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NBC News' chief medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman didn’t fare well in the public’s eyes when she first apologized for breaking her voluntary, announced-on-national-TV Ebola quarantine after returning from covering the epidemic in West Africa. The network’s news division for its part also decided she should take a…

While some AFM buyers were sitting on their wallets and spilling blood this year in hopes of scoring Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight, others were ponying up for the schlock and genre awe that still sells in Santa Monica. This year a new trend brought heat to the halls of the Loews: Ebola. Not just ebola, but ebola zo…

NBC News announced this morning it has partnered exclusively with Facebook for the launch a a cross-platform initiative "Spread the Story #Fight Ebola". Over the next 24 hours NBC News will post a total of 24 stories of children and families impacted by Ebola, “to capture the untold personal tragedy brought by each…

Jon Stewart took The Daily Show to Austin last night for its South By South Mess: Prepare for Democalypse 2014 coverage of the midterm elections. But first, Stewart discussed the breaking news about the first reported case of Ebola in New York and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to put a non-symptomatic…

NBC News will bring back its chief medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman, whose mandatory quarantine ends today — but the news division is keeping her out of circulation for another month, presumably to give the toxicity of her quarantine violation time to subside. In a memo to staff, NBC News chief Deborah Turness…

NBC’s freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, officially declared Ebola free this afternoon by experts at the Nebraska Medical Center biocontainment unit, celebrated by attempting today to rescue the network’s chief medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman from the career-nuking situation she created when she violated the…

Bill Maher ranted about Ebola and “Fan-gate” on his HBO show Real Time last night: “The bad news is that it's made the sexy nurse costume for Halloween totally obsolete… I am really pissed about how badly this was handled. One patient came here, we could have quashed it right away. Have you read about what was going…

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart wonders why cable news networks are ignoring their own on-camera experts in their Ebola coverage: “We can’t count on news people to take a reasoned approach….Clearly the news anchors are having trouble drawing distinction between a person contracting the disease after working in close…

A public health nurse is monitoring Nancy Snyderman and her crew members twice a day, and police are conducting increased surveillance of her home area, Princeton health officer Jeff Grosser assured town council members, in re new procedures in place since NBC's chief medical editor violated her quarantine. Meanwhile…

UPDATE, 3:45 PM: NBC News finally broke its silence on Dr. Nancy Snyderman’s quarantine violation today on its evening newscast — but only to read a prepared statement from its chief medical correspondent, who appears to be unclear as to the whole “quarantine” thing. At the tail end of the newscast's lead segment…

UPDATED, 4:10PM: The New Jersey Health Department said today that the members of an NBC News crew who were exposed to the ebola virus while working in Liberia have been hit with a mandatory quarantine. The department said in a statement that the group, which put itself in voluntary quarantine after a freelancer hired…

Saturday Night Live is staying current with a very funny Ebola take on the summer’s hit romantic drama The Fault In Our Stars, this time putting those terminal teen lovers in a really bad spot. Here is the faux trailer from last night’s show. Let us know what you think.