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  Rita Cosby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rita Cosby (born November 18, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, but raised in Greenwich, Connecticut) is a cable TV news personality at MSNBC.
Her MSNBC show, Rita Cosby: Live and Direct, was canceled on June 29, 2006, because of lost viewers since its promising launch in August 2005.
Cosby is well known for her distinctive voice[1], which is usually described as "deep," "husky," or "raspy." Her vocal characteristics are unusual for a high profile female television personality and have inspired much discussion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rita_Cosby   (392 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Rita Cosby to anchor new show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rita Cosby, one of the most familiar and respected faces on the Fox News Channel, will anchor the network's new weekend program, "Fox Wire with Rita Cosby," Kevin Magee, FNC's vice president of news programming, announced yesterday.
Cosby's reputation at Fox for breaking major news stories and landing timely interviews with top newsmakers was borne out recently when, on assignment in the Middle East, she conducted the first U.S. television interviews with Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon.
Cosby joined the Fox News Channel in 1995 after a three-year stint with a network affiliate in Charlotte, N.C. In 1996, she was named senior correspondent, becoming the youngest senior correspondent in network television news.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26001   (410 words)

  
 'News junkie' Rita Cosby gets her own show | www.azstarnet.com ®
Rita Cosby figures you can either be overwhelmed by the highly competitive demands of TV news or you can thrive on them.
Cosby is running full tilt, squeezing in a phone call between changing planes.
Cosby left a successful position as a weekend news anchor and a senior correspondent at Fox News Channel.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/88450.php   (448 words)

  
 The Rita Cosby Club
All I ask is that we don't slander Rita or drag her good name through the mud, like some troublemaker we had in the other clubs, and that we don't get into leg discussions or any other part of her body.
Rita will be taking over the show "MSNBC Investigates", and will have a special "Rita Cosby Unit", for specials.
If you are upset that Rita is no longer with FNC and do not agree with them letting her go, feel free to email your comments and opinions to:
groups.msn.com /TheRitaCosbyClub   (287 words)

  
 Jayson Blair interview with Rita Cosby
COSBY: Former "New York Times" reporter Jayson Blair left a fiery trail of deception and betrayal that did serious damage to the "New York Times" and to journalism itself.
COSBY: People are saying some very tough things about you, calling you a liar, calling you a scumbag.
COSBY: In fact, you said recently there are other, quote, "journalists, war criminals" still at the "New York Times," who are plagiarizing, who are saying they were in places they weren't.
www.jayson-blair.com /InterviewTranscripts/20040313_RitaCosby.html   (1060 words)

  
 Rita Cosby - Meet the faces of MSNBC - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cosby also was granted a rare, private meeting with Pope John Paul II after receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh explaining why he carried out the Oklahoma City bombing.
Cosby joined Fox News Channel at its inception from WBTV, the CBS affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina.  During her tenure there, she broke numerous stories, reporting that Susan Smith drowned her two young sons and that the father of NBA superstar Michael Jordan was murdered.
In 1998, Cosby was presented with the USC Distinguished Alumni Award.  She speaks several languages and is fluent in Spanish, having lived in Seville, Spain.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8755935   (371 words)

  
 'Rita Cosby Live & Direct Debuts August 8 on MSNBC
Cosby, a tireless and passionate journalist, is known for securing the most sought-after interviews.
Cosby made headlines her first day at MSNBC (June 13, 2005) by scoring a world exclusive interview with Jermaine and Tito Jackson when the Michael Jackson verdict broke.
Cosby was also the first journalist to report the identities of the Washington, DC area sniper suspects.
www.commonvoice.com /article.asp?colid=2530   (585 words)

  
 AWC-DC Women in the news Rita Cosby
As the youngest senior news correspondent in network television, Rita Cosby continues to out scoop her seasoned colleagues while covering national and international breaking news stories for the FOX News Channel and the broadcast network.
It was also Cosby who stunned President Clinton as well as fellow reporters when, during a live White House press conference, she informed him that he would be subpoenaed to testify in the Whitewater trial in 1996.
Cosby joined FOX News from WBTV (CBS) in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she broke the news that Susan Smith drowned her two young sons and that the father of NBA superstar Michael Jordan was murdered.
www.awcdc.net /womennews_cosby.shtml   (493 words)

  
 The J-Walk Blog: Rita Cosby (Comments)
Rita Cosby is one of the sexiest dames on American television.
We need good investigative journalists, which Cosby is. Never saw her on Fox because I hate far-right idiots so I never knew what the buzz was about until now.
I really thought that Rita Cosby must have/had lung cancer.Here voice is very scratchy and she heaves in when talking.
j-walkblog.com /index.php?/weblog/comments/rita_cosby   (886 words)

  
 Rita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rita R. Colwell, an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator.
Rita Deverell, a Canadian television broadcaster and social activist.
Rita Mae Brown, a prolific American writer and social activist.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rita   (226 words)

  
 ANDONGKIM.COM - MSNBC Olbermann insults Cosby
No, Keith Olbermann isn't picking a fight with comedian Bill Cosby, but the raspy voiced Rita Cosby of MSNBC Rita Cosby Live and Direct.
Indeed, Rita seems to be one of the smarter news people on the tube.
Apparently, this story appears legit as an MSNBC spokesman did not dispute the authenticity of the month-old-email, which came out this week after the recipient "fan" shared it with the Daily News on the condition of anonymity, according to the paper.
www.andongkim.com /articles/2006/06/olbermanninsultscosby.htm   (176 words)

  
 Eat The Press | Cenk Uygur: Rita Cosby vs. Jack Cafferty | The Huffington Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The fact that Rita Cosby has a primetime show on a major cable news channel and Jack Cafferty does not is a great indication of what our so-called news stations have become.
On Thursday night, Rita Cosby was talking about a Clemson student strangled with her own bikini.
I have repeatedly emailed MSNBC and BEGGED them to take Rita off the air or at least move her to the time slot to compete with the afternoon soaps which is the intellectual and factual equivalent to her show.
huffingtonpost.com /cenk-uygur/rita-cosby-vs-jack-caffe_b_22155.html   (2267 words)

  
 Olbermann Watch: Olbermann: Rita Cosby "dumber than a suitcase of rocks"
Rita has to think on her feet and be creative.
Rita Cosby is fluent in two languages and proficient in five others and a mediocre sportscaster thinks SHE is dumb?
On KO's attack on Rita Cosby, when you compare all her credentials, awards and accomplishments to his meager profile, he should be embarrassed.
www.olbermannwatch.com /archives/2006/06/olbermann_rita_1.html   (6156 words)

  
 MSNBC'S RITA COSBY TRAVELS TO AFGHANISTAN WITH WWE AND AFE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In a special two-part broadcast, Cosby will examine the daily life of US troops on active duty in Afghanistan as they fight the war on terrorism, and she will chronicle the WWE's overseas tour.
"Rita Cosby: Live and Direct" will take a behind-the-scenes look at the WWE's overseas holiday tour, hosted by Armed Forces Entertainment, and its "WWE's Tribute to the Troops" special, which is a live-to-tape performance of Monday Night RAW(r) in Afghanistan with the World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.
Cosby will show viewers how the special is produced, and she will profile the WWE wrestlers and entertainers.
www.impactwrestling.com /content.aspx?ID=4655   (545 words)

  
 MSNBC: Rita Cosby Live and Direct - Leo Terrell + Brian Oxman (July 6 06) - MJEOL FORUMS
COSBY: And for the inside scoop on this case, as she has been from the beginning, joining us is the author of the book “Be Careful Who You Love: Inside the Michael Jackson Case.” Investigative journalist Diane Diamond.
COSBY: You know, when you hear that, what was the nature of their relationship, Marc Schaffel and Michael Jackson.
COSBY: And that was his original amount that we were hearing.
community.mjeol.com /showthread.php?t=7859   (2019 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: 'Cosby: Live' soon dead at MSNBC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
MSNBC personality Rita Cosby yesterday went from the floodwaters of Pennsylvania into the fire of 30 Rock.
After a grueling nine-hour meeting involving Cosby, her agent and top NBC News and MSNBC execs, the third-rated cable news network announced that her weeknight show, "Rita Cosby: Live and Direct," will be canceled in early July.
Cosby - who rushed back after anchoring her Wednesday night show in knee-deep water in Yardley, Pa. - told me she's pleased with her new gig, which initially will give her less nightly on-air presence than she enjoys now.
www.nydailynews.com /news/gossip/story/431172p-363418c.html   (899 words)

  
 An evening with Live & Direct — Rita Cosby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cosby in her office about an hour before show time.
Cosby was lured away from Fox News by the promise of a nine o’clock spot.
Cosby’s early career were obvious cases for news coverage.
www.acorn-online.com /news/exec/view.cgi/14/3059   (1050 words)

  
 Transcripts, Lou Dobbs and Rita Cosby
Transcript of MSNBC’s LiveandDirect with Rita Cosby, January 25, 2006, featuring NCC General Secretary Bob Edgar on U.S. immigrations policy reform.
We were involved in the Mt. Olive Pickle (ph) issue where the growers, the farmers, and Mt. Olive Pickle (ph) came together and provided a humane opportunity for H-2 and H-4 workers to actually come to the United States, pick pickles, pick cucumbers for the pickles, and then return on a regular basis.
COSBY: But the case—what he‘s saying is it‘s spawning off a generation of the illegal workers.
www.ncccusa.org /news/060126edgartranscripts.html   (1808 words)

  
 Rita Cosby MSNBC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rita Cosby is a cable TV news personality at MSNBC, and is the host of Rita Cosby Live & Direct, which airs weeknights at 9 pm ET.
God is the one who fashioned your colour, your size and height, the sound of your voice and the tongue that manifest it's language as well as the shape and colour of your eyes.
I believe Cosby's coarse voice is the result of gonorrhea or chlamydia of the mouth, a result of her performing said sexual favor.
www.rateitall.com /i-857047-rita-cosby.aspx   (1825 words)

  
 The Rita Cosby Club
I read between the lines of Rita's TV remarks and knew they were slowly maneuvering her into position for the BIG BOOT.
Rita begged her producers to do a STORY I sent her related to Michael Jackson case.
Rita if you can read this,let us know what your plans are,its not like Fox News will let us know,they have already pulled your Bio,which I find rather sh'ty.
groups.msn.com /TheRitaCosbyClub/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=354&LastModified=4675522222173718764   (1402 words)

  
 -- Rajah.com -- Rita Cosby/WWE Future, WWE Travels To Afghanistan & More
In upcoming TitanTV listings for the Rita Crosby show on MSNBC, there are 2 more episode (with 2 repeats) scheduled with WWE.
Cosby travels to Afghanistan with the third annual WWE tribute tour for U.S. troops stationed overseas; profiles the pro wrestlers; and examines what life is like for U.S. military personnel.
Cosby travels to Afghanistan with the third annual WWE tribute tour for U.S. troops stationed overseas; profiles the pro wrestlers; and examines what life is like for the military personnel.
rajah.com /base/node/4391   (148 words)

  
 The Hedgehog Report » Rita Cosby Canned By Fox News
Fox News Channel will not renew a contract with weekend host Rita Cosby, as the two sides couldn’t come to an agreement on an extension, the network said.
Rita’s departure doesn’t bode well for Geraldo Rivera, with his annual $2 million contract that expires in a few months.
For me, Rita Cosby’s MO was much too exploitive in her interviews.
www.davidwissing.com /index.php/4041   (397 words)

  
 Nobrainer’s Think Tank » Rita Cosby update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
After a grueling nine-hour meeting involving Cosby, her agent and top NBC News and MSNBC execs, the third-rated cable news network announced that her weeknight show, “Rita Cosby: Live & Direct,” will be canceled in early July.
She’ll also lead a “Rita Cosby Specials” documentary unit, according to an MSNBC press release.
Rita Cosby must be the news worlds equivalent of Adam Corolla.
neubranderinc.com /blog/2006/06/30/rita-cosby-update   (395 words)

  
 Think Progress » MSNBC’s Rita Cosby:
Rita Cosby is a the poster child for DUMB BLONDES
Rita Cosby was the inspiration for the character ‘Doctor Girlfriend’ on The Venture Brothers.
Rita was stunned as she watched her ‘Ratings Bonanza’ story being led away, taking her dreams with him.
thinkprogress.org /2006/08/29/msnbcs-rita-cosby   (5119 words)

  
 Cream Tuffs (Rita Cosby's new show starts tonight!)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
RITA Cosby, the pugnacious, former Fox New Channel reporter, joins the club tonight.
She is not in the same league by any stretch of the imagination, and that's exactly why Roger Ailes told her to go pound sand when she tried to demand a higher profile on FNC.
I didn't watch Rita Cosby much, mainly because the salacious stories didn't interest me. That being said, I was impressed by Cosby's ability to get people out of the woodwork and onto the air talking.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1458998/posts   (1710 words)

  
 Variety.com - Anchor Cosby off Fox News
By NEW YORK -- Fox News Channel will not renew a contract with weekend host Rita Cosby, as the two sides couldn't come to an agreement on an extension, the network said.
Cosby hosted "The Big Story Weekend Edition With Rita Cosby" at 9 p.m.
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www.variety.com /VR1117922709.html   (139 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Sperry joins Rita Cosby on Fox
Sperry, whose recent reporting revealed intricate ties the Clinton administration had with Enron Corp., will discuss his revelations and the meltdown of the energy giant with Cosby and Democratic consultant Robert Weiss.
Also featured on tonight's show will be Cosby's exclusive interview with Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandez and an update on the woman jailed on Thanksgiving for allegedly not returning rented video tapes.
On Sunday, Cosby welcomes staff from the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee to discuss President George W. Bush's first year in office.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26123   (198 words)

  
 American Idols Live Tour Featured on Rita Cosby Show June 22nd
Cosby will have an all-access pass to the concert rehearsals, and she will chat with the "American Idol" finalists who will be performing in the tour.
Cosby will be hosting from Los Angeles both Wednesday and Thursday nights.
As the "American Idol" finalists gear up to go on the road, Cosby will talk to them about the details of the nationwide tour, their individual and group performances, and what it is like for them to prepare and rehearse with one another.
www.celebrityspider.com /news/june06/article062006-14.html   (269 words)

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