headlines that hurt my eyeballs
All at Google News right now…
Glenn Beck
even warfare is a game of branding and PR these days
The guys at the Onion must be kicking themselves for not having come up with this first…
‘Harry Potter’ documentary on the way; Twitter loves TV; Bradley Cooper in ‘The Crow’?; more: leftover links
Plus: Has the flopping of Arthur killed 80s remakes? Can Robert Pattinson kill Edward with Water for Elephants? Can we send M. Night Shyamalan back to film school?…
FX overload is killing next season’s TV; Sammy Hagar comes out as alien infiltree and crazy person; Brad Pitt’s ‘World War Z’ probably dead; more: leftover links
Plus: You will not be able to avoid having Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding soundtrack downloaded into your brain…
tres cool: “Glenn Beck hates America”…
…according to this lone protester I spotted outside the headquarters of Fox News in Manhattan the other day…
wtf: mainstream journalism is even more of a mess than we thought
I knew things were bad with the state of journalism — or as I like to call it, journalmalism — but this is almost a perfect storm of WTF-ness in this arena. Because remember James O’Keefe? He’s back…
question of the day: On October 30, will you attend Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity or Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive?
As Colbert often says, We’re at war: pick a side. I hope the DC police are ready for this.
the end of torture porn?; the end of the Internet?; what TV viewers want more of (and what they’re going to get instead); 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…
Machete (review)
I can’t wait for the right-wing windbags to begin decrying Rodriguez and Machete — oh noes! he’s trying to ignite a class war!
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…
