Prime Time Down 17%!!FOX Exec Out After Ratings Tank

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Longtime Fox television executive Mike Darnell, who helped shepherd “American Idol” to the top of U.S. TV ratings, will leave the network, Fox said on Friday, after the network lost its lead among the younger audience most appealing to advertisers.

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Michelle under fire for taking over America’s TV screens: First lady criticised for charm offensive on FIVE shows in two weeks

Michelle Obama has been making the rounds on talk shows and most notably during 85th Academy Awards when she presented Best Picture
•Critics say she runs risk of overexposure and falling out of public favor
The first lady has come under criticism for her recent media blitz, with some lambasting her for her unprecedented number of appearances on entertainment and programs.

Michelle Obama has certainly made the rounds in the past week, from [...]

Fatty Food Clampdown: Producers cook up ways to tackle ad bans and taxes

From FT:

 

Winnie-the-Pooh: [tries to climb out the front door but is stuck] Oh, oh, help and bother! I’m stuck.

Rabbit: Oh, dear. Oh, gracious. Oh. Well, it all comes from eating too much.

– Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

Food and drink manufacturers are, like Winnie-the-Pooh, in a tight spot. Ten days ago Michael Bloomberg, New York’s mayor, announced a ban on the sale of “supersized” sugary drinks in restaurants, cinemas and stadiums. And this [...]

FT: DISNEY sets standards for TV food ads

From FT:

 

Walt Disney has introduced new standards for food advertising on its children’s television programming to promote healthier eating among the young.

The standards follow guidelines at Disney’s theme parks and are aligned with US federal rules on calorie content, sugar and salt. Implementation on Disney’s children’s TV channels and web sites is scheduled by 2015.

Michelle Obama, the First Lady and a campaigner for healthy eating, called Disney’s move, a “game-changer for the [...]

This Time is Different….This is Not What You Think

by thetechnicaltake

 

The very erudite Dr. John Hussman is as good as a market researcher as there is, and he defines a set of market conditions that when they come together generally leads to poor equity performance. One of Hussman’s syndromes is the “overbought, over-bullish, overvalued, and rising yields syndrome.”

My own research would agree this assessment. The markets tend not to do well when yields are rising and when investor sentiment is overly bullish. [...]

Concerns grow over children using tablet computers

Electronic tablets like the iPad are a revolutionary educational tool and are becoming part of childhood, but should be watched carefully so that overuse doesn’t lead to learning or behavioral problems, experts say.

“It’s a topic that really emerged in the last two years. You can’t pull it from their hands,” Warren Buckleitner, editor of Children’s Technology Review, said this week at a New York panel titled “Baby Brains and Video Games.”

According to a late 2011 [...]

First Daughter’s Spring Break in Mexico Not ‘News’ — Until Earthquake Strikes

Drudge Report is making a big deal today about how the White House had asked U.S. media organizations to not cover Malia Obama‘s Spring Break trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. A search through TVEyes shows no U.S. TV network has covered the pre-teen’s trip. Politico reportsseveral websites have scrubbed stories about the trip from their websites after being asked to do so. A White House spokesperson says:

From the beginning of the administration, the White House has asked [...]

Obama State of the Union Ratings Down 12%

About 37.75 million viewers watched President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address, which featured a farewell appearance by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and aired live across 14 broadcast and cable networks. That was down 12% from last year’s speech, which was watched by 42.79 million people and down 21% from Obama’s first State of the Union in 2010 (48 million). Like his approval ratings, Obama’s TV ratings have been sliding [...]

Suicide statement: Bernanke said that he was 100% certain that “He” could contain the consequences of his policy of quantitative easing.

by Bruce Krasting

Bernanke did himself and the American people a great disservice tonight. He said that he was 100% certain that “He” could contain the consequences of his policy of quantitative easing. No person in a position of responsibility should make such bold statements. There is always risk.

Bernanke’s TV fireside chat was a bomb as a result of this gross misstatement of the risks of the [...]