The One When Joey Wore Cowboy Boots: Warren Littlefield's NBC Reruns
The behind-the-scenes stories of NBC's glory days are coming to light in Warren Littlefield's new book Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV.
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The behind-the-scenes stories of NBC's glory days are coming to light in Warren Littlefield's new book Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV.
Angry Birds may just be a 99 cent app, but it's spawned a sequel, inspired a theme park franchise, and is now considering an IPO
In its bid to gain a competitive advantage over network rivals NBC and Fox, ABC News is launching an English-language cable channel targeting Hispanic Americans.
Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor may have a design flaw that causes pilots to lose oxygen but, hey, it's a really fast plane!
Remember back in 2008, when Iran Photoshopped an extra missile into a photograph of its missile test? Turns out, bad habits die hard.
The underpaying Secret Service agent, who's life has only gotten worse since the prostitution scandal unfurled, caught a break today: Colombian hooker Dania Suarez says he wasn't looking for a call girl on that infamous night in Cartagena.
Ex-Romney staffer Richard Grenell probably could have used defending before he left his job earlier this week, but, hey, better late than never, right?
Ted Nugent is such a "loving" and "passionate guy" he went on an expletive-laced rant to prove it.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
If everything goes as planned, one lucky U.S. university will be home to blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng.
Jennifer Rubin hurt another one of her colleague's feelings today, the latest clash in a series of intra-office disputes with her fellow Washington Post co-workers.
In the U.S., speculators have exploded the value of social media companies. In China, you could say the same for propaganda outlets.
It was the most iconic facial expression from inside the Situation Room during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, but days after it was photographed, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed it as an allergic reaction.
Infamous terrorist network Al Qaeda may be many terrible things but it's no Anders Breivik.
The former president (and husband of the secretary of state) is already telling Obama how to run his re-election campaign, now he's telling the president how to govern.
If you thought that President Obama's speech last night signaled the beginning of the end of the war in Afghanistan, you weren't alone. Unfortunately, the pact he signed with Afghan president Hamid Karzai will keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan for another decade.
The tactic credited with unraveling John Kerry's presidential campaign is being re-tooled for President Obama.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Chinese media blackout coverage of activist Chen Guangcheng, Cuba throws a party for May Day and Mali's junta retakes control of state TV.
By now, SEAL Team Six has been exploited in pretty much every way possible this election season. But one member of Team Six has so far remained by unscathed: Cairo the dog.
Is Al Qaeda "in ruins" or "far from defeated"? On the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, it's impossible to say.
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen made President Obama and Mitt Romney both appear petty, as he addressed the politicization of the Osama bin Laden raid on the eve of its one-year anniversary.
For the last year or so, the world has been on high alert that a war between Iran and Israel could start at any moment.
The Obama re-election campaign unveiled its new slogan today: Did you catch its connection to Communist China?
It's starting to make sense why the Obama administration rarely acknowledges its secret drone program: When it does it, it reveals some unreconcilable contradictions.
Juan Williams on Condoleezza Rice, Bill Keller on North Korea, Shikha Dalmia on big government conservatives, Paul Krugman on youth unemployment, George Will on LBJ.
The former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service Jose Rodriguez says President Obama is waging the nation's war against radical Islam in a far more brutal manner than his predecessor President George W. Bush.
TreeHugger on dying killer whales, The Associated Press on an eco-martyr, The Los Angeles Times on a polluting theme park, Fair Warning on tree poisoning and The Arizona Capitol Times on a scary new law.
Finally, after weeks of delays, the U.S. and the United Nations have admitted that the U.N.-sponsored ceasefire in Syria has failed.
The Secret Service sex scandal that started in Cartagena, Colombia has become a worldwide investigation.
A federal judge overlooked a key legal requirement in his ruling rejecting the a lawsuit seeking the release of Osama bin Laden's death photos, says Dan Metcalfe, the former director of the Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy.
Discovered: Communication towers are slaughtering our birds, deadly fungus is killing our frogs, more extreme weather is on the way, and the oceans are dirtier than we thought.
Discovered: Apple has a new way of getting customers addicted, exercise makes you smarter, females engage in homophobic bullying too and more extreme weather is on the way.
For stand-up comedians, pulling off a successful stint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner is an uphill battle.
Following the North Korean military's vow to defeat the U.S. with "powerful modern weapons," U.S. analysts have discovered that the country's missiles are actually fakes.
In today's testimony at the Leveson inquiry, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged there was a "cover-up" to shield the rampant phone-hacking taking place at his British newspapers. But his day of testimony before the Leveson Inquiry was also an opportunity to learn how the media mogul views his changing industry.
For the second time in two months, White House solicitor general Donald Verrilli is being blamed for blowing a case in front of the Supreme Court.
Prom is a bad time to break up with your first true love but Newt Gingrich is doing it anyway.
Last week, when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said "we're within an inch of war almost every day" he was talking about the narrow strip of land that divides North and South Korea. Turns out, that swath of ground is actually a merry little tourist trap.
It turns out the Colombian sex scandal rocking the Secret Service isn't as novel as we all thought.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda, Assad's propaganda war moves to Twitter, Hugo Chavez's physical condition is "excelente," and North Korea is confused by the Trayvon Martin case.
Iran's reverse-engineering of a U.S. Sentinel drone was either a complete hoax or an unprecedented intelligence coup.
Whether it's a post-industrial renewal project or a brand-new display of civic pride, cities across the world are erecting green projects to spruce up their metropolises.
If ever there was a time for China to reign in its little brother, North Korea, it would be now, as the peninsula edges
"within an inch of war."
They're as young as they are ruthless and they're the warriors who wage Washington's political battles.
Today, President Obama announced new sanctions for technology used in human rights abuses in Iran and Syria. What he didn't mention is that a lot of that technology comes from U.S. companies.
The New York Times has been going easy on President Obama, according to the newspaper's public editor, but studies show the rest of the mainstream media isn't following suit.
The long tentacles of John Edwards criminal trial, which begins today, will drag in a host of familiar faces from his 2008 presidential campaign and a number of Obama administration officials.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda, China's media mocks India, the Pentagon launches a misinformation campaign, the Cuban Central News Agency teams up with Occupy Wall Street, and a Communist newspaper is a capitalist success story.
President Obama's "evolution" on gay marriage may be on hold but he has a message to LGBT supporters: I've been pretty good to you.
If you were worried about the U.S. invading another Muslim country, you can breathe easy for now.
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