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Good evening, says your news anchor and she starts taking her clothes off.
Yes, the most popular Czech TV station, TV Nova, offers naked news on its news website.
And by linking it I am in fact promoting it, despite the fact I think it is totally demented. Whoever invented the link between an evening news program [...]

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I know, as a news reporter I should not approve the violation of intellectual property rights, but I can not help it: several YouTube members lost almost all “their” videos today, Friday June 13, at 6 p.m. CET. They have been uploading full episodes of Friends and WB raised its copyright claim. Apparently, in case [...]

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Apparently, there is a restaurant in Prague that is named after Homer Simpson. In Czech it is called U Houmra, which is phonetic Czech for Homer’s.
Not only that, its website contains many pictures of Matt Groening’s characters, especially scenes that are somehow related to food and drinks. There are also sounds taken from the Czech-dubbed [...]

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TV Nova news anchor Reynolds Koranteng who lied about having graduated from high school was in the chair today for the five o’clock news.
In reaction to the discovery of the scandal, the station’s news director Martin Ondracek said to the Blesk daily that Koranteng might face sanctions.
In professional news business, sanctions means you are pulled off [...]

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TV Nova news anchor Rey Koranteng lied about having a high school diploma, the Blesk tabloid newspaper wrote today. Koranteng admitted not having solved this issue yet and he says it is more complicated: Long time ago when the issue of my graduation and high school diploma was brought up I did not say I [...]

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I hear Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is going to host the Oscars.
Excellent choice.
But even more excellent would be …. [take a guess or insert your own]…
…Richard Quest.

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There is an interesting article about the Czech Harrachov Ski Resort. In The Los Angeles Times! Wow…

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Editor-In-Chief of Czech Radiozurnal news radio Barbora Tacheci who was sacked by the Czech Radio director ended up in a mental institution Thursday. She is said to have suffered a nervous breakdown and the police had to be called in to assist the paramedics who were loading the woman onto an ambulance.
The end of one [...]

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NCIS Reruns Blurred

Czech TV station Nova TV airs reruns of NCIS on weekday afternoons at 4 p.m.
Yesterday I noticed they blur the scenes in which a dead body or parts thereof are in the morgue room and the character named Douglas Mallard is about to perform an autopsy. Obviously the pictures might fall within the parental-discretion-advised category.
It [...]

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Journalist Wire-Tapped. So He Says

My former colleague from Brnensky denik daily is frequently summoned by the police to testify because people (mostly third-class local politicians) sue him for his articles… For some reason the cops focus on him despite the fact that the complaints should be filed against the publisher and owner of the paper, pursuant to the Czech legislation.
The last [...]

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