Well, this is egg-cellent. It’s such an egg-stravagent protest. I’m just glad no one got yo-hurt.

A newscaster in Greece has been covered with eggs and yoghurt by protesters who broke into the television studio.

Epiros TV1 said 17 intruders, whose faces were hidden behind handkerchiefs, broke into the studio during the Friday evening newscast.

Panagiotis Vourhas, who was interviewing a local politician, bore the brunt of the attack – apparently because the previous week he had invited an openly neo-Nazi party [Golden Dawn] onto his talk show. (Via)

I’m not going to pretend to understand what’s being said in the clip below — something about how the egg council got to the anchor, too? — but this is SO much more interesting than our “morning show wars.” If the Greeks throw yogurt at their TV journalists, does that mean we can chuck bacon cheddar cheeseburgers from Denny’s at Katie Couric? Because that would be eggs-traordinary.

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This is a brief news story about a sticker some kid designed to honor Chicago’s men and women in uniform. After first selecting it as the winner of the contest, the city doubled back and said it wouldn’t be using it because it depicted “gang signs.” This is pretty stupid, to be sure, but it is not the point. The point is that the news then ran a clip of the kid, a local teenager, absolutely bawling his eyes out while explaining how upset their decision made him. Like, dropping snot and everything. It was decidedly not a good look for a teenage boy, and maybe he needs to work a little on handling his emotions more reasonably.

Here’s the thing, though: you really needed to show a clip of this poor kid crying like someone shot his dog? You couldn’t have let him collect himself and try again? Or, if this was the only footage you had, you couldn’t have just had the anchor read the quote (or paraphrase it) over a still image of the kid? Dick move, FOX12. Being a teenager is tough enough without you being goons and broadcasting a clip of him weeping uncontrollably to all his friends and family. I’d bet $20 he’s stuffed in some locker as I type this.

In an effort to level the playing field a little — because I am AN IMPORTANT TELEVISION BLOGGER [shines apple on lapel] — I have decided not to run a big splashy image of the crying kid at the top of the screen. Instead, I watched the video one second at a time until I found a spot where the anchor looked like a total doof, then screencapped it. Turnabout is fair play, FOX12. Test me again and I swear I’ll open MS Paint and draw ridiculous facial hair on everyone. You are on notice.

I got your back, Herbie.

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Danger Guerrero emailed me about the embedded video below: “This is a clip from ABC news last night featuring researchers and scientists in China putting on huge panda costumes to go interact with baby pandas. I don’t think it needs more context than that.”

He’s right, too — this is best enjoyed at face value. It was DEFINITELY worth ABC’s money to send a news crew to the other side of the planet for a two-minute story with a reporter in a panda suit. Alert the Pulitzer committee.

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One day after NBC owned headlines thanks to Bob Costas’s exclusive, painful-to-watch interview with accused child rapist Jerry Sandusky, CBS had its own exclusive “get” with Mike McQueary, the Penn State assistant coach who, according to a grand jury, witnessed Sandusky having his way with a boy in the shower in 2002 and reported it to head coach Joe Paterno. CBS sent top sideline reporter Armen Keteyianto to interview McQueary, who gleaned every possible tidbit from him in an efficient, workmanlike 24 seconds. The transcript in entirety:

Keteyian: When do you think you’ll be ready to talk?
McQueary: The whole process has to play out. I just don’t have anything else to say.
Keteyian: Describe your emotions right now.
McQueary: All over the place, just kind of shaken.
Keteyian: Crazy?
McQueary: Crazy.
Keteyian: You said like what, Mike?
McQueary: Like a snow globe.
Keteyian: Like a snow globe?
McQueary: Yes sir.

BOOM! Nailed it. Go ahead and blow the smoke off your finger guns, AK, then sit back and wait for that Pulitzer to arrive in the mail. You earned it today.

Bob Costas landed a phone interview with former Penn State coordinator and alleged child rapist Jerry Sandusky that aired on last night’s “Rock Center,” and all I can say is WOW Sandusky should NOT be giving interviews. He folded like a cheap suit.

Costas: Mr. Sandusky, there is a 40-count indictment, the grand jury report contains specific details. There are multiple accusers, multiple eyewitnesses to various aspects of the abuse. A reasonable person says, “Where there is this much smoke, there must be plenty of fire.” What do you say?
Sandusky: I say that I am innocent of those charges.
Costas: Innocent? Completely innocent and falsely accused in every aspect?
Sandusky: Well, I could say that, you know, I have done some of those things. I have horsed around with kids. I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them and I have touched their legs, without intent of sexual contact. But, um… uh … So, if you look at it that way … uh … there are things that … that … uh … wouldn’t … uh, you know, would be accurate.

Even worse is how long it took for Sandusky to say that he’s not sexually attracted to young boys. It’s barely even a denial.

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