View Post MSNBC MSNBC’s Touré Stops Tweeting By Jordan Chariton on Jul. 15, 2014 - 12:37 PM Following strong pushback from the Jewish community in May for Twitter comments deemed anti-semitic, MSNBC’s Touré has apparently found his social media solution: stop tweeting. BuzzFeed’s Dorsey Shaw noticed yesterda ...
View Post MSNBC Jewish Organization Slams Touré’s Tweet: ‘Disgusting Anti-Semitism’ By Jordan Chariton on May. 27, 2014 - 2:15 PM MSNBC’s Touré received strong condemnation from a Jewish organization today for comments he made last week on Twitter. On Friday, the MSNBC host responded to a tweet from someone describing their family’s experience d ...
View Post SportsNewser 2014 TVNewser Bracket Challenge: Championship Update By Jordan Chariton on Apr. 7, 2014 - 8:30 AM We’re down to two, as the Kentucky Wildcats face the Connecticut Huskies tonight with the NCAA men’s basketball championship on the line. The TVNewser bracket challenge title is also up for grabs. CNN meteorologist Cha ...
View Post SportsNewser 2014 TVNewser Bracket Challenge: ‘Final Four’ By Jordan Chariton on Mar. 31, 2014 - 11:55 AM The NCAA men’s college basketball tournament is down to four teams. Yesterday’s conclusion to the “Elite 8” was not the best for the state of Michigan, with both of its teams being knocked out of the tourna ...
View Post SportsNewser 2014 TVNewser March Madness Bracket Challenge: ‘Sweet 16’ By Jordan Chariton on Mar. 24, 2014 - 12:09 PM We’re down to the “Sweet 16,” as this past weekend produced some more big upsets in the 2014 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Dayton continued its upset streak, this time beating the Syracuse Orange, while ...
View Post SportsNewser 2014 TVNewser Bracket Challenge, Who’s In? By Jordan Chariton on Mar. 20, 2014 - 7:11 AM The NCAA college basketball tournament begins today, and with it comes the start of the 2014 TVNewser Bracket Challenge. Once again, some of of the best and brightest on-air and behind-the-scenes names in TV news compete to be the ...
View Post MSNBC MSNBC’s Touré Borrows From Frank Underwood By Jordan Chariton on Feb. 23, 2014 - 4:00 PM In a monologue about Netflix’s “House of Cards” Friday afternoon, MSNBC’s Touré borrowed a page from Kevin Spacey‘s star character Frank Underwood. Shifting from looking straight into the camera, Tou ...
View Post CNN | MSNBC Touré Calls Out ‘White Leaders’ O’Reilly, Limbaugh and Don Lemon? By Jordan Chariton on Dec. 9, 2013 - 1:13 PM MSNBC’s Touré likes to stir things up on Twitter. He did it again over the weekend calling out “white leaders” Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and African-American CNN host Don Lemon. His first tweet wondered ...
View Post MSNBC ‘The Cycle’ ‘Geography Refresher’ Gets The Geography Wrong By Alex Weprin on Sep. 23, 2013 - 5:46 PM Another month, another geography-related error. This time, the culprit was Touré of MSNBC’s “The Cycle. Unlike his colleagues at “Martin Bashir” last month or “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Wi ...
TV Biz The Afternoon Ticker: Esquire Moves, Lemon Talks, Toure Tweets By Chris Ariens on Sep. 10, 2013 - 2:47 PM NBCU has decided its new Esquire channel will replace the Style Network instead of G4 on cable systems. Execs decided Style is replaceable as it’s too much like E!, Bravo and Oxygen. CNN anchor Don Lemon is adding to his dut ...