Kayak CMO Offers Mixed Commentary About ''All-American Muslim' Advertising by David Goetzl

Corporate blogs are proving to be an interesting venue for transparency. There's been a CEO comparing himself to Icarus and a top journalist musing about taking a different tack. Now comes a mea culpa from Kayak CMO Robert Birge about the online travel company's role in advertising during TLC's "All-American Muslim." Much of his post offers an impressive defense of inclusion and condemnation of ignorant hatred, but he should have stopped there, and not tried to pin blame on TLC and continue with juvenile language. ...Read the whole story

Smothered: Mom Always Liked Movies About TV Best by Karen Herman

Good news for those of us in the TV history business: we've learned that George Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov are developing a feature film about the tumultuous goings-on behind-the-scenes of the hit 1960s variety show, "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour." Based on "Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," by David Bianculli (it's very good!), we expect the film will revolve around Tommy Smothers' battle with CBS to keep his show on the air as the network tightened its reigns and increased its censorship demands as the pair didn't veer from taking on ...More