One year after Hurricane Katrina smashed into Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, washing away hundreds of communities and lives, FOXNews.com’s Catherine Donaldson-Evans visits Slidell, La., to find out firsthand how one town is determined to rebuild. This is the second of her series of exclusive reports. SLIDELL, La. — Barbara …
Read More »Grrr! Crying Over Reality TV
While the hugely successful “American Idol” has spawned its fair share of copycats, primarily from the people involved with “American Idol,” it’s safe to say that the best imitator is from Mr. Reality TV himself — Mark Burnett. I’m talking about “Rock Star: Supernova,” over on that other network, CBS. …
Read More »Lawyer for Lane Garrison Disputes Claim That Actor Did Shots Before Fatal Crash
The attorney for “Prison Break” star Lane Garrison refuted a TMZ.com report claiming five eyewitnesses saw the actor do “several shots” of vodka at a party over the weekend before getting behind the wheel of his SUV and crashing it into a tree, killing a 17-year-old passenger. “Our position has …
Read More »Terrific Audience
Hi guys! So no sooner do I return to the “DaySide Dish” duty than I take a day off. Sorry folks! Had a little doc appointment I had to squeeze in. Everything’s fine and I’m ready for the rest of the workweek. Which is, uh, one more day — hee …
Read More »What the Senate Wants You to Accept on Immigration…
What the Senate wants you to accept on immigration. Number one, 14,000 new border patrol agents by 2011, a long time. And 2,500 new port of entry inspectors. OK, fine but it’s not enough. Unless you put additional National Guard on the border. But let’s be honest. The Senate doesn’t …
Read More »Al Jazeera International Could Be Good for America, Say Backers
NEW YORK – While not as heavily debated as it was during the invasion of Iraq, the name Al Jazeera still carries plenty of unsavory associations in the United States. The international news network, coming soon to America, aims to change all that. Arab-language Al Jazeera claims to be an …
Read More »The Flipside of News
I wonder what would happen if for one day we turned reporting on numbers upside down. For example, report that 99.9998 percent of all planes — commercial and commuter — landed safely last year without incident. Or that 95.3 percent of Americans are working. Or that 92 percent of all …
Read More »Who's Behind the Bombing?
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is placing the blame for the Samarra mosque bombing at the feet of the U.S. and Israel. According to Reuters, the Iranian leader told a sympathetic crowd, “These heinous acts are committed by a group of Zionists and …
Read More »Your Grrrs: April 20, 2006
Your Grrrs … don’t forget to play Spot the Oblivion below… Jane writes to Harry G.: Mike: You’re probably too polite to respond to Harry G.’s rant, but I’m not. I think Mr. G is delusional. However, if he was ever, in reality, an athlete, my guess is he wasn’t …
Read More »Media Bias?
Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! I meant to blog yesterday that I had lunch with the Associated Press’ Linda Deutsch two days ago in Washington, D.C. She was in D.C. for the annual Gridiron dinner. Linda has covered every major trial …
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