February

February 25, 2010

WWE, TV-PG, and TV-14

Quite frankly (as Vince McMahon is so fond of prefacing his oily monologues), I had no intention of making whatever is risqué or questionable about World […]
February 24, 2010

WWE Cites ‘Miscommunication,’ Says TV-14 Listing Was a Mistake

World Wrestling Entertainment has told Daniela Altimari of the Hartford Courant‘s Capitol Watch blog that “a miscommunication between [cable channel] SyFy and the programming guides” caused the […]
February 24, 2010

EXCLUSIVE: Senate Candidate Linda McMahon’s WWE Quietly Shifts Programming Back to TV-14

CLARIFICATION: See next post, “WWE Cites ‘Miscommunication,’ Says TV-14 Listing Was a Mistake,” http://wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/wwe-cites-miscommunication-says-tv-14-listing-was-a-mistake/. *** As former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon launched her campaign […]
February 24, 2010

‘If Linda McMahon Is P.T. Barnum, Then Connecticut Is in More Trouble Than We Know’

The above is the headline of my piece running Friday at Beyond Chron, the San Francisco online newspaper. For those readers who expect nothing but Linda-bashing […]
February 23, 2010

Linda McMahon Chronicles: Strange Tale of the Stamford Police and the ‘Benoit Wikipedia Hacker’ (Part 4 — Conclusion)

This post concludes the series on this blog — interrupted more than three weeks ago — on how the Stamford Police Department handled the June-July 2007 […]
February 22, 2010

Muchnick Interview Thursday on ESPN Radio in Bakersfield

Irvin Muchnick, author of CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death, will be interviewed Thursday, February 25, […]
February 22, 2010

Washington Post and Linda McMahon: Bird-Cage-Liner Notes

The Linda McMahon profile in this morning’s Washington Post, which I slanmed in an instant analysis last night, isn’t worth the ink that it doesn’t cost […]
February 21, 2010

Washington Post Profile of Linda McMahon Proves That Wrestling Is Real – It’s Journalism That’s Fake (Part 1)

About nine-tenths of the way through nearly 2,500 fawning words on Linda McMahon in Monday’s Washington Post, reporter Jason Horowitz writes that she explained the evolution […]
February 21, 2010

‘Simmons still fuming over Morning Joe snub; carries around Muchnick’s book…’

The above is the headline over an item this morning at the delightfully snarky Capitol Report (http://ctcapitolreport.com). English translation: Neil Vigdor of the Stamford Advocate and […]
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