THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Sears Holdings Swings to 1Q Loss
WELL! I guess owning all that "valuable" real estate may not be enough. You may have to -- SELL MERCHANDISE.
WELL! I guess owning all that "valuable" real estate may not be enough. You may have to -- SELL MERCHANDISE.
I hope the three servers who troll my blog every now and then will forgive me, but not having a computer at home has put me out of the blogging mood. It is just not the same twiddling your thumbs when you could be writing all sorts of inane, witless, unfunny comments about people who live for all practical purposes on Mars. I hope to be back to my usual sarcastic self eventually -- if I can figure out what kind of PC to get.
Monday, June 06, 2005
Courts-martial for Koran abuse unlikely: official
No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now if we could put NEWS HACKS on the case they'd find abuse even where none existed!
No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now if we could put NEWS HACKS on the case they'd find abuse even where none existed!
Lohan wonders why tabloids care
Because they LOVE YOU.
Actress: 'I don't know why I'm so interesting'
I don't either.
Because they LOVE YOU.
Actress: 'I don't know why I'm so interesting'
I don't either.
Well! The formerly Great White Way celebrates Herr Mike's SUCCESS -- and "LAYS AN EGG" by tying its LOWEST RATING EVER!!!!!
Proof, yet again, that theatre doesn't even qualify as a minority interest anymore.
I see MONTY PYTHON'S BLAZING SADDLES won three awards and RICHARD RODGERS' GRANDSON'S SHOW won six. The elitists must have voted with clothespins on their noses.
Proof, yet again, that theatre doesn't even qualify as a minority interest anymore.
I see MONTY PYTHON'S BLAZING SADDLES won three awards and RICHARD RODGERS' GRANDSON'S SHOW won six. The elitists must have voted with clothespins on their noses.
Oh, no -- the NINE FINGERS say you can't GET HIGH for MEDICINAL PURPOSES!
Expect to hear a LOT from GLIBERTARIANS the next few days -- they can be more liberal than LIBERALS.
Expect to hear a LOT from GLIBERTARIANS the next few days -- they can be more liberal than LIBERALS.
Shucks, his weepy, factually doubtful masterwork did less biz than expected; now the Richard Burton of our time gets arrested for his TEMPER.
Talk about BAD LUCK.
Talk about BAD LUCK.
Well, I went and DID IT: I managed to install a memory card on my computer backwards and blew out the motherboard. WHAT A COMPLETE AND UTTER IMBECILE I AM. This is why I haven't posted in almost two days. Just as well; I can get a new PC that's far more up-to-date, at a reasonable cost, and I don't need a new monitor yet; and I can still salvage my new hard drive, DVD burner and video card, so I'm only out about $100 on the OS and the memory -- and I'm close to deciding on a new machine, so all is not lost.
One other thing: not having to follow the annoying events of the day I feel, almost -- PEACEFUL.
One other thing: not having to follow the annoying events of the day I feel, almost -- PEACEFUL.
Saturday, June 04, 2005
More thrilling news of the THEA-TAH:
A.R. Gurney's world premiere political satire, Screen Play, opens June 4 at The Flea Theater in New York City.
Flea Artistic Director Jim Simpson directs the limited engagement of the work written especially for downtown troupe which began May 27 and runs through June 25.
Screen Play sets its story "just before the election of 2015" in an America "ruled by a conservative religious majority. The economy is sagging, wars are raging and culture is in decay. Many Americans have begun to flee to Canada and Mexico as the government struggles to stop pandemic reverse immigration," according to a show description. The work liberally based on a classic 1942 film "is a tale of politics, history, the city of Buffalo, and a love ruined by the Bush-Gore election of 2000."
And starring:
The next Marlon Brando and James Dean!
A.R. Gurney's world premiere political satire, Screen Play, opens June 4 at The Flea Theater in New York City.
Flea Artistic Director Jim Simpson directs the limited engagement of the work written especially for downtown troupe which began May 27 and runs through June 25.
Screen Play sets its story "just before the election of 2015" in an America "ruled by a conservative religious majority. The economy is sagging, wars are raging and culture is in decay. Many Americans have begun to flee to Canada and Mexico as the government struggles to stop pandemic reverse immigration," according to a show description. The work liberally based on a classic 1942 film "is a tale of politics, history, the city of Buffalo, and a love ruined by the Bush-Gore election of 2000."
And starring:
The next Marlon Brando and James Dean!
Shucks, more bad news for the KORAN-DEFILEMENT-OBSESSING HACKS:
Al-Zarqawi deputy arrested in northern Iraq
Al-Zarqawi deputy arrested in northern Iraq
Without caffeine, WP's Kurtz had 419 bylines in 2004
The noun hack has 7 meanings:
The noun hack has 7 meanings:
Meaning #1: one who works hard at boring tasks
Synonyms: drudge, hacker
Meaning #2: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
Synonyms: machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack
Meaning #3: a mediocre and disdained writer
Synonyms: hack writer, literary hack
Meaning #4: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
Synonyms: cab, taxi, taxicab
Meaning #5: an old or over-worked horse
Synonyms: jade, nag, plug
Meaning #6: a horse kept for hire
Saddam's morale 'collapsing' before trial, his judge says
I think my morale might not be too high either if I'd killed a couple of hundred thousand people.
Hey HACKS! Why don't you make a J'ACCUSE of it!
I think my morale might not be too high either if I'd killed a couple of hundred thousand people.
Hey HACKS! Why don't you make a J'ACCUSE of it!
Keeping in mind this IS BOB NOVAK:
On the day before Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen was confirmed by the Senate as part of a negotiated compromise, Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin called her "wacko."
Harkin, appearing on liberal Randi Rhodes's national radio talk show, became animated as he said of Owen: "This is not a person to put on the bench for a lifetime appointment. This person is wacko! She's wacko!"
On the same program, Harkin said Christian broadcasters are "sort of our home-grown Taliban." He added: "They have a direct line to God. And if you don't tune into their line, you're obviously on Satan's line."
Hey Senator! Who's YOUR direct line down there?
On the day before Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen was confirmed by the Senate as part of a negotiated compromise, Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin called her "wacko."
Harkin, appearing on liberal Randi Rhodes's national radio talk show, became animated as he said of Owen: "This is not a person to put on the bench for a lifetime appointment. This person is wacko! She's wacko!"
On the same program, Harkin said Christian broadcasters are "sort of our home-grown Taliban." He added: "They have a direct line to God. And if you don't tune into their line, you're obviously on Satan's line."
Hey Senator! Who's YOUR direct line down there?
The planned world premiere in Tokyo of Steven Spielberg's new film "War of the Worlds" has been canceled because of concerns about providing security for Tom Cruise and other stars and preventing bootleg recording of the film, its distributor said Saturday.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
By the way, CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES do know their literature; they say Tom's PR stunt was based on a work by "H. G. Well." I guess they've been thumbing THE KORAN too much.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
By the way, CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES do know their literature; they say Tom's PR stunt was based on a work by "H. G. Well." I guess they've been thumbing THE KORAN too much.
The government is about to spend $720 billion over the next decade on medicines for old people. How much of this is going to be wasted or stolen?
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD QUESTION!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD QUESTION!
Friday, June 03, 2005
Russia's State Natural Gas Monopoly Buys Controlling Stake in 'Izvestia'
WE'VE FOUND THE SOLUTION TO THE INDUSTRY CRISIS!!!!!
WE'VE FOUND THE SOLUTION TO THE INDUSTRY CRISIS!!!!!
Every time the HACKS, always shouting the industry motto -- "What's good for Time Warner is good for America" -- discuss video games, they talk as if they'd seen THE SECOND COMING OF BEN BRADLEE -- and then they type something like this:
Take a walk through the industry's annual trade show known as E3, which ended in May, and it's obvious that much of the serious development money goes for games based on movies ("Harry Potter," "King Kong," "Spider-man," to name a few); sequels to popular franchises ("Final Fantasy XII," "Sims 2," "Halo 2"); and knockoffs of the most popular genres — fantasy and war games.
If video games are transforming a hundred universes why do they always transform them IN THE SAME OLD WAY?
Take a walk through the industry's annual trade show known as E3, which ended in May, and it's obvious that much of the serious development money goes for games based on movies ("Harry Potter," "King Kong," "Spider-man," to name a few); sequels to popular franchises ("Final Fantasy XII," "Sims 2," "Halo 2"); and knockoffs of the most popular genres — fantasy and war games.
If video games are transforming a hundred universes why do they always transform them IN THE SAME OLD WAY?
And in other cleaning and disinfecting plugs, BILL BRADLEY'S STARTING A TALK RADIO SHOW!
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
As we might have predicted, Larry "Dick Grasso Doesn't Make Enough" Kudlow and Dow 36,000 are dancing on their desks over Christopher Cox' appointment, which may be a bad sign. Or then again, maybe they don't know their rear ends from a hole in the ground, as we'd suspect from a man who thinks Dick Grasso didn't make enough and another man who thought the Dow would reach 36,000.
We take comfort in one thing: con-SER-va-tives fell one over another imitating Tony the Tiger when Dubya appointed that show-biz financier and social climber at Kellogg's -- and we haven't heard from him since. Hmmm, that may be a bad sign: he's giving the store away PRIVATELY.
We take comfort in one thing: con-SER-va-tives fell one over another imitating Tony the Tiger when Dubya appointed that show-biz financier and social climber at Kellogg's -- and we haven't heard from him since. Hmmm, that may be a bad sign: he's giving the store away PRIVATELY.
AS SEEN ON TOPIX.COM (sorry for my formatting):
Costs Increase for USA Students
Tuition isn't going up, but the cost of going to the University of South Alabama will be 4.9 percent higher this fall. 6.4
Well, there's ALWAYS HARDEE'S.
Tuition isn't going up, but the cost of going to the University of South Alabama will be 4.9 percent higher this fall. 6.4
WRKH Mobile | 3 hours ago
Well, there's ALWAYS HARDEE'S.
Most in high school honors class say Deep Throat did wrong
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kristen Dooley, 16, suspected that Felt, then the FBI's No. 2 official, was acting out of spite because President Richard Nixon passed him over for the agency's top job. Charles Kozak, 16, said that, "if it was truly to benefit society, he wouldn't have kept his name secret."
Either these kids can think or they've been BRAINWASHED BY CONSERVATIVES. While it is often unlikely for kids to think and while liberals are better brainwashers, perhaps there is hope, but I don't want to get too insidery as THIS WHOLE BUSINESS ROTS.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kristen Dooley, 16, suspected that Felt, then the FBI's No. 2 official, was acting out of spite because President Richard Nixon passed him over for the agency's top job. Charles Kozak, 16, said that, "if it was truly to benefit society, he wouldn't have kept his name secret."
Either these kids can think or they've been BRAINWASHED BY CONSERVATIVES. While it is often unlikely for kids to think and while liberals are better brainwashers, perhaps there is hope, but I don't want to get too insidery as THIS WHOLE BUSINESS ROTS.
Now what is that comedian Condoleezza up to? Daring to criticize nations that traffic in SLAVES? We -- who run a GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLAG?????
Someone should remind the secretary that right only belongs to people on THE OTHER SIDE.
Someone should remind the secretary that right only belongs to people on THE OTHER SIDE.
Speaking thereof, the blankety-blank idiots at THE CORNER have been gassing WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY TOO MUCH about MOVIES, but here's one the NRO folk have linked to on their home page -- for a reason:
LITTLE TOM CRUISE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE COUCH [John Podhoretz]
Brooke Shields is going after Tom Cruise at the right time. I happened to be watching his unbelievable "I love Katie Holmes" performance onOprah [typical Corner SIC] the other week and I began the countdown to his eventual starring role on CSI: Medicine Hat. In past years, when Cruise was represented by a brilliant PR executive named Pat Kingsley, there would be these moments when uncomfortable rumors would swirl around him. Just then, he would appear out of nowhere and pull somebody from a burning car or save somebody from a carjacking. This is not a joke. But he fired Pat Kingsley, and now he's leaping up and down on Oprah's couch and insulting women with post-partum depression because they take medication. Memo to Cruise: Go hire an extra, stage a drive-by shooting and rescue somebody. But quick.
Posted at 08:59 AM
LITTLE TOM CRUISE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE COUCH [John Podhoretz]
Brooke Shields is going after Tom Cruise at the right time. I happened to be watching his unbelievable "I love Katie Holmes" performance onOprah [typical Corner SIC] the other week and I began the countdown to his eventual starring role on CSI: Medicine Hat. In past years, when Cruise was represented by a brilliant PR executive named Pat Kingsley, there would be these moments when uncomfortable rumors would swirl around him. Just then, he would appear out of nowhere and pull somebody from a burning car or save somebody from a carjacking. This is not a joke. But he fired Pat Kingsley, and now he's leaping up and down on Oprah's couch and insulting women with post-partum depression because they take medication. Memo to Cruise: Go hire an extra, stage a drive-by shooting and rescue somebody. But quick.
Posted at 08:59 AM
JOOOOOO-NAH!!!!! Time for you to get ANNNNNNNNNNNGRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY:
Wal-Mart shows humility at annual meeting
Wal-Mart shows humility at annual meeting
Here's something astonishing: as I previously noted, The High and the Mighty is coming out on DVD -- in August -- and already it is number 3 in DVDs at Amazon.com, just behind Luke Spielberg's Trilogy. Amazing.
I reserved my copy. Now I have to get a new television.
I reserved my copy. Now I have to get a new television.
OOOOOOOOOooooooooooooh, MITT ROMNEY committed a CRIME: HE FAKED HIS PRO-CHOICE STANCE!!!!!
EXECUTE HIM!!!!!!!!!!
EXECUTE HIM!!!!!!!!!!
Democrats Got Abramoff Funds [home-page hed]
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops!!!!!
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops!!!!!
For God's sake, SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGER, aren't those POP-UP ADS paying you enough?
Hey SUPER! What happened to one of your SPONSORS -- you know, GOP: THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION? You don't suppose SOMEONE FOUND OUT, DO YOU?????
Hey SUPER! What happened to one of your SPONSORS -- you know, GOP: THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION? You don't suppose SOMEONE FOUND OUT, DO YOU?????
I was going to comment on this but then I saw THE PROFESSOR wrote it, and he has enough hits. But to reluctantly give him another, if people peak creatively early (a point not worth taking, especially given the genius of today's youth culture), what of a nation? America is in late middle age, and the arts reflect it. What happens when we get elderly?
WE'VE GOT TO GO BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN WE COULD STOP A WAR AND DITCH A PRESIDENT! AND IF PEOPLE DON'T LIKE IT, SCREW 'EM!!!!!
Now Forrest -- who are you?
Oh, he's a "PAGE DESIGNER" at KNIGHTRIDDER. Sounds like YOU do TUFF JERNALISM.
Now Forrest -- who are you?
Oh, he's a "PAGE DESIGNER" at KNIGHTRIDDER. Sounds like YOU do TUFF JERNALISM.
I think if someone other than the SENSATIONAL MIKE RIEDEL wrote this we could come to the conclusion these WORTHY TONY AWARD NOMINEES STINK.
A Venn diagram with two circles almost overlapping: 1. People who care about the Tonys. 2. People who've been yakking about MR. FELT.
A Venn diagram with two circles almost overlapping: 1. People who care about the Tonys. 2. People who've been yakking about MR. FELT.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
It does no good to argue with a zealot like Don "I LUV BOONDOCKS" Wycliff. I have no respect for an organization founded by the ultra-crank Reed Irvine. But Don proceeds to make it a half-dozen of the other by arguing the "fake-but-accurate" line and the "we're not disloyal" defense, ignoring the whole history of the press and the Vietnam disaster and such things as THE OSAMA CHANNEL's culpability in Iraqi terrorism. If the idiot "Col." McCormick displayed his fraudulent patriotism by whapping the American flag on his front page, table-pounders like the BOONDOCKS MAN perform an equally loud and vulgar vaudeville act by ripping it off.
This is a non-event. How many sites still use the big four suffixes, .com, .org, .edu and .gov? Whatever happened to .tv? The newer ones haven't caught on, and neither will this, because the organized criminals of porn can recognize a hit when they see one.
A Novelty: A Pro-Biz SEC Chair?
I guess this means tomorrow every con-SER-va-tive site goes NUTS.
Christopher Cox seems like a decent man, but he IS a Republican, and when the FREE EN-TER-PRIZE BUG takes hold with Republicans, it's the usual reverse Robin Hood. He could be a good appointment; he could also be polishing his bona fides for some heavy duty TAUZINING. We shall see.
I guess this means tomorrow every con-SER-va-tive site goes NUTS.
Christopher Cox seems like a decent man, but he IS a Republican, and when the FREE EN-TER-PRIZE BUG takes hold with Republicans, it's the usual reverse Robin Hood. He could be a good appointment; he could also be polishing his bona fides for some heavy duty TAUZINING. We shall see.
Another home-schooler, I suppose -- and another TRYUMF for UHMEHRIKNN EHDYUKAYSHUN.
P. S. I WAS WRONG. But of the last 27 contestants six were. Okay, teachers unions, you win THIS time. But the margin was again uncomfortably narrow.
P. S. I WAS WRONG. But of the last 27 contestants six were. Okay, teachers unions, you win THIS time. But the margin was again uncomfortably narrow.
It beats inside baseball -- I suppose:
I could say where TOENAIL.COM went long ago, but I will resist it.
I could say where TOENAIL.COM went long ago, but I will resist it.
I would not be surprised if WACKO is found guilty. Nor would I be surprised if WACKO is found innocent.
Frankly, my dear, I'm not sure I give a damn.
Frankly, my dear, I'm not sure I give a damn.
CHAIRMAN FOOTINMOUTH YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHS:
He said he supports establishing a law "that says you cannot use a voting machine unless it can be recounted by hand." That line brought the longest sustained applause of the day, reflecting lingering bitterness after reports of voting problems in the close 2004 election.
I think you should support a law that says you cannot use a voting machine unless you and seven relatives have been dead for at least five years.
Or your name is OSAMA BIN LADEN.
He said he supports establishing a law "that says you cannot use a voting machine unless it can be recounted by hand." That line brought the longest sustained applause of the day, reflecting lingering bitterness after reports of voting problems in the close 2004 election.
I think you should support a law that says you cannot use a voting machine unless you and seven relatives have been dead for at least five years.
Or your name is OSAMA BIN LADEN.
Romy shakes his bobblehead AGAIN:
IF THE WASHINGTON POST WERE RUNNING ITS WATERGATE STORIES TODAY, EACH ONE WOULD BE FOLLOWED BY AN UNREMITTING BATTERY OF ATTACKS FROM LIMBAUGH, FOX AND DRUDGE TO DELIVER THE HALDEMAN-EHRLICHMAN SPIN AND SNEER AT THE PAPER'S LACK OF PATRIOTISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALAS:
Journalism's shining moment is long gone
IF THE WASHINGTON POST WERE RUNNING ITS WATERGATE STORIES TODAY, EACH ONE WOULD BE FOLLOWED BY AN UNREMITTING BATTERY OF ATTACKS FROM LIMBAUGH, FOX AND DRUDGE TO DELIVER THE HALDEMAN-EHRLICHMAN SPIN AND SNEER AT THE PAPER'S LACK OF PATRIOTISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALAS:
Journalism's shining moment is long gone
He's written DRUGGY ANNOYING SONGS ("SUMWUNKNOKNAHDOOH"), he's written an ORATORIO! Now Lord McCAHtney is "writing" a CHILDREN'S BOOK!
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD ON THE RUN!
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD ON THE RUN!
Milton Friedman is the CON-SER-VA-TIVE'S CON-SER-VA-TIVE; cite his name and you can justify ANYTHING. WELL, the NOBEL LAUREATE of the RIGHT is for POT LEGALIZATION, for the usual FREE-EN-TER-PRISE CON-SER-VA-TIVE REASONS. Hmmm, does that make him a CON-SER-VA-TIVE or a mere GLIBERTARIAN?
PROFESSOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PROFESSOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOME SEMI-LITERATE PUBLISHER SAYS OUR HERO COULD GET $1 MILLION "WRITING" A BOOK!!!!! BUT...
A concern about a new book by Felt would be its accuracy. The No. 2 at the FBI during a portion of the Nixon years had a mild stroke four years ago and the Vanity Fair article characterized his memory as one that comes and goes. Under those circumstances, and without precise diaries or personal journals, which may yet materialize, any book would be at best a rehash and at worst, unreliable, historians warn....
[A]cademics doubt that, even if Felt has the energy for a book, it would be of any real import. The tale would give new meaning to inside baseball, they say....
Other historians question whether the once closely guarded information is even true.
Hey what's a little fable spinning and inside-baseball playing when we RULE THE WORLD!
A concern about a new book by Felt would be its accuracy. The No. 2 at the FBI during a portion of the Nixon years had a mild stroke four years ago and the Vanity Fair article characterized his memory as one that comes and goes. Under those circumstances, and without precise diaries or personal journals, which may yet materialize, any book would be at best a rehash and at worst, unreliable, historians warn....
[A]cademics doubt that, even if Felt has the energy for a book, it would be of any real import. The tale would give new meaning to inside baseball, they say....
Other historians question whether the once closely guarded information is even true.
Hey what's a little fable spinning and inside-baseball playing when we RULE THE WORLD!
Hey TRUTH TELLERS: Here ANOTHER crusade for you:
LIVE 8 LINE-UP 'HIDEOUSLY WHITE'!!!!!!!!!!
Time to raise HOWELL RAINES from the dead!!!!!
LIVE 8 LINE-UP 'HIDEOUSLY WHITE'!!!!!!!!!!
Time to raise HOWELL RAINES from the dead!!!!!
Another CRUSADE for AMERICA'S TRUTH TELLERS:
DID PRESIDENT BUSH SHUN FEMALE REPORTERS AT PRESS CONFERENCE??????????
DID PRESIDENT BUSH SHUN FEMALE REPORTERS AT PRESS CONFERENCE??????????
Spain sets free alleged al-Qaida member
'BYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! See you in GRINGOLAND!!!!!!!!!!
'BYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! See you in GRINGOLAND!!!!!!!!!!
The Poynter people ought to change the name of ROMY's site to BELLY BUTTON. It's STARING in that direction.
A car bomb exploded in a Christian area of Beirut Thursday, killing a prominent journalist known for his opposition to Syria's involvement in Lebanon, according Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
I wonder who did THIS one.
I wonder who did THIS one.
This isn't just the media trying to protect their franchise.
FRANCHISE. There's a word we use with MICKEY D'S, or BAD MOVIES. No, the way they are nowadays, most daily rags are FRANCHISES, turning out a daily slop of bias, prejudice, self-congratulation, and many types of ADVERTISING.
FRANCHISE. There's a word we use with MICKEY D'S, or BAD MOVIES. No, the way they are nowadays, most daily rags are FRANCHISES, turning out a daily slop of bias, prejudice, self-congratulation, and many types of ADVERTISING.
Kofigate claims its first scapegoat.
But he planned to retire anyway. Call it a nice going-away gift.
But he planned to retire anyway. Call it a nice going-away gift.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Well, if there's any consolation for not getting hits anymore, it's that the "Next Blog" feature on KADIDDLEBLOG's toolbar is now synonymous with SPYWARE.
I LOVE COMPREHENSIVENESS IN NEWS: SBC is offering a real discount on DSL -- and nowhere in this press release does our typist mention YOU CAN ONLY GET IT IN THIRTEEN STATES.
The principal of Jefferson High School agreed Tuesday to step down amid criticism by city and school district officials over his handling of a spate of student brawls that many say have been fueled by racial tensions.
Principals SHOULD pay when they can't keep their THUGS under control.
Principals SHOULD pay when they can't keep their THUGS under control.
Ranking cadet sends e-mail with religious tones
HE SHOULD BE EXECUTED!!!!!
Jurewicz? Is that converted-Jewish or merely Polish?
HE SHOULD BE EXECUTED!!!!!
Jurewicz? Is that converted-Jewish or merely Polish?
What we'll miss when all those PAPER OF RE-CORD OP-ED GENIUSES go behind THE WALL:
Devoid of Content
And this is Perfesser Stan "I'm-Not-a-Liberal-and-Anyone-Who-Thinks-I-Am Should-Be-Shot" Fish, so we ALWAYS knew that.
Devoid of Content
And this is Perfesser Stan "I'm-Not-a-Liberal-and-Anyone-Who-Thinks-I-Am Should-Be-Shot" Fish, so we ALWAYS knew that.
The Dutch, who, in the days before they abandoned common sense, supported our fledgling Republic, show a renewed burst of sense.
Nicolas Ilaria, an immigrant from Suriname, said he was voting no. "In principle, I'm against bureaucracy and I don't believe everything is working well now," he said as he read a newspaper at an Amsterdam cafe.
Now THAT's sense -- the statement, I mean.
Nicolas Ilaria, an immigrant from Suriname, said he was voting no. "In principle, I'm against bureaucracy and I don't believe everything is working well now," he said as he read a newspaper at an Amsterdam cafe.
Now THAT's sense -- the statement, I mean.
TRUTH AND JUSTICE TRIUMPH AGAIN:
Victor Navasky, publisher and former editor of The Nation, has been working behind the scenes in a key, if uncredited, role at the Columbia Journalism Review, CJR executive editor Michael Hoyt told E&P Wednesday.
"It's been gradual," Hoyt told E&P.
Indeed, since, oh, 1962 -- when the RAG was founded.
As for whether having the longtime editor of a magazine with a famously political (liberal) bent involved in the administration of CJR, Hoyt said appearances might not match with reality. "It could give somebody an opportunity to make a connection, but the connection is not there," Hoyt said. "He doesn't push anything editorially."
I would say this fits the classic definiton of "delusional."
Victor Navasky, publisher and former editor of The Nation, has been working behind the scenes in a key, if uncredited, role at the Columbia Journalism Review, CJR executive editor Michael Hoyt told E&P Wednesday.
"It's been gradual," Hoyt told E&P.
Indeed, since, oh, 1962 -- when the RAG was founded.
As for whether having the longtime editor of a magazine with a famously political (liberal) bent involved in the administration of CJR, Hoyt said appearances might not match with reality. "It could give somebody an opportunity to make a connection, but the connection is not there," Hoyt said. "He doesn't push anything editorially."
I would say this fits the classic definiton of "delusional."
The TWO SIDES of the SUPERTECHNOBABBITT MIKE DELL: He COPRODUCED the LATEST BATMAN DROPPINGS -- it's in His CIRCULAR (and presumably ALL AUSTIN'S SUBURBS will NEVER STOP HEARING OF IT) -- AND...
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Gooood awfternooon, thunk eyooo for cawllln DUHLL Customaww Sawerviss, may I huhlp yoooh?
OH, SHUT UP MINUS FIVE...OH, SHUT UP MINUS FOUR...OH, SHUT UP MINUS THREE...OH, SHUT UP MINUS TWO....
Repeat after me: NETWORK TV is NO LONGER a MASS MEDIUM. Want some facts? 8.97 million divided by 296,256,266 (my latest number) is 3.03 percent. WHY MUST YOU STILL IMPERSONATE ROBIN HOOD WITH OUR MONEY, MADAVE CRETINS?
More @#$%&* ARTSJOURNAL.COM: We'll take Terry Teachout's word that Alex Ross is an intelligent writer, but he writes for The New Yorker, and here he indulges himself in 4,981 words. Isn't it a little late in the day to whine how recording "ruined" music? First off, we all know great works old and newer (we can't say "new") thanks to recordings. Second, who really wants to closet himself in a concert hall or jazz club anymore, with all the attendant inconvenience and expense? Third, why should we whine about recording when there's so little worth recording, for reasons that may not have to do with technology?
Mr. Classical-Music-is-Dead says the MUSICAL IS ALIVE!!!!!, which makes me wonder if HE knows anything either.
@#$%&* ARTSJOURNAL.COM!
@#$%&* ARTSJOURNAL.COM!
Paul Begala, Keith Olbermann, POWER LINE, Andrew Sullivan....the one advantage about a Web-based society is that it takes less time to scorn people.
Another RINGing endorsement for TV ADVERTISING:
Boxing reality show The Contender has wrapped up its season on NBC, but failed to deliver the knockout punch that marketers had hoped for.
According to executives in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue, Toyota Motor Sales USA was particularly burned by the show's poor ratings performance after signing a $16 million media and product-integration deal. The deal's price tag was reported to have been the highest fee ever paid by a marketer for such a deal.
The automaker spent a reported $6 million on the rights to be the exclusive car sponsor of the show, and an additional $10 million on airtime.
And here's the PUNCHline:
The company couldn’t get any ratings guarantees or turn to the network for a "make good" when it didn’t.
It's official: Toyota KNOCKS OUT the CLUNKER BROTHERS when it comes to FLINGING MONEY OUT ITS DOORS!
Boxing reality show The Contender has wrapped up its season on NBC, but failed to deliver the knockout punch that marketers had hoped for.
According to executives in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue, Toyota Motor Sales USA was particularly burned by the show's poor ratings performance after signing a $16 million media and product-integration deal. The deal's price tag was reported to have been the highest fee ever paid by a marketer for such a deal.
The automaker spent a reported $6 million on the rights to be the exclusive car sponsor of the show, and an additional $10 million on airtime.
And here's the PUNCHline:
The company couldn’t get any ratings guarantees or turn to the network for a "make good" when it didn’t.
It's official: Toyota KNOCKS OUT the CLUNKER BROTHERS when it comes to FLINGING MONEY OUT ITS DOORS!
Figures -- the founder of SLUTSVILLE is being sued by her former manager, who claims she STIFFED HIM.
How do such people get to be HEROES WITH NEWS HACKS?
How do such people get to be HEROES WITH NEWS HACKS?
Today I guess we're going to hand out LOTS of NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARDS! First goes to ELAINE for SELLING UNRATED VIDEOS -- and the next goes to ANNE for SELLING WOODSTER THE PERV!
WHY MUST SO MANY SCRIBBLERS MOONLIGHT AS SALESMEN?????
WHY MUST SO MANY SCRIBBLERS MOONLIGHT AS SALESMEN?????
THE GREAT STONE FACE OF ANNOYING TV COMMERCIALS IS MAD.
For starters, STONE, Woodstein didn't try to negotiate with the Vietnamese -- and WOODSTEIN didn't take home A NOBEL PRIZE. AND WOODSTEIN WASN'T PRESIDENT WHEN WE WITHDREW IGNOMINIOUSLY FROM ASIA. AND WOODSTEIN DIDN'T ORGANIZE A THIRD-RATE BURGLARY.
SHUT UP, STONE. We don't want to hear any more about YOUR HERO, we don't want to hear any more about THIS VILLAIN, and we don't want to hear any more from YOU.
For starters, STONE, Woodstein didn't try to negotiate with the Vietnamese -- and WOODSTEIN didn't take home A NOBEL PRIZE. AND WOODSTEIN WASN'T PRESIDENT WHEN WE WITHDREW IGNOMINIOUSLY FROM ASIA. AND WOODSTEIN DIDN'T ORGANIZE A THIRD-RATE BURGLARY.
SHUT UP, STONE. We don't want to hear any more about YOUR HERO, we don't want to hear any more about THIS VILLAIN, and we don't want to hear any more from YOU.