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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Monday, May 07, 2007
SALE OF THE MONTH:
Prison Pays $6,000 To Change Locks After Keys Sold On eBay
The humor fades as the story says it was sorta kinda accidental, but you never know with eBay.
Prison Pays $6,000 To Change Locks After Keys Sold On eBay
The humor fades as the story says it was sorta kinda accidental, but you never know with eBay.
When hacks sell something they usually leave out a detail that would make a reader's brow furrow. And the important detail in this plug for Internet TV is -- what bandwidth? If it's YouTube we can see people rushing to their monitors to savor My Favorite Martian. Make no mistake, TV is migrating to the Web -- but so long as the picture resembles something through the bottom of a dirty beer mug it will be a very long trip.
One other cute missing detail: will it be downloadable? People Warner? Rootkit? SUMNER? You kidding?
(Via MediaBistro)
One other cute missing detail: will it be downloadable? People Warner? Rootkit? SUMNER? You kidding?
(Via MediaBistro)
Survey SAID:
A new survey by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research has found that 65 percent of faculty members say they believe in God.
Which, if one can believe polls at all, says that over a third don't, and besides, it's less than the general public.
We could liken academics to their natural media allies for showoffy agnosticism and personal godhood but that would merely be flogging a dead leatherbound Gideon Bible.
A new survey by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research has found that 65 percent of faculty members say they believe in God.
Which, if one can believe polls at all, says that over a third don't, and besides, it's less than the general public.
We could liken academics to their natural media allies for showoffy agnosticism and personal godhood but that would merely be flogging a dead leatherbound Gideon Bible.
The blue-chip average matched an 80-year record for the longest streak. The last time the Dow rose 24 out of 27 sessions was in 1927.
And two years after THAT...oh, never mind.
The three sessions in which the Dow fell were April 11 (89.23 points), April 23 (42.58 points) and April 30 (58.03 points).
THE MASSACRE RALLY CONTINUES!
And two years after THAT...oh, never mind.
The three sessions in which the Dow fell were April 11 (89.23 points), April 23 (42.58 points) and April 30 (58.03 points).
THE MASSACRE RALLY CONTINUES!
We'd never heard of Ty Pennington before this, so I guess you could call it a brilliant career move.
Edwards: Wealth Doesn't Hurt Credibility
Let Honorary Mayor Mike run (whose chopper is the veritable equivalent of the Comb) and we'll see about that.
Let Honorary Mayor Mike run (whose chopper is the veritable equivalent of the Comb) and we'll see about that.
It just became a little tougher for Lileks's admirers to justify his job.
Just as Strib and the StinkyInky are the same (cutting and slashing for profit, putting ads here, there and everywhere) so may be their employees. We forget Stinky demoted one of its most BELOVED figures Gail because the bosses thought she was too TV-insiderish, and perhaps likewise is true for Lileks; I'd bet the top brass suppose him an aw-isn't-he-cute kind of guy who can occasionally get angry, but who writes for a clique much as if he were writing a column about Gumby. The more I think of it that way, the more it makes a rudimentary sense, even though it's not the brightest apple of an idea in the barrel.
And when he writes "[I]t's just-the-facts-ma'am -- and I'll no longer be telecommuting, either. This means I will start burning my share of hydrocarbons like a good American" I can definitely see it.
(Via the usual Romy)
Just as Strib and the StinkyInky are the same (cutting and slashing for profit, putting ads here, there and everywhere) so may be their employees. We forget Stinky demoted one of its most BELOVED figures Gail because the bosses thought she was too TV-insiderish, and perhaps likewise is true for Lileks; I'd bet the top brass suppose him an aw-isn't-he-cute kind of guy who can occasionally get angry, but who writes for a clique much as if he were writing a column about Gumby. The more I think of it that way, the more it makes a rudimentary sense, even though it's not the brightest apple of an idea in the barrel.
And when he writes "[I]t's just-the-facts-ma'am -- and I'll no longer be telecommuting, either. This means I will start burning my share of hydrocarbons like a good American" I can definitely see it.
(Via the usual Romy)
I'm Shocked [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
JPod didn't mention that Romney voted for Tsongas in 92 !
05/07 02:32 PM
All we can say is, Ms. Travers, he has his own ersatz con-SER-va-tive, you have yours.
JPod didn't mention that Romney voted for Tsongas in 92 !
05/07 02:32 PM
All we can say is, Ms. Travers, he has his own ersatz con-SER-va-tive, you have yours.
Strib has all but fired James Lileks, a genuinely boneheaded decision; but now is the time for one of blogging's leaders to bravely prove he doesn't need paper. After all, if Mark Steyn has a site, why can't he? I guess the problem is that Steyn is aggressively prolific -- and as good as blogging can feel to the soul, there is no substitute for a paycheck, which the Web's great democratic revolution has yet to produce many of (puff pieces notwithstanding), while the tired old dead tree-killing press still can, even in its senescence.
I shouldn't sound so sour but it's impossible not to after over four years typing in a vacuum. And besides, if he doesn't land a job elsewhere in Bigmedia I would be very surprised. A mere blogger lacks that kind of luxury.
P. S. at 11:05 a.m.: My original post said "The Clatch" did it; I'd forgotten it sold Strib off to a "private investment firm", meaning it's been STINKYINKYIZED, which explains such an arrant blunder.
I shouldn't sound so sour but it's impossible not to after over four years typing in a vacuum. And besides, if he doesn't land a job elsewhere in Bigmedia I would be very surprised. A mere blogger lacks that kind of luxury.
P. S. at 11:05 a.m.: My original post said "The Clatch" did it; I'd forgotten it sold Strib off to a "private investment firm", meaning it's been STINKYINKYIZED, which explains such an arrant blunder.
3-D printers in the home would seem dubious. How often would one need to conjure a bolt or "a spare dishwasher rack"? I'd guess it would be awhile before you could print a replacement auto part with the kind of tolerances to make it work. I can see it in small businesses and copy centers, but this still sounds like the sort of thing whose time might always come.
Why Asia Is Ignoring Global Warming
I can think of four reasons: 1. Japan makes a lot of money; 2. China makes a lot of money; 3. Asia makes zillions of consumer goods; 4. China has over a billion people. Does that answer the question?
I can think of four reasons: 1. Japan makes a lot of money; 2. China makes a lot of money; 3. Asia makes zillions of consumer goods; 4. China has over a billion people. Does that answer the question?
Intellectual-property theft is illegal, and it's wrong. We wouldn't do it, or countenance it. But when show-biz unleashes mountains of dreck, and idiot press-agent news hacks idiotically celebrate the fact, forgive us for showing a soft side for the folk in "the land of vikings, reindeer, Aurora Borealis and cute blond girls."
Sunday, May 06, 2007
P&G wants to be my friend.
IDIOTS! Why can't you just turn out a decent product as always -- and stop trying to convince me you're my friend by wasting so much of MY money on crappy television?
Paris' Jail Stint Likely to Add Allure
...said longtime publicist Michael Levine....
Who says ASSPress doesn't look after the poor and neglected in society?
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO SANDY!
...said longtime publicist Michael Levine....
Who says ASSPress doesn't look after the poor and neglected in society?
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO SANDY!
Did you realize France is still right-wing?
Well, at least Sarko's saying nice things about us. Let's hope that lasts more than a few months.
Well, at least Sarko's saying nice things about us. Let's hope that lasts more than a few months.
The Google Interview could become the 21st-century equivalent of the candidate's pilgrimage to the General Motors plant.
TRANSLATION: We're replacing one kind of intransigent incompetence with another.
TRANSLATION: We're replacing one kind of intransigent incompetence with another.
The soon-to-arise Second Coming of Christ tells us one of the few sensible things LBJ ever did was to banish Ol' Blue Eyes from his premises because of his mob connections. Second Coming was "crushed", perhaps as part of his training as a saint.
As PAUL DRECK!!!!! dangles fourteen phones from his head, I wish I could ask CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) and other assorted uber-scribblers this: why are BIG B. O. GROSSES for TENTPOLES GOOD NEWS?
And need we be told yet AGAIN what's good for PEOPLE WARNER is good for America?
And need we be told yet AGAIN what's good for PEOPLE WARNER is good for America?
The Paper of Re-CORD is busy today!
1. It discovers, much to its chagrin, that liberals (?!?!?) back gun rights! (?!?!?) Of course these are liberals like Larry Tribe, who may not be too trustworthy in the first place -- or as the Paper puts it, "Scholars who agree with gun opponents and support the collective rights view say the professors on the other side may have been motivated more by a desire to be provocative than by simple intellectual honesty." Rather like Michael Kinsley and Stale.com, n'est-ce pas?
2. Happily groups like MOVEON.ORG and the other celebrated NETROOTS screamers are pushing ever more vigorously for the Dems to get us outOUTOUT!!!!! of Iraq, which seems to have helped the Dems immensely.
3. We hear what we've said pretty much all along -- business is trying to be PC for profit. How long, say, Little Jeffy gets by with that gag depends on how long His shareholders are willing to take $35 a share -- and given the late ranting over Goodthings Entertainment, we'd say not very.
4. The Paper also discovers that Old Whiny Wine Brine bequeathed his medium a ton of would-be loudmouthed millionaire drunks, which means thousands are saying stupid things on the air, and their bosses think the advertisers don't care -- true enough. True also that the liberal's idea of taking care of the rot is the Fairness Doctrine, but then both sides would send anyone they disagree with to a concentration camp, which may explain all those would-be drunks. True further that without these jerks the medium would have thousands of hours of dead air -- which, given the likes of CHEAP CHANNEL and SUMNER, isn't a bad idea.
5. In news of cul-TYURE, Manohla Granola believes if you're going to be held hostage by Jerry Dreckheimer and Sony Pictures, it's best to think the hostage holder is your friend. It may be a problem, however, when the hostage holders inflict you with non-stop TV shows on the big screen, and if that isn't punishable by the Geneva Conventions we don't know what is. Neither does it help that Manohla Granolas and Jerry Dreckheimers view hack sci-fi as "legit."
6. Finally, in a topic dear to my heart, Encores!, which stages concert versions of old musicals, is putting on a "revue of revues" -- a good idea on paper with songs like "Dancing in the Dark" (NO, I do NOT mean "THE 'BOSS'", KIM WILDE, MIKE MAREEN or JESSY) -- only the shows were padded with sketches, and as the producer Mr. Zaks says, "Ninety-five percent of them did not make us laugh....Some of them must have been uproarious at the time, hilarious. But we would just sit there and look at each other." "But at their heart," the Paper of Re-CORD continues, "revues were disposable entertainment, a flash in the pan, the 'Saturday Night Live' of their day." Huh?!? John Belushi will be funny forever!
1. It discovers, much to its chagrin, that liberals (?!?!?) back gun rights! (?!?!?) Of course these are liberals like Larry Tribe, who may not be too trustworthy in the first place -- or as the Paper puts it, "Scholars who agree with gun opponents and support the collective rights view say the professors on the other side may have been motivated more by a desire to be provocative than by simple intellectual honesty." Rather like Michael Kinsley and Stale.com, n'est-ce pas?
2. Happily groups like MOVEON.ORG and the other celebrated NETROOTS screamers are pushing ever more vigorously for the Dems to get us outOUTOUT!!!!! of Iraq, which seems to have helped the Dems immensely.
3. We hear what we've said pretty much all along -- business is trying to be PC for profit. How long, say, Little Jeffy gets by with that gag depends on how long His shareholders are willing to take $35 a share -- and given the late ranting over Goodthings Entertainment, we'd say not very.
4. The Paper also discovers that Old Whiny Wine Brine bequeathed his medium a ton of would-be loudmouthed millionaire drunks, which means thousands are saying stupid things on the air, and their bosses think the advertisers don't care -- true enough. True also that the liberal's idea of taking care of the rot is the Fairness Doctrine, but then both sides would send anyone they disagree with to a concentration camp, which may explain all those would-be drunks. True further that without these jerks the medium would have thousands of hours of dead air -- which, given the likes of CHEAP CHANNEL and SUMNER, isn't a bad idea.
5. In news of cul-TYURE, Manohla Granola believes if you're going to be held hostage by Jerry Dreckheimer and Sony Pictures, it's best to think the hostage holder is your friend. It may be a problem, however, when the hostage holders inflict you with non-stop TV shows on the big screen, and if that isn't punishable by the Geneva Conventions we don't know what is. Neither does it help that Manohla Granolas and Jerry Dreckheimers view hack sci-fi as "legit."
6. Finally, in a topic dear to my heart, Encores!, which stages concert versions of old musicals, is putting on a "revue of revues" -- a good idea on paper with songs like "Dancing in the Dark" (NO, I do NOT mean "THE 'BOSS'", KIM WILDE, MIKE MAREEN or JESSY) -- only the shows were padded with sketches, and as the producer Mr. Zaks says, "Ninety-five percent of them did not make us laugh....Some of them must have been uproarious at the time, hilarious. But we would just sit there and look at each other." "But at their heart," the Paper of Re-CORD continues, "revues were disposable entertainment, a flash in the pan, the 'Saturday Night Live' of their day." Huh?!? John Belushi will be funny forever!
Saturday, May 05, 2007
This week in Zeitgeist, Norm Thomas's Grandson wants a new Truman. We all want a new Truman. Unfortunately Rude, Hayl -- er, Hillary, Mormon Mitt, the Comb, Boobs and Abe would have to get out of the kitchen first. And when the new Truman had a Mac would Norm's Grandson harp on his low opinion-poll ratings?
And in the international editions, "Slow is Beautiful." Certainly a bunch of highly-paid scribblers who spent half their lives around Mr. D.T.s of the Radio would qualify -- not for the beautiful part, I might add.
And that's another international double-issue. Slow indeed.
And in the international editions, "Slow is Beautiful." Certainly a bunch of highly-paid scribblers who spent half their lives around Mr. D.T.s of the Radio would qualify -- not for the beautiful part, I might add.
And that's another international double-issue. Slow indeed.
Terrorism "is not a movement, it's a tactic. But terrorism is a tactic that can be used in a war," Mr. Chertoff said.
But terrorism is not a war, which seems very much a tactic too.
But terrorism is not a war, which seems very much a tactic too.
DIMWITS: THE GREATEST COMEDY OF ALL TIME was a con-SER-va-tive movie -- and now someone at NRO is saying "it’s much better to laugh at a comic when he is making fun of self-important celebrities than when he mocks ordinary people just trying to be nice to someone who is mocking them."
Why didn't these knee-jerk scribblers like POD think this when they were busy plugging the movie for cheap political reasons -- or do they pledge allegiance to SLIME more than to their own country?
Why didn't these knee-jerk scribblers like POD think this when they were busy plugging the movie for cheap political reasons -- or do they pledge allegiance to SLIME more than to their own country?
The Feds lose records on 100,000 security employees -- and Sheila "We Landed Men on Mars" Jackson-Lee is on the case!
Those records can stay lost.
Those records can stay lost.
Here is where press agents and news hacks (six of one) do their duty: by emitting nonsense like "ALL-TIME RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" we automatically stop people from thinking, and a company that's employed fake movie critics and rootkits is about nothing so much as control. Thus I have come to the notion that certain things should be minimally reported, because we get spin or PR otherwise -- and at the top of the list are box-office "grosses."
Let's see: all those midnight openings, and more theaters, and less competition, and inflation, and -- how many ways is this ALL-TIME RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dishonest?
But heck if The Paper of Re-CORD can run unindependent independent "experts" we can run "grosses."
P. S. Movies two through ten did an alleged grand total of $8.76 million in business. Whoopee.
Let's see: all those midnight openings, and more theaters, and less competition, and inflation, and -- how many ways is this ALL-TIME RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dishonest?
But heck if The Paper of Re-CORD can run unindependent independent "experts" we can run "grosses."
P. S. Movies two through ten did an alleged grand total of $8.76 million in business. Whoopee.
Little Malcolm has hit the jackpot! (That or he got all his Fabergé eggs back.) We run a press release on Mug Whitman and her "ethics", which was probably in the can when a certain target-practicer was buying his ammo. We unearth "Up"-Chuck Barris from the dead for the sole reason of tormenting our readers. We run a something by Peter Huber home-page-hedded, "What sort of people are very worried about global warming but not very worried about terrorism?", which if we reversed the order would prove you can never have too many partisans. We do an article on boom-car competitions, which gives us an idea for Little Malcolm's ears. Surely there's something in the latest issue worth reading -- there always is...isn't there? -- but Little Malcolm has always said the Web would replace print, and for once we wish it would prove him right.
Another glowing-with-pride day for The Paper of Re-CORD:
'NYT' Hit By NBA Chief on 'Bias' Story -- Then Admits Expert Not 'Independent'
Where's that editors' note, Paper of Re-CORD? Oh, HERE it is.
'NYT' Hit By NBA Chief on 'Bias' Story -- Then Admits Expert Not 'Independent'
Where's that editors' note, Paper of Re-CORD? Oh, HERE it is.
Maybe Democratic Senators are "signing" letters because they wouldn't be doing anything otherwise.
But then what did Jefferson or somebody say? Government governs best that governs least? Wait till you Republicans get back in! Pffffffffffffft!
But then what did Jefferson or somebody say? Government governs best that governs least? Wait till you Republicans get back in! Pffffffffffffft!
In the midst of enlarging His empire SLIME is creating a sequel for the con-SER-va-tives' favorite businessman Gordon Gekko, meaning He's out to court favors or His functionaries have run out of ideas.
Friday, May 04, 2007
SPIDEY more important than transit security, SPIDEY more important than Al-Qaida, SPIDEY more important than that hate-crimes bill -- no, I do NOT think we will get back our readers THIS way.
(Via the usual Romy)
(Image restored 9/4/2010 from here)
ST. JACK of VALENTI dies, the QUEEN's coming to dinner -- can the Beltway handle so much BROWN-NOSING EXCITEMENT?
Veep Big-oil and the Royal Family would be the perfect match.
Veep Big-oil and the Royal Family would be the perfect match.
An earth-rending demand from the ASSPress:
Jessica Biel Wants Respect As an Actress
"Thank goodness I'm a nice person."
And thank goodness so are the persons at ASSPress!
Jessica Biel Wants Respect As an Actress
"Thank goodness I'm a nice person."
And thank goodness so are the persons at ASSPress!
"Frank" Foer may be smart, Marty, but we wonder if he's that smart:
ThereÂ’s [SIC!] no denying the Journal would fit snugly into his empire. They share the same politics. So much so that at the height of last yearÂ’s [SIC!] election, Karen House big-footed editors in Washington and published a note retracting an articleÂ’s [SIC!] description of Fox News Channel as "a network sympathetic to the Bush cause and popular with Republicans." (One reporter from the Washington bureau told me her boss, Gerry Seib, "didnÂ’t [SIC!] know about the correction until it was a done deal.") More important, the Journal also jibes with MurdochÂ’s [SIC!] wish to launch a Fox business channel.
Okay, maybe Big Foot retracted it, but it still ran in the first place, meaning the Liberal Edition agreed with it -- and Gerry, a very knee-jerk-CW editor, probably didn't know as such a description is mere background noise among the CW. Besides, doesn't it make sense to court favors with a maybe future publisher? The Journals have courted favors for years. (And of course that observation is as biased as it is true.) This proves nothing, Marty. The Journals are two papers, and despite His KNEE-JERK NEO-NAZI ULTRA-RIGHT blahblah SLIME will NOT tamper with the good thing of seeing soothing bromides describing Him as the God who left one of the great news-gathering organizations ALONE.
Oh by the way Marty, tell Frank to get a couple of dozen new interns.
ThereÂ’s [SIC!] no denying the Journal would fit snugly into his empire. They share the same politics. So much so that at the height of last yearÂ’s [SIC!] election, Karen House big-footed editors in Washington and published a note retracting an articleÂ’s [SIC!] description of Fox News Channel as "a network sympathetic to the Bush cause and popular with Republicans." (One reporter from the Washington bureau told me her boss, Gerry Seib, "didnÂ’t [SIC!] know about the correction until it was a done deal.") More important, the Journal also jibes with MurdochÂ’s [SIC!] wish to launch a Fox business channel.
Okay, maybe Big Foot retracted it, but it still ran in the first place, meaning the Liberal Edition agreed with it -- and Gerry, a very knee-jerk-CW editor, probably didn't know as such a description is mere background noise among the CW. Besides, doesn't it make sense to court favors with a maybe future publisher? The Journals have courted favors for years. (And of course that observation is as biased as it is true.) This proves nothing, Marty. The Journals are two papers, and despite His KNEE-JERK NEO-NAZI ULTRA-RIGHT blahblah SLIME will NOT tamper with the good thing of seeing soothing bromides describing Him as the God who left one of the great news-gathering organizations ALONE.
Oh by the way Marty, tell Frank to get a couple of dozen new interns.
ANOTHER MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO JACK: For years the ad-blurbists have had orgasms over each new "dark" movie and TV show. We suspect Effete Edelstein was in the lead. Now someone from Stale.com complains the new Spidey promo is TOO DARK!
I HATE NEWS HACKS!
I HATE NEWS HACKS!
Keeping in mind this is an official paper of the Republican Party, each party has its own ways to waste money. Republicans would throw money at oil companies; Democrats would throw it at environmentalists. Maybe this is an ultra-liberal age, but people will soon enough see as they did in 2006 that both sides have a monopoly on the most selfish tone-deaf stupidity.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
We haven't spoken of Wally Schirra because there really isn't much to say. Astronauts are brave and dedicated folk, and the first ones especially had more than a tad of "Hi mom!" in them, which accounts for all the covers in Life, and for the failure of the Shuttle. But it took exceptional men to beat the Russians to the moon, and Wally Schirra was one of them.
More urgent need-to-know news from the ASSPress:
Miss July Wins 2007 Playmate of the Year
The next time Curley (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) mentions his -- political prisoner, which he hasn't lately, someone should mention press releases like this.
Or should we call it the T-and-ASSPress? (TASSPress goes without saying.)
Miss July Wins 2007 Playmate of the Year
The next time Curley (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) mentions his -- political prisoner, which he hasn't lately, someone should mention press releases like this.
Or should we call it the T-and-ASSPress? (TASSPress goes without saying.)
Some Cuban soldiers may have tried to hijack a plane out of the country, and there has allegedly been a shootout at Havana's airport, but who knows.
We cannot imagine Fidel's soldiers being dissatisfied, but again, who knows.
"Three armed recruits." We should have known better.
We cannot imagine Fidel's soldiers being dissatisfied, but again, who knows.
"Three armed recruits." We should have known better.
The Paper of Re-CORD names its third public edi-TOR:
Keller noted, "As a reporter, he shared a Pulitzer, and as an editor he earned a reputation as a reporter's editor. Until the sale of Knight Ridder last year, he was, for seven years, the Knight Ridder Washington Editor." He added: "In that role he presided over a body of aggressive reporting in the runup to the war in Iraq -- journalism that has been widely praised for sometimes being more skeptical about the pre-war intelligence than bigger news organizations, including our own."
I guess that means he'll be pliable too.
Forgive us our attitude, but his predecessor gives us reason enough.
Keller noted, "As a reporter, he shared a Pulitzer, and as an editor he earned a reputation as a reporter's editor. Until the sale of Knight Ridder last year, he was, for seven years, the Knight Ridder Washington Editor." He added: "In that role he presided over a body of aggressive reporting in the runup to the war in Iraq -- journalism that has been widely praised for sometimes being more skeptical about the pre-war intelligence than bigger news organizations, including our own."
I guess that means he'll be pliable too.
Forgive us our attitude, but his predecessor gives us reason enough.
Rupert Murdoch's hands-on style -- changing headlines, calling in news tips, and checking layouts....
Still got those COFFEE nerves, Romy?
Still got those COFFEE nerves, Romy?
Justice:
U.S. says terrorist in Jill Carroll kidnapping killed
Injustice:
U.S.: Carroll kidnap MILITANT dead [PC INTERNATIONAL overemphasis added]
PEOPLE WARNER puts its foot in its mouth again!
U.S. says terrorist in Jill Carroll kidnapping killed
Injustice:
U.S.: Carroll kidnap MILITANT dead [PC INTERNATIONAL overemphasis added]
PEOPLE WARNER puts its foot in its mouth again!
ER takes 90 of his favorite show-biz types, adds ten CW-popular politicians, and calls them "influential."
I believe the time has come for PEOPLE NEWSRAG to FOLD.
I believe the time has come for PEOPLE NEWSRAG to FOLD.
While the generic Democratic candidate wins by 13 points in the USA TODAY poll, Hillary Rodham Clinton loses to Rudy Giuliani by 5 points, 46%-51%, in a hypothetical head-to-head between the two front-runners.
What the hell do public-opinion polls mean?
What the hell do public-opinion polls mean?
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Sorry to link to a Romy link again, but the guy needs his meds. Some CJR typist insists SLIME will bring about "the end of Dow Jones". "And make no mistake: Tuesday was a black day for journalism, and an even blacker one for financial journalism." Why? We hate to go into the obvious, but we think we know why: SLIME will FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IFY the Journals, He'll fire the entire Liberal Edition staff and replace it with Brits and Neils, and NO-SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN COUGHLIN for good measure, and He'll have everybody going knee-jerk lock step SIEG-HEIL! neo-Nazi far-right CONSERVATIVE, AND...
This is the sort of BS hacks spew when the world's not going their way. SLIME, whatever His faults, is not about to tamper with a successful -- FRANCHISE (he helped invent the word), and face it, for their many flaws, the Journals are successful because they're two newspapers, both pandering to their respective audiences. Why spoil a good thing like that?
"When this is over," this simp mourns, "there will be no independent publisher of the nation’s foremost—really only—watchdog of the capital markets, corporate behavior, and regulators’ conduct. Who’s going to cover News Corp.?" Setting aside the question, "Who covers News Corp. now?" (an exceptionally gifted recipient of the fruits of news-hack social climbing, with the Journals no doubting having perpetrated at least their share), if watchdogging means P-Ulitzer winners looking for suicides at supermarket chains, that's an ultimately toothless watchdog. Lest we forget the Journals were the home of the notorious show-biz press agent Laura Landro, who invented the term suck-up; and some "Heard on the Street" columnist who investigated his way to prison for profitably using his connections. Remember when the Journals got in trouble for running press releases virtually unedited? And where has this mutt been through all the weeping and moaning of the Journals slashing their staffs and cutting their newshole and trimming the pages? And does anyone really expect business news outlets to go after people -- except when they have PR men and books to sell? Perhaps the problem is SLIME's big bonanza underlines that the Journals, in many ways, are unnecessary, with so many news outlets running numbers and charts and business press releases; and Dow Jones proved its necessity further with its boneheaded purchase of Marketwatch.com. But how can a CJR typist talk of necessity when CJR has become ever less necessary itself?
This is the sort of BS hacks spew when the world's not going their way. SLIME, whatever His faults, is not about to tamper with a successful -- FRANCHISE (he helped invent the word), and face it, for their many flaws, the Journals are successful because they're two newspapers, both pandering to their respective audiences. Why spoil a good thing like that?
"When this is over," this simp mourns, "there will be no independent publisher of the nation’s foremost—really only—watchdog of the capital markets, corporate behavior, and regulators’ conduct. Who’s going to cover News Corp.?" Setting aside the question, "Who covers News Corp. now?" (an exceptionally gifted recipient of the fruits of news-hack social climbing, with the Journals no doubting having perpetrated at least their share), if watchdogging means P-Ulitzer winners looking for suicides at supermarket chains, that's an ultimately toothless watchdog. Lest we forget the Journals were the home of the notorious show-biz press agent Laura Landro, who invented the term suck-up; and some "Heard on the Street" columnist who investigated his way to prison for profitably using his connections. Remember when the Journals got in trouble for running press releases virtually unedited? And where has this mutt been through all the weeping and moaning of the Journals slashing their staffs and cutting their newshole and trimming the pages? And does anyone really expect business news outlets to go after people -- except when they have PR men and books to sell? Perhaps the problem is SLIME's big bonanza underlines that the Journals, in many ways, are unnecessary, with so many news outlets running numbers and charts and business press releases; and Dow Jones proved its necessity further with its boneheaded purchase of Marketwatch.com. But how can a CJR typist talk of necessity when CJR has become ever less necessary itself?
More HOT NEWS from the Zeitgeist:
Hot new career trend: The video resume [SIC]
Hot new tear-out-the-hair trend: executives' mailboxes bursting with big, bloated video résumés -- which they will promptly treat as SPAM.
Hot new career trend: The video resume [SIC]
Hot new tear-out-the-hair trend: executives' mailboxes bursting with big, bloated video résumés -- which they will promptly treat as SPAM.
ADAM HAS A HOT HIP RAG!!!!!!!!!!
Who reads it?
And the NEW POWER IN TELEVISION NEWS says:
"I guess if brown is the new black, ADAM MOSS IS THE NEW DAVID REMNICK!!!!!" [Genius overemphasis added]
Or maybe the future Mark Whitaker!!!!! Pfffffffffffffffft!
Who reads it?
And the NEW POWER IN TELEVISION NEWS says:
"I guess if brown is the new black, ADAM MOSS IS THE NEW DAVID REMNICK!!!!!" [Genius overemphasis added]
Or maybe the future Mark Whitaker!!!!! Pfffffffffffffffft!
Our favorite Branson East columnist Mike alleges Marvel's Spider-Man musical will cost at least $30 million -- but we should keep in mind that though it's expensive for a musical, it's cheap for a THEME PARK.
All right, so you're tantrum throwing liberals, and you don't like the NO-SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN ZONE, so you do a "study" proving you don't like him, which is like applying a shovel underneath your feet because every time a PARTISAN attacks a PARTISAN he merely proves BOTH SIDES are PARTISAN.
And we can't stand the NO-SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN ZONE EITHER.
And you compare NO-SPIN to "Father" Coughlin, hoping nobody remembers who he was. Well, you're PARTISANS, and turnabout's unfair play -- so we'll just liken his equal and opposite nuisance KEITH O to STALIN. All's fair in hate and war!
If your skool wants to throw yelling screaming whiny crybaby tantrums BRING BACK BOBBY KNIGHT!
Thanks again, ROMY!
And we can't stand the NO-SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN ZONE EITHER.
And you compare NO-SPIN to "Father" Coughlin, hoping nobody remembers who he was. Well, you're PARTISANS, and turnabout's unfair play -- so we'll just liken his equal and opposite nuisance KEITH O to STALIN. All's fair in hate and war!
If your skool wants to throw yelling screaming whiny crybaby tantrums BRING BACK BOBBY KNIGHT!
Thanks again, ROMY!
OH oh, SUMNER may have to pay for firing Booze Brains!
Serves him right -- for hiring him and firing him!
Serves him right -- for hiring him and firing him!
I wish I knew how to blog -- or to write -- and I wish I could think that I am occasionally correct. Here TNR disgorges 7,725 WORDS on what I called the left-wing's mirror image of Free Republic, and now thousands and thousands are writing thousands of words about how brilliant Jonathan's writing is. Several of the comments, however, make me hope that, if I was too flippant in the first place, I was still right -- that left-wing blogging is just a mirror image of Free Republic, and that when it comes to blogging it's too easy to step on the GAS.
TRANSLATION: The Eternal Comber wants us to be strong without being strong.
But the truth is that the war on terror is destined to outlast a change in the Oval Office — or in vocabulary.
A TWXSTER can admit to that?
But the truth is that the war on terror is destined to outlast a change in the Oval Office — or in vocabulary.
A TWXSTER can admit to that?
The publication of Ronald Reagan's White House diaries makes us wish for a president who'd get angry on occasion, justifiably angry, non-pompous-ass-showing-off-to-the-public angry, who could tell Congressmen and cabinet members and Valentis to which nether region they could go. How honest Reagan is only God knows, but we'd venture far more honest than, say Dubya -- if he could write.
Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Sherry Lansing, Robert Wagner, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, Mike Wallace, Chris Wallace, Bob Schieffer, Al Hunt, Ben Bradlee, Sally Quinn, Tim Russert, Judy Woodruff, Arlen Specter, John Warner, RUMMY, Henry Hyde, BILLY TAUZIN, GEORGE TENET....
This is PRECISELY why The Paper of Re-CORD's harrumphing, gallumphing GESTURE to swear off these big fat DINNERS goes beyond fake, it is borderline obscene. These bastards have absolutely NO intention of giving up their perks -- it's part of what makes them so inordinately BETTER than their mere readers.
Our only solace is that so many of the invited were has-beens, and will soon be joining The Second Coming of Christ in the Great Backscratching in the Sky.
And surprisingly it was closed to the public -- or not surprisingly, given so much of Second Coming's life was nobody's business.
[Cute Little Pink Paper link via the usual Romy]
This is PRECISELY why The Paper of Re-CORD's harrumphing, gallumphing GESTURE to swear off these big fat DINNERS goes beyond fake, it is borderline obscene. These bastards have absolutely NO intention of giving up their perks -- it's part of what makes them so inordinately BETTER than their mere readers.
Our only solace is that so many of the invited were has-beens, and will soon be joining The Second Coming of Christ in the Great Backscratching in the Sky.
And surprisingly it was closed to the public -- or not surprisingly, given so much of Second Coming's life was nobody's business.
[Cute Little Pink Paper link via the usual Romy]
Having cried over their comrades the movie ad-blurbists, the hacks turn their handkerchiefs to the folks who write the squibs for the back covers. While we feel slightly different for such people -- after all, movies these days aren't merely sub-literate, they're anti-literate -- the difference is microscopic indeed; much of what book reviewers do isn't reviewing, it's logrolling, and when they aren't logrolling they're largely synopsizing, and they do both with a willowy wispiness that avoids judgment. When was the last time you read a memorable book review? Perhaps the problem is so few memorable books; but surely there's a way of eviscerating even the slightest piece of hack work, and most book reviewers aren't the slightest writers.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Well! Remember Mr. Mark? The man who won 17,000 JERNALISM prizes (including half a dozen for the KORAN story) at Zeitgeist? The man who so well defined CW he WAS CW? Anyway, he's now a high-mucky-muck news boss at Goodthings Entertainment, and he'll really get to tell us what to think!
When do they give him his own show?
When do they give him his own show?
...then the celebrating staff of the Wall Street Journals Liberal Edition realized -- it was RUPERT.
P. S.
What Murdoch Really Wants [Home-page hed]
Someone must ask such a question?
P. P. S.
It would be difficult for the New York Times Co. or Washington Post Co., which both trade at about 10 times EV-EBITDA, to match Mr. Murdoch's bid without damaging their balance sheets or watering down their shareholders' stakes.
GO FOR IT!
P. S.
What Murdoch Really Wants [Home-page hed]Someone must ask such a question?
P. P. S.
It would be difficult for the New York Times Co. or Washington Post Co., which both trade at about 10 times EV-EBITDA, to match Mr. Murdoch's bid without damaging their balance sheets or watering down their shareholders' stakes.
GO FOR IT!
Speaking of delusion, they've got it at NRO -- in SPADES:
For goodness’s sake, cheer up. Rupert Murdoch’s bid for Dow Jones represents UNQUALIFIED GOOD NEWS!!
...If Murdoch’s bid succeeds, his ownership would be good for the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, which Larry Kudlow rightly calls “THE GREATEST CONSERVATIVE PLATFORM IN THE WORLD!!!!!”
In recent years, the Journal has suffered declining circulation and unimpressive advertising revenues....Murdoch would infuse the newspaper with capital—and make it newly competitive.... [Kudlovian overemphasis and link added]
Meantime HARRY REID, KOS, ROSIE O'DONNELL and KEITH O WILL DITCH THE DEAL!!!!!!!!!!
Could this sort of daydreaming be one reason con-SER-va-tives are talking more than usual to themselves of being in trouble?
For goodness’s sake, cheer up. Rupert Murdoch’s bid for Dow Jones represents UNQUALIFIED GOOD NEWS!!
...If Murdoch’s bid succeeds, his ownership would be good for the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, which Larry Kudlow rightly calls “THE GREATEST CONSERVATIVE PLATFORM IN THE WORLD!!!!!”
In recent years, the Journal has suffered declining circulation and unimpressive advertising revenues....Murdoch would infuse the newspaper with capital—and make it newly competitive.... [Kudlovian overemphasis and link added]
Meantime HARRY REID, KOS, ROSIE O'DONNELL and KEITH O WILL DITCH THE DEAL!!!!!!!!!!
Could this sort of daydreaming be one reason con-SER-va-tives are talking more than usual to themselves of being in trouble?
Alas, another TV soldier has died: Tom Poston, longtime second-banana of sitcoms and panelist (like the late lamented Kitty Carlisle Hart) of To Tell the Truth. On this score the news never gets better.
So it probably won't be SLIME. Who will it be? St. Warren and the Journals' mutual denial of reality would seem the right fit.
Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steny Hoyer, Dianne Feinstein, John Kerry, Daniel Inouye, GOD, St. Warren of Buffett, CLINT....
Now please, hacks, let us NOT hear of the Second Coming of Christ AGAIN.
P. S. Despite His ascending to Heaven with the promise of His return, His Bible ranks 17,365 on Amazon.com, which means somebody has a lot more preachin' to do.
Now please, hacks, let us NOT hear of the Second Coming of Christ AGAIN.
P. S. Despite His ascending to Heaven with the promise of His return, His Bible ranks 17,365 on Amazon.com, which means somebody has a lot more preachin' to do.
The offer is a very positive event, said Thomas Forsha, portfolio manager at River Road Asset Management in Louisville, Ky. "Honestly the price is very compelling," he said. "We think the combination of Fox and the Wall Street Journal properties would be a compelling long-term proposition."
Then again, Mr. Forsha noted, River Road sold all 563,405 of its shares in Dow Jones today after the announcement sent the stock price soaring.
NO COMMENT.
"The newsroom is going wild," one WSJ insider said. [Emphasis added]
They know -- SLIME is NO CONSERVATIVE.
Then again, Mr. Forsha noted, River Road sold all 563,405 of its shares in Dow Jones today after the announcement sent the stock price soaring.
NO COMMENT.
"The newsroom is going wild," one WSJ insider said. [Emphasis added]
They know -- SLIME is NO CONSERVATIVE.
Financial joke of the day: SLIME's made an offer for Dow Jones.
Now's His chance to establish His bona fides as a conservative AND a liberal!
If You're going to buy it, SLIME, could You at least make the Journals Online free?
P. S. SLIME HAD to send other news stocks up, but that won't last.
P. P. S. Hey SLIME! Here's great new talent for Your business-news channel!
Now's His chance to establish His bona fides as a conservative AND a liberal!
If You're going to buy it, SLIME, could You at least make the Journals Online free?
P. S. SLIME HAD to send other news stocks up, but that won't last.
P. P. S. Hey SLIME! Here's great new talent for Your business-news channel!
A last memorial tribute to the man whose death caused the Beltway to have a nervous breakdown:
My family and I have been fortunate to benefit from the world's appetite for American entertainment, as my husband's television shows air countless times around the world every day, every hour. Among our country's largest exports are film, television, music and other entertainment.
Maybe it's time for our creative and marketing minds to get involved in capturing hearts and minds, and not just pocketbooks. The political marketers keep selling us more stories about wars, vetoes, attorney generals and enemies. We saw the failed partisan efforts to "market" our country early in the war. It's time for a new campaign.
Yeah, [C]RAP, horror movies, the whole nine yards. Excellent idea. Candy, please go back to calculating your earnings on Charlie's Angels.
(Via MediaBistro)
My family and I have been fortunate to benefit from the world's appetite for American entertainment, as my husband's television shows air countless times around the world every day, every hour. Among our country's largest exports are film, television, music and other entertainment.
Maybe it's time for our creative and marketing minds to get involved in capturing hearts and minds, and not just pocketbooks. The political marketers keep selling us more stories about wars, vetoes, attorney generals and enemies. We saw the failed partisan efforts to "market" our country early in the war. It's time for a new campaign.
Yeah, [C]RAP, horror movies, the whole nine yards. Excellent idea. Candy, please go back to calculating your earnings on Charlie's Angels.
(Via MediaBistro)
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...director Steven Spielberg, News Corp. honcho Peter Chernin, Disney boss Robert Iger...producer Steven Bochco and nearly a quorum call of lawmakers including House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Sens. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, Joe Biden, D-Del., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; and Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House Commerce Committee....
The usual gang of idiots.
The usual gang of idiots.
It is now official: the Miss America sting operation was a joke.
(Via CNN International)
P. S. at 5:43 p.m. She changed her mind. Does another outlet of PEOPLE WARNER know?
NOPE. (Not yet anyway.)
(Via CNN International)
P. S. at 5:43 p.m. She changed her mind. Does another outlet of PEOPLE WARNER know?
NOPE. (Not yet anyway.)
Macabre Joke of the Day:
R. Kelly Writes Song for Virginia Tech
"Rise up, when you feel you can't go on, rise up, and all of your hope is gone, rise up, when you're weak and you can't be strong, etc., etc., etc."
We were going to make fun of his song from Space Bunny or whatever the name of that movie that starred Michael Jordan but this is good enough.
By the way, whatever happened to that statutory-rape case?
R. Kelly Writes Song for Virginia Tech
"Rise up, when you feel you can't go on, rise up, and all of your hope is gone, rise up, when you're weak and you can't be strong, etc., etc., etc."
We were going to make fun of his song from Space Bunny or whatever the name of that movie that starred Michael Jordan but this is good enough.
By the way, whatever happened to that statutory-rape case?
The skool that gave us Stanley Fish, St. K and the obviously GUILTY lacrosse players now has a cheating problem in its MBA program.
Some institutions do get what they deserve.
Some institutions do get what they deserve.
Speaking of The Tonight Show, the insufferable Ms. Travers writes:
A reader, pointing out Thompson will be on Leno Thursday....
Oh, no, is that blowhard going to announce before that unfunny jut-jawed whatisit too?
P. S. at 11:13 a.m. WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or somebody called Petericia and said no.
A reader, pointing out Thompson will be on Leno Thursday....
Oh, no, is that blowhard going to announce before that unfunny jut-jawed whatisit too?
P. S. at 11:13 a.m. WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or somebody called Petericia and said no.
The other day we called The Tonight Show irrelevant. We know why: When Jack Paar emceed it at least there was a chance for serious conversation with people like authors and politicans (JFK and Dick Nixon were among his most famous guests). And while the show has always been about plugging projects it was apt to be more profitable for the audience when the project plugger was Bette Davis. Now it's all rock nothings and one-film wonders who can't rub two syllables together. No, I'd say talk on TV has been dead for some time.
Shucks, Ollie and Mike are disappointed:
No Castro Appearance at May Day Parade
Better health next time!
No Castro Appearance at May Day Parade
Better health next time!