Colorado Senate candidates Mark Udall (D) and Bob Schaffer (R). Face the Nation: Barack Obama. This Week: John McCain, and a roundtable with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, The Washington Post's Steve Pearlstein, The American Prospect's Robert Reich, and... [FishBowlDC]

13 Years Later, No More O.J. For Toobin - Posted September 23, 2008
Gail Shister TVNewser Columnist O.J. who? Thirteen years after O.J. Simpson's murder trial riveted viewers, his latest tango with the criminal justice system is a yawn, says CNN legal ace Jeffrey Toobin. Toobin, who candidly acknowledges he owes his TV career to Simpson, has no plans to cover the ex-NFL star's armed robbery-and-kidnapping trial in... [TVNewser]

Nearly Everyone's a Winner with RADAR's Charles Kaiser - Posted January 9, 2008
RADAR posts their Winners and Sinners list but Charles Kaiser sounds more like a gushing fanboy than any sharp media critic. He squashes some low-hanging fruit, like Deborah "Didn't I Ask That?" Solomon, but practically wets himself in praising the unwatchable mess made by director Julie Taymor: Winner: Julie Taymor for Across... [FishBowlLA]

Torch-Passing, TVNewser Style - Posted July 26, 2007
For a couple hours, the back room at Michael's was transformed into a television news executive bender, a happy hour in honor of our outgoing TVNewser, Brian Stelter [right], and incoming TVNewser, er, 'Newsers: Chris Ariens, Diane Clehane, Alissa Kinsky and Philadelphia Inquirer TV columnist and Katie Couric nemesis Gail Shister. Some... [FishBowlNY]