Tiger Beat

Thursday, July 6, 2000

David Protess and his class have investigated death row inmate Hank Skinner's case and called upon the state of Texas to conduct DNA tests which may clear him. Protess and his students have found evidence which helped free several inmates in Illinois.
posted by steve rhodes on 7/6/2000 11:32:17 PM | link for this item

Well, the Big Brother site finally did get up later last night. But the still seem to be having some difficulties. Some features of the site like more info on the profiles and news are gone.

I watched too much of the video streams (which unlike the tv show can be oddly compelling). And if they aren't you can switch to another (there are four). There are lots of articles about the show toward the bottom of Thurday's TV Tattle and Yahoo's Reality TV Full Coverage.

There is a page on Jamie Kern at the Miss USA site and a brief profile of her at the bottom of this page.

Tom Shales writes in the Washington Post:

One conclusion many people have already drawn about the show is that Julie Chen, the host for last night's hour and a sort of liaison between the program and CBS's "Early Show"--lowest-rated by far of the three network breakfast programs--has no business being there, since she is technically a journalist, or at least an employee of CBS News. Andrew Heyward, CBS News president, ought to end that relationship at once, with Chen being transferred to the entertainment division and staying there.

She is not acting as a journalist on the program, she is acting as a shill: "Wow, that was in-tense," she gushed of the inmates' arrival via SUV caravan. Thus does "Big Brother" threaten to insult and desecrate not only the memories of CBS founder William S. Paley and the still-alive former CBS president Frank Stanton--men of class and quality--but also that of CBS News patron saint Edward R. Murrow.

Heyward should be further ashamed that the CBS News program "48 Hours" has been dragged into the cross-promotional frenzy. Last night's edition was ballyhooed with the promise that two former "Survivor" islanders would be among those profiled. It's all so shameful and shameless at the same time, so garish and ugly and embarrassing...

"Three months is a long time," housemate Eddie said in his little interview segment last night. The first edition of "Big Brother" proved that one hour can be a mighty long time, too.

Wednesday, July 5, 2000

Then the first show was badly directed, hoakey (sp?) and not a terribly compelling start. But they told you to go to the website to see live streams from 4 cameras and learn more than the sketchy info on the 10 "guests'" presented on the show.

Right after the show it is still the same boring page. Now even worse for CBS and AOL is the site is completely hosed. This is what lot of curious people are now seeing: