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Good Griefing

July 15, 2010 By WHC Insider

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The best advertising can also be the most unfortunate, especially when it comes to Photoshop or domain registers.

Cases in point: Lawrence Bender, producer of Inglorious Basterds and Kill Bill, was in D.C. to promote his newest feature, the nuclear arms doc Countdown to Zero and addressed how a few Tea Party folks re-purposed the poster art from Bill.

He told Politico:

“It’s slightly humorous what they’re doing,” he said. “They’re ripping everything they can to make their point.”

On the front-end of the media spectrum, KeithOlberman.com now takes you to The Daily Caller, which is just as Tucker Carlson hopes it would. He owns the domain after all.

The moral of this? Good grief can always be avoided.

Photo: Lawrence Bender, Fame Pictures, Inc

Filed Under: DC, News Media Tagged With: Keith Olbermann, Lawrence Bender, Media, The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson

Fingers Crossed for This Week and This Fall on TV

July 14, 2010 By WHC Insider

[picappgallerysingle id=”4987232″ align=”center”]The Beltway’s TV presence is going wider–if not global–in the coming weeks

TVNewser confirms August 1st as the start date for Christiane Amanpour’s premiere at This Week, which sadly ousts Jake Tapper from the temporary position. Meanwhile, Rick Sanchez is being bumped up to 8 pm on July 22nd until the Fall premiere of the Untitled Eliot Spitzer/Kathleen Parker Show.

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Filed Under: DC, News Tagged With: Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Larry King, Media, Piers Morgan, Rick Sanchez, TV

There's An App For That: Yours.

July 12, 2010 By WHC Insider

Do you know what app’s missing when it comes to scouting out the District or making a simple poll? Luckily, there’s an app for that–if you make it, of course.

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Filed Under: Media Strategy, News Media Tagged With: Android, App, Google, iPhone, Media

The Runaway Viral

June 23, 2010 By WHC Insider

If your name happens to be Rolling Stone, Stanley McChrystal or David Petraeus, the last 48 hours have been a non-stop viral media roller coaster.

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Filed Under: DC, News Tagged With: Afghanistan, DC, General David Petraeus, General Stanley McChrystal, Media, VIral

Will The iPad be the 2010 Crackberry?

June 22, 2010 By WHC Insider

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Who knew the iPad would become the unsung hero of Capitol Hill?

Politico reports that the gigantic iPhone–which is also making a steady increase around the Beltway–is becoming the go-to device for congressmen. Representitive Jason Chaffetz (R) neatly sums up the why: “It’s light; it’s portable. It’s accessible information. I love it.”

The iPad love is being supported among both parties, including Darrell Issa and Cliff Stearns, especially if it means an end to the backbreaking binders and committees swarmed by paper. Even better? It may kill the Blackberry addiction that has held D.C. in a vice grip for years.

DCist provides a round up of links to state the case that Apple is slowly encroaching on the nation’s capital. One day, it may even take the spot that Blackberries hold in the Beltway’s heart–presumably after the fears of leaked customer information that Valleywag reported earlier this month are taken care of. But like that matters if you’ve already sold 3 million of them, according to Mashable.

The iPad remains the ultimate staffer dream: a lighter, somewhat more portable crackberry that means an end to endless binders, show bibles and 50-lb drafts of legislation. Not to mention more people to play Words With Friends!

Filed Under: DC, News Media Tagged With: Blackberry, iPhone, Media, Social Media

She Said, She Said: Both Sides Now Debuts

June 18, 2010 By WHC Insider

The D.C. political machine has a reputation for being a boys club rather than a gentleman’s establishment; but it takes a woman’s touch to actually discuss it.

Well, women to be more accurate.

Both Sides Now, which had a soft release as a podcast, will have its formal launch this Monday in New York according to The Daily Politics. The weekly radio show comes from The Huffington Post’s Editor-in-Chief Ariana Huffington and power pundit Mary Matalin and is hosted/created by Mark Green according to FishbowlDC.

We’re a fan of the tagline (“We Debate…You Decide”) and the Facebook page too. So what’s the premise? Huffington, Matalin and Green taking on the topics in Washington without having to wake up before 10 a.m. on a Sunday?

Sold.

Filed Under: Correspondents, DC, Media Strategy, News Media Tagged With: Arianna Huffington, FishbowlDC, Mark Green, Mary Matalin, Media

One Chair To Rule Them All

June 17, 2010 By WHC Insider

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Reliable Sources brings word that Fox News’ spot in the White House press room is being challenged once again–this time by Bloomberg News’ Managing Editor, Al Hunt.

Bloomberg (via Hunt) claims–in shades of CNN’s previous reasoning–they’ve been around longer, are more established and “[w]e write about matters financial and non-financial.” Fox News’ Vice President of News and Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon’s plan relies on a 2007 I.O.U. from the last press room restructuring and the assumption that Bloomberg still covers just finances. The Huffington Post has the full letters here.

There’s no buzz on whether this late Bloomberg bid will work, but at least we have a Fishbowl DC poll. And in case you forget the prime real estate in question, check out WHC Insider’s press room seating chart.

Filed Under: Correspondents, DC, News Media Tagged With: Al Hunt, Bill Sammon, Bloomberg News, Fox News, Media, White House Correspondents Association

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