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FAIR ACTIVISM UPDATE: MSNBC's Double Standard on Free Speech But this enthusiasm for a "wide range of strong, opinionated voices" rings hollow in the wake of MSNBC's firing of host Phil Donahue. According to published reports, these fears led MSNBC to "micromanage" the Donahue show. In an email leaked to the website All Your TV (3/5/03), one executive suggested that MSNBC could take advantage of the "anticipated larger audience who will tune in during a time of war" to "reinvent itself" and "cross-pollinate our programming" by linking pundits to war coverage. www.fair.org /activism/savage-donahue.html   (879 words)

Phil Donahue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In an interview on October 28, 2004, Donahue remarked about his MSNBC show's cancellation: "Well, we were the only antiwar voice that had a show, and that, I think, made them very nervous. However, Donahue's producers say that they were continually pressured to "balance" anti-war voices with an equal number of pro-war voices, and then provide a greater number of pro-war voices. In 1953 Phil Donahue was a memeber of the first graduating class of St. Edward High School, an all boys college prep Catholic high school run by the Brothers of Holy Cross in suburban Lakewood, Ohio.. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phil_Donahue   (879 words)

Phil Donahue Proud leftie Phil Donahue is surprised he's right for MSNBC. Proud leftie Phil Donahue is surprised he's right for MSNBC.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) (Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service) Phil Donahue says he's ready for prime time. www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0760853.html   (879 words)

New York Daily News - TV and Radio - MSNBC: Phil is gone MSNBC lured Donahue back to TV as part of yet another plan to boost its ailing prime-time fortunes. Friedman suggested that MSNBC's lineup didn't complement Donahue's show. Donahue was paid $1 million a year to do the show, which, when combined with network's promotion costs for the show, made it an expensive experiment. www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/ent_radio/story/62562p-58373c.html   (467 words)

FAIR ACTIVISM UPDATE: MSNBC's Double Standard on Free Speech According to published reports, these fears led MSNBC to "micromanage" the Donahue show. MSNBC's claim to be championing free speech by hiring hate-talk radio host Michael Savage is disingenuous in the extreme. It's hard to take seriously MSNBC's claim to want to "expand the marketplace of ideas" when it is hiring someone with such obvious contempt for freedom of speech. www.fair.org /activism/savage-donahue.html   (879 words)

Donahue Responds--AllYourTV.com Donahue, it's clear from those I have spoken with that this battle for the heart of Donahue's show has been raging privately for months. I made the point that at least some of the executives at the network were concerned that Donahue presented a challenge for the company, at a time when the U.S. was preparing to go to war. Several network insiders described Donahue and his staff as "intransigent" and "unrealistic about the current marketplace." While those familiar with the show described a process in which the network sought to cleanse the show of even a perceived liberal bias in guests or topics. www.allyourtv.com /0203season/news/02262003donahueresponds.html   (879 words)

MSNBC drops Donahue "MSNBC Dumps Donahue Talk Show Due to Weak Ratings," by Reuters Shortly after its launch, "Donahue" received ratings that were "almost too low to track," wrote the New York Post's Don Kaplan back in August. Donahue's last live show--which aired Monday night--featured Rosie O'Donnell, who stumped for her anti-war sentiments, gay parenthood, and gay adoption. www.renewamerica.us /news/030225donahue.htm   (879 words)

MSNBC banks on Donahue Donahue won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for his original gabfest, which began in Dayton, Ohio, and moved to Chicago and later New York. Donahue's new program is expected to make its debut this summer. It's pegged for weeknights at 7, opposite cable-news time slot leader Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel and Connie Chung's new CNN show, which is to be unveiled in late spring or early summer. www.suntimes.com /output/television/cst-ftr-phil04b.html   (879 words)

The Nation Blog The Online Beat Exit Phil Donahue John Nichols In its final, more substantive incarnation, "Donahue" was actually beating the much more aggressively promoted MSNBC program, "Hardball With Chris Matthews." By the same token, with an average nightly viewership of 446,000, Donahue was still trailing far behind CNN's Connie Chung and Fox's O'Reilly. And it is a pretty good bet that, now that Donahue is going off the air, we will not soon see another show like the one where he featured Ralph Nader and Molly Ivins in front of a crowd of laid-off Enron employees. Donahue's show was never as successful as it could have been. www.thenation.com /thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=442   (879 words)

CBS News Phil Donahue Gets The Ax February 26, 2003 01:59:49 MSNBC tried to tweak the show in November, putting Donahue in front of a live audience in New York instead of in a New Jersey studio, but it made little difference. Donahue was a nine-time Daytime Emmy winner for his syndicated talk show, which began in 1967 and aired nationally from 1970 to 1996, paving the way for dozens of such shows to follow. Donahue's office referred calls to his agent, and he did not immediately return a call for comment. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/02/25/entertainment/main542005.shtml   (879 words)

MSNBC Sabotages Donahue In a pointed but polite manner, Donahue issued a statement that indicated what was going on behind the scenes: "We were hoping to break through the noisy drums of war on cable and become a responsible platform for dissenters as well as Administration supporters. After choosing Donahue to host his own 8pm daily show only six months ago, the corporate managers micromanaged, mismanaged and refused to let Phil Donahue be Phil Donahue. Now that would have been a great Donahue show! www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles2/Nader_Donahue.htm   (879 words)

Printer Friendly: MSNBC Dumps Phil Donahue After Six Months For more on Donahue, click here: Phil Donahue strikes back at MSNBC. Donahue was supposed to be a strong challenge to Fox News and Bill O’Reilly. Summary: Liberals who were hoping that Phil Donahue would be a tough competitor for Fox News and Bill O’Reilly were wrong. www.traditionalvalues.org /print.php?sid=773   (879 words)

WRAL.com - News - Donahue Gets Crowd Riled Up At N.C. State Graduation Donahue is a nine-time Daytime Emmy winner for his syndicated talk show, which began in 1967 and aired nationally from 1970 to 1996, paving the way for dozens of such shows to follow. Donahue, 67, urged the graduates to help renew basic American constitutional values of free speech, separation of church and state, and respect for the rights of minorities. Donahue told the graduates that the rights and privileges in the Constitution have been eroded. www.wral.com /news/2211223/detail.html   (879 words)

USATODAY.com - Is Donahue cable-ready? Unlike the original Donahue, which had its host racing up and down the studio to let the audience ask questions of guests, this one will be audience-free: getting tourists to come to the MSNBC studios at 8 p.m. Donahue's hiring "is a very powerful statement about the creative barrenness and lack of imagination in TV today," says media critic Jon Katz, a former CBS News producer. Donahue says he was happy in retirement until the world changed on Sept. 11. www.usatoday.com /life/2002/2002-07-10-donahue.htm   (879 words)

MSNBC Ravages Savage - Jul 08, 2003 - E! Online News MSNBC hired Savage, one of radio's most listened-to shock jocks, to help compete with Fox News Channel shortly after MSNBC junked the more liberal-leaning Donahue. MSNBC gave the controversial, but popular, right-wing talk show host the boot on Monday following a diatribe he made on his weekend program, Savage Nation, in which he referred to a homosexual caller as a "sodomite" and told him to "get AIDS and die." time slot, but his tough-talking tirades failed to click with TV viewers and while there was a slight uptick in ratings, MSNBC didn't get the expected windfall from the windbag, averaging just 347,000 viewers per show. www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,12113,00.html   (715 words)

MSNBC Dumps Donahue - Feb 25, 2003 - E! Online News MSNBC coaxed Donahue out of retirement last July, hoping the silver-haired veteran yakker's leftist leanings, thoughtful presence and Emmy-winning pedigree would provide viewers with a viable alternative to the top-rated competition--the conservative, blustery, trigger-mouthed Bill O'Reilly on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor. The send-off statement from MSNBC President Erik Sorenson read, in its entirety: "We're proud of the program and we're disappointed that the show was not able to attract the viewership we had hoped for and expected. Donahue's first program last July focused on a panel discussion about whether the U.S. should try to oust Saddam Hussein. www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,11335,00.html   (715 words)

'Scarborough Country' for Dec. 8 - MSNBC Transcripts - MSNBC.com DONAHUE:  You‘re going to tell me that the Chinese don‘t live in Chinatown, right?  To say that Hollywood is dominated by secular Jews... DONAHUE:  It was the Puerto Ricans that did it. DONAHUE:  No, no, no, hold on here.  Don‘t try to play this game with me here.  To say that Hollywood... msnbc.msn.com /id/6685898   (715 words)

Democracy Now! Phil Donahue: "We Have an Emergency in the Media and We Have to Fix It" Phil Donahue was on in the same time slot as Fox's Bill O'Reilly, but the show didn't last -- Phil's, that is. In fact, it didn't even last a year, even though it was MSNBC's top rated program. PHIL DONAHUE: “Boy, it's not what it used to be.” And I would say, “Oh, come on, stop it, stop it.” I don't want to be one of those people, but I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it. The show was simply called "Donahue" and was hosted by a bespectacled man with silver hair who would run around the studio handing the microphone to members of the audience to give them their say on the issues of the day. www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/03/24/1446244   (4234 words)

Phil’s Back Phil Donahue was the MSNBC version of a last second, Hail Mary pass. Phil Donahue’s second coming to your television dial was greeted with one of the largest media blitzes that America has ever seen. Donahue is completely outside his element when he cannot run around the studio and place a microphone in front of audience members. www.american-partisan.com /cols/2002/yoho/qtr3/0726.htm   (656 words)

FrontPage magazine.com :: The Casual Racism Of Phil Donahue by David Horowitz Last Friday, MSNBC TV talk show host Phil Donahue had a guest whose name — if memory serves — was Alonzo Washington and whose cause was the search for missing black children. Perhaps Donahue and Washington blanked this one too, because the perpetrator was (disappointingly) brown. Donahue are somehow part of the mainstream conversation about race in America today. www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=2330   (846 words)

War Signal: Phil Donahue Show Cancelled by MSNBC Donahue brought on guests to vigorously argue against Taylor, as he did himself - but this was the type of show he was doing: robust debate on controversial and cutting edge issues. Now I am aware that on most issues, Phil Donahue is a mushy liberal who seems to truly believe many of the premises which lead a person to end up in that mental swamp. This fact of these "highest ratings for Donahue" was confirmed by neo-con water boy Sean Hannity on both his radio show and on his FOX cable TV talk show. www.rense.com /general35/warwsig.htm   (1740 words)

Phil Donahue fired...WOW MSNBC tried to tweak the show in November, putting Donahue in front of a live audience in New York instead of in a New Jersey studio, but it made little difference. Donahue was a nine-time Daytime Emmy winner for his syndicated talk show, which began in 1967 and aired nationally from 1970 to 1996, paving the way for dozens of such shows to follow. Donahue's office referred calls to his agent on Thursday, and he did not immediately return a call for comment. www.freerepublic.com /focus/chat/851684/posts   (725 words)

Phil Donahue Says He Speaks for Squelched Liberals -- 07/17/2002 Donahue's first prime-time show on MSNBC Monday night attracted a little over 1.1 million viewers, less than half of the audience (2.32 million) for Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, but more than the 801,000 viewers who tuned into Connie Chung's show on CNN. Donahue said he's troubled by what he sees as a stifling of free speech in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Donahue said it's easier to be conservative than it is to be liberal. www.cnsnews.com /ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200207\CUL20020717c.html   (558 words)

Donahue Responds--AllYourTV.com Donahue, it's clear from those I have spoken with that this battle for the heart of Donahue's show has been raging privately for months. Several network insiders described Donahue and his staff as "intransigent" and "unrealistic about the current marketplace." While those familiar with the show described a process in which the network sought to cleanse the show of even a perceived liberal bias in guests or topics. I made the point that at least some of the executives at the network were concerned that Donahue presented a challenge for the company, at a time when the U.S. was preparing to go to war. www.allyourtv.com /0203season/news/02262003donahueresponds.html   (756 words)

USATODAY.com - Is Donahue cable-ready? Unlike the original Donahue, which had its host racing up and down the studio to let the audience ask questions of guests, this one will be audience-free: getting tourists to come to the MSNBC studios at 8 p.m. Donahue says he was happy in retirement until the world changed on Sept. 11. Donahue's hiring "is a very powerful statement about the creative barrenness and lack of imagination in TV today," says media critic Jon Katz, a former CBS News producer. www.usatoday.com /life/2002/2002-07-10-donahue.htm   (1341 words)

Feeling Phil AS YOU MAY know from MSNBC's Normandy-style ad campaign, Phil Donahue, the man who practically invented the gutter genre of talk television, who paved the way for Oprah and the rest, he of the bulging eyes, concerned hand gestures, and sensitive male persona has entered the fray of nightly political talk on cable. Phil Donahue, however, is hot on the trail of a hypocrisy catch. All in all, Donahue sounds like last year's Democratic party. www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/472aytdu.asp   (618 words)

Exit Phil Donahue The day before MSNBC announced that it was pulling the plug on Phil Donahue's nightly show, the man who pretty much invented talk TV was interviewing actress and author Rosie O'Donnell. Donahue's show was never as successful as it could have been. And it is a pretty good bet that, now that Donahue is going off the air, we will not soon see another show like the one where he featured Ralph Nader and Molly Ivins in front of a crowd of laid-off Enron employees. www.thenation.com /thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=442   (1024 words)

cannabisnews.com: MSNBC Transcripts: Phil Donahue for July 29, 2002 DONAHUE: Yes, and you know from personal experience; your daughter’s pain, nausea, diarrhea, all the accompanying symptoms to the serious illness that was to consume her life, relieved those symptoms. DONAHUE: Lyn, we regret to re-inform some folks out there that you lost your daughter in 1994 to cancer, and she was a medical marijuana user. DONAHUE: I’ll give you a chance to respond to that, Governor, and we’ll also talk with a ranking conservative in the Reagan administration who goes against the grain and supports the legalization of marijuana. www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread13581.shtml   (8607 words)

Phil Donahue Proud leftie Phil Donahue is surprised he's right for MSNBC. , Phil Donahue was one of the originators of the daytime talk show format, featuring panel discussions of controversial social issues, celebrity guests, and audience participation. Phil Donahue won't sugarcoat his views on TV www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0760853.html   (260 words)

Zap2it - TV news - MSNBC Has Had Its Phil, Cans Donahue In the end, Donahue's show failed to attract either liberals or rubbernecking conservatives, so on Tuesday (Feb. 25), MSNBC fired the nine-time Daytime Emmy winner and godfather of the talk show format. Donahue's final show will air on Friday night and for the near future, MSNBC will expand the news show "Countdown: Iraq" to two hours to fill the time. The ratings for Donahue's MSNBC started off low and no amount of format experimentation could help the show come close to topping Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor." For the February sweeps period, Donahue's show averaged less than half-a-million viewers, while Bill O'Reilly's show averaged more than six times that amount. tv.zap2it.com /news/tvnewsdaily.html?30315   (248 words)

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