Posts Tagged ‘ abc ’

url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/08/03/abc-this-week-with-christiane-amanpour-debut-is-ratings-low-panned-by-critics/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Christiane Amanpour first Sunday as the new host of ABC News’ This Week public affairs Sunday show was panned by the public and media. The show is “unwatchable,” says one former ABC staffer. “She has remedial knowledge of politics,” says another ABC alum. “She’s totally pretentious.” The low ratings for the debut show reflect the...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/07/28/obama-on-abc-%e2%80%9cthe-view%e2%80%9d-no-republican-equal-time/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';President Obama is traveling on the taxpayer’s dime to New York City on Wednesday to tape an interview for ABC’s daytime talk show “The View.” The show has not scheduled any Republican leaders for equal time leading up to the midterm elections in November. Photo – ABC Given the show’s large, female audience and...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/05/21/msm-cowers-abc-news-execs-hunker-in-bunker-as-whistleblowers-attack/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';(Click to read this column on Big Journalism) ABC News is being publicly slaughtered by its own staff at the The New York Observer website, giving specific accusations of an ABC executive’s illegally hiring and firing without just cause, promoting based on whims, discriminating against homosexuals, blacks and sexually harassing of employees. In reaction to these public...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/09/28/tom-delay-to-tango-on-dancing-with-the-stars/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Tom DeLay is back Monday night to do the Tango for the second round of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.” The former Texas Republican is dancing against 13 remaining male and female contestants on the live show, which airs at 8 p.m. EDT. The show’s producers have exchanged DeLay’s unfortunate brown sequined costume from...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/09/21/tom-delay-ready-to-cha-cha-in-a-medium-heel-and-rhinestones-on-dancing-with-the-stars/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';LOS ANGELES – Tom DeLay and Cheryl Burke are in a dance studio in a seedy strip mall for a final private rehearsal of the two dances they’ll perform on Monday’s live premiere of “Dancing With the Stars.” The unlikely duo — DeLay, 62, the former Republican House majority leader known as the “Hammer” and Burke, 25,...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/09/18/tom-delay-playing-hurt-on-dwts-ill-dance-until-the-bone-breaks/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';LOS ANGELES — With only three days left until the live premiere of “Dancing With the Stars,” Tom DeLay is sitting on a balcony in Los Angeles icing his injured foot after a day of rehearsals. He says he’s determined to dance on Monday and in all possible future rounds, despite what he’s calling a...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2009/08/31/yahoo-news-the-hammer-does-the-hustle/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Who knew former Representative Tom DeLay, aka “The Hammer,” had such a sense of humor? Such debonair dancing skills? Such grace under legal pressure? Jaws hit the floor earlier this month when ABC announced that Tom DeLay, the ex-GOP majority leader of the House of Representatives, would be a contestant on the next “Dancing with the Stars.” To...
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