Saturday, May 01, 2004
Posted
12:36 PM
by Gene
A new trick from the pop-up-ad people: THEY MAKE YOUR CURSOR DISAPPEAR!
Posted
9:43 AM
by Gene
LINE OF THE WEEK about the DISASTERS in GE BANCORP NETWORK'S SUPERCOMEDY 10.5:
NBC's Burbank operations center presumably is among the lost. Hooray!
Posted
9:30 AM
by Gene
Someone makes A POINT about Sen. DENNIS "SPECTER" DAY.Another reason not to trust news hacks: The guy says DENNY got a standing O at this prayer breakfast. The peripatetic superzillionaire of reporting says he got " a cool reception." Both in the same speech? Oh Mr. Specter! Mr. Specter! You can go back to being a conscience now.
Posted
9:14 AM
by Gene
Biden for Vice President
PRESIDENT DIPPITY-DO! HAS A SPEECHWRITER!!
Better be careful, Dip. I think someone has used "Fourscore and seven years ago" before.
Posted
8:37 AM
by Gene
'S-- and the City' coming to basic cable
This may be the first remotely clever headline from a news hack in years.
Posted
8:29 AM
by Gene
And on the morning after LORD KOPPEL's IMMORTAL EULOGY TO TRUTH AND SWEEPS:
I smell SYNERGY!!!!!
PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!
Posted
8:25 AM
by Gene
He got a Silver Star. No amount of news hack boasting over salaries can quite overcome that.
Friday, April 30, 2004
Posted
5:13 PM
by Gene
"Jack Kelley gave the paper a black eye but it will heal."
Yeah just slant a few more polls and let your SHOW-BIZ PR folks loose and you won't even HAVE one.
Posted
5:09 PM
by Gene
And in strictly Philadelphia news:
Coca-Cola Bottling workers end strike
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!! I CAN DRINK COKE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
Posted
4:58 PM
by Gene
STERNO's patting his back over the TOM PAINE he pulled in The Nation -- and he's patting it so hard it must look like The Christ after P. R. MEL. To say the man is politically tone-deaf is an understatement; he turns the PERSECUTION OF ONE OF THE GREAT MEDIA PERSONALITIES IN HISTORY into a red-blue issue -- in a magazine that fervently hopes for DISASTER in IRAQ and has run the kind of BUSH=HITLER diatribes that used to get such tantrums from him. That the CAUSE IS SO NOBLE AND RIGHT does not make the act any less STINKILY POLITICAL.
Posted
11:50 AM
by Gene
You know a man is extremely important or extremely unimportant when his office e-mails are one-sentence.
Posted
11:33 AM
by Gene
[M]uch of the U.S. media overdid [Pat Tillman]....
What did I say four days ago?
This and LORD KOPPEL'S STUNT prove the great wisdom of THE MASTER'S line, to repeat it yet again:
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
Posted
11:06 AM
by Gene
7 ABC affiliates ORDERED not to air 'Nightline' [Emphasis mine]
Bias? WHAT bias?
And here's THE REAL REASON they DID IT:
According to campaign finance records, four of Sinclair's top executives each have given the maximum campaign contribution of $2,000 to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.
The executives have not given any donations to the campaign of Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, the records showed.
DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO TURN THIS INTO A J'ACCUSE. (An UNBYLINED J'ACCUSE, of course.)
It would be nice, I'll admit, if these companies would occasionally exercise their RIGHT of preemption to cut back on TV sleaze. Just occasionally.
UPDATE: TimeWarnerBADCableNews.com has dropped the ORDERED business for OUR FAVORITE DEMO -- REPUBLICAN, SEN. McCAIN, but the damage is done. This blatantly partisan handling of the story is a template for a disreputable BIZ.
Posted
10:52 AM
by Gene
As I said of THE PAPER OF RECORD, don't be so MODEST, Your Lordship! You, THE GREATEST TV NEWS HACK OF ALL TIME, got the publicity which will get the ratings for a show YOU HAD NO IDEA COINCIDED WITH THE START OF SWEEPS. Ever since MICKEYMOUSE NIXON tried cutting off YOUR tail with a carving knife you've wanted to prove you can be as ORGANIZATION-MAN as ANYBODY at ESPNCORP -- and you succeeded!
Posted
10:19 AM
by Gene
OOOOOOOOoooooooh, "terrorists strike ARAB targets!"
Seems they don't know saints from infidels. But then terorists always were an indiscriminate breed.
Posted
6:48 AM
by Gene
The founder of suspected terror group Ansar al-Islam, normally cool under pressure, lost his temper when a female Muslim comedian jokingly lifted him off the ground before an audience.
Now THAT'S FUNNY!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!
"A MAN WHO CAN BE CARRIED BY A WOMAN CAN'T BE A FUNDAMENTALIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'' Rehman said to howls of laughter. [Emphasis mine.]
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!
Hey MULLAH! There's a spot for you WEEKNIGHTS AT 11:35 EASTERN on the ESPNCORP TV NETWORK!
Just hope he doesn't express his wit by having his friends meet up with 72 Helen Thomases.
Posted
6:30 AM
by Gene
A BROADCASTER'S WISE TO LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNDOM'S GAG!
NOW ESPNCORP should do what it's wanted to do for several years -- REPLACE AN UNFUNNY COMEDIAN WITH A FUNNY ONE.
OR:
"The 'Nightline' broadcast is an expression of respect which simply seeks to honor those who have laid down their lives for this country."
You guys just got through saying to Lisa deMoraes you didn't know your GAG was timed with THE SWEEPS. As PROF says, either you're DENSE or you're LYING. And YOU DON'T MAKE UMPTEEN ZILLION A YEAR LIKE THE LORD BY BEING DENSE. And he's old enough to remember the RECITATHONS in the LATE SIXTIES. LORD KOPPEL, RESIGN TO YOUR MILLION-ACRE ESTATE.
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Posted
5:35 PM
by Gene
Speaking of Kinsley.com:
Covering the "Quagmire"
Are war correspondents betting on failure in Iraq?
We really have to ask that question? Even the INCISIVE Chris has to ask that question? God knows the NEWS HACKS won't listen to the answer. They'll be talking to themselves on THEIR NON-SWEEPS TRIBUTE TO SELF-CENTEREDNESS.
Posted
5:31 PM
by Gene
Another reason why I will NOT click on the link:
All Those Teen Actresses: Where did they come from? Why are there so many of them? And how can you tell them apart?
Why another 2,000-word Kinsley.com drone that writes itself in 23 WORDS?
Of course: to provide jobs for scribblers like VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN's at THE PAPER OF RECORD.
Posted
5:24 PM
by Gene
The nominal head of the company (or, it being owned by RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!, THE COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) that gave us Cleopatra, that launched a BRILLIANT NAVAL ADVENTURE to A BIG LOSS, that boasted to THE PAPER OF RECORD and other such gatherings of twerps how it viewed losing tons of dough on an X-rated feature as A BADGE OF HONOR, is WORRIED HUGE BUDGETS WILL CAUSE THE INDUSTRY TO COLLAPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We can only hope. Alas, technology is coming to the rescue: digital projection and DVDs. May THE CONSPIRACY spend its excess as fast as it makes it.
Posted
12:14 PM
by Gene
More proof that HIGH-PROFILE, HIGH-EXPENSE FINANCING OF JUNK TELEVISION WORKS: Pepsi issued 100 million iTunes in its recent promotion. Only FIVE PERCENT HAVE BEEN REDEEMED.
I just bought a MiniDisc machine ( uBid's having a fire sale for Sony) and am waiting for MICKEY D's to waste some money on me.
P. S. I know, I know ALL about the big debate of iPod vs. MiniDisc, I know ALL about how MDs lack capacity, how they're inconvenient to download, and you can't upload analog recordings at high speed, but when I first laid eyes on my new recorder I could not stop marvelling at it whatever its quirks. I can even enter titles with the jog dial. If THAT isn't the measure of a dweeb. (Sony's answering its critics with a new incompatible generation of MD machines -- and a fire sale. It's hard to believe this isn't the last gasp for the format.)
Posted
11:41 AM
by Gene
Another model finds a revenue stream in THE DONALD.
They must LOVE running their fingers through his -- HAIR.
Posted
10:52 AM
by Gene
THE LATEST ADVANCE IN THE NOBLE ART OF TRUTH TELLING:
Remember the name:
JACK KELLEY.
Posted
6:49 AM
by Gene
BABA WAWA (another zillion-dollar supertalent who undoubtedly doesn't know about the SWEEPS) out-OPRAHED OPRAH. Baba Wawa apologizes.
You think you could devote three chapters to this when you have six interns dictate your "memoirs"?
Special guest star in this stunt: JOHN "The Right-Wing Knee-Jerk Liberal" STOSSEL!!!!!!!!!!
Posted
6:29 AM
by Gene
Now it's PRISONER ABUSE!!!!!!!!!!
OR:
Koppel, also in the announcement, acknowledged that Memorial Day might have been "the most logical occasion" to do the program. Ya think?
"But we felt that the impact would actually be greater on a day when the entire nation is not focused on war dead," he said.
Ah yes, and, of course, Memorial Day falls outside the May sweeps, when viewer levels are used by the networks to set advertising rates. Memorial Day is also traditionally a day of very low television viewing. He forgot to mention that stuff.
Sievers and others we spoke with at ABC News insisted they did not realize that the May sweeps start tomorrow.
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Posted
5:32 PM
by Gene
WE DIDN'T STEAL!!!!! HOW COULD I HAVE WON MY NOBEL PRIZE BY STEALING?????
OR:
Annan said that if corruption against any U.N. official proved true, he would not hesitate to lift diplomatic immunity.
Substitute "INVOKE" for "LIFT" and you get HIS DRIFT.
Posted
5:21 PM
by Gene
POLL: IRAQIS OUT OF PATIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And so are WE -- with NEWS HACKS WHO WANT US OUT ON ANY PRETEXT.
P. S. We've grown so cynical of NEWS HACKS as to be sure ANY POLL will be spun -- especially any poll connected with PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS, and especially A POLL CONDUCTED BY PEOPLE WHO'VE JUST FLAGELLATED THEMSELVES OVER THEIR "IRRESPONSIBILITY." How does this help your NOBLE CAUSE FOR TRUTH, SOB?
Posted
5:10 PM
by Gene
KINSLEY THE SMUG SCREWLOOSE IS THE LALATIMES' NEW OP-ED EDITOR!!!!!
In FAIRNESS to Mike (and really, we don't want to be), he can be a pretty decent editor, as he proved at Harper's and TNR. The problem is, that NEWS HACK PROPENSITY TO WANT TO MAKE BIG MONEY AT ANY COST sometimes clouds his brains -- and opens his BIG FAT MOUTH.
Posted
8:05 AM
by Gene
THE DREAM IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our cable bills are safe -- until the next merger brainstorm.
Wave BYEBYE, NIXON!!!!!
Posted
6:30 AM
by Gene
LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNDOM faces -- skepticism....
In its announcement yesterday, ABC News said the program was its way of paying tribute to the dead. And "Nightline" executive producer Leroy Sievers called it the program's way to "remind our viewers -- whether they agree with the war or not -- that beyond the casualty numbers, these men and women are serving in Iraq in our names, and that those who have been killed have names and faces."
That is good to know because otherwise we might be left thinking that Friday's broadcast, which ABC will simulcast on its Jumbotron in New York's Times Square, is a cheap, content-free stunt designed to tug at our heartstrings and bag a big number on the second night of the May ratings race.
And here I thought news hacks dealt solely with THE TRUTH.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Posted
6:09 PM
by Gene
LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNDOM MAKES A POINT!
You forgoing the ADS? Didn't think so. You're a PROFIT CENTER.
Posted
4:59 PM
by Gene
ATTEMPTED JOKE OF THE DAY:
Veteran reporters and editors know that their highest allegiance is to the truth. (Make your own Jayson Blair joke here.)
More of that famous Kinsley.com IRONY?
Watch it or we'll start showing less allegiance to your employer's BUGS.
Posted
4:51 PM
by Gene
NYU student sleeps for months in library basement
OR:
Scores of students read about Stanzak's daily adventures on his Web journal, www.homelessatnyu.com, and he became something of a campus celebrity.
Hmmm, THAT's what I need -- a GIMMICK. Maybe if I sleep at work...nah.
I'm NOT linking.
Posted
3:17 PM
by Gene
Psst! Is Powell Bound for the World Bank?
Go for it, GENERAL! Then YOU and ST. WARREN of BUFFETT and BILL THE ENTOMOLOGIST can CHANGE THE WORLD -- and LIVE FOREVER IN THE PAPER OF RECORD!!!!!
Posted
6:51 AM
by Gene
It was not that long ago that USA OKAY boasted of all the show-biz ceelebs showing off their cleavage. Now they're covering up. Given the vast distances involved I say it's a good thing.
They can afford the fabric.
Posted
6:42 AM
by Gene
KERRY for PRESIDENT (aka THE PAPER OF RECORD) "QUESTIONS" BUSH'S GUARD SERVICE.
We question Jayson -- and THAT FAT MOUND OF HAIR.
Posted
6:32 AM
by Gene
While I might have imagined lots of BOB "PSYCHO" DORNANS PORING over every classified report they could so they could claim to know more than anyone else, this sort of indifference does not surprise me.
Not surprising either: the story quotes five Democrats and two Republicans. We know who OUR friends are in this town, RIGHT LENNY?
Monday, April 26, 2004
Posted
5:43 PM
by Gene
CITGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
$35 million more in SOCIALISM FOR BIG BUSINESS down the drain.
Or as SNIDELY WHIPLASH must be luxuriating in the riches of his graft-strewn office, "Ah nayver deeyid meet a suhbsidee to beeziness AH deedn't LAHK!"
Posted
5:32 PM
by Gene
FOR WHOM WILL THE WHITE WISP OF SMOKE BLOW AT USA OKAY?
OR: Which editor will -- never mind.
I'm betting on Bushee. His name's almost as good as CURLEY's! (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!)
Posted
11:12 AM
by Gene
A DELICIOUS JUXTAPOSITION on MESS.COM:
Drunk, bulldozer-driving German arrested
Billy Joel injured in 3rd car accident in 2 years
Oooooh-WAH-a-oooooh-WAH-a-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH- WAH!
Posted
9:29 AM
by Gene
Fragmented Europe Invites Terrorism
TRANSLATION: Terrorists don't have an EU.
Posted
6:40 AM
by Gene
It was men like Tillman who built America up
WHY am I thinking this story is becoming one of those false-front " Our Town" acts where rich and superior NEWS HACKS show a fake allegiance to THUH PEEPUL?
Sunday, April 25, 2004
Posted
6:41 PM
by Gene
Jackson makes changes to legal team
...and not, I suspect, for the last time.
Posted
3:41 PM
by Gene
Already CURLEY's (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) Stooges are starting: "HUGE."
DUSTING OFF THE SIX ZEROES?
Posted
3:28 PM
by Gene
Baghdad children killed in crossfire
Don't you feel like CHEERING when OsamaChannel.net runs a hed like that?
I think that's the intention.
Posted
12:02 PM
by Gene
Paper of Record? No Way, No Reason, No Thanks
Oh for gosh sake don't be so modest.
Here's the difference between Adolph Ochs and Pinch: Ochs would have pounded the drum and beat his chest insisting the Times was the paper of record. Pinch, on the other hand, knows like most news hacks the best way to flaunt your power is to meaninglessly APOLOGIZE.
Posted
9:31 AM
by Gene
Sounds like the CATHOLIC CHURCH has ITS version of THE BRITISH VICARAGE AND TEA-TIME CLUB.
OR:
The center...has a history of reaching out to marginalized Catholics.
Why SOITENLY they can euphe, euphe, use woids that can mean anything!
WHY I OUGHTA....
Posted
7:50 AM
by Gene
The bottom line is that this government doesn't trust the people.
And neither do news hacks, especially those in an upper-income tax bracket.
Posted
7:39 AM
by Gene
This week in BLUNDER: our NEW HERO:
TeREEsa-TahRAYza!
She could inspire a line: above every great man is a woman.
P. S. MR. MARK CAMPAIGNS!!!!!!!!!!!!:
She's a potential Democratic First Lady who speaks critically of abortion. [Subhed]
"Ultimately you're either for choice or you're not, so I am." [On the THIRD PAGE.]
MR. MARK, I think you're trying to disprove that old saw that you can't fool ALL the people ALL the time.
Posted
7:37 AM
by Gene
Bush's Oratory Helps Maintain Support for War
Shucks Lenny, you mean...VIETNAM...isn't... anywhere on the horizon?
Don't you guys ALWAYS make fun of the way DUBYA TALKS?
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