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, April 07, 2009
Well, as we should have foreseen, that PR0N incident at UMd ended with a fierce gust of hot air from all sides. We should have known it because college abandoned their students' safety and their remaining marbles in general decades ago. We would not be surprised down the road apiece to hear of some vicious gang rape or menage à mille, or of an NPCPCAA probation (REMEMBER LEFTY DRIESELL!), or of a big protest for disinvestment.
Recession forces Paris Hilton and her BFF to economize
Maybe Paris and her BFF economizing are one reason you clowns are having to economize in the press box.
This is also an argument, we're afraid, for stealing from the ASSPress.
OR:
Reuter's [SIC] Tom Glocer: 'Why Does The New York Times Need to Have 6-700 [SIC] Journalists?'
The former GanNETt at a not-very-spendthrift $2.69.
(Second and fourth links via the usual Romy)
Maybe Paris and her BFF economizing are one reason you clowns are having to economize in the press box.
This is also an argument, we're afraid, for stealing from the ASSPress.
OR:
Reuter's [SIC] Tom Glocer: 'Why Does The New York Times Need to Have 6-700 [SIC] Journalists?'
The former GanNETt at a not-very-spendthrift $2.69.
(Second and fourth links via the usual Romy)
Some countries have their scourges -- like the one just struck by an earthquake:
Italy has a record of botching recovery programmes. The performance of the authorities following the last big earthquake, in Umbria and Le Marche 12 years ago, is encouraging. By last September, 92% of houses that been damaged had been made habitable again. But what haunts the survivors of the latest disaster is the Irpinia earthquake of 1980. It was the prelude to scandalous waste and corruption. Cash was diverted to the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, and even today some of the victims are still living in what was intended as temporary accommodation.
Italy has a record of botching recovery programmes. The performance of the authorities following the last big earthquake, in Umbria and Le Marche 12 years ago, is encouraging. By last September, 92% of houses that been damaged had been made habitable again. But what haunts the survivors of the latest disaster is the Irpinia earthquake of 1980. It was the prelude to scandalous waste and corruption. Cash was diverted to the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, and even today some of the victims are still living in what was intended as temporary accommodation.
The newsrag up north that shares a name with a toothpaste has done its own take on religious decline. Look, you can't deny something's at work here. What used to be called assimilation works against religious identity; so does the dumbing down of religious traditions. So does prosperity, which knocks a pretty fair prop out from under the need for churchgoing. Modern culture offers its own version of omnipotence. That Islam almost alone shows an increase is a function of its community's intense social cohesion and a faith strict enough to inspire -- militants. In the end, who wants to be bored with bad music, bad preaching and bad politics -- what too much of religious "life" has come to? The people are not dead to religion, but religion is too often dead to the people.
I didn't really want to mention this, but Paramount Pete says he wasn't forced up! Whether true or false we know somebody's full of it.
Somehow we can't imagine Ol' Blue Eyes doing a "concept album about an electric car".
The "opener" is said to be "a big guitar thing that lumbers around for a few minutes". Wait, that's the history of rock!
“Her engine’s running, and her fuel is clean,” he sings. “She only uses it because she’s a machine.”
Hey One! We've got a national anthem for you!
Did Neil Young ever get a rotten review before? Isn't he one of the sacrosanct?
And as if he doesn't take enough from PILLHEADS:
Obama Sides With Banks Accused of Racism
This, we must guess, is among the lesser of many evils the banks perpetrate. Things like redlining do go hand-in-hand with FEES.
It's times like these we see The One's good side. Now if only he could break the 'Prompter habit and stop talking from both sides of his mouth.
Obama Sides With Banks Accused of Racism
This, we must guess, is among the lesser of many evils the banks perpetrate. Things like redlining do go hand-in-hand with FEES.
It's times like these we see The One's good side. Now if only he could break the 'Prompter habit and stop talking from both sides of his mouth.
A story like this may explain why the hacks are somewhat playing down the courageous action in Vermont. See, if we don't test armor on something, maybe holy cockroaches and other such types would test it out on humans. Usually the hack's first instinct is to quote the screaming meemies. Strangely we don't see it so much here either even if the hacks covertly take their side. No we don't like it that pigs must die. Humans shouldn't have to make up the difference.
(Or maybe because it's "ho-hum". The exact opposite of a PILLHEAD or a BOB HERBERT!!!!! is a guy obscuring any passion or forthrightness under a fog of cuteness -- the Mike Kinsley way, the GRATE.COM way.)
(Or maybe because it's "ho-hum". The exact opposite of a PILLHEAD or a BOB HERBERT!!!!! is a guy obscuring any passion or forthrightness under a fog of cuteness -- the Mike Kinsley way, the GRATE.COM way.)
"I'm not going to spend my time criticizing him. There's plenty of critics in the arena. I think it's time for the ex-president to tap dance off the stage and let the current president have a go at solving the world's problems," the former president said in Calgary, Alberta on March 17. "He deserves my silence. And if he wants my help, he can pick up the phone."
I guess it's too much then for Vice-President Throttlebottom to shut his yap. He could have said we're doing our darnedest. No, he had to remember his "testing" gag. When do the folks with the visors and the pencil sticking through both ears start with their cheerleading?
I'd feel better, Abe, if the people pointing out our pitfalls weren't WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!! JR. and PILLHEAD'S ACCENT.
I guess it's too much then for Vice-President Throttlebottom to shut his yap. He could have said we're doing our darnedest. No, he had to remember his "testing" gag. When do the folks with the visors and the pencil sticking through both ears start with their cheerleading?
I'd feel better, Abe, if the people pointing out our pitfalls weren't WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!! JR. and PILLHEAD'S ACCENT.
I've long thought of "The Corner" as the conservative watercooler but if we can be the pill for desperate times, we'll be here for you.
MS. TRAVERS, I wouldn't have used that word.
MS. TRAVERS, I wouldn't have used that word.
Casino big: Don't discuss economy with gamblers
Who cares if our lever pullers are suffering? Just so long as the gamb -- GAMING business suffers less!
I love such Good Samaritanship!
Who cares if our lever pullers are suffering? Just so long as the gamb -- GAMING business suffers less!
I love such Good Samaritanship!
We had vaguely heard about this business with Wolverine and paid it no mind until we learned this morning that our favorite PR guy Rog was fired for pirating it. That's a no-no, Rog. You should have at least asked your bosses' permission first. Now we figure it will be a long time before we hit up FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News.com again, and probably a long time before we read Rog's juicy flattery, but stranger things have happened -- like Paramount Pete being kicked upstairs.
Officials plan to unseal a 118-count indictment Tuesday accusing a Chinese national of setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran.
Jeez, One, maybe if we can just make nice with the Chinese and tell them how much we love them, maybe they'll stop doing things like this. And golly One, we really ought to put a reassuring arm around Nukeman and say, "We understand."
We understand, all right. PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!
Jeez, One, maybe if we can just make nice with the Chinese and tell them how much we love them, maybe they'll stop doing things like this. And golly One, we really ought to put a reassuring arm around Nukeman and say, "We understand."
We understand, all right. PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!
Monday, April 06, 2009
Hey Jim! Can we have all your girlfriends?
Just don't give us your brains (or lack thereof).
(Via On Deadline)
Just don't give us your brains (or lack thereof).
(Via On Deadline)
In this age going to j-school would seem (to use an overworked term) counter-intuitive. The supposed job-hunting successes suggest if the hacks did counter-intuitive things they might do a better job. We doubt that -- and we doubt most of the newly minted j-school grads will stick with jernalism for long when they realize they're not lucky enough to be WOODSTEIN or Gene 'n' Roger.
How many cute little companies with cute little names have been bought up by big companies only to be spat out when they proved indigestible? Coca-Cola has been playing a decades long game of catch-up to PepsiCo (despite the UNDYING GENIUS of RRRROBERTO GOIZUEEETA); ten years from now most of its profits will probably still come from its tooth-rotting syrup -- and caffeine.
Now this is the wave of the future at Coke: a high-tech soda fountain.
Now this is the wave of the future at Coke: a high-tech soda fountain.
So yes, issue a condemnation in the Security Council to show one and all (especially the Japanese, who are sensitive about missiles flying over their territory) that we take this seriously. After that, send a message to North Korea's foreign ministry that we're ready to resume the six-party talks and to throw in a lot of incentives if Pyongyang is ready to change course—but that the next step must be theirs, not ours. It's time to stop playing their game.
TRANSLATION: Instead of dumping bowls of wet noodles on the Three-Millimeter-High tyrant, make him a nice tasty six-course noodle meal. It's still noodling.
TRANSLATION: Instead of dumping bowls of wet noodles on the Three-Millimeter-High tyrant, make him a nice tasty six-course noodle meal. It's still noodling.
Movie rental company Blockbuster says the risk it may not complete financing deals raises "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern.
That doubt started when SUMNER bought it.
That doubt started when SUMNER bought it.
These days, with the Wall Street bailout fueling populist rage, there is an opportunity for a new Mencken to show his mettle. But is there anyone among the current crop of right-wing pundits who can bear comparison to the Sage?
"Absolutely nobody," declares Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley, who edited Mencken's posthumous memoir My Life as Author and Editor.
"These people are self-important pipsqueaks," Yardley said, via e-mail. "I don't respect a single one of them, much less think that a single one of them deserves to be compared to H.L.M. I do have a measure of respect for David Brooks, whose knee doesn't seem to jerk in his sleep, but he's no Mencken and I suspect he'd be the first to say so."
And then, as if on cue:
Naturally, there are those on the right who would reject Yardley's assessment. "I THINK I AM THE RIGHT-WING MENCKEN!!!!!" Ann Coulter asserted on CNN in 2006. (For good measure, she also claimed to be the right-wing Mark Twain.) R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., editor in chief of The American Spectator, has been compared to Mencken, as have the Canadian writer Mark Steyn and humorist P.J. O'Rourke. (O'Rourke gets bonus points for being the H.L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute.) [Self-important overemphasis added]
Despite his quasi-endorsement of David Gurgle Jr., we shall take it from a pro.
(Via the usual Romy, who wouldn't find a modern Mencken even if he were any good)
Former Sen. Caspar Milquetoast Jr. is running for governor of Rhode Island!
The idea of a "coalition" of moderates of both stripes sounds so appealing in theory. In fact we get squoosh, and compromise in the worst sense, and the Dems remember they're cats, and Republicans remember they're dogs (or vice versa; I like cats and dogs). A politician has to stand for something, unlike Caspar, who stands on a big damp sponge. Unfortunately standing for something seems to mean PILLHEAD, or Speaker Babs.
The idea of a "coalition" of moderates of both stripes sounds so appealing in theory. In fact we get squoosh, and compromise in the worst sense, and the Dems remember they're cats, and Republicans remember they're dogs (or vice versa; I like cats and dogs). A politician has to stand for something, unlike Caspar, who stands on a big damp sponge. Unfortunately standing for something seems to mean PILLHEAD, or Speaker Babs.
Having been a victim myself, through Madoff's West Coast feeder stalwart Chais, I know firsthand all about the high fees: 25% of income earned.
And STILL you invested?
Sorry though I feel for Bernie's victims, some of them may want to point the finger of blame at the mirror.
And STILL you invested?
Sorry though I feel for Bernie's victims, some of them may want to point the finger of blame at the mirror.
The Flying Keyboard, on Freep's home page:
It will not save us. No basketball game can do that. No matter who wins tonight, Tuesday morning the jobs still will be gone, the factories still silent and empty, the houses still for sale or abandoned altogether.
Why do I suspect I'd find a big fat BUT when clicking on the link?
It will not save us. No basketball game can do that. No matter who wins tonight, Tuesday morning the jobs still will be gone, the factories still silent and empty, the houses still for sale or abandoned altogether.
Why do I suspect I'd find a big fat BUT when clicking on the link?
North Korea's missile launch: UN punts, up to US now
In this game of football punting is the only play.
In this game of football punting is the only play.
TSA detains official from Ron Paul group
Aw, you shouldn'a done it, Der Homeland. Don't you realize the LaRouchites are basically harmless?
Except the ones on the street, who may give off germs.
Pfffffffffffffffffft!
Aw, you shouldn'a done it, Der Homeland. Don't you realize the LaRouchites are basically harmless?
Except the ones on the street, who may give off germs.
Pfffffffffffffffffft!
Ford cuts debt by $9.9 billion; shares rally
Way to go big F! Not everyone in your biz is an incompetent.
Our auto industry can pull out of it, but it will be a long, hard slog.
Way to go big F! Not everyone in your biz is an incompetent.
Our auto industry can pull out of it, but it will be a long, hard slog.
TRANSLATION: Is ESPNCORP's Pixar unit a victim of the curse of the intellectually self-satisfied -- and making films for itself?
(Via The Daily Beast)
(Via The Daily Beast)
Paramount Pete's "quitting"!
Now we'll no longer know the thrill of having a real movee exec running a show-biz trade rag. There'll be others. (Or maybe not, the way rags have been going.)
(Via MediaBistro, who links to SUPERNIKKI!!!!!, who says he's been FIRED!!!!!!!!!! -- er, kicked upstairs. "Hollywood can now safely ignore Bart. Gray is the guy to suck up to there." And if he's the good show-biz flack we expect he is, he will return the favor.)
Now we'll no longer know the thrill of having a real movee exec running a show-biz trade rag. There'll be others. (Or maybe not, the way rags have been going.)
(Via MediaBistro, who links to SUPERNIKKI!!!!!, who says he's been FIRED!!!!!!!!!! -- er, kicked upstairs. "Hollywood can now safely ignore Bart. Gray is the guy to suck up to there." And if he's the good show-biz flack we expect he is, he will return the favor.)
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Analyst: YouTube Will Lose Almost $500 Million This Year
If YouTube were in another business, and run by someone other than the Perfect Kingdom of Mountain View, would someone have shut it down by now?
If YouTube were in another business, and run by someone other than the Perfect Kingdom of Mountain View, would someone have shut it down by now?
Just now I wandered into Roger Ebert's Journal and his sigh over life in the old newspaper days. One could say Rog should write a memoir but I don't know because Rog is sure of himself, he's very politically sure of himself, he's written lots of rave reviews and he's made zillions. I think his life story is all those raves. For a moment, though, he forgot all that, and we forgot all that, and he made his readers envy a life before computers, and marketing, and, yes, bloggers.
Today in a convenience store we noticed the latest issue of Fortune. We are old enough to recall when it was a rich monthly, jammed with hundreds of ads; when the Fortune 500 was a media event and a keepsake worth preserving. (The 500 is all but forgotten, swarmed over by the maniacal listicles of Forbeslist.) The latest issue is 70 pages and contains an article on how to find work if you're suddenly unemployed. We would make fun of Fortune but its past hints that we've lost something irreplaceable.
Speaking of the mystery man, "a former top economic adviser to President George W. Bush" is fighting for his sanity because this convention of international blowhards that just adjourned omitted the word "free" before "market" in its communiqué. To which we say, look what our "free" markets just did.
(Via The Corner, which is also in a violently shaking tizz)
P. S. at 3:18 p. m. We see why Jo-NAH finds this uproariously funny. Jo-NAH, please scribble your jokes in the boys room.
(Via The Corner, which is also in a violently shaking tizz)
P. S. at 3:18 p. m. We see why Jo-NAH finds this uproariously funny. Jo-NAH, please scribble your jokes in the boys room.
In the latest practical jokes from ARCHDaily.com:
The covered modernistic bridge to nowhere!
AND:
No! NO! Not ANOTHER artificial sex organ!
Or is this a polyester clam?
The covered modernistic bridge to nowhere!
AND:
No! NO! Not ANOTHER artificial sex organ!
Or is this a polyester clam?
President Barack Obama said Sunday that North Korea broke international rules by launching a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles, and called on the U.N. Security Council to punish the reclusive Asian nation.
With -- let me guess -- three buckets of wet noodles!
One, you're as good at posturing as Dubya!
With -- let me guess -- three buckets of wet noodles!
One, you're as good at posturing as Dubya!
Recession has even rappers singing blues
First off, [C]RAPPERS don't SING; second, when a JAAAHHHHNNRRUH like [C]RAP sees sales declines that has me whistling a happy tune.
First off, [C]RAPPERS don't SING; second, when a JAAAHHHHNNRRUH like [C]RAP sees sales declines that has me whistling a happy tune.
That SELIGISM isn't coming back any time soon -- indeed that most of its success hinges on a cabal of greedy CEOs who are actually cutting back their sponsorships -- may be seen in that even THE RED SOX are faltering. We wouldn't bet on it staying so; but perhaps a few years weaned away from SELIGISM will teach some people that financing zillionaire mercenaries isn't that important after all.
You know, PINCH, You're always talking about reducing Your staff as though it's a sin (never mind what You're trying to do up north); but consider, if You could eliminate all the stuff in Your rag that's spin, or a partisan ploy, or a press release, or an advertorial, or stuff that can't be confirmed, or stuff that rehashes stuff you'd run before, how thick do you think Your Paper would be? Four pages -- even with ads?
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO MIKE!
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO MIKE!
Let us guess: Rev. JonBoy (himself a disciple of "Journalism's Relentless Centrist") is happy the Christian Right is "dead" and he proposes American religion become a mixture of Unitarianism and "realism" (and hard-core-left politics) -- along with a few platitudes to please the hicks. We wonder why KAPLAN, INC. bothers with this joke. If THE LORD GOD (an obsolete if not nonexistent character in JonBoy's world whose functions have largely been assumed by ST. WARREN) came down to try to change Zeitgeist He would leave totally defeated.
Our guys say the Three-Millimeter-Tall Despot launched a piece of junk into the ocean. On another planet his enemies would reclaim his junkyard in a war reminiscent of comic opera. Instead he knocks over the WORRRRULLLLD COMMUNITY with a feather.
A world without nukes is a noble goal, which Iranians, North Koreans, Islamists and the psycho on the block will strive to make more difficult, but at least it's worth a try.
We see The One has given up on ditching the European missile defense shield. We only wish his avoidance of rigid ideology weren't limited to a few foreign-policy matters.
(Via The Daily Beast)
We see The One has given up on ditching the European missile defense shield. We only wish his avoidance of rigid ideology weren't limited to a few foreign-policy matters.
(Via The Daily Beast)
Saturday, April 04, 2009
We will believe for the moment terrorists were not behind the latest cable news executives' dream; it sounds more like the psycho from Jeff Zuck's dream. That said, we wouldn't put it past the Fumblers, Bumblers and Incompetents to deny it because they want to be loved by the world.
P. S. BRENT!!!!! says this was a partisan trick from Al Reut, and we wouldn't put it past Al Reut either.
P. P. S. The One used the bromide "senseless", so our Savior is officially not omnipotent.
P. S. BRENT!!!!! says this was a partisan trick from Al Reut, and we wouldn't put it past Al Reut either.
P. P. S. The One used the bromide "senseless", so our Savior is officially not omnipotent.
The gamb -- GAMING company Kirk Kevork -- KERKORIAN created because he was destroying a movie studio and needed a place to park its trademark is in danger of going 11. News like this makes us smile. Gamb -- GAMING was an insuperable business because it combined the infallibility of greed with the infallibility of Wall Street. THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS!!!!! we were told with a Madoffian smirk. The house may not win when it owes so much on the house; and that Kirk Kevork -- KERKORIAN could build this house with so much debt pretty well tells us his is made of straw.
(Via Cheapie Marketwatch)
(Via Cheapie Marketwatch)
OKAY!!!!! hid this one from us, but SELIGISM IS HAVING A SALE!!!!! Bud and George and the other greedmeisters think this will be a down year and next year will be flat, but after that it will be gangbusters again! Maybe, but you have to wonder, with SELIGISM relying so heavily on CEOs and the hacks saying New York's white-elephant stadiums "embalm" what's left of the corpse. True SELIGISM has forfeited much of its goodwill and kept on prospering. But that was before ordinary people discovered capitalism.
We were struck by this photo of this hot modeling thing of the moment because of the eyes. It seems to be against modeling laws for a model not to pout. Models are the opposite of Viagra with their glum personality-free I-may-not-have-a-brain-inside-of-me stares. Of course that may be because they're helping sell women's clothes -- but gosh don't women occasionally seduce? What's the point of shelling out thousands of bucks for fancy garb if you're not going to make an impression? And when was the last time an actress went for the flirty look? Half a Sophia is better than none. But because actresses seem to be recruited almost exclusively from the ranks of models they too must have the Bo-Derek-face-of-stone stares. God knows this thing will come and go fast enough. Why can't somebody make faces for our delectation again?
The mark of The Second Coming of The Econowiz is to restate the obvious in such a fireball way the reader doesn't know he's been burned by the obvious. Steve tries, he really tries, but I don't need anyone to tell me country music is but the rotted-out husk of its former self. I don't need it because every other music type is precisely the same way. We have to go back to "the traditional stuff" because frequently that's all there is.
Also I'm guessing this guy (like others writing such eulogies) makes too much of the drunk 'n' death songs. Roger Miller wrote the imperishable "Billy Bayou" as sung imperishably by Jim Reeves and the even more imperishable "King of the Road." Hank Sr. wrote "Hey, Good Lookin'". Those aren't downers for sure. Flatt and Scruggs were pretty memorably jolly. Heck Johnny Cash could smile.
Also I'm guessing this guy (like others writing such eulogies) makes too much of the drunk 'n' death songs. Roger Miller wrote the imperishable "Billy Bayou" as sung imperishably by Jim Reeves and the even more imperishable "King of the Road." Hank Sr. wrote "Hey, Good Lookin'". Those aren't downers for sure. Flatt and Scruggs were pretty memorably jolly. Heck Johnny Cash could smile.
AP NEWSALERT!!!!!!!!!!
STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- Obama: Trainers being sent to Afghanistan by NATO are "no less important" than combat troops.
Can't you guys think up news? Heck, invent news if you have to. You've done that often enough.
STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- Obama: Trainers being sent to Afghanistan by NATO are "no less important" than combat troops.
Can't you guys think up news? Heck, invent news if you have to. You've done that often enough.
The morons at Seeking Alpha discover The Electronic Rube Goldberg, complete with screaming sound effects even more annoying than Forbeslist Video. Thanks, guys!
Which is happier: a five-year-old celebrating his birthday or a cable-news executive celebrating a massacre?
Friday, April 03, 2009
Lately I've been trying to chase down interesting music on the Web. With talk of a "celestial jukebox" it's a hopeless cause but I trudge on: and in that trudge I discovered one of my fellow Blogspotters posted this outstanding album from an orchestra conducted by Buddy Bregman, then head A&R man for Verve; but as you can see it wasn't credited that way, and indeed though he didn't lead the band it could not have been credited to anyone but its arranger, Conrad Salinger. As I said some time back that name must bring a lump to the throat of music lovers, and especially soundtrack lovers. He was arguably film's greatest orchestrator, with those always identifiable fillips of eloquence. It was not long ago this business could put forth truly civilized music. Now, we have only noise.
CAVEAT: This blogger uses Rapidshare, a punitive site that forces delays and inconveniences on your downloads unless you pony up; and he also uses the arcane .flac extension. Well, at least this was no problem.
This is an old rule: When a media type says "First Amendment", clamp your hand on your wallet. Okay, perhaps those Maryland legislators were prudes, boobs, simps (these words always come out when we attack enemies of the First -- little Menckens are we! Never mind that Menck would have twenty for you for lunch), but as we said yesterday, this ho-hum KOLLEDGE attitude toward PR0N goes hand in hand with anti-Zionism and other intolerance for a cause, as it springs from the same foul PC well. Further we note that KAPLAN, INC. owns six TV stations and 720,000 cable subscribers (SIC); you're hardly a di$intere$ted ob$erver. And while we understand this patriotic fervor for our parent firm, face it -- the Wall Street Casino still prices your media properties at NEXT-TO-ZERO.
A First-Amendment defending NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD to EVA!
A First-Amendment defending NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD to EVA!
TRANSLATION: The G000,000,000GLE-140-Character-Fad purchase talk was so much Web-generated gar-bage. We could believe it, though, as the story of the Web has included so many real-life examples of gar-bage acquisition.
In THIS corner: The Recorded...SOUND Conspiracy!!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
And in THIS corner: CHEAP CHANNEL!!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
Refereeing the bout: Whichever Congressman gets the most campaign contributions!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
Have you ever found yourself hoping everyone in a fight loses?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
And in THIS corner: CHEAP CHANNEL!!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
Refereeing the bout: Whichever Congressman gets the most campaign contributions!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
Have you ever found yourself hoping everyone in a fight loses?
We wonder when our friend Bunsen Honeydew will come to the rescue. We can't just go on using words like senseless. There are reasons for these things. There's a reason for the sudden proliferation of psychopaths. These things don't sprout mysteriously like wild mushrooms -- and even wild mushrooms have a reason. This is where Bunsen comes in: if we do find out he'll do something to turn us into zombies.
We wonder also when our state media, which have inflicted us with so much senseless make-believe violence, finally acquire the gall to campaign for gun control. To paraphrase the NRA, guns don't kill people, psychos do. And something makes them psychos. Sorry, we think you're in the mix.
We wonder also when our state media, which have inflicted us with so much senseless make-believe violence, finally acquire the gall to campaign for gun control. To paraphrase the NRA, guns don't kill people, psychos do. And something makes them psychos. Sorry, we think you're in the mix.
Business experts and social scientists have long warned about the perils of any group of co-workers getting too comfortable with one another. A team of like-minded people sharing like-minded opinions behind a closed door — the dreaded groupthink — has produced some of history's worst ideas. (See Bay of Pigs, bundled mortgages, "Mission Accomplished," New Coke.)
...Time Inc., PEOPLE WARNER, AOL PEOPLE WARNER, PEOPLE WARNER REDUX....
...Time Inc., PEOPLE WARNER, AOL PEOPLE WARNER, PEOPLE WARNER REDUX....
[S]ome centrists who initially supported Obama are beginning to express anxiety that his outreach to them may have been a vote-getting ploy. David Gushee is a professor of Christian ethics at McAfee School of Theology. In March, he was tapped by the left-leaning group Faith in Public Life to lend his name to a letter in support of Sebelius. The letter praised the governor's achievements in the area of abortion reduction in Kansas despite her pro-choice voting record. Weeks later, Gushee wrote an op-ed in USA Today retracting his signature and calling on Obama to put some substance behind his rhetoric by moving quickly on his abortion-reduction promises. "My article was not 'I've given up on you,' it was 'Please do this.' You're at risk of losing the hope and confidence of those who are waiting for this."
TRANSLATION:
TRANSLATION:
Coca-Cola Co. is to publish advertisements in Australia newspapers to "correct" an earlier campaign that claimed its products did not contribute to tooth decay or obesity. The corrections will also amend the company's earlier message that its products are not over-caffeinated.
As any Cocaholic will say, LIKE HELL!
As any Cocaholic will say, LIKE HELL!
...the obscene GENIUS of Superbad.... [GENIUS overemphasis added]
What is the difference between this infernal clod and the infernal Ms. Travers except they represent two different kinds of political knee-jerk SUPERBAD?
CEO Pay Falls for First Time in 7 Years: Report
Unfortunately it took a lot of pigs to make this one fly.
The number of print magazines that folded in the first quarter reached 101 titles. By contrast, the number of print magazines that launched in the first quarter totaled 95.
TRANSLATION: We still have 12,000 titles too many.
(Via MediaBistro)
TRANSLATION: We still have 12,000 titles too many.
(Via MediaBistro)
Sorry, we have just begun to waste OUR money on business leeches.
P. S.
ROME HAD BETTER STADIA ... 2,000 YEARS AGO
There's no pleasing these Noo Yawk sportswriters, is there.
P. S.
ROME HAD BETTER STADIA ... 2,000 YEARS AGO
There's no pleasing these Noo Yawk sportswriters, is there.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
DIMWIT:
It's true that plenty of smaller newspapers without huge debt loads are in trouble. But lots of newspapers are muddling through, in part because, like our sister publication the Washington Post, they're owned by a parent company that has other lines of profitable businesses....
And how long will St. Warren and His apostles at Kaplan, Inc. go on paying for your losses with SAT tutoring?
It's true that plenty of smaller newspapers without huge debt loads are in trouble. But lots of newspapers are muddling through, in part because, like our sister publication the Washington Post, they're owned by a parent company that has other lines of profitable businesses....
And how long will St. Warren and His apostles at Kaplan, Inc. go on paying for your losses with SAT tutoring?
Several weeks ago WFMU posted a Johnny Carson "blooper" and I was ticked. Well, tonight I surfed through YouTube and found this Carnac routine -- from 1974 it says here -- and I must confess, stupid as the jokes are, I laughed. Note the comments: one says, "Carnac appearances were usually the only part of the show that I bothered to watch!", which rather implies it might be the only part of his repertoire that still stands up; and another says, "It's interesting how you can see Johnny's subtle annoyance with Ed." I'm sorry, Johnny did not like Ed. I guess when he thinks of Johnny Ed feels wistful.
And after finishing it I felt sad. Who remotely commands a fraction of his audience? And what audience is there for what's left of his comedy, however amusing? (It did not help my mood to watch what is allegedly Johnny's final TV appearance, on Letterman.) But I did laugh.
Speaking of comedians maybe this can put an end to the Traveling Vaudeville and Big Hair Show. On the other hand, think The Great Alaskan Boar.
TAPPED proves rather conclusively if you could change the names and adjectives it would be NRO, albeit without its bright comedy stars.
I grow ever more exasperated with the Web's gated communities and their vacuum-sealed thinking.
I grow ever more exasperated with the Web's gated communities and their vacuum-sealed thinking.
The head of some consultancy called Ditzco International or whatever points to the PROFOUND!!!!! influence of ED MURROW, and heightens the effect by saying in so many words the P. O. P. can fight back by being comedians, which ignores that Congresspoop Huckleberry Hound pioneered it on YouTube.
Look, we're definitely not coming down on The Other One; she's human. But for the hacks to tell us she's Jackie indicates well enough if they'd been there they'd have given the Queen a full nelson.
We should note that CONSERVATIVE WEB SITES are making a big thing about One bowing to the Grand Poobah of Oildom, and while we don't like walking in step with partisans we must confess there is the aura of a news blackout to this one. (Sorry for the Weapon of News Destruction!)
P. S. The former GanNETt at $2.43; Scripps at $1.87; Belo at $1.52; and the CLATCH at SIXTY-NINE CENTS. GOOD!
We should note that CONSERVATIVE WEB SITES are making a big thing about One bowing to the Grand Poobah of Oildom, and while we don't like walking in step with partisans we must confess there is the aura of a news blackout to this one. (Sorry for the Weapon of News Destruction!)
P. S. The former GanNETt at $2.43; Scripps at $1.87; Belo at $1.52; and the CLATCH at SIXTY-NINE CENTS. GOOD!
If it's Thursday it must be Big Double-A-Scribble Time:
1. It's official: Movees are turning into infomercials!
Hollywood this week gave up even trying to understand the true cost of marketing its films.
Yes but when you turn them into infomercials it's cost-free. Right, Sammy Glick...man?
2. It's also official -- the Tropicana redesign is the Edsel of packaged goods -- worse.
1. It's official: Movees are turning into infomercials!
Hollywood this week gave up even trying to understand the true cost of marketing its films.
Yes but when you turn them into infomercials it's cost-free. Right, Sammy Glick...man?
2. It's also official -- the Tropicana redesign is the Edsel of packaged goods -- worse.
Ex-AIG CEO: I Didn't Destroy Firm, Gov't Did
1. Does this make Hank a con-SER-va-tive hero? 2. With a little help from your friends.
1. Does this make Hank a con-SER-va-tive hero? 2. With a little help from your friends.
Excellent news for Gekko Kudlow:
Last year, the New York Stock Exchange awarded its chief executive a $4 million “performance bonus” even though the parent company posted a $745 million net loss and its stock price tumbled by two-thirds.
However:
On Thursday, board members tried to sooth seething shareholders by pledging to better align pay with performance in the future. It didn’t work.
Shucks. They don't know capitalism.
[Link added]
Last year, the New York Stock Exchange awarded its chief executive a $4 million “performance bonus” even though the parent company posted a $745 million net loss and its stock price tumbled by two-thirds.
However:
On Thursday, board members tried to sooth seething shareholders by pledging to better align pay with performance in the future. It didn’t work.
Shucks. They don't know capitalism.
[Link added]
And we can't ignore this story on Chronicle.com, about the president of Cal State Chico, who was assaulted:
In addition to being targets for lawful protests, college chiefs attract visits from angry or disturbed individuals.
And some of them, alas, bring zillions.
P. S. The fellow, whose name is Zingg, has graced our blog before, saying once of his Greeks, "[Y]ou will no longer be drinking clubs masquerading as fraternities and sororities." We wonder if the taverns are back in session.
In addition to being targets for lawful protests, college chiefs attract visits from angry or disturbed individuals.
And some of them, alas, bring zillions.
P. S. The fellow, whose name is Zingg, has graced our blog before, saying once of his Greeks, "[Y]ou will no longer be drinking clubs masquerading as fraternities and sororities." We wonder if the taverns are back in session.
Oooooooops! It appears that common sense has come -- however briefly and quaintly, to the HAULS UV HYER LURNING. In academe's scheme of things PR0N is almost as sacred as Islam, strange in that of course nearly every YOUNUHVERSUHTEEE worth its exorbitant tuition has a WOMYN'S STUHDEES DEPAHRTMEANT, and that by rights should trump pr0n; but because free expression means STICK IT TO CONSERVATIVES in those SAYKRUD EYEVEE HAULS...well, you get the message. That it takes legislators to teach one SKOOL a lesson means lots of people in HYER LURNING have ADD -- mostly toward the parents, and the taxpayers.
Although you'd think a STAYT YOUNUHVERSUHTEE could screen PR0N with impunity -- after all, aren't taxpayers but turnips ready to be squeezed, and parents but clients ready to be shaken down?
(Via Chronicle.com)
Although you'd think a STAYT YOUNUHVERSUHTEE could screen PR0N with impunity -- after all, aren't taxpayers but turnips ready to be squeezed, and parents but clients ready to be shaken down?
(Via Chronicle.com)
Another post-mortem -- on news hacks:
[M]ost journalists failed to grasp that Harris and Klebold had devised a plan far more deadly than anything they could have accomplished with their arsenal of automatic weapons. They had built propane bombs—fifty-pound explosive devices concealed in duffel bugs, which they planted around the building, undetected, in the middle of a busy school day. If the bombs had detonated as planned, the school building would have collapsed, crushing hundreds and possibly thousands of individuals. The two teenagers were planning a mass murder far surpassing the number of fatalities at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Law-enforcement investigators often make errors in judgment and reach mistaken conclusions. Yet they understood immediately the implications of the propane bombs. Why, then, did countless experienced journalists fail readers, viewers, and listeners on that vital element of the story? Not even Cullen can truly explain this failure. Yet he’s quite clear on how the process worked: due to incomplete and otherwise careless reporting, most journalists formed their frame of reference for the story early, then screened out contradictory evidence. The lesson for working journalists is obvious, but often remains undigested. [Emphasis added]
I want someone to tell me again why I should feel sorry for this failing business, a business that has so often failed US as to deserve it. And given the way the damned GE BANCORP pasted its damned peacock over the last spectacle, one cannot help harboring the hunch the boys on the TV-news end wouldn't mind a reprise again and again -- especially as "NBC" Nightly "News" has been the ratings leader for most of the last two years.
P. S. The book is here. I note that it gets three one-stars, two from people connected to Columbine. Trying to explain that is like trying to explain our economy. I guess from these two paragraphs, we were "lucky".
[M]ost journalists failed to grasp that Harris and Klebold had devised a plan far more deadly than anything they could have accomplished with their arsenal of automatic weapons. They had built propane bombs—fifty-pound explosive devices concealed in duffel bugs, which they planted around the building, undetected, in the middle of a busy school day. If the bombs had detonated as planned, the school building would have collapsed, crushing hundreds and possibly thousands of individuals. The two teenagers were planning a mass murder far surpassing the number of fatalities at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Law-enforcement investigators often make errors in judgment and reach mistaken conclusions. Yet they understood immediately the implications of the propane bombs. Why, then, did countless experienced journalists fail readers, viewers, and listeners on that vital element of the story? Not even Cullen can truly explain this failure. Yet he’s quite clear on how the process worked: due to incomplete and otherwise careless reporting, most journalists formed their frame of reference for the story early, then screened out contradictory evidence. The lesson for working journalists is obvious, but often remains undigested. [Emphasis added]
I want someone to tell me again why I should feel sorry for this failing business, a business that has so often failed US as to deserve it. And given the way the damned GE BANCORP pasted its damned peacock over the last spectacle, one cannot help harboring the hunch the boys on the TV-news end wouldn't mind a reprise again and again -- especially as "NBC" Nightly "News" has been the ratings leader for most of the last two years.
P. S. The book is here. I note that it gets three one-stars, two from people connected to Columbine. Trying to explain that is like trying to explain our economy. I guess from these two paragraphs, we were "lucky".
TRANSLATION: Having been deaf, dumb and blind to corporate crime, con-SER-va-tives turn their banshee attentions to anarchists, who, even if they are stupid and prone to mob groupthink and violence, haven't done a fragment of the damage of AIG and Lehman.
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with people thinking con-SER-va-tives are bereft of ideas, save for St. Ayn of Rand and dollar signs.
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with people thinking con-SER-va-tives are bereft of ideas, save for St. Ayn of Rand and dollar signs.
Why does all this giddy talk about A BIG BULL MARKET RALLY!!!!!!!!!! sound to me like Wall Street apologists praying for the rebirth of BERNIE and the other crooks?
This is rather apt vandalism of a statue of Lenin; unfortunately, according to this report, the vandals may be in love with madmen of their own.
(Links changed 4/26/2009 at 12:32 p. m. -- thanks to the ASSPRESS)
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
The new spending is coupled with the largest tax increase in U.S. history -- $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
Who will pay all those taxes? The president says it's just the rich. But let's keep in mind that a lot of these "rich" people are actually small-business owners, and small businesses create 70 percent of the new jobs each year.
This is a typical con-SER-va-tive trope. When your typical con-SER-va-tive says it you can be sure he's only marginally interested in little guys (much as, say, Jo-NAH must pay lip-service to anti-abortionists to pursue his nihilistic pop-cultyure fantasies) and eyeball-staringly intensely interested in the hyperrich. As we learned too well under the late unlamented Dubya, little guys are just a rhetorical tool to justify all sorts of idiotic giveaways to the ExxonMobils -- and the Lehmans and Madoffs who have cleaned so many of us out. And most of them happened, sad to say, on the P. O. P.'s watch.
And it is dismaying that Sen. Gregg or his interns use this trope, for the bulk of his or his interns' op-ed makes sense: We're going bananas with our budget for what? To bankrupt our grandchildren? But that's the advantage of one-party rule in a democracy: You don't have to ask tough questions; you just force them on your heirs.
Who will pay all those taxes? The president says it's just the rich. But let's keep in mind that a lot of these "rich" people are actually small-business owners, and small businesses create 70 percent of the new jobs each year.
This is a typical con-SER-va-tive trope. When your typical con-SER-va-tive says it you can be sure he's only marginally interested in little guys (much as, say, Jo-NAH must pay lip-service to anti-abortionists to pursue his nihilistic pop-cultyure fantasies) and eyeball-staringly intensely interested in the hyperrich. As we learned too well under the late unlamented Dubya, little guys are just a rhetorical tool to justify all sorts of idiotic giveaways to the ExxonMobils -- and the Lehmans and Madoffs who have cleaned so many of us out. And most of them happened, sad to say, on the P. O. P.'s watch.
And it is dismaying that Sen. Gregg or his interns use this trope, for the bulk of his or his interns' op-ed makes sense: We're going bananas with our budget for what? To bankrupt our grandchildren? But that's the advantage of one-party rule in a democracy: You don't have to ask tough questions; you just force them on your heirs.
Hey reverse Robin Hoods! Here's "How to Keep Ad Skippers From Fast-Forwarding Your Ad":
Researchers found that creative work must rate "high right out of the blocks," said Carl Marci, CEO and co-founder of Innerscope.
TRANSLATION: Flashing a moon, as always.
Researchers found that creative work must rate "high right out of the blocks," said Carl Marci, CEO and co-founder of Innerscope.
TRANSLATION: Flashing a moon, as always.
Viewers should see the same commercials during television shows on the Web as they do on traditional TV, Time Warner Cable Chief Operating Officer Landel Hobbs said in an interview Wednesday.
And as more of the reverse Robin Hoods' ill-gotten gains from us migrate to The Web we can expect to see the same shows too, with any luck worse than ever.
Right now, online video advertising is fairly tepid. Asked about a potential backlash from consumers accustomed to fewer ads during online streams, Hobbs expressed little concern. "What we find is that people don't mind ads," he said, "but they say give me the convenience of watching when and where I want to."
Do you have Flashblock on your computer?
And as more of the reverse Robin Hoods' ill-gotten gains from us migrate to The Web we can expect to see the same shows too, with any luck worse than ever.
Right now, online video advertising is fairly tepid. Asked about a potential backlash from consumers accustomed to fewer ads during online streams, Hobbs expressed little concern. "What we find is that people don't mind ads," he said, "but they say give me the convenience of watching when and where I want to."
Do you have Flashblock on your computer?
In the one place in the world that's still proud of its crusading stands on the Audi 5000 and Alar:
“60 Minutes was, and is, a competitive and combative place,” Kroft said. “It’s a place where grudges are held for a long time. I remember Ed Bradley, not long before he died, talking about how Mike Wallace had screwed him over on a couple of stories.”
Somewhere, no doubt, he's still talking.
(Via the usual Romy)
“60 Minutes was, and is, a competitive and combative place,” Kroft said. “It’s a place where grudges are held for a long time. I remember Ed Bradley, not long before he died, talking about how Mike Wallace had screwed him over on a couple of stories.”
Somewhere, no doubt, he's still talking.
(Via the usual Romy)
"How do you justify Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour having a hair-and-makeup person coming to her office when you just fired the receptionist?"
Easy: When you're Anna Wintour -- or her BOSS.
(Via IWantMedia)
Easy: When you're Anna Wintour -- or her BOSS.
(Via IWantMedia)
Hey Hank! Hank "TRUST ME" Blodget! When you pull a visual gag like that it's the equivalent of flipping the middle finger in my face, or an unprovoked verbal assault. You did it solely to offend me, your would-be reader, and I take it personally.
The last I looked, imbecile, you were STILL barred from the securities biz for LIFE.
Even a room full of bears would no doubt agree that there will eventually be a company that has at least a $1 trillion market capitalization! SO NAME ONE COMPANY THAT IS BETTER POSITIONED THAN GOOGLE TO ONE DAY HAVE A $1 TRILLION MARKET CAPITALIZATION!!!!! (Trillion-dollar-market-cap overemphasis added)
TRILLION-DOLLAR BARRED-FOR-LIFE IMBECILE.
The last I looked, imbecile, you were STILL barred from the securities biz for LIFE.
Even a room full of bears would no doubt agree that there will eventually be a company that has at least a $1 trillion market capitalization! SO NAME ONE COMPANY THAT IS BETTER POSITIONED THAN GOOGLE TO ONE DAY HAVE A $1 TRILLION MARKET CAPITALIZATION!!!!! (Trillion-dollar-market-cap overemphasis added)
TRILLION-DOLLAR BARRED-FOR-LIFE IMBECILE.
TRANSLATION: It's a jungle out there -- and if kids want to unleash their inner Tarzan, so be it. Who cares if they're mauled?
One of these days something so bad will happen the Bunsen Honeydews will come up with a "solution."
One of these days something so bad will happen the Bunsen Honeydews will come up with a "solution."
JO-NAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! MS. TRAAAAAAAAAAVERS!!!!! OUTSTANDING NEWS!!!!! ATLAS SHRUGGED IS COMING TO THE SCREEN!!!!!
KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH!
Why do I occasionally think of Ayn Rand as the hard-core con-SER-va-tive's version of L. Ron Hubbard?
The Rand involvement on earlier versions -- along with the verbiage-heavy sections -- is probably why there hasn't been a Rand project on the big screen in 60 years, not since Gary Cooper played Howard Roark in Warner Bros.' "The Fountainhead."
1. Interesting -- a control phreak from the grave. 2. "Verbiage-heavy" -- L. Ron indeed.
P. S. Evidently I'm not the only one.
KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH!
Why do I occasionally think of Ayn Rand as the hard-core con-SER-va-tive's version of L. Ron Hubbard?
The Rand involvement on earlier versions -- along with the verbiage-heavy sections -- is probably why there hasn't been a Rand project on the big screen in 60 years, not since Gary Cooper played Howard Roark in Warner Bros.' "The Fountainhead."
1. Interesting -- a control phreak from the grave. 2. "Verbiage-heavy" -- L. Ron indeed.
P. S. Evidently I'm not the only one.
Obama, Medvedev agree to reopen nuke talks
Obama and Hu announce 'economic dialogue'; president to visit China this year
Having saved he economy, The One -- SAVES THE WORLD!
Or rather, DIALOGUES it!
Obama and Hu announce 'economic dialogue'; president to visit China this year
Having saved he economy, The One -- SAVES THE WORLD!
Or rather, DIALOGUES it!
The Great Alaskan Boar is not guilty due to "prosecutorial misconduct", but that doesn't mean he's innocent.
What absolute jackassery. It's enough to make you sympathize with the guy -- almost.
What absolute jackassery. It's enough to make you sympathize with the guy -- almost.
“It’s a free-for-all,” said Arthur Fogel, head of global touring for Live Nation and U2’s longtime tour promoter. “When you are an artist charging $200, and you see that those tickets are getting sold for $400, and $200 is evaporating into an economy that you have no piece of, I don’t think that’s fundamentally fair. But it’s a reality we live with, no different than people illegally downloading music.”
When do the "music" masochists stop turning their money into water vapor?
“This is a huge consumer rip-off,” said Russ Haven, legislative counsel for the New York Public Interest Research group. “There is no benefit to consumers in unlimited scalping.”
When do AMSPEC or NRO run some typing on its virtue?
CONSOLATION: Ticketgouger and CHEAP CHANNEL JR. are near record lows, with a combined market cap of less than $450 million.
When do the "music" masochists stop turning their money into water vapor?
“This is a huge consumer rip-off,” said Russ Haven, legislative counsel for the New York Public Interest Research group. “There is no benefit to consumers in unlimited scalping.”
When do AMSPEC or NRO run some typing on its virtue?
CONSOLATION: Ticketgouger and CHEAP CHANNEL JR. are near record lows, with a combined market cap of less than $450 million.
25 million masochists still watch the nightly news, and somehow they're less important than the folks who watch ED MURROW AND ERIC SEVAREID.
I would say 25 million is nothing to be ashamed of but the nightly news broadcasts are something to be ashamed of.
I would say 25 million is nothing to be ashamed of but the nightly news broadcasts are something to be ashamed of.