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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. PERMALINKS: THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE! Blogroll Me! |
Monday, February 28, 2011
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![]() Nuf said...alas. Well, one more thing: last night one of SUPERNIKKI!!!!!'s commenters remarked that there's a difference between an actor and a star. What Seymour Harvey Whatshisname does is ac-TING. What Meryl Streep does is ac-TING. The American Arthouse Awards had plenty of ac-TORS. Ac-TORS help explain the recent B. O. BOOM. Ac-TORS also explain the SUPER BOWL® FOR WOMEN™'s skyrocketing ratings. A great star doesn't have to ACT. Just by being the force of nature she was Jane Russell made more men frustratedly, deliriously, mindlessly happy in one picture than the whole cadre of today's female ac-TORS (mustn't call them actresses) will have done their entire careers. Yes, there is a difference. (Originally posted 7:21 p. m.; moved to preserve pride of place)
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We note in this vein today somebody in WOLFFDOM made a thing about how the hinterlands don't care for BIGMEDIA manias like TINA!!!!! Why should they? This is the good judgment of the people versus the top-one-thousandth-of-one-percent IQs of the hacks. The dilution of scandal has much to do with BIGMEDIA and its obsessions, so much so that even with the worst scandals we think the covert angle first and not the contents. Thirty-seven years of the appearance of CRUSADING JERNALISM have done this to our body politic. (Second link via MediaBistro)
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11:36 AM
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(Via I Want Media)
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While the unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent in January, from a two-decade peak of 10.1 percent in October 2009, many of the jobs people are now taking don't match the pay, the hours, or the benefits of the 8.75 million positions that vanished in the recession, according to Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics in Toronto.... While the number of openings for food preparation and serving workers will grow by 394,000 in the decade ending in 2018, the average wage is only $16,430 including tips, based on 2008 data. Meanwhile, the number of posts for financial examiners, who work at financial-services firms to ensure regulatory compliance, will expand by just 11,100. The average pay for examiners is $70,930. Lowe's (LOW), the second-largest U.S. home improvement retailer, typifies the reshuffling of the U.S. workforce. The chain, based in Mooresville, N.C., said on Jan. 25 it is eliminating 1,700 managers responsible for store operations, sales, and administration as profit growth trails that of the larger Home Depot (HD) chain. Meanwhile, Lowe's said it will add 8,000 to 10,000 weekend sales positions and is creating a new assistant store manager position. The trend is troubling for the country's long-term prospects, says Edmund Phelps, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2006 and directs the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University in New York. Businesses aren't innovating as much, so companies "just don't seem to require all those relatively high-paid workers they once did," he says. The health-care industry is one example, the BLS said in a December report on the occupational outlook. As costs continue to rise, "tasks that were previously performed by doctors, nurses, dentists, or other health-care professionals increasingly are being performed by physician assistants, medical assistants, dental hygienists, and physical therapist aides." GEE, THANKS, EDDIES! Sunday, February 27, 2011
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10:37 PM
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"You know there's a problem when Bob Hope has the best lines," one top Hollywood PRman emails.
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8:27 PM
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6:40 PM
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![]() A police station from chopsticks and toilet paper! ![]() Now see, this central market in Spain isn't quite so bad; it improves on a late-19th-century building. But even it has a bit of that starchitectural mememe that can render good designs NSG. We reiterate though this one isn't bad at all.
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6:11 PM
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P. S. I deleted a needlessly insulting remark about the looks of one of the presenters. But I beg of this godforsaken business -- why can't we have ![]() THIS again?
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5:59 PM
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Quite likely -- because it can then mostly consume SOYLENT GREEN.
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5:53 PM
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Filming starts this spring, with a sequel on the drawing board. YES! GO FOR IT! Saturday, February 26, 2011
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6:40 PM
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![]() HHHHHHHHHHWAL-ter CrrrrrRON-KITE lives on...in his own starchitectural mess! This is as faithful to beauty as Uncle HHHHHWALT was to the truth. ![]() Now why does this modest little church need the canopy -- and a dunce cap to boot? ![]() Boy -- that church must get awwwwwwfully hot in the summer! ![]() Well it is one of our least favorite terms: adaptive reuse (translation: turning factory space over to upscale parasites), but if you're going to do it at least do it like this.
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6:06 PM
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A publication of The Philadelphia Inquirer In short, its new publisher, Philadelphia Any-Medium-But-Newsprint Inc., has finally admitted what its turnips knew instinctively for ages: the Nooz is but a tabloid edition of the StinkyInky. That it took decades for its publisher to admit it says that too many truths within and about the news biz are unspoken -- and despite economic indicators to the contrary it shows why the biz deserves more agony, even though in the end it hurts no one but the readers.
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5:55 PM
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Oscars 2011: How the year's top films reflect the times Many of this year's top movies portray dark themes or flawed characters. Why one culture watcher says they mirror this moment in history. The culture watcher is Neal Gabler, and one can be sure he at least wears blinders. Okay Neal, riddle us this (in honor of The Dark Knight, the greatest film in history): Busby Berkeley greeted the Depression. Mickey and Judy greeted the conflagration in Europe. Those were among the darkest times for man. Yet somehow the moviemakers kept their chins up, and kept America's chin up. What is with you and the other hacks that movees must be as squalid as their times? You know the answer, Neal -- and you're too much the dissembling typist to admit it: the talent to make people forget their woes ISN'T THERE. So the masterworks of the CURE may better reflect the limitations and prejudices of their makers than the times -- and for this they truly pose a danger as they can become self-fulfilling. One last bromide: Being hopelessly prejudiced and untalented the A-Ca-De-MY®'s members will of course vote for whatever picture the zeitgeist and the news hacks tell them to. Wouldn't it be something if they voted a longshot for the winner -- say, The Greatest Animated Film in History? Of course that would mean it won where Snow White didn't, and posterity would laugh, but at least we'd thumb our very-well-fixed noses at the know-it-alls.
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2:27 PM
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Then there's this story on ratings creep. We wouldn't pay it mind because anything on JACK'S ALPHABET BOTULISM BROTH will be disengaged and self-serving. But guessing how to solve an insoluble problem Timothy Noah backhandedly endorses a government-run ratings board -- and goes on to say this: A likelier ultimate solution...is that American society will become more depraved and fewer and fewer films will receive R ratings. According to Waguespack and Sorenson, the conservative lament that MPAA ratings have become more forgiving of sex and violence over time turns out to be true. They don't quantify it, but "MPAA ratings have become progressively more permissive." Eventually Americans may let their kids see everything, and the MPAA ratings board may go the way of the National Legion of Decency. That would create problems of its own that would cause me to fret about my grandchildren. But MPAA favoritism would become a thing of the past. Thankfully by that rapidly approaching time the movees already would be. Speaking of JACK, where's ANGELO'S BOYFRIEND?
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Friday, February 25, 2011
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9:07 PM
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6:11 PM
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A comedy hodgepodge full of sight gags and slapstick, the show was continually rewritten throughout its run to remain topical; its opening scene was Hitler speaking in a Yiddish accent. Sounds like our boys 74 years ago.
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6:08 PM
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6:02 PM
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Industry report: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE REVENUE SOARS IN 2010!!!!! [Soaring overemphasis added] OR: Although the number of people who saw movies was up 3% last year at 223 million... ...which is perhaps THREE PERCENT of the world's population.... ...each person saw fewer movies on average -- six in 2010 down from 6.5 the previous year. TRANSLATION: The hard-core movee fans are idiots -- and even they are starting to see the perils of their addiction.
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5:59 PM
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Newsflash! Scientists Find That Some People Really Do Treat Their Cats Like Children ...which precedes this link: Anne Midgette: Why Critics Should Link To Other Critics That's the problem.
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5:52 PM
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There would be some tweaking of his fellow celebrities, yes, but no low blows such as Jon Stewart intoning that Hollywood was "out of touch with mainstream America," or Chris Rock dismissing the Academy by saying that most people hadn’t seen the nominated films. I suspect ED MURROW was in His critically-acclaimed IRONIC style, but if you add up the BEE-OH for all the nominees we'd guess maybe a fifth of America has been to see ONE of them, and that's generous. Therefore we shall remain ensconced in our ignorance. P. S. at 6:23 P. M. SUPERNIKKI PROMISES "ANOTHER SNOREFEST"!!!!! Go get 'em, NIK!
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
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9:24 PM
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REWRITE! As George Soros moves forward, he will be undeterred by criticism and remain involved in various business and political projects. “This campaign against him has been going on for years,” an associate says. “George Soros is not going to be silenced. He is a principled man and we have principled company.” SIX OF ONE....
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6:16 PM
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This mushymouthedness we GOTTA see.
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1:42 PM
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![]() Speaking of MICKEY D's, the company has successfully turned oatmeal into JUNK FOOD!
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1:39 PM
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9:37 AM
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?!?!?!?!?!? The man who supposedly ordered the Lockerbie bombing blames a fellow terrorist?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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9:17 AM
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We'll be following the sacred ceremony through blogs, which is far more entertaining.
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8:58 AM
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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9:30 PM
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Romenesko Misc. The Society of Professional Journalists says “this interview was underhanded and unethical” and “credible news organizations should be cautious about how they report this already widely reported story, and must realize that the information was obtained in a grossly inappropriate manner according to longstanding tenets of journalism.” Full release after the jump. Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) release SPJ: Remember ethics in wake of fake phone call with Wisconsin governor INDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists, through its Ethics Committee, strongly condemns the actions of an alternative online outlet this week when an editor lied and posed as a financial backer in a recorded phone call with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Ian Murphy, editor of the Buffalo Beast, represented himself as billionaire businessman and conservative activist David Koch, a financial supporter of Gov. Scott Walker, so that he could gain access to the governor by phone. He spoke with the governor under these false pretenses. Read a full account from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. During the phone call, Murphy, as Koch, baited the governor with questions about liberals in the media and the Democrats who have vacated the statehouse to prevent a vote on a collective bargaining bill. Near the end of the call, Murphy tells the governor that once Walker crushes the unions and their Democratic base, he (as the pretend Koch) will fly Walker to California and “really show you a good time.” Walker responded: “All right. That would be outstanding.” “This tactic and the deception used to gain this information violate the highest levels of journalism ethics,” said SPJ Ethics Committee Chairman Kevin Z. Smith. “To lie to a source about your identity and then to bait that source into making comments that are inflammatory is inexcusable and has no place in journalism.” The Buffalo Beast website was down as of Wednesday afternoon. Though the Buffalo Beast purports to be an alternative news site with heavily slanted views that are neither fair nor objective, the fact remains that this interview was underhanded and unethical. Credible news organizations should be cautious about how they report this already widely reported story, and must realize that the information was obtained in a grossly inappropriate manner according to longstanding tenets of journalism. SPJ’s Code of Ethics clearly states that journalists should “be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting news.” The Code also says to avoid “undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information except when traditional open methods will not yield information vital to the public.” SPJ President Hagit Limor said what happened represents “a new low” for anyone claiming to be a journalist. “This may be how Hollywood portrays reporters, but no journalist worth his salt ever would misrepresent his name and affiliation when seeking an interview. Murphy should be ashamed not only of his actions but of besmirching our profession by acting so shamelessly.” Journalists and news organizations should take note to carefully explain how this information was obtained and take measures not to engage in similar unethical practices. TRANSLATION: Every last news hack was dancing on his, her or its desk.
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9:25 PM
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![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO TINA!!!!!'s NEWEST PR CHIEF JOHN! (Via SUPERADAM!!!!!)
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7:50 PM
by Gene
Gradual developments like this don't typically lend themselves to news coverage. But MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE.... [Not-so-gradual overemphasis added] The current battle between knee-jerk news hacks and their followers and hard-core con-SER-va-tives shows why the truth has become an impossibility on the Web. This is just a variation. Sure as there is a God in Cupertino NRO or AmSpec could shoot back with their own version of the truth. Occasionally partisans of both stripes can admit their side is less than 100-percent right, but it so decreasingly happens as to make many Web sites permanently suspect. And however well intentioned we suspect Mother Jones is trying to make A POINT rather than a case -- and the dreadful thing is we suspect it's right.
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12:21 PM
by Gene
This is just another excuse for the algorithms and UNCLE BEN sending stocks zooming up for no good reason.
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12:15 PM
by Gene
The best-laid plans of MICE... Somebody lay me odds this goes to the Nine Fingers anyway. (Via -- oh well -- NPNTR)
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12:13 PM
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There goes the European oil biz! PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!
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10:23 AM
by Gene
BONO! TURN OFF THE WEB SITE!
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10:13 AM
by Gene
![]() We wonder -- how much has the Gould-Fisk revival helped recruiting in the luxury news suites that are largely union-controlled? Please hacks, promise you'll never ever ever again talk about objectivity?
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10:09 AM
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Thus saith THE LORD! (Via Seeking Alpha)
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9:32 AM
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9:18 AM
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Do I hear a few wallets closing? Churches tithe ten percent for holy work; Kraft tithes ten percent for junk TV. IDIOTS.
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8:49 AM
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His human rights have been violated! (Via Inside Higher Ed. Higher ED?)
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8:35 AM
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8:31 AM
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This would be almost as much a gift to Democrats as SARAH!!!!! Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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8:44 PM
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![]() The thing about modern institutional architecture is that so much of it looks -- institutional. ![]() Well, one bunch of museum-planning Canadian architects has a sense of humor. We hope it isn't too expensive.
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![]() Justin Bieber’s Haircut Was ‘Calculated Move' Gee whillikers! You really think so? Honest to gods how would we have known without the intrepid Hollywood Reporter?!?!? Of course we did a little experiment with G000,000,000GLE News which NEWS HACKS totally aced: how many of them mentioned when Mary Pickford went to the barber's? She played a reckless socialite in Coquette (1929), a role where she no longer had her famous curls, but rather a 1920s bob; Pickford had cut her hair in the wake of her mother's death in 1928. Fans were shocked at the transformation.[17] Pickford's hair had become a symbol of female virtue, and cutting it was front-page news in The New York Times and other papers.[citation needed] Coquette was a success and won her an Academy Award for Best Actress,[18] but the public failed to respond to her in the more sophisticated roles. Despite that deadly "citation needed" we can believe this, far more than we can believe the hacks' gushing twaddle over this latest talent-free heartthrob. "The tools of ignorance is a nickname for a catcher's protective equipment: catchers mask, chest protector, and shin guards." For the news hack the tools of ignorance are a computer, a pliant outlet, and the vast emptiness between his ears.
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6:18 PM
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5:33 PM
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Never underestimate the power of positive thinking -- from POLLYANNAS.
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5:30 PM
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Monday, February 21, 2011
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11:12 PM
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5:56 PM
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BONO!!!!! SELL!!!!!!!!!!
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3:35 PM
by Gene
Chris Dodd is one of the most corrupt, cynical and hypocritical American politicians I have seen in my lifetime, and I say that as a life-long Democrat. Now, he will put those qualities to work lobbying for Hollywood producers, some of the most cynical, greedy people on the planet. Glad to see he has found his niche in the private sector. Hey Mr. Mortgage! Plaster that on the wall behind your desk! You've arrived!
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3:25 PM
by Gene
But say, you think there's a chance Uncle Ben and His constituents could go a bit too far?
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2:29 PM
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More good news for Uncle Ben's constituents!
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2:03 PM
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In our eyes, Faye, yes. (Via NEWSER!)
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1:59 PM
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"Military planes are attacking civilians, protesters in Tripoli now. The civilians are frightened. Where is the United Nations, where is Amnesty International?" al-Warfali told Reuters. Where they always are -- permanently bunkered.
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12:39 PM
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BONO! Sell the whole thing and spend the money on ADVERTISING -- and SAFETY EQUIPMENT!
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11:09 AM
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
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10:21 PM
by Gene
Rolls-Royce to Make All-Electric Phantom
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8:11 PM
by Gene
![]() Why are we thinking a building in blackface? ![]() How do you get from one end to the other?
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7:53 PM
by Gene
If THIS doesn't get all American broadcasters to pinch themselves and thank gods they're alive: The auto-insurance biz has granted them a permanent subsidy selling products most people don't know from Adam. Who's to blame? "Warren BUFFET" [SIC!], for making "funny" ads. Also the Web, for allegedly spawning competition. But you can always be sure when advertising kicks in -- it's gotten one money waster to burn some green on the proposed LA NFL taxpayer boondoggle...and: There are no fewer than 11 major TV campaigns on air, running the risk of consumer confusion. Plainly these morons are hoping people get so confused they can steal business -- and possibly steal it in ways other than mere advertising. We wouldn't try that, St. WARRENS -- your biz is REGULATED.
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![]() Oh really?
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10:04 AM
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“There’s an excitement level around the sport right now that we haven’t seen for some time,” said Eric Shanks, president of Fox Sports, which will broadcast 13 of this season’s 36 races. Fox, like MarketWatch, is owned by News Corp. This is EXHIBIT NUMBER 283,742,910 in why people do not trust news hacks anymore. ![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO SAM! Saturday, February 19, 2011
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5:48 PM
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P. S. Actual last two grafs: David Kelly, who helps oversee $450 billion as chief market strategist at JPMorgan Funds, says the lack of volatility may encourage investors to put more money into the market, which is what they should do. "Stocks are cheap," he says, "and for most long-term investors, the thing they would do is bet on the tide rather than play the waves." The bottom line: The low level of volatility the market has seen recently has often heralded periods of subpar returns.
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11:57 AM
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Friday, February 18, 2011
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11:00 PM
by Gene
Because he's Vlad's version of a customer-service rep, or Howie Hairshirt.
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6:49 PM
by Gene
[I]s it somehow morally wrong for the Wisconsin legislature to change the rules under which it will bargain with its employees? It's incoherent even as a question. The legislature is the entity which is supposed to set those terms--and it's no more outrageous for the GOP to favor small businessmen and the self-employed than it was for Democrats to favor a constituency which has become (as we now see) a de facto arm of the Democratic Party.
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6:36 PM
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THE BIGGER THEY ARE.... And the Wall Street Casino dealers want to make it REALLY big! Overall volume has been very light in the market though, as the individual investor put more money into bonds last year than stocks in spite of the gains. Strategists said this has been one of the longer bull markets (starting in March 2009) with barely any retail participation. TRANSLATION: ALGORITHMS AND UNCLE BEN.
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2:31 PM
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I HATE NEWS HACKS!
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11:29 AM
by Gene
I’ve seen a lot of crowded tech categories before, but this is comical. The makers will all build too much tablet inventory based upon their optimistic internal forecasts. That will lead to an epic glut and then a pricing bloodbath, as they try to give the stuff away. It should make for some great short-selling opportunities among the tablet component makers later this year. For now, we’re in the unbridled optimism phase for tablets. (Via I Want Media)
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11:23 AM
by Gene
Proponents of the film incentives, including former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, have said the efforts have helped create an emerging industry. An estimated 7,000 jobs were created in Michigan in 2008 and 2009 and more than $300 million was spent on productions in the Great Lakes State in 2010, according to the Michigan Film Office. A September 2010 Senate Fiscal Agency report, however, found Michigan paid nearly twice as much money in incentives as the industry brought to the state in a two-year period. The state spent $137.5 million to generate $80.6 million in revenue, and the efforts cost taxpayers more than $190,000 to create a single full-time job. Multiply this by a million and you have our debt boondoggle.
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10:28 AM
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OR: Oscar Insiders: Why the Academy Should Kill the Best Song Category Thursday, February 17, 2011
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10:29 PM
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9:59 PM
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I HATE NEWS HACKS!
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9:38 PM
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Proof it may not work: One small box ad in the whole thing, and not from a big advertiser.
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9:18 PM
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8:05 PM
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2. Watson proves nothing except news hacks love any story where BIGMEDIA are the center of attention, and that when IBM puts it mind to it it can rustle up consulting sales. (And far from the old wives' tale most news hacks no doubt believe, IBM isn't that much in manufacturing anymore -- witness Lenovo.) But the notion that machines can't ultimately better humans is plain wrong; it won't happen now but we'd guess it will happen with hiccups. And it will happen because man has shown too many faults, and one of them is hoping machines can rid him of his original sin.
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6:07 PM
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We still think the ultimate purpose of such legislating is for Republicans to help their BFFs the hyperrich; but Democrats have shown today they're the BFFs of the dead hand.
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3:30 PM
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New York -- I guess that's out; Leavenworth -- no, can't do it there; Alcatraz, uh -- gee whiz, where can we put this guy?
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Good luck -- when it's business.
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11:01 AM
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P. S. at 1:45 p. m. PEOPLE WARNER's DC COMICS PICTURES TELEVISION DIVISION uses PEOPLE INC. to use ITS NEWSRAG'S SITE to quote ITS FLAGSHIP on the story with a slightly more flattering picture. SYNERGY'S BETTER THAN EVER! ![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE YEAR-THUS-FAR AWARD TO MEGAN, RICHARD "CAN ANYONE HERE EDIT THIS MAGAZINE" STENGEL, JOHN "HOOEY" HUEY AND JEFF! P. P. S. COMMENT OF THE DAY, which appears no fewer than SIX TIMES thus far: Lauren Jones 10:40 am ****** It's a Little off Topic but Anyone Looking for a Job Should Check Out this Website! They are Hiring People to Work from Home for $67 / hour [Original link and URL removed -- link spam] This Job Program has saved Our Whole Family from the Recession! And I Can Work from Home with my Kids ! They are 2 positions left in the Job Progam. ******* [All SIC!!!!!!!!!!] P. P. P. S. at 10:40 p. m. How apt on the day of one of its greatest post-Warner Communications synergies JEFF fires the head of PEOPLE INC. If he inspired this claptrap I say richly deserved, as if it weren't in other ways.
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9:53 AM
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9:50 AM
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That he was A LIBERAL!!!!! Your Lordship, couldn't You buy The Atlantic -- it IS "profitable" -- and put it behind Your Wall too?
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9:47 AM
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![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO ITSY-BITSY ITZ!
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9:11 AM
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What are the odds Very Littler Jeffy runs for president in 2016?
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8:44 AM
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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You really think running more press releases will save your withered hag of a rag, huh JEFF? (Via MediaBistro)
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8:55 AM
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I don't think Dear Abby ever wrote, "DEATH TO JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!!"
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
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In a reversal from previous studies, the price of expanded basic was slightly more, and the increase slightly larger, in areas where the FCC had determined there was effective competition. So much for that fairy tale. "Most cable customers subscribe to digital cable and other services so they are enJOOOOOOOOOOOOYing a bundled discount plus have hundreds of channels and other interactive features to choose from!!!!! When you consider that total TV viewing continues to rise year after year, consumers are clearly demonstrating that they enJOOOOOOOOOOOOY their video service!!!!!" [Enjoyable overemphasis added] TRANSLATION: We gouge 'em multiple ways.
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![]() HEY ANT! I was all ready to buy the complete Ant and the Aardvark cartoons till I learned someone beat me to it and posted all seventeen of them on YouTube, saving me from paying for nothing. They're not 720 resolution but at 360 they're pretty good for stuff ripped from a DVD. (The Seal of Valenti disconcertingly graces the credits, a wan joke.) Anything from the likes of Friz Freleng will have that Warner Bros. touch but by now it had grown so wan as to be missing, replaced by the heavy hand of bad sitcoms. (Or rather the bad fin de siecle Road Runner cartoons with dialogue; both were made on the Warner lot.) The animation's okay for TV -- and face it, they were made for TV; several bear post-theatrical laugh tracks that United Ar...MGM was too lazy to remove from the disc -- but it still cheats. Doing the same things they did far better twenty-five years before the hacks under Freleng and his producing partner David H. DePatie telegraphed their gags as baldly as Seymour Kneitel, treating their audiences much as rocks, anvils and Tabasco sauce treat the Aardvark. (They were not helped by a mickey-mouse all-star jazz band playing the theme music in ten different tempos.) They earned their reward in more wage-slavery as DePatie-Freleng became a second Hanna-Barbera. And who remembers either but cartoon buffs -- who may not want to? These moth-eaten shorts would be well nigh unwatchable less the brilliant mimicry of John Byner as Jackie Ma -- the Aardvark; I cannot regard that acidic comedian without expecting him to bellow "HEY ANT!" And what's best, Byner's funnier than Jackie Mason. But even he can't save the fourth remake of some wood shavings off Termite Terrace; the cartoons are still bad free or not, but at least I have an excuse not to collect any more dust with my video library than I have to. Confession: I own an unopened five-disc box of Pink Panthers because Oldies.com sold it for $30, and I don't expect much pleasure from them either. P. S. I originally posted this yesterday with the unforced error that only the Aardvark's head and neck were animated to save DePatie and Freleng money; but then look how the lack of humor was animated. P. P. S. on 2/20/2011 at 3:15 p. m. The great non-sequitur Friz never thought of: How many ants live in the whole world -- and why must the Aardvark pick on one ant?
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5:40 PM
by Gene
![]() Sorry if this is in bad taste but one must ask -- isn't a little late for a fallout shelter? (It's in Hiroshima.) ![]() This is the Scottish Parliament. It won a prize. So did the Lockerbie bomber. No wonder they let him go. ![]() $10 million on stilts! ![]() A Swiss-cheese museum! ![]() The world's largest in-box of black paper!
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5:34 PM
by Gene
By early next year, the U.S. banking industry will have too much capital, rather than too little, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said Tuesday during an investor presentation. “I’m worried about how much capital is going to build up in the system in the U.S.,” Dimon said. “In 12 months we’re looking at a lot of capital we can’t use. That may make people do stupid things.” DO THEM! We know you can.
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10:18 AM
by Gene
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9:07 AM
by Gene
Look Donny baby, we know ya gotta shine SUMNER's shoes but do you have to shine them so bright we can see his reflection hundreds of miles away? Wouldn't "THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED!" have been more honest? Monday, February 14, 2011
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10:30 PM
by Gene
Cue the music, Elmer. P. S. on 8/29/2011 at 10:35 p. m. We can now see on that sofa on the set somebody's sitting there -- and appropriately enough, he isn't moving. I hope to soon post an edited version of the theme using the main and end titles. Bernstein's theme appears at least twice else on the Web -- in a biography on Al Jolson and a vastly overproduced modern version with a lot of extraneous matter, from an Elmer Bernstein tribute CD set.
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1:32 PM
by Gene
Obama budget ends tax cuts on wealthy
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1:25 PM
by Gene
(Via the usual Romy)
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1:18 PM
by Gene
Cuban government and union officials are acknowledging for the first time that a drive to fire half a million unneeded state workers has gotten off to a slow start, due to a lack of communication within the Labor Ministry and incompetence among the thousands of commissions set up to decide who gets the ax. SurPRAHSE, surPRAHSE, surPRAHSE!
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1:13 PM
by Gene
Then add the rest of our budget and our government looks like a MORASS.
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10:44 AM
by Gene
I guess that means we're stuck with giving for a while, sighhhhhhhhhh.
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10:19 AM
by Gene
The press is all over this Jeopardy! Challenge, and rightfully so. Such HOLY-CRAP!!!!! innovation from an American company is just what we need at a time when everyone is concerned about America falling behind China and its ilk. Jeopardy! may seem like a silly application for such an expensive effort by one of the world’s largest technology companies, but IBM is testing a system that opens frontiers in software intelligence. [Holy emphasis added] First off, one could strongly argue IBM is not an American company. Second building gee-whiz devices will not help the unemployed. Third we won't get out of our funk building an economy that's gee-whiz geniuses and everybody else. And we can see why this guy lost to Watson. He says JEOPARDY!!!!!'s "on ABC". What is "syndication"?
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9:22 AM
by Gene
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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