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Get
This! Praise, Props and Prognostication: "We
sort of know what we're going to talk about already, so, really,
it's just finish coffee and I got time for one more doughnut."
- WROC anchorman on how to cover a presidential visit "When
actual malice is an editorial policy, even the MLRC can't save your
ass."
-Buck "Lucky" Owens "What
you don't understand you can make mean anything." - Misty Marie
Wilmot
"I'm
a secret NEWSBREAKER." - a news director during a lunch
with Lucky & J.D.
"Forget
Moyers, I want those NEWSBREAKERS' heads on a stick." - from
a tap illegally placed on Ken Tomlinson's phone
"Pretend
it isn't happening," - anonymous
"Where did they come from, where are they going and how can I join?" - Gnome Chomsky "Call 911." - from "Breaking the Break" a newsroom memo on dealing with NEWSBREAKERS "These guys do for media criticism what the WWF did for Greco-Roman," - Margaret Thatcher, after some prodding and a few 40-ouncers "I will give them this: It's a better idea than the AOL-Time Warner merger," Dick Parsons from a rough draft of a speech to shareholders "We
are reviewing whether this type of activity constitutes torture,"
- from the very unofficial confirmation transcript of Alberto
Gonzales
"I'd
totally party with these guys, if you know what I mean."
-Terri Gross, host Fresh Hair "The
Sex Pistols of the CNN set."
-Gene Siskel "Merry
Pranksters for the digital age, without all the LSD. Ken Kesey would
be proud."
-Howard Koch, The Atlantic Bimonthly "Live
TV is getting a whole lot livelier."
-Lenina Crowne Anderson Cooper 365 "If
you've got a soft spot for perfectly-coifed television types, you'll
hate these guys."
-Ann Coulter, found in Jayson Blair's notebook "The
corporations are stealing the airwaves from the people, NEWSBREAKERS
is stealing them back."
-(not)Ralph Nader That's
it! I quit!
-paraphrased from Michael Powell's resignation letter. "I'd
hire 'em."
-The Donald
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The
First Amendment - It's not just for major
media companies anymore. Get yours today.
Thanks
to everyone who made this possible. You make every day feel like
a story about tranvestite cloning on E-bay during sweeps.  THE EXIT INTERVIEW, TV-STYLE NEWSBREAKERS
launched its first bust on January 6, 2005. The next day, the group's
founder lost his job. Fired
Up chronicles
one man's journey of loss and redemption in the absurd world of
TV news.
The
odyssey takes a strange twist as NEWSBREAKERS lands the keys to
the MSM company store. Meanwhile, the boys pitch a story that's
too good for the old newsroom to resist. You won't believe who's
on board in this coast-to-coast cliff-hanger that leaves the gang
in the land of bronzed bodies and non-stop news 'copter coverage.  IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE NEWS
TEAM TRIES TURNING TABLES ON TABLE TURNERS (GOFFSTOWN, NH) - June 10, 2005 - A reporter from WMUR disrupted a television news intervention by the iconoclastic media watchdog group NEWSBREAKERS.(more)  TALK TO THE FINGER RANDOM ACTS OF CHAOS DOMINATE LOCAL NEWS; ACCOUNTABILITY SCARCE (PITTSBURGH, PA) - June 13, 2005 -A reporter from WPXI (Channel 11), questioned at the completion of a live report about a suspect accused of a grisly attack, could not explain why television news is saturated with violent content. (more)
SCOOP: NEWSPAPER MAN CONFRONTS TV CREW ON AIR (BUFFALO, NY) May 11, 2005 - A cagey newspaper reporter fed up with seeing his work lifted by TV colleagues blew the whistle on recycled news.(more)
MEDIA ATTACK CAUGHT ON TAPE; NEWSBREAKER RECOVERING (HOPKINTON,
MA) - MAY 11, 2005 - A video has surfaced of two television workers,
at least one of whom is from Boston's WHDH (Ch. 7), viciously attacking
a member of the pacifist media watchdog group NEWSBREAKERS. (more)
CHEESE
NINJA BUSTS FOX AFFILIATE (SARATOGA
SPRINGS, NY) - April 20, 2005 - A mysterious ninja crept into a
live television broadcast, whizzing processed cheese toward a news
team and quietly tiptoeing through their report.
(more) .jpg) TRY THIS AT HOME EVANGELIST EXORCISES CLEAR CHANNEL NEWSCAST (ROCHESTER, NY) - APRIL 15, 2005 - The Reverend Utah Snakewater "exorcised" Clear Channel demons from a Rochester, New York live television broadcast. (more) .JPG) WHAT'S BUGGING YOU? 'COLUMBINE' REPORTER GETS ROUGH ON LIVE SHOT PASSERBY (NEW YORK, NY) - APRIL 4, 2005 - A reporter resorted to fisticuffs when a man reading a Bible wandered too close to the reporter's live broadcast.(more)
EGGMAN SCRAMBLES NEW YORK BROADCAST TO UNVEIL NEW 'VNI' SERVICE (NEW YORK, NY) - March 24, 2005 - The firebrand media watchdog group NEWSBREAKERS rolled out its new Visual News Interpretation (VNI) service in midtown Manhattan. (more)
NEWSBREAKERS is pleased to announce a special 37-part series on the group's return to the Rochester, NY television market. Part one highlights the creation of a NEWSBREAKERS Action Team. Part two, Lights, Camera, Marshals, illustrates how big government protects big media. NEWSBREAKERS application information
We
couldn't keep America's favorite NEWSBREAKER contained. Once The
Other Paper in Columbus, OH mentioned the daring daylight flower
raid on Sinclair Broadcasting's WSYX and WTTE, we just had to produce
this video.
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This Just In: What?
TV News Isn't Real?
How
dare PR
Watch shatter the illusion.
Talking
about the elephant in the room with Gannett.
London
Calling: Yanks spread anarchy in the UK
In Pittsburgh, the search for meaning continues. Fun Loving 'Criminals': a feature in Clamor magazine. Cable
giant causes news shrinkage. NEWSBREAKERS break the story
What
we talk about when the cameras are off: the NB blog.
The
thinking photog's POV
NEWSBREAKERS
sitdown
with a man of the media, Rory O'Connor.
Fake
Company: Study NEWSBREAKERS genealogy
News
Director calls video leak 'unprecedented & intolerable.' NEWSBREAKERS
shrug.
Talking
the talk: TV
pros go on and on and on...
A
NEWSBREAKER chats
up a TV photog.
Sinclair
Broadcasting gets a taste of its own medicine. NEWSBREAKERS bust
Columbus, OH.
Who
were those masked
men?
City
Newspaper in Rochester, NY weighs in.
Free
Republic members sound off.
NEWSBREAKERS
bust
Rochester, NY
WROC-TV
plays judge, jury and executioner.
The
gear that curls the hair of
smarmy anchormen everywhere... NEWSBREAKERS swag is at Cafe Press (BTW, we don't make a penny) |
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