wtf: this is why the Internet is full of unreadable junk
I’m constantly fuming in my head about Demand Media, content mill to the stars…
CNN
watch it: “Girl Raised From Birth By Wolf Blitzer Taken Into Protective Custody”
“Like Wolf Blitzer, Molly is fiercely protective of Dr. Sanjay Gupta”: Girl Raised From Birth By Wolf Blitzer Taken Into Protective Custody God bless The Onion.
porn for women; Edward Norton steps down as the Hulk (will David Tennant step up?); more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
calling bullshit: on Anderson Cooper (and the rest of the corporate media)
On July 1st, Anderson Cooper — on his weeknight CNN program Anderson Cooper 360 — had this to report on new government restrictions on journalists covering the BP oil spill (transcript of pertinent bits after the jump): Cooper is railing against a new rule announced today backed by the force of law and the threat … more…
what would Mark Twain do?; Michael Moore joins the Oscar board; Sam Worthington, comic book king?: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
don’t blame Tom Cruise for ‘Knight and Day’; Hollywood still loves Comic Con; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
question of the day: Who should replace Larry King? Who deserves his or her own high-profile talk show?
Larry King Live is dead. Long live Larry King Live… without Larry King? Larry King has announced that his long-running (25 years) talk show on CNN will end sometime this fall, because the 77-year-old wants to spend time with his kids going to their Little League games. Seriously. Most men of his age are going … more…
question of the day: Have Goldman Sachs’s “shitty deals” broken a language barrier on American TV?
I was pretty surprised when, one night last week, Keith Olbermann ran some unedited, unbleeped Senate testimony about the recent Wall Street disaster that featured evidence from Goldman Sachs internal emails proving that they knew that at least one fund they were selling was not only toxic, it was “a shitty deal.” Senator Carl Levin, … more…
question of the day: Is the death of Patrick Swayze really the top news of the day?
Last night I arrived home just in time to hear the news break that actor Patrick Swayze had died, and a few minutes later, when CNN’s signature evening news broadcast, Anderson Cooper 360, began, it was the top story. Of course it’s going to be of interest to many people, and of course Swayze had … more…
question of the day: Whom do we blame for the Michael Jackson overload?
It always becomes a national pastime when the news networks go overboard in covering a major celebrity happening… at the moment, of course, the seemingly nonstop coverage of the death of Michael Jackson: We start complaining about how the news networks are going overboard. If it appeared to slow down a little over the long … more…
