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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Saturday, July 14, 2007
Please please, pretty please, let this be true that North Korea has shut down its big bad old reactor! Please, pretty please!
If Foggy Bottom says it's true, it's true. Pffffffffffffffffft!
If Foggy Bottom says it's true, it's true. Pffffffffffffffffft!
Elsewhere in the world's leading con-SER-va-tive group grope -- BLOG:
"Arafat Died of Aids" [Jonah Goldberg]
No shocker.
We have not included the link because it's SAM LITTLE!!!!!!!!!!, and a Google of the topic reveals the news is being reported exclusively in Israeli news sites and con-SER-va-tive screaming-meemie blogs. This, we realize, lends it a patina of political incorrectness such as now dominates news "reporting", and thus we have no reason to doubt it's true; but the presence of names like SAM LITTLE!!!!!!!!!!'s with the truth may stain it.
"Arafat Died of Aids" [Jonah Goldberg]
No shocker.
We have not included the link because it's SAM LITTLE!!!!!!!!!!, and a Google of the topic reveals the news is being reported exclusively in Israeli news sites and con-SER-va-tive screaming-meemie blogs. This, we realize, lends it a patina of political incorrectness such as now dominates news "reporting", and thus we have no reason to doubt it's true; but the presence of names like SAM LITTLE!!!!!!!!!!'s with the truth may stain it.
People have made fun of Ohio State's new (returning) president for his "peripatetic"-ness and his salary (how about his name: E. G. Gee?), but for him to propose a "zero-tolerance" policy on the sort of a-thuh-let-ic miscreants who've lent such shiners to the Buckeyes these past few years takes some guts -- especially at a school that lives and dies with its alumni association. It may not be practical, and it may root out innocents (heaven forbid a repeat of the Duke lacrosse persecution), but the Maurice Claretts of this world dictate it. And no, it is not "nuts."
Friday, July 13, 2007
Count on Forbeslist to make a platinum purse out of a silk ear by celebrating the total replacement of original TV music scores with CHEAP CHANNEL. One problem Louie (the latest in a long line of former Forbeslisters now comfortably in PR) happily ignores is that when these masterworks are prepped for DVD the producers will be busy with their scissors cutting the pop tunes out.
TV producers might shell out upwards of $50,000 for the use of a song by an established artist on a major label, but can sometimes pay as little as several hundred dollars for the use of a song by an unknown talent. Another benefit: the hip cachet that comes from featuring new music.
Unless hip unknown talent becomes very known and then we either pay $50,000 for the DVD rights or get the scissors out.
TV producers might shell out upwards of $50,000 for the use of a song by an established artist on a major label, but can sometimes pay as little as several hundred dollars for the use of a song by an unknown talent. Another benefit: the hip cachet that comes from featuring new music.
Unless hip unknown talent becomes very known and then we either pay $50,000 for the DVD rights or get the scissors out.
"(Franchise restaurants) are critically important, more so now than ever," says Hutch Parker, vice chairman of McDonald's. "In a market that is getting increasingly cluttered with third-party restaurants -- often financed by hedge funds and other sources of financing -- franchise restaurants cut through the clutter, courtesy of their unique relationship to the customers, and have a currency around the world that very few other kinds of restaurants do."
OooooOOOOOoooooh, the guy's actually a vice-chairman of FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, and he was talking about TENTPOLES!
OooooOOOOOoooooh, the guy's actually a vice-chairman of FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, and he was talking about TENTPOLES!
AP NEWS ALERT!!!!!
CHICAGO (AP) -- A jury finds fallen media tycoon Conrad Black guilty of mail fraud, one of 13 counts he faced for allegedly swindling shareholders out of millions of dollars.
Okay, when do the con-SER-va-tives say vindicated?
P. S. All right, it was four counts. We still ask.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A jury finds fallen media tycoon Conrad Black guilty of mail fraud, one of 13 counts he faced for allegedly swindling shareholders out of millions of dollars.
Okay, when do the con-SER-va-tives say vindicated?
P. S. All right, it was four counts. We still ask.
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
SENATORS VOTE TO DOUBLE REWARD MONEY FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN TO $50 MILLION AND TO REQUIRE A PROGESS REPORT FROM THE DEFENSE SECRETARY TO CONGRESS EVERY 90 DAYS [SIC]
Now it's WHINY REID's turn to throw a tantrum.
SENATORS VOTE TO DOUBLE REWARD MONEY FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN TO $50 MILLION AND TO REQUIRE A PROGESS REPORT FROM THE DEFENSE SECRETARY TO CONGRESS EVERY 90 DAYS [SIC]
Now it's WHINY REID's turn to throw a tantrum.
[This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.]
What's wrong with downloads, TWXSTERS?
What's wrong with downloads, TWXSTERS?
"Our relationship with America is strong and will become stronger in the years to come," Brown said. "I know it is strong and will become stronger is because we share the same values of support for freedom and the dignity of the individual."
Other than that we don't like you.
Other than that we don't like you.
DECISIONS, DECISIONS:
MarketWatch
Jon Friedman's assessment:
* Editor: In the New Yorker's David Remnick vs. New York's Adam Moss, the edge goes to Remnick.
* Reporting: The New Yorker over New York.
* Writing: New York.
* Editing: A tie.
* Story selection: New York, by the margin of a sheet of tissue paper.
MarketWatch
Jon Friedman's assessment:
* Editor: In the New Yorker's David Remnick vs. New York's Adam Moss, the edge goes to Remnick.
* Reporting: The New Yorker over New York.
* Writing: New York.
* Editing: A tie.
* Story selection: New York, by the margin of a sheet of tissue paper.
Posted at 8:54:45 AM
When is this guy finally going to get that big fat half-a-million media-apologist job?
When is this guy finally going to get that big fat half-a-million media-apologist job?
Another typical day for the Duhb:
Not bad, Mark... except at the end, where I suddenly went into Lou Costello mode, going "Eee-eee-eee!" through clenched teeth and grabbing my hat so it doesn't vibrate right off my head.
Although we could also have guessed Ms. Travers, to be sure.
Not bad, Mark... except at the end, where I suddenly went into Lou Costello mode, going "Eee-eee-eee!" through clenched teeth and grabbing my hat so it doesn't vibrate right off my head.
Although we could also have guessed Ms. Travers, to be sure.
AP NEWS ALERT!!!!!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government reports that consumer spending fell 0.9 percent in June, the biggest decline in nearly two years as demand for autos, building supplies and furniture all plunged.
DOW 17,000!!!!!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government reports that consumer spending fell 0.9 percent in June, the biggest decline in nearly two years as demand for autos, building supplies and furniture all plunged.
DOW 17,000!!!!!
Great: EINSTEIN and THE CONSCIENCE OF THE TENTPOLES are adding '68 to their budding repertoire, which already includes the question of who lost television.
As they said back in '68, heeeeeaaaaavyyyyyyyyyy.
Eh? What did they say?
As they said back in '68, heeeeeaaaaavyyyyyyyyyy.
Eh? What did they say?
A just dessert for those who spent their youths listening to junk at top volume:
About one in six boomers have hearing loss, according to the Better Hearing Institute, a nonprofit educational group. The AARP has reported that there are more people age 45 to 64 with hearing loss (10 million) than there are people over 65 with hearing loss (9 million). And more people are losing their hearing earlier in life, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, one of the National Institutes of Health.
Hearing loss from age (presbycusis) can begin before the Social Security years, but boomers are also likely candidates for noise-induced hearing loss, particularly the kind that results from continuous loud noise over an extended period of time (like a 115-decibel rock concert).
(Via ArtsJournal)
About one in six boomers have hearing loss, according to the Better Hearing Institute, a nonprofit educational group. The AARP has reported that there are more people age 45 to 64 with hearing loss (10 million) than there are people over 65 with hearing loss (9 million). And more people are losing their hearing earlier in life, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, one of the National Institutes of Health.
Hearing loss from age (presbycusis) can begin before the Social Security years, but boomers are also likely candidates for noise-induced hearing loss, particularly the kind that results from continuous loud noise over an extended period of time (like a 115-decibel rock concert).
(Via ArtsJournal)
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Surprise: Product placements are said to be working their way into TV news.
We confess though this isn't God's word to us, given how so much of the news is advertising already.
We confess though this isn't God's word to us, given how so much of the news is advertising already.
Speaking of fantasies, is the one the hacks are slowly building for Mr. Bend-It starting to take on the same inescapable overkill as their coverage of certain other well-known celebrities famous just for being famous?
I cannot help thinking the word "disappointment" will inevitably poke its ugly head up here.
I cannot help thinking the word "disappointment" will inevitably poke its ugly head up here.
Earlier today Mr. Stuttaford quoted from a review by Theodore Dalrymple of a new book about The World's Oldest Adolescent, and though the graf he quoted was quite pertinent, the following one was more so -- to a sometimes fantasy kingdom across the Atlantic:
But we cannot blame our leaders entirely for our situation, for two reasons: the first is that we elected them, albeit without much enthusiasm, and second because, though you can take a man to the bank, you can't make him borrow. Improvident government does not by itself make a people improvident, though it may encourage, sanction and even sanctify improvidence. Nowadays, we have representational government not only in the sense that we all elect our representatives to parliament, but in the sense that the faults and shortcomings of our representatives and leaders are our own faults and shortcomings, from sentimentality to imprudence, from improvidence to untruthfulness. Mr Blair, whom the authors believe to be shallow and lacking in seriousness (though not in earnestness, which is quite another thing), did not arrive in Britain from outer space. Mr Blair is us.
But we cannot blame our leaders entirely for our situation, for two reasons: the first is that we elected them, albeit without much enthusiasm, and second because, though you can take a man to the bank, you can't make him borrow. Improvident government does not by itself make a people improvident, though it may encourage, sanction and even sanctify improvidence. Nowadays, we have representational government not only in the sense that we all elect our representatives to parliament, but in the sense that the faults and shortcomings of our representatives and leaders are our own faults and shortcomings, from sentimentality to imprudence, from improvidence to untruthfulness. Mr Blair, whom the authors believe to be shallow and lacking in seriousness (though not in earnestness, which is quite another thing), did not arrive in Britain from outer space. Mr Blair is us.
Let us not merely ponder what sort of creep would solicit sex with children. Let us not further ponder why a creep with a prestigious responsible job would solicit sex with children. Let us not further still ponder why there seem to be so many upscale creeps soliciting sex with children. We must ponder why so many people who think themselves so smart can be, in the most irreducible form, so stupid.
(Via StinkyInky.com)
(Via StinkyInky.com)
TRANSLATION: Which Democratic candidate can best suck up to God?
It's a smelly way of putting it, but a God who believes in abortion rights may not be God.
It's a smelly way of putting it, but a God who believes in abortion rights may not be God.
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
Much-awaited report says Iraqi government has met eight benchmarks satisfactorily, eight unsatisfactorily and has made mixed progress on two others, U.S. officials say.
That would not seem to be an UNMITIGATED DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, even if it is our government doing the grading.
Much-awaited report says Iraqi government has met eight benchmarks satisfactorily, eight unsatisfactorily and has made mixed progress on two others, U.S. officials say.
That would not seem to be an UNMITIGATED DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, even if it is our government doing the grading.
Meantime Der Homeland sleuths down suspicious off-duty flight-crew members.
How much money is Der Homeland wasting and how insecure is it making us wasting it?
(Via PEOPLENEWSRAG.com)
How much money is Der Homeland wasting and how insecure is it making us wasting it?
(Via PEOPLENEWSRAG.com)
I wonder if stories like this aren't a form of lobbying. One day we get the invincible routine on terrorism; the next we get Chicken Little. History should teach us there's reason to think our gumshoes may not have been on top of the situation either time. By the way, is the CIA in on this?
P. S.
"What color code in the Homeland Security Advisory System is associated with a 'gut feeling?'" House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote in a letter yesterday.
Precisely.
P. S.
"What color code in the Homeland Security Advisory System is associated with a 'gut feeling?'" House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote in a letter yesterday.
Precisely.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
In biznews, GE BANCORP has for the first time in memory called off a deal, and the shareholders liked that, which maybe says the LEGENDARY WELCH regime of buybuybuymergemergemerge isn't all it's cracked up to be; and THE CONSPIRACY wants to do away with residuals, which we hope means a nice long STRIKE.
We are sorry to hear Lady Bird has died. She brought warmth, grace and character to the White House. If her husband had been a fraction of the person she was we would not speak of him to this day with such bile.
(Via ASSPress)
"You're stuck with your iPhone and you can't take it anywhere," the Massachusetts Democrat said.
You're stuck with The Lord God $teve and He'll take you everywhere!
You're stuck with The Lord God $teve and He'll take you everywhere!
Nixon Wanted to Be Seen As 'Nicey-Nice'
That not-nicey-nice?
[T]he president brooded over his reputation as a hard man whose gentle side was not being seen by the public.
Nixon called that side of him "the whole warmth business."
Tricky Dick spent his whole career rubbing the two sticks of his personality together. Little did he ever admit they were petrified.
And in the profanity-laced conversation for which he was known in private, Nixon complained bitterly about Democratic campaign hecklers who shouted down his speeches, in contrast to well-mannered Republicans.
"Our people," he snapped, "are so goddamn polite."
That's what you get for being nicey-nice!
That not-nicey-nice?
[T]he president brooded over his reputation as a hard man whose gentle side was not being seen by the public.
Nixon called that side of him "the whole warmth business."
Tricky Dick spent his whole career rubbing the two sticks of his personality together. Little did he ever admit they were petrified.
And in the profanity-laced conversation for which he was known in private, Nixon complained bitterly about Democratic campaign hecklers who shouted down his speeches, in contrast to well-mannered Republicans.
"Our people," he snapped, "are so goddamn polite."
That's what you get for being nicey-nice!
A BLACK DAY IN HISTORY: OCTOBER 15 -- WHEN THE WALL STREET J -- FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUSINESS NETWORK OPENS!!!!!
Mark the date, Romy!
Mark the date, Romy!
Here's something we haven't seen in a while: The NPCPCAA has administered the death penalty to Oklahoma's football program -- for people doing things they wouldn't have had to do if the players were PAID as they should be.
P. S. at 3:27 p.m. Stupid me -- it wasn't the death penalty, it was just forfeiture of some wins. I guess if the NPCPCAA had to administer the death penalty there'd be no NPCPCAA.
P. S. at 3:27 p.m. Stupid me -- it wasn't the death penalty, it was just forfeiture of some wins. I guess if the NPCPCAA had to administer the death penalty there'd be no NPCPCAA.
The TWXSTERS have devised a BRILLIANT new name for Court TV: truTV!
Since we're on this gag, TWXSTERS, how about a few other new names: For CNN: falseTV! For TBS: dumTV! For Adult Swim: dummerTV! We could go on and on, but your stock's only worth $20 a share.
Since we're on this gag, TWXSTERS, how about a few other new names: For CNN: falseTV! For TBS: dumTV! For Adult Swim: dummerTV! We could go on and on, but your stock's only worth $20 a share.
Say Dubya, that was a clever stunt of yours: raising food prices so we can be (as you must say it) "ENERGY INDEPENDENT" with ETHANOL!
The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
It's the only one they know how to pass in Washington.
The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
It's the only one they know how to pass in Washington.
And Romy just came up with this heart-to-heart chat with Lucy Van Pelt:
End the experiment now, don't drag it out any longer. It hasn't worked for you, and it just hasn't worked for us.
1. Hey guy, let's see you give up one of the three most self-important TV jobs in the world and $15 million a year. 2. Steve Who? Abba-Dabba?
End the experiment now, don't drag it out any longer. It hasn't worked for you, and it just hasn't worked for us.
1. Hey guy, let's see you give up one of the three most self-important TV jobs in the world and $15 million a year. 2. Steve Who? Abba-Dabba?
I suppose this is posited to be bad news. Do we really want the young too cognizant of current affairs? They have their own fantasy lives to pursue; why screw them up with the fantasy life of the news? Besides the young are serious the way a rock ah-TEESTE is serious, in a semi-literate, semi-conscious, semi-articulate, semi-self-pitying way. And one may wonder what the point of keeping well-informed is: I have the willies, and I voted for Dubya.
(Via the usual Romy)
(Via the usual Romy)
Great: Kimberly-Clark is doing to toilet paper what the electric hand dryer did to paper towels.
Where would we be without the ASSPress?
Where would we be without the ASSPress?
The one defense ad-blurbists offer for their constant raves is that they never know when they might slight a masterpiece with a misplaced pan. Never mind that hardly seems the case these days; but what if these clowns rave a property that doesn't deserve it?
And who would have ever thought Clive Barnes could be tough?
And who would have ever thought Clive Barnes could be tough?
Re the Democrats' Unofficial Dirty-Tricks Division: I've a hunch such scandals don't register that much anymore because after Tricky Dick and Slick, after the Dems of '94 and the GOP of '06, we would almost be disappointed if our public officials weren't unethical and hypocritical. We further don't expect good behavior thanks to the reactions: the Republicans with their embarrassed silence, the Dems with their guffaws followed promptly by an "oh, we don't condone that", proof ethics is but another quiver in the pol's bag with which to shoot us in the coconuts.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
A "blogger" for that advertorial Barron's tells why SLIME's purchase of sacred Dow Jones would be a historic money loser -- and ends with this punchline:
Disclaimer: Dow Jones publishes Barron’s, Barrons.com and this blog; I am a Dow employee and shareholder; I also am a member of IAPE, a union representing Dow Jones editorial employees; IAPE has expressed opposition to the deal. (Which is not to say they consulted me.)
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
Disclaimer: Dow Jones publishes Barron’s, Barrons.com and this blog; I am a Dow employee and shareholder; I also am a member of IAPE, a union representing Dow Jones editorial employees; IAPE has expressed opposition to the deal. (Which is not to say they consulted me.)
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
After being accused of helping the subprime mortgage biz with favorable bond ratings the bond raters lower the ratings.
You wonder why it took so long.
You wonder why it took so long.
"I wish that CNN and the other mainstream media would just for once tell the truth about what's going on in this country, whether it's with healthcare -- I don't care what it is. I mean, you guys have such a poor track record."
NYT can't ignore that many readers are fascinated by Hilton
Nice juxtaposition there, Romy.
NYT can't ignore that many readers are fascinated by Hilton
Nice juxtaposition there, Romy.
McCain's campaign manager and his longtime strategist both quit
He'll need more than money now to continue.
He'll need more than money now to continue.
Hey, if this isn't great news:
Kafeel Ahmed, the engineer identified by the police as one of two main suspects in the British car bomb plot, worked for much of last year as an aeronautical engineer for an Indian outsourcing company that designs aircraft parts for companies like Boeing and Airbus.
Excellent! We outsource our work -- and give holy cockroaches an in! Nice job!
When do we stop putting our feet on the desk and taking the rest of the day off over these holy cockroaches?
Kafeel Ahmed, the engineer identified by the police as one of two main suspects in the British car bomb plot, worked for much of last year as an aeronautical engineer for an Indian outsourcing company that designs aircraft parts for companies like Boeing and Airbus.
Excellent! We outsource our work -- and give holy cockroaches an in! Nice job!
When do we stop putting our feet on the desk and taking the rest of the day off over these holy cockroaches?
Apple Plans Cheaper, Nano-Based Phone, Says JP Morgan
$5,000 A SHARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
$5,000 A SHARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UNMITIGATED DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Home-page hed; overemphasis added]
This is why, when the news-hack JERKS do their showy melodramatic hand-wringing holier-than-thou routine about the JOURNALS, we believe they cannot suffer enough. Things may not be going well in Iraq, but dammit this is bias plain and simple.
[Home-page hed; overemphasis added]
This is why, when the news-hack JERKS do their showy melodramatic hand-wringing holier-than-thou routine about the JOURNALS, we believe they cannot suffer enough. Things may not be going well in Iraq, but dammit this is bias plain and simple.
Monday, July 09, 2007
Of all the public officials we can think of who deserve to be in trouble with the authorities, The Great Alaskan Boar is at the top of the list.
"The worst thing about this investigation is that it does change your life in terms of employment potential."
Yeah, and it sorta makes it tough to pass the seat onto your grandkids.
"The worst thing about this investigation is that it does change your life in terms of employment potential."
Yeah, and it sorta makes it tough to pass the seat onto your grandkids.
Boeing has its own version of the iPHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only you can't stuff it in your pocket.
Only you can't stuff it in your pocket.
Con-SER-va-tives are in a tiz over what some allege to be a HIT PIECE!!!!! on Sen. Law-and-Order -- to which I can say, what do they expect from HOLLYWOOD? And to those who utter the sacred name of Ronny: he had time to change his mind. Law devoted himself to public service because it would help his career, and he started his White House trek when he heard flattering things from NRO.
Forbes Flash Ad Quote of the Day:
A man shall never be enriched with envy.
--Thomas Dreier (whoever he is or was)
No, but it gives him a good start!
A man shall never be enriched with envy.
--Thomas Dreier (whoever he is or was)
No, but it gives him a good start!
Ben Frankenstein's man pulls in the dough!
Fran-KENNNNNNNN's the ONNNNNNNNE! Fran-KENNNNNNNN's the ONNNNNNNNE!! No, it doesn't have the same RING to it.
I imagine it won't be long before we hear about the Dems' fundraising blahblahblah. To which we may retort: Look where it got the Republicans.
Fran-KENNNNNNNN's the ONNNNNNNNE! Fran-KENNNNNNNN's the ONNNNNNNNE!! No, it doesn't have the same RING to it.
I imagine it won't be long before we hear about the Dems' fundraising blahblahblah. To which we may retort: Look where it got the Republicans.
So: holy cockroaches have infiltrated British security -- and the Brits will do virtually nothing about them because it would be politically incorrect.
How did PC become the governing philosophy or our superiors? And why are we permitting it to tie us into knots?
And why are so many Brits made of mush?
(Via Marty)
How did PC become the governing philosophy or our superiors? And why are we permitting it to tie us into knots?
And why are so many Brits made of mush?
(Via Marty)
Year to date, the 2007 boxoffice is $4.89 billion, up more than 6% [SIC!!!!!] compared with last year's $4.65 billion, though admissions remain flat.
So where are all these MILLIONS barging down the popcorn restaurants' doors ready to affirm MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER, PAUL DRECK?
So where are all these MILLIONS barging down the popcorn restaurants' doors ready to affirm MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER, PAUL DRECK?
Surprise: The effluents of RowlingCorp may not encourage kids to read other books.
Who wants to bet that in a generation RowlingCorp and its zillionaire-making fantasies will be largely forgotten?
Who wants to bet that in a generation RowlingCorp and its zillionaire-making fantasies will be largely forgotten?
GoreFest earned -- money?
Where was all that money going to go? Now, that's the big question. Live Earth is not a registered charity in and of itself. Any money they made on Saturday, possibly as much as $6 million, is being collected by a group called the Alliance for Climate Protection.
The Alliance is only supposed to stay in business for three years, and use the money to make commercials and disseminate as much information as possible on climate change and global warming. Some of the money will go to preexisting climate groups.
And look who's collecting it:
This should be interesting. Among the members of the Board of Directors is former Ford and Bush administration National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. There is also Teddy Roosevelt IV, a managing director of Lehman Brothers.
Squaresville! But then Brent Scowcroft has always been -- GREEN.
Where was all that money going to go? Now, that's the big question. Live Earth is not a registered charity in and of itself. Any money they made on Saturday, possibly as much as $6 million, is being collected by a group called the Alliance for Climate Protection.
The Alliance is only supposed to stay in business for three years, and use the money to make commercials and disseminate as much information as possible on climate change and global warming. Some of the money will go to preexisting climate groups.
And look who's collecting it:
This should be interesting. Among the members of the Board of Directors is former Ford and Bush administration National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. There is also Teddy Roosevelt IV, a managing director of Lehman Brothers.
Squaresville! But then Brent Scowcroft has always been -- GREEN.
TRANSLATION: Thanks to WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, we have not one screaming meemy, but two -- and millions counting the other onanists on the Web.
Huffington Post readership has roughly doubled in two years, with the site claiming 3.5 million visitors per month, although independent ratings services put the figure far lower....
FURTHER TRANSLATION: The crusading Web does its own pretty nifty job of obscuring the truth. Also the Huff's parent firm is "drifting in and out of profitability", which makes it ripe for an IPO.
(Via the too many media Web sites that seem to run the same links)
Huffington Post readership has roughly doubled in two years, with the site claiming 3.5 million visitors per month, although independent ratings services put the figure far lower....
FURTHER TRANSLATION: The crusading Web does its own pretty nifty job of obscuring the truth. Also the Huff's parent firm is "drifting in and out of profitability", which makes it ripe for an IPO.
(Via the too many media Web sites that seem to run the same links)
WSJ newsroom faces big cuts if Murdoch bid falls through
How do you like that protesting, poets of the newsroom?
DJ makes last-minute push to find alternatives to Murdoch
Which will it be, poets -- layoffs or THE FORCE OF EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL?
How do you like that protesting, poets of the newsroom?
DJ makes last-minute push to find alternatives to Murdoch
Which will it be, poets -- layoffs or THE FORCE OF EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL?
Sunday, July 08, 2007
NASCAR has a new Corporate-America-inspired "throw-the-book-at-cheaters" thing. How irritating that the Chevy Chase CEOs, who never miss a chance to skirt the law, are so humorless on cheating when they merely sponsor it.
NOOOO!!!!! Al Hunt (Al who?) admits Bloomy can't win!!!!!
What will that do to the effete-snob class?
What will that do to the effete-snob class?
I am sorry, but I have NO sympathy for someone who earns $15 million a year telling people how to think off a TelePrompTer because she didn't expect all the backbiting.
(Via ASSPress)
(Via ASSPress)
We have a winner -- for the honor of America's Ugliest Building.
The design by Mayne's firm Morphosis [is that a kind of disease?], which was assisted by SmithGroup [DilbertSpell], already has won praise from such distant voices as the New York Times and England's Architectural Review.
But early reviews in-house weren't as kind.
Elevators stalled and temperatures veered from one extreme to the other depending on the time of day. Another complaint: The floor-to-ceiling windows overloaded cubicles with sunlight -- even though the perforated steel panels along the south-facing wall were supposed to filter glare while allowing in natural light that cuts down on electricity use.
That's okay -- it's only our money.
They're not impressed The Paper of Re-CORD praised it?
Campbell: Blair planned to quit before Iraq war
Which would have deprived him of lots of money and the world from hearing a grand Winnie Churchill impersonator.
Which would have deprived him of lots of money and the world from hearing a grand Winnie Churchill impersonator.
When TNRO blasts The Nation and The Paper of Re-CORD for gushing over Raul Castro's late wife, we've got trouble right here in Pinch City.
This 1,089-WORD piece of -- diddlysquat made the FRONT PAGE of today's Daily Babbitt -- er, the StinkyInky -- er....
The folks at 20th Century Fox are holding a contest to finally resolve a mystery that has perplexed TV viewers for nearly two decades:
Where does Homer Simpson live?
In Springfield. Right. But which one? About 55 are scattered from Maine to California.
More puzzling: Why is Fox wasting its time?
Because SLIME knows you INFERNAL FRAUDULENT HACKS WILL WASTE OURS.
A HEAVILY IRONIC NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD to JEFF!
And because this made the FRONT PAGE with 25,000 Pennsylvania state employees about to be furloughed, the owner of the Daily Babbitt -- er, the StinkyInky -- er, is among the finalists for the NEUHARTHISM OF THE YEAR AWARD!
The folks at 20th Century Fox are holding a contest to finally resolve a mystery that has perplexed TV viewers for nearly two decades:
Where does Homer Simpson live?
In Springfield. Right. But which one? About 55 are scattered from Maine to California.
More puzzling: Why is Fox wasting its time?
Because SLIME knows you INFERNAL FRAUDULENT HACKS WILL WASTE OURS.
A HEAVILY IRONIC NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD to JEFF!
And because this made the FRONT PAGE with 25,000 Pennsylvania state employees about to be furloughed, the owner of the Daily Babbitt -- er, the StinkyInky -- er, is among the finalists for the NEUHARTHISM OF THE YEAR AWARD!
Now that terror has found a home in I---m's professional ranks, I'd like SUPERHOOPER to tell me why we can trust any M----m of any class.
Ben Frankenstein may have had a bad day (depending upon his current politics) when he learned of this: the Feds are altering the room in Tricky Dick's library devoted to Watergate so the public (led by a Harvard scholar!!!!!) can learn -- THE TRUTH.
Look, we're suspicious about motives too. Unfortunately, Nixon WAS a crook. Only Ben Frankenstein would deny it -- for now.
Look, we're suspicious about motives too. Unfortunately, Nixon WAS a crook. Only Ben Frankenstein would deny it -- for now.