Fox meteorologist Dean turns into fierce Cuomo critic
(AP Photo)NEW YORK โ To Fox News Channel's Janice Dean, New York Gov. โHe needs to go to jail!โ she thundered on โFox & Friends.โDean isn't a political commentator โ she's Fox's senior meteorologist. AdYet Dean has made some dubious public claims about the impact of Cuomo's nursing home order and another news organization's coverage. Stories emerged about the lengths to which the governor and his staff went to conceal the number of virus deaths among New York nursing home residents. Best is also seen holding a sign saying, โCuomo killed my mother.โ___Dean waves off thoughts of a political future, but others don't.
Fox abruptly cuts off impeachment manager during testimony
In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. โThe impeachment trial that you're all ignoring, I guess you're afraid ...โAt that point, he was shouted down by Watters and Gutfeld. โImpeachment? โWe will continue to bring you live coverage of the impeachment trial here on One America News,โ anchor Jennifer Franco said. During the trial's first afternoon break, Fox turned to Trump spokesman Jason Miller, who denounced the Democrats' case.
NBC's Holt adds empathetic commentaries to news anchor role
NBC's Lester Holt appears on the set in New York on Tuesday Aug. 7, 2018. The NBC Nightly News anchor occasionally ends his broadcasts now with commentaries, an unusual departure for network evening newscasts that have a lengthy track record of playing it straight. Holt's commentaries trend toward the non-controversial, with a central theme of trying to find common ground that will pull Americans together. (Christopher Dilts/NBC Universal via AP)NEW YORK โ During this brutal news year, Lester Holt has concluded that telling stories isn't enough. Holt, 61, has been nightly news anchor since 2015.
Networks cut away from Trump's White House address
NEW YORK โ ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from President Donald Trump on Thursday as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him. Trump was more subdued Thursday, yet offered a litany of complaints about โsuppressionโ polls, mail-in voting and fraud that he never specified. Cordes said there is no indication of a substantive number of illegal votes cast, and said Trump's reference to votes arriving late was โanother falsehood.โMSNBC cut away from Trump to anchor Brian Williams. โThere are no illegal votes that we know of, there has been no Trump victory that we know of.โAfter ABC ended its coverage, the networkโs White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl, also said there was no evidence of illegal votes. But especially in this election.โWhile CNN kept Trump on the air, a chyron displayed under him said, โWithout any evidence, Trump says he's being cheated.โAnchor Jake Tapper looked weary when it was over.
LIVE STREAM: NBC News hosts town hall with Joe Biden
MIAMI โ NBC News' Lester Holt will anchor a live town hall discussion with Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday, October 5th in Miami, Fla.A socially-distanced audience of undecided voters will be asking Biden where he stands on the critical issues impacting their lives. Watch live coverage at 8 p.m. below:
NBCโs Lester Holt is coming to Detroit for Nightly News โAcross Americaโ
Lester Holt and NBC News will be coming to Detroit next week. UPDATE Oct. 2: Across America travel to Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania will be postponed until October 26th week (the week before the election). Starting Oct. 5, the next edition of Nightly News โAcross Americaโ rolls out. Lester Holt will broadcast live each evening from four key battleground states, including Michigan. The schedule right now is:Monday โ MiamiTuesday โ MilwaukeeWednesday โ DetroitThursday โ ScrantonNightly News will feature stories on a variety of topics, including the election, COVID-19, and racial justice.
New this week: Selena Gomez, Jason Sudeikis & Gloria Estefan
Heres a collection curated by The Associated Press entertainment journalists of whats arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. Project Power: Missing new superhero pics? Netflix has one up its sleeve in Project Power, hitting the streamer Friday. Selena Gomez is on new turf the kitchen in Selena + Chef, a 10-episode cooking series that debuts Thursday on the HBO Max streaming service. The answer may be found in Ted Lasso, a new Apple TV+ series starring Jason Sudeikis as the character he played in NBC Sports promotions for the Premier League.
NBC News sets goal of a workforce that is half mnority
NEW YORK NBC News leader Cesar Conde, in one of his first public acts in the job, has committed to building a workforce at the news organizations he supervises where at least half of the employees are minorities. Conde set no deadline for achieving his 50 Percent Initiative.He also wants women to comprise half the employees at NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC, and he's already nearly there. The plan, first reported by the Los Angeles Times, makes Conde a leader in the current movement to diversify the news business. Given where NBC currently stands, particularly with Black employees, Truong said she understands why the initiative has no deadline and is glad that progress will be checked regularly. What I would like to hear is whether other people at NBC are committed to this moving forward, she said.
Some New York news shows back, but many hosts work remotely
Monday represented a key phase in New York City's reopening, with many offices bringing employees back for the first time. Despite the CBS and Fox moves, most news employees continue to work remotely, and the television programs that originate here have a patchwork of approaches that have quickly become familiar. A majority of the show hosts on MSNBC including Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist of Morning Joe work remotely. Other morning shows have varied approaches. Hoda Kotb of NBC's Today show has worked out of that show's Rockefeller Center studio, but most of her colleagues are at home.