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Rush Limbaugh Celebrates 20th Anniversary
From radio.about.com. Posted August 1 2008, 3.59pm
Today, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh officially celebrated his 20th anniversary as a syndicated radio host. (Right: Rush Limbaugh Publicity Photo) Limbaugh started his radio career at 16 working for... (more)

Politico hires Newsday’s Glenn Thrush
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 15 2008, 11.57am
US political news and blog site Politico has recruited Newsday reporter Glenn Thrush, according to the site's Ben Smith, who made the announcement of Thrush's appointment in a blog post. Thrush joins the site after five years at Newsday, where he began covering New York city hall before joining the title's Washington bureau in 2005 to [...] (more)

Major deal for Rush Limbaugh
From Radio Today. Posted July 2 2008, 11.57pm
Rush Limbaugh, one of America's biggest names in talk radio has apparently signed a 200 million pounds - eight year deal - with Premiere Radio Networks. (more)

Interview: Alex Ballantyne, MD of Hearst Digital 'Why rush? We're building properties for the medium to long term, not short-term gain'
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted July 2 2008, 11.00pm
Journalism.co.uk talks arriving online late, video plans and social media tools with the head of NatMags UK digital wing (more)

Women rush through sex for TV shows
From Digital Spy. Posted June 27 2008, 10.14am
A survey finds that 17% of women rush sex or put it off so they don't miss their favourite TV shows. (more)

Peter Wilby on the press: The rush to rubbish Davis
From Media Guardian. Posted June 22 2008, 11.11pm
On the press, Peter Wilby: 'You've all heard the story,' wrote Kelvin MacKenzie in his Sun column last Thursday. Well, no, Kelvin, not if we are among the 10 million who allegedly read the super, soaraway Currant Bun. (more)

'Apprentice' reject crushed by wall
From Digital Spy. Posted June 4 2008, 11.03am
Apprentice reject Nicholas De Lacy Brown is walking on crutches after being crushed by a wall. (more)

Google Zeitgeist videos: Salman Rushdie, Chad Hurley, Gordon Brown, Will Lewis, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Sergey…many more
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 23 2008, 9.24am
Google has just held its two day European Zeitgeist conference in the UK bringing together a host of captivating speakers, here are just a few of the session videos - many more on the Zeitgeist YouTube channel. Matthew d'Ancona interviews Chad Hurley You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Sir Salman Rushdie You need [...] (more)

Radio Host Rush Limbaugh Continues to Create "Chaos"
From radio.about.com. Posted May 8 2008, 5.00am
Election years were made for talk radio and if there's one man enjoying himself, it's Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" - a mock on-air campaign to disrupt the Democratic primaries... (more)

Sport on TV: Man with golden helmet heads the rush for cash
From The Independent. Posted April 20 2008, 12.00am
In 1969, Apollo XI put man on the moon. In 2008, Brendon McCullum put a cricket ball on it. When the Kolkata Knight Riders emerged on to the Indian Premier League launchpad in Bangalore (Setanta, Friday) in their black and gold-lamé spacesuits, it looked as if the world of cricket had indeed changed, as we had been promised in the long countdown. But we were travelling back in time – to the Seventies. On Planet Bollywood, the stars looked like Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. And the outfits had nothing on West Indies' pink velour numbers in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket. (more)

Magazine editors to draw up 'airbrushing' code
From Press Gazette. Posted April 1 2008, 12.00am
A group of rival women's magazine editors have agreed to work together to draw up a voluntary code of practice on airbrushing and "size zero" models. (more)

Is Basil Brush racist?
From Media Guardian. Posted March 18 2008, 12.08am
Julia Raeside: Basil Brush is under investigation by the hate crimes unit of Northamptonshire constabulary (more)

Police investigate Basil Brush 'racism'
From Digital Spy. Posted March 17 2008, 4.11pm
Police are investigating a complaint of racism involving BBC character Basil Brush. (more)

Sport on TV: A brush with royalty but not 'Off with his head'
From The Independent. Posted March 16 2008, 12.00am
Sport Relief came up with the intriguing concept of 'Sport Portraits' (BBC1, Monday and Tuesday), with five celebrated artists (and ex-cricketer Jack Russell) painting portraits of four sporting icons for a charity auction. The pop artist Sir Peter Blake, Jack Vettriano, Stella Vine, cartoonist Gerald Scarfe and photographer Rankin depicted the royal three-day eventer Zara Phillips, boxing funnyman Ricky Hatton and football's Fabio Capello and Didier Drogba. (more)

Radio Talk Show Host Rush Limbaugh Claims Credit for Hillary Win
From radio.about.com. Posted March 6 2008, 4.08am
"Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh claimed at least partial credit today [Wednesday] for Hillary Clinton's victories in Texas and Ohio. Limbaugh spent much of his show Monday exhorting Republican... (more)

eBay rush to buy dragster that almost killed Top Gear presenter
From Media Guardian. Posted December 24 2007, 12.20am
The jet powered car that almost took the life of the Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been put up for sale on eBay, the online auction site (more)

Basil Brush to front new 'Swap Shop'
From Digital Spy. Posted December 20 2007, 4.38pm
Basil Brush is to front an updated version of Saturday morning children's show Swap Shop. (more)

Stuart Murphy brushes off BBC1 job rumours
From Media Guardian. Posted November 8 2007, 3.21pm
Ex-BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has ruled himself out of the running to become BBC1 controller. By Leigh Holmwood. (more)

No rush to sell Virgin
From Radio Today. Posted November 6 2007, 9.00am
The Scottish Media Group is to undertake a fully underwritten Rights Issue of New Shares to raise approximately £95.1 million. The money would be used to reduce debt, and would mean SMG could hold-out for a better price for Virgin Radio. (more)

New crime drama, Blood Rush, commissioned for BBC1
From Media Guardian. Posted October 26 2007, 12.28pm
BBC1 has commissioned a new crime drama from Waking the Dead creator Barbara Machin. By Leigh Holmwood. (more)

Spall to play vengeful father in ITV1's Gunrush
From The Stage. Posted October 24 2007, 11.55am
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Rush Limbaugh's Top 5 Dumbest Quotes
From radio.about.com. Posted October 6 2007, 1.00am
Daniel Kurtzman, About.com's Political Humor Guide, has put together "The 5 Dumbest Rush Limbaugh Quotes of All Time" which you can see here. Recent: Radio Host Rush Limbaugh in Crosshairs of... (more)

Radio Host Rush Limbaugh in Crosshairs of Antiwar Democrats
From radio.about.com. Posted October 2 2007, 5.10am
Foxnews.com writes: "Senate Democrats frustrated by failed battles against Republicans to change Iraq war policy are instead taking on one of the war's staunchest supporters — syndicated, conservative talk radio... (more)

News Corp says it 'will crush the FT'
From The Scotsman. Posted September 23 2007, 11.06pm
PETER Chernin, the president of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, has said the media giant will "crush" the Financial Times after acquiring its big US rival. (more)

'We will crush the FT' says News Corp
From The Scotsman. Posted September 22 2007, 11.04pm
PETER Chernin, the president of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, promised the media giant will "crush" the Financial Times after acquiring its big rival in America. (more)

Rush Limbaugh Show Enters 19th Year
From radio.about.com. Posted August 3 2007, 4.36am
As noted in this on-air transcript at rushlimbaugh.com on Wednesday: "It is August 1st, ladies and gentlemen, which is not just a big day here, it is a huge day... (more)

ITV brushes off Tycoon disappointment
From Media Guardian. Posted July 13 2007, 1.00am
ITV is to continue to make business TV programmes, despite disappointing ratings for wannabe entrepreneurs reality show Tycoon. By Tara Conlan. (more)

Radio Festival panel: radio news should not rush to follow TV reports
From Press Gazette. Posted July 10 2007, 12.00am
Radio journalists have "a duty of care" to act responsibly when a major story breaks and not be tempted to follow the lead of rolling TV news without confirmation, a panel of senior journalists has agreed. (more)

Brush with the law for media student vox-popping the locals
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 7 2007, 12.00am
Trainee managed to turn the situation around after his credentials were called into question (more)

Radio Televisyen Malaysia won?t rush to set up international news channel
From Media Network Weblog. Posted February 5 2007, 10.34am
Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) will not be hasty in setting up an international news channel although technically it has the capacity to do so, said Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin. He said a feasibility study would be carried out for another six months before a decision is made on whether it could be implemented [...] (more)

Rush Limbaugh Nominated For 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
From radio.about.com. Posted February 5 2007, 12.00am
Landmark Legal Foundation has nominated nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Limbaugh's daily radio show is heard by more than 20 million... (more)

Minister promises PG FoI changes won't be rushed through
From Press Gazette. Posted January 25 2007, 10.06am
More than 500 journalists have joined our campaign to save the Freedom of Information Act. (more)

Dacre condemns "subsidariat" press and BBC for "crushing journalistic pluralism"
From Press Gazette. Posted January 23 2007, 8.55am
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre used a rare public speech last night to launch an excoriating attack on the BBC and on newspapers such as The Guardian, The Times and the Independent which he contemptuously termed the “subsidariat”. (more)

Hearst buys eCrush
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 9 2007, 12.04pm
Media giant buys the teenage social networking site as part of its push to capture a share of the US online teen media market (more)

Brum Mail rushes out terror plot special
From Press Gazette. Posted August 10 2006, 3.39pm
The Birmingham Mail showed the advantages of publishing on the day editions as news broke this morning of the terrorist plot to explode up to ten planes leaving British airports. (more)

Summer rush to libel court costs papers dear
From Press Gazette. Posted August 2 2006, 11.00pm
Newspapers have faced a particularly costly end-of-season rush at the London libel courts this year, with the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror facing hefty payouts. (more)

World Cup rush for new TVs helps factory figures
From Media Guardian. Posted July 7 2006, 9.30am
The rush to buy flat screen TVs ahead of the World Cup was behind a rise in Britain's manufacturing output in May, the fifth increase in seven months. By Angela Balakrishnan. (more)

Rush Limbaugh fights "attempt to pull him off Armed Forces Radio"
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 7 2006, 3.14pm
American talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is fighting what he sees as an attempt to pull him off Armed Forces Radio. Responding to a report in the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, which says that the consulting group Lund Media Research recommends moving his show to a channel only heard in a few areas of the world where AFRTS has extra frequencies, he says "In terms of percentage, the total (more)

Songs by Subject: Rush Limbaugh Cuts Deal Over "Doctor Shopping" Pill Charge
From radio.about.com. Posted May 5 2006, 4.17am
Radio stations, programmers, and deejays have used The Green Book of Songs By Subject for years. Each week it provides a new list of songs for a particular topic exclusively... (more)

Rush Limbaugh Arrested on One Charge of "Doctor Shopping"
From radio.about.com. Posted April 29 2006, 8.38am
From Mercurynews.com: "Rush Limbaugh and prosecutors in the long-running prescription fraud case against him have reached a deal calling for the only charge against the conservative commentator to be dropped... (more)

Rush Limbaugh: Charged With 1 Count "Doctor Shopping"
From radio.about.com. Posted April 29 2006, 8.38am
From Mercurynews.com: "Rush Limbaugh and prosecutors in the long-running prescription fraud case against him have reached a deal calling for the only charge against the conservative commentator to be dropped... (more)

DJ Rushes to Help But Radio Caller Dies On-Air
From radio.about.com. Posted January 7 2006, 11.30pm
The Independent (UK) reports: "A late-night radio talkshow host spoke of his shock after a listener died on air during a phone-in...The caller, known only as Terry, was taking part in a debate on Liverpool's Magic FM 1548 when the... (more)

Josh Rushing: My Life in Media
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Josh Rushing, 35, is the military correspondent for Al Jazeera English. Rushing's new book, Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World, chronicles his transformation from being the face of America on Al Jazeera during the Iraq invasion, to the face of Al Jazeera in America during the launch of its new English-language channel. Much to the chagrin of the Pentagon, his efforts as a spokesperson for US Central Command to understand Al Jazeera's perspective of the invasion were featured in the 2004 documentary Control Room. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Paige, and two sons, Luke and Ethan. The couple are expecting their third child in February. (more)