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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! |
Thursday, June 30, 2011
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Memo from 1970: ‘A PLAN FOR PUTTING THE GOP IN TV NEWS!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!’ (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL overemphasis added) Golly gee, if only they'd been like the Dems -- and it didn't cost them a dime!
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![]() You can stop SMOKING, Tony C!
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Fed's QE2 program ends with final $4.91 billion Treasury bond purchase Don't worry, we'll be reacquainted!
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11:22 AM
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Older interns signal DOW 800 GIGAHYPERMEGAQUINTAZILLION!
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10:06 AM
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ALL RIGHT, WALL STREET CASINO, YOU JUST GOT PAID AGAIN! Oh, the Greek unemployment rate is 16.2 percent and climbing? NOT OUR PROBLEM! With debt equal to more than 150% of GDP and a rapidly contracting economy, Greece must choose between declining the EU/IMF bailout and defaulting now, or imposing more austerity, getting more loans, and defaulting a few months from now. So, why would the Greek government choose to go through all of this agony just to buy a few months? And why would it want to pile on more austerity when what is needed is a program for economic growth? It could be because Greek elites have not yet moved all of their capital out of the country. Sounds like what our elites might do someday.
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And when a writer in a conservative rag can state, "It’s easy to imagine, for instance, millions becoming less accepting than in the past of top CEOs’ making hundreds of times more money than they do. Conservatives’ attempts to debunk, say, tax increases on the rich as reflecting 'class envy' and 'class warfare' may be less effective than they have been till now", who can bet something is profoundly wrong -- except the Antonin Costellos?
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Of course someone would scoff at the latter; that was from a show about a con man with a musical scam. But he did come through for River City -- more than we can say for most pols. Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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On the other hand there are all those stories.
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[C]ontrary to Colbert’s claim that Viacom has “no approval over what I say” — corporate lawyers do in fact review his scripts, proposals and even subject matter “to identify legal and commercial issues and to ensure compliance with … ‘standards and practices’ for cable shows.” [Emphasis added] We have long known ED MURROW AND ERIC SEVAREID were essentially stooges for SUMNER. Why has it taken the world so long to find out?
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Riyadh will build nuclear weapons if Iran gets them, Saudi prince warns Now who uses them on Israel first?
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And we have noted our strong skepticism of the social sciences before, but we suspect even they can stumble onto truth occasionally. Much as we hate to bother with commenters we must here as this got lots of "I play violent videogames but" and "Why has crime gone down?" As to the former they've already taken out their aggressions on the movee biz; as to the latter that may have to do with octupling our police presence in big cities and to people giving birth to fewer hoodlums. One did note a connection to all those friends of the court. And then came this zinger: I'm betting it was beneath the dignity of any of the Supreme Court Justices to actually PLAY any of the games they passed judgement on. Still, for most people to make such a decision, I think the first requirement would be to become really involved in the games. In any case I''m [sic] sure the Justices spent at least several weeks "studying" the questions about the games, just as medieval philosophers debated for several hundred years about the number of teeth in a horse's mouth....
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Dirk van Dijk has discovered that, in 2005 or whenever, GEKKO KUDLOW has ALWAYS been an idiot.
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Little named Newspaper Association of America president Whatever her name we hope, especially after last Saturday, the biz gets littler.
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Look, who doesn't want Detroit to come back? But we in Philthydelphia have tried that gag, and we have a HIP! HOT! DOWNTOWN -- and we're STILL SIXTY PERCENT GHETTO. The idea of Detroit as a raw, creative space is getting plenty of help from outside media and art circles. Earlier this month, BBC Radio ran a half-hour special called "Unbuilding Detroit." International photographer Andrew Moore explored the beauty of the city's abundant empty buildings for his critically acclaimed book "Detroit Disassembled." But if the HIP! and HOT! flood NOMOTOWN doesn't that mean all these buildings get occupied, which means it loses its HIPNESS and HOTNESS, which means it's not so BEAUTIFUL anymore? Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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We must ask, why do we need judges? We've said it before but we call them the Nine Fingers for a reason, and they're appointed for political reasons, and their decisions are political when they don't result from lobbying. We believe more than ever these legalists should be elected, and held to the same theoretically tough ethics standards as anyone else. And upon reflection we cringe at how the late Chief Finger Hole-in-the-Throat always whined that the Fingers and their thousands of clerks were COLLAPSING under the weight of all their CASES, to which we say, why not arbitration? Why not non-judicial panels with the power of law? Why must everything be decided by pygmies in black robes? P. S. Sen. Ken Levine said he expects game designers to "move forward empowered, but also with a sense of responsibility." [First two words added] Why do our superiors think they grant us a favor when they utter empty platitudes like CONGRESSPOOPS? With luck there'll be more piracy among the hardcore.
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![]() GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWSH!!!!! P. S. at 3:33 p. m. [T]he Corner is probably not the place for a music theory class. Nor anything else musical. ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN!!!!!
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[M]odel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Megan Fox's replacement) is stunning, but no actress. With her perfectly sculpted long legs and beyond bee-stung lips, she seems part of the dazzling special effects, on hand for male fans to ogle, just as they do the super-cool machinery. TRANSLATION: Now the biz is casting toys! Monday, June 27, 2011
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Hey guys! That fellow who used to spell his name with a whatisit is a CON-SER-VA-TIVE!!!!! "It's FUN!!!!! being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion! There's order! You wear a burqa! There's no choice! People are HAPPY!!!!! with that!" [Fun overemphasis added] Oh wait.... "I'm supposed to go to the White House to talk about copyright protection. It's like the gold rush out there. Or a carjacking. There's no boundaries." Because of the problem with piracy, he said, he has no plans to record another album. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!! (Via WeeklyStandard.com)
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Fortunately some people had sense: Fearing this kind of violence, Argentine authorities deployed about 2,200 police -- reported to be the largest security operation for a soccer match -- to control the crowd. But not the Interior Ministry: Suggestions to play the match in an empty stadium were turned down by interior ministry officials after consulting with the Argentine Football Association and its president, Julio Grondona. RENDELLISM in...South America! Take it away!
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Will that be anything like THE WORRRRRRRRRLD COMMUNITY stopping NUKEMAN? Pffffffffffffffffffffffft!!!!!
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My head hurts. P. S. at 12:38 p. m. We should note there were lots of friends of the court for corporate interests, and we know who Chief Finger Roberts loves. In fairness this sort of thing will prove moot for these reasons: First, videogame sales are increasingly moving away from consoles and onto the Web and iPads, which means no restrictions on purchases (and in some cases no purchases); second, the blood-and-guts games have been in decline for some time, largely due to geeks and BUGS; and third, what happened to recorded...SOUND is happening to videogames, regardless of what Deutsche Bank sells -- SAYS. Although annoyingly SOUND sales have been up of late, perhaps due to better PR stunts. P. S. at 2:08 p. m. Bugmeisters are up four percent and nine hacks out of ten say it's because WE WIN!!!!! WE WIN!!!!! (will news hacks EVER stop celebrating?) -- and the tenth more credibly says it's because the bugs are moving up Windows 8 (just what I need).
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Terrell Owens, who has placed himself among the NFL's all-time leading receivers with plans to play a 16th season, has undergone surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in one of his knees following a previously undisclosed injury this offseason, according to sources familiar with the injury. Owens, 37, was unavailable for comment but sources said the surgery by noted orthopedist Dr. James Andrews occurred within the past month. One source said Owens was hurt while on site taping a television show for VH1.
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Now you know this won't last -- zillionaires are salivating all over -- but if ever a sport deserved bankruptcy it's SELIGISM, being bankrupt in other ways.
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By ERIK ECKHOLMOn the theory that fetuses can feel pain after 20 weeks (AN IDEA DISPUTED BY MAINSTREAM MEDICINE!!!!!), several states have banned abortions later than this. [Home-page blurb; painful overemphasis added]Yep, I think PINCH wants to turn His rag into unpaid advertising.
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Perhaps the strongest evidence for the new labels comes from the International Tobacco Control Evaluation Project, which has examined tobacco-control policies around the world. After Thailand switched to graphic labels in 2005, for example, the project found that the percentage of smokers who reported thinking about health risks because of the warnings went up from about 35 percent to 55 percent. The percentage of smokers who said that the warnings made them more likely to quit rose from 31 percent to 46 percent. Happily Discover.com doesn't mention whether the number of Thais still smoking has gone down. This is like a hamburger recipe without the hamburger. News hacks find so many different ways of being bad. (Via AHTSJournal, which must find the new warning labels artistic) Sunday, June 26, 2011
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Does this drool belong in DVFORBESLISTBLOG?
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Those who laugh at or admire his saga should have their heads examined, assuming something's there. Saturday, June 25, 2011
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You don't suppose the Navy is following them? (Via several sites)
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Winnipeg Gets Its Hockey Team Back!!!!! And someone else lost its. [T]he Manitoban Renaissance is now complete!!!!! Buoyed by high commodity prices.... TYPING MORONS. No mention either that, from what I gather, taxpayers built Winnipeg's hockey arena and get nothing back. By running this bull...hockey BloomyBizWeek reminds us it may have been the first PR outlet to boast of THE DONALD'S GREAT WEALTH, and that it did more than any other flack sheet to insist LEGENDARY WELCH was a HERO. That's why I take such guff personally, and why I only wish more bad for the "news" biz. ![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO HONORARY WINNIPEG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXECUTIVE DAVE!
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P. S. on 6/26/2011 at 12:58 a. m. The defense argues Black was a model prisoner, noting that the accomplished biographer — whose subjects have included Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon — helped teach inmates American history and economics; and gladly offered advice about business and other matters to prisoners who constantly approached him. But prosecutors say the defense paints too rosy a picture of Black's prison life. One prison employee, Tammy Padgett, claimed in an affidavit filed by prosecutors that Black had arranged for inmates — "acting like servants" — to clean and cook for him, to iron his clothes, mop his floor and perform other chores. Another employee told her that Black once insisted that she address him as "Lord Black," after an honorary title bestowed on him by Britain, Padgett added. The defense denied both characterizations. 1. Those characterizations we can believe. 2. They're points in his favor for con-SER-va-tives.
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Modelizer on Jun 24, 4:08 PM said:
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One of the few who has shown leadership is Rep. Ryan, and we've meant to discuss his name before, but such leadership speaks for itself. Nonetheless in a nation as mentally and spiritually eviscerated as ours the pandering and posturing of others can drown it out.
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Oh, maybe it's because he's "liberal", or something. (Via NRO)
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This forgets the all-black movie-version bomb -- and the fact that Jackie Gleason did musical versions himself, which, like this, were unnecessary, but which, unlike this, had no chance to be smash hits with blue-rinsers and expense-account freaks. It also forgets you CAN'T revive THE GREATEST, ART CARNEY, AUDREY MEADOWS AND JOYCE RANDOLPH. (Via All That Chat)
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![]() With his tousled dark-brown hair, a cheap cigar wedged between his fingers and his lived-in tan raincoat, the endearingly likable lieutenant was as unprepossessing as the faded old Peugeot he drove. Indeed, when Columbo brought up the subject of men's clothing and male vanity in one early episode, guest star Suzanne Pleshette, as the segment title's "Witness to a Murder," pointedly looked at the disheveled detective and remarked: "Some men, Lieutenant, do not want to look like an unmade bed." The show often made light of Columbo's lack of fashion sense. Taking note of the detective's tatty attire, a suspect once asked him, "Are you undercover?" Replied Columbo, "No, underpaid." In another episode, a nun at a soup kitchen where Columbo was interviewing a witness took one look at his worn raincoat, mistook him as a vagrant and insisted on finding him a better coat in the shelter's used-clothing collection. Columbo: "Y'know, I appreciate what you're doin', I really do, but I've had this coat for seven years." Peter Falk, like his character, is now up there with the immortals.
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Don't tell me HE's running for president! Why does He have to when He runs the Wall Street Casino?
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
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Or maybe they should shut up, because in addition to being intolerant effete snobs such AHTISTS condone criminal acts and the violent gangs that often commit them. And count on The Church on Eighth Avenue to spread the good word. This fight may not be over.
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Poor financial decisions with a Chicago futures brokerage firm lost an alleged al-Qaida operative with links to Osama bin Laden some $20 million dollars in just eight months, according to a lawsuit filed recently in Chicago by the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal officials said Abu al Tayyeb, through an associate, deposited nearly $27 million — earned from a "Saudi Arabian-based investment scheme" — into an account with Chicago-based R.J. O'Brien & Associates in 2005. But because of a "poor trading position adopted" by the associate, the money dropped below $7 million less than a year later. Boo-hoo!
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A co-founder of the sports network ESPN and former play-by-play broadcaster, Scott Rasmussen is an articulate and frequent guest on Fox News and other outlets, where his nominally nonpartisan data is often cited to support Republican talking points. In October, he hired his own communications director to handle the daily deluge of press calls.Yes, we know about Ras's slant, but ROMY, you took six hours yesterday to post on that illegal-immigrant story because it didn't fit your template. You're in no position to make underhanded asides about peoples' politics. What's more, DIMWIT, you confirm the hed of YOUR story: "Survey: Voters think most reporters are liberal, try to help candidates they favor". SHUT UP, ROMY.
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Another tip of the BENNY to BEN! (Via DVFORBESLIESTBLOG)
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Where is the code that is checking URLs and reporting a failure? Or, help please! Isn't it annoying when you can't delete old posts? Pfffffffffffffffffffffft!!!!!
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It certainly didn't make the film less expensive. A reliable individual told TheWrap that the movie will net out at a cost of about $215 million, after allowing for all the tax rebates. That’s nearly twice the cost of "Men in Black II." Sony would not confirm the budget figure. The tax breaks -- New York rebates 30 percent of production costs incurred in the state -- are vital for the film. Producers needed to start shooting in 2010 in order to qualify. TRANSLATION: GUVMENT has found another boondoggle to finance! Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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![]() Romy's italicized everything but still no word on that illegal. If ED MURROW had announced some PROMINENT CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST needed PSYCHIATRIC HELP....
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The report said Dunn's blood-alcohol level was 0.196 at the time of the crash early Monday morning. The legal limit for drivers in the state is .08. The report was released Wednesday by West Goshen Township Police. Sorry, THUMBS® was RIGHT.
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And 9.1 percent of America's potential work force gives you a STANDING O!
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![]() Sen. Harry Reid's top aide received $1.2 million from Comcast Corp. after he began working for the Senate majority leader, joining a long list of congressional staffers who have collected money from past employers after starting on Capitol Hill. "COMCAST DID NOT KNOW THAT DAVID KRONE WAS GOING TO HARRY REID'S OFFICE OR TO ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT OR REGULATORY AGENCY!!!!!" when his separation agreement was negotiated, according to company spokesman John Demming. [Plausibly deniable overemphasis added] Sure Bud, that's what they all say. Some people familiar with the matter say the company wanted to make sure that he didn't harbor any ill will after leaving, given his connections. As a heavily regulated cable and media company, Comcast has a lot at stake in Washington. I think John...fudged the truth, to put it mildly. (Via Politico)
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THANKS AGAIN, BEN! But the group remains cautious: at the end of 2010, high-net-worth individuals globally still held a significant amount of their assets in more conservative instruments such as fixed-income and cash and equivalents.... Even they don't trust him?
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NCAA drug testing shows increase in pot use How would it not with all those tattoos?
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Taliban behind most Afghan civilian deaths That would seem their strong suit. The coalition's figures on responsibility for civilian deaths approximate an earlier independent estimate by the United Nations. A U.N. report blamed the Taliban for 75% of 2,777 deaths and 78% of 4,343 injuries in 2010. Yes, they're very good at that.
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Someone lets ED MURROW justly have it, though the someone be with FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS. (Via, oh well, NRO. We don't know how that "he" worked in there because it doesn't appear in other sites.) P. S. at 11:55 a. m. Apparently the whaaaaaaaambulance is shrieking that PILLHEAD calls Himself an "entertainer" -- but from our experience it's His enemies who call Him that (usually as a code phrase for AIRHEAD NAZI), and besides, we hold PILLHEAD and ED MURROW in EQUALLY low regard.
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Millions of middle-class people could get Medicaid SPENDSPENDSPEND! What else don't we know about?
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THE POT.... With “stock prices (a favorite of Bernanke as rising prices induce the wealth effect) under pressure and commodities hav[ing] sold off,” Bernanke’s more dovish policy approach could spark a “Jackson Hole Moment Part 2.” Forced to uphold the Fed’s dual mandate of price stability and full employment, Bernanke will have to balance the risks of acting and not acting in the current environment. Specifically regarding the dual mandate, unemployment has ticked up to 9.1% and it’s all but confirmed that growth projections will be lowered. Fate could be twisted the bearded academic’s hand this time: “there is the possibility that Bernanke has a Jackson Hole Moment: Part 2 and conveys a more dovish policy approach relative to April, basically signaling ever so coyly additional bond purchases.” [Emphasis added] THE POT.... Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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1. With each passing day NEWT grows hoitier and toitier. 2. This program of spending millions photographing billboards was so embarrassing even Ray LaHood had to stop it.
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GOD'S SERVANTS ARE SAFE! DOW 80 BILLION TRILLION ZILLION QUADRAQUINTILLION!!!!!
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What did we have to do in exchange?
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Meaning THE RICH GET RICHER....
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Eh, just another cost of doing BU$INE$$.
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Gannett laying off 700 more workers amid ad slump The worse news: they're likely printers, delivery people, support staff -- not THE GANG OF 27 and NOT EIGHT-DIGIT KEYBOARD THROWERS. The worst news: The Wall Street Casino's celebrating! Do you think The Daily Kaplan will report on this one? (Via Finviz)
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Lest we forget ED and FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS are "entertainment" -- and little more.
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![]() Say! Jon's launching a new hotel chain! Hey Jon, why didn't you get the folks who designed the O?
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(Ironically we found this because HENRY HONEST!!!!! linked to the Herald's copy of the Bergen Record's story of a prof who ran a prostitution ring, making it official: HENRY HONEST!!!!! is a timewaster.)
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Also, why is it necessary to upset little kids to make this point? GROSS!!!!! will hit them the hardest -- and it won't stop peer pressure from getting them to smoke. It also makes it ever less likely we can drive crud from TV and the movees. (Second link posted 10:53 p. m.)
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PRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAISE THE LORD!
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We can be sure at both outfits there is endless talk about thinking outside the box. This is especially laughable as the Bugmeisters built theirs of reinforced concrete. (Via I Want Media)
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P. S. at 11:40 a. m. Evidently -- not yet. REGINALD VAN GLEASON III LIVES! Pfffffffffffffffft! (First link via DVFORBESLISTBLOG! Second link via NEWSER!) Monday, June 20, 2011
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(Via NEWSER!)
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Did the show-biz and media trade unions just have a big pow-wow? (Via WeeklyStandard.com)
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Hey GEKKO! Isn't it time for some more porridge for GOLDILOCKS!!!!!? IT RALLIED STOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Rallying overemphasis added) Wall Street ends higher, but weak volume a warning sign This is a rally?
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As for the PLEDGE -- we would like to believe it was unintentional. But any business so completely in advertising does NOT do things unintentionally. And we know the superliberals who abound in it, and made His Incompetence our king. This is precisely the sort of thing Attorney General and Chief Social Engineer Effete Q. Snob might have done. One of the superliberals may have tried to make a statement. If so, he should have his head handed to him on a very royal platter. And here's where these two stories are related -- the scum worked for CONCAST. P. S. We know, WE KNOW, "under God" was added in 1954, but it STILL reeks. Sunday, June 19, 2011
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That's great of course but does calling him another Tiger because the game's falling apart really make him so?
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P. S. In this lunkhead CEO's defense his company has grown tremendously through acquisitions, "from $150 million in 1994 to $12 billion in 2010", something our intrepid reporter mentions in passing in the 46TH GRAF: [The company] was on the Fortune 500 by the late ’70s and remains there today. It grew then and more recently through acquisition. This is the mark of sloppy writing and indifferent editing. It is also a variant of what The Paper of Re-CORD did to the RICHLY deserving GE BANCORP by failing to note the mitigating factors in its finance unit. That said Dean Foods could have saved itself lots of grief by letting its CEO talk and not treating news hacks as trespassers. This is PR at its worst -- pardon, by the biz' standards, BEST. And too many CEOs are still greedy SOBs, and too many con-SER-va-tives are still ready to excuse them solely for making money.
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1. Lord Springer and SUMNER have fashioned a real cosmetics firm from a fictional one on a soap opera. This looks like a job for LULZSEC! (Sorry.) 2. Raise your hands: How many people believe changing widgets at the high administrative end of a consumer products firm can help sales? Somebody? ANYbody?? INDRA!!! 3. Kids Flock to Social Nets, but Few Advertisers Dare to Follow Kellogg, Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola, PEPSICO, Mattel, Hasbro, Mickey Starbucks -- gee, I can't imagine ANY reasons WHY! It's not just kids' understanding of advertising that's a lightning rod of controversy for social networks, which mainly rely on virtual and real goods and subscription business models. It's the public perception of how advertising affects kids. Besides law enforcement and the government watching over anyone working with kids online, pediatricians are getting in on the act. A March report by the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests doctors ask kids how much time they spend online and warn parents and children about social media including kids' obsession with popularity and status, sleep deprivation, social anxiety, depression, bullying -- and interactions with advertising. Here's someone who could advertise to kids on Facebook: PFIZER!
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![]() Look at that fellow, suitably meekly in the lower left-hand corner. Does he not look like a rising executive at PEOPLE INC., or maybe a budding vice-president for Mr. Bewkes? No, he's the star of a sickly green comic book movee that landed with a $52.6 million thud. Now if $52.6 million deposited itself in our lap we would not reject it, but considering PEOPLE WARNER's marketing budget for this splat aspired to equal Moon 'n' Stars' for the year we'd say they didn't get very much for their green. Heck when Mogul's Friend of all people likens the pic to KING JAMES THE NOTHINGTH you KNOW it BOMBED.
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![]() ED MURROW DOES A BOMBING RAID OVER ENEMY TERRITORY! We've said it before, we'll say it again: The people who watch FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS get the guff they want to hear, and thus with the people who watch ED MURROW. Let us never again say either organ pursues the truth.
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Plus, surprise, he has ethics problems, as if a Republican friend of The Lord would not. News hacks think the guy's a good "Republican"? Saturday, June 18, 2011
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10:28 PM
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This celebrated lucubration must be the most foolish thing from a professional writer since -- we were about to say since Ezra Pound sold Hitler and Mussolini on the radio, but the man was off his nut then, and unfortunately Christopher seems to have been sane, so we'll say since Oliver Goldsmith apologized for beating Evans the bookseller, which happily goes back much further, and we remember it for words that richly apply here, from the immortal Dr. Johnson: "It was a foolish thing well done." This foolish thing was very well done, exceedingly well done, epochally well done. Here we have a first in all of literature: a career writing a suicide note. Before this Christopher happily chugged along on his name and the connections it opened up for satiric novels people could easily talk themselves into believing were funny, if only because his father demonstrated such a wit with his love of Chuck Berry; and he wrote many, many, many arch words about travel and expensive Champagnes for the late Malcolm Forbes and his brilliant son that happily said same friends could transmute into insight. No doubt in writing this Chris flattered himself highly, for here was a writer almost as good as he! "I’ve read Obama’s books, and they are first-rate. He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine." Yes, imagine Chris -- his books were as literate, as witty, as refined as -- well, yours! And a man as literate, as witty, as refined as you could go places, forgetting He already traveled Heaven. With "a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect...Obama has in him...the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for." Here was a celebrated satiric writer sprinkling the God with fairy dust, or better still, redundantly anointing Him with holy water -- a parody in itself. Alas, from the moment of that botched oath of office the fairy dust turned to ashes, the holy water to hydrochloric acid. Christopher could have survived this embarrassment, but being a great writer he had to embarrass himself with a flourish -- not merely by promising great things of a man for the same reasons as would the Nobel committee, and from the same self-regarding reference point, and with words as fatuous as any Nobel proclamation; but more to the point, by burning bridges with his friends, applying so much gasoline to the fire he needed six alarms. And he is still recovering; since then we have been spared more brilliant columns; his friendship with Tina has gone the way of Talk magazine; his brilliant satiric novels come out more quietly, if at all. To put it bluntly, the rara avis has found a statue of Christopher Buckley. Perhaps his Hero can yet redeem Himself, and thus redeem Chris, although the task would seem even more exponentially expensive with each passing day. Regardless we hope in time Chris can find it in himself to regale book reviewers again with his abundant satire, but as with heroes like Tiger Woods and Anthony Weiner, we hope the moment does not come too soon. We have not decided whether to post this; possibly it wouldn't post for technical reasons, or it might simply be too long. But we are contemplating it.
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7:02 PM
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Well, that's all very nice, but WHAT THE HELL DO THEY SAY!!! [SIC] Chicago's Sun-Times reports that the papers, which bore no signature or date, were part of a legal case out of Christian County, which is southeast of Springfield. Lincoln appears to have written two pages of notes while preparing a petition he filed in March 1844, some two years before the prairie lawyer was elected to Congress. Still, ya gotta give Yahoo! credit once more for outstanding reporting!
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3:10 PM
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And that's still professional college basketball's motto 25 years later.
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1:49 PM
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(Via HENRY HONEST!)
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12:15 AM
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Chief Chu said police would have done many things differently if they had known how many people were going to be on the streets. He would have put more officers at the fan-zone on Georgia Street and tightened security along the fences, he said. Woulda shoulda coulda -- I guess that's what runs Canada. Woulda should coulda and we'd have run Canada below the 55th parallel. Friday, June 17, 2011
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“More-persistent inflation is affecting consumer confidence,” Schick said. “This may cause low-to-middle income consumers to trade down when shopping at retailers.” ![]() Not MY problem -- or my FRIENDS'!
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U.S. exploring possible war crimes charges against Syria
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9:16 PM
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11:51 AM
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(Via Daily Intel)
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
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7:57 PM
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(Via Weekly Standard)
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6:42 PM
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6:22 PM
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Oh, and blaming it on anarchists won't do. By sleeping on the job you should first blame it on YOURSELVES. Well, there is one hope of the modern world: Idiots did the WEINER, and as that mutt learned to his dense sorrow it can be used against you. ![]() P. S. I suppose this weird picture is our generation's version of the sailor and the girl in Times Square. Maybe if the GENIUS Ridley Scott staged it. I think I'd rather have the sailor and the girl. ![]() And how apt that Vancouver quickly sprouted its own version of the yellow ribbon. Look, the sentiment's nice, but sentiment didn't prevent the DAMAGE. P. S. on 6/17/2011 at 12:10 p. m. Despite suspicions engendered by a Web whose greatest products are publicity and cynicism that first picture was not staged.
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Guys hit on them all the time right in front of you. The cab driver hits on her, the waiter, the busboy. It goes on and on. Other girls are jealous of her. ("Oh, she's a bitch!") People look at you and think "how'd he get her?" They are ALWAYS used to getting exactly what they want. It ain't easy.
I've moved on to Broadway singers.
P.S. If you want to date a model, you need to travel in model circles. I worked for a company that hired models for promotions and I just met them all day long. One of them is bound to say, "yeah, sure I'll go out on a date with you." When you work with them you have a lot in common and lots of stuff to talk about.
It's a lot of work to date a girl like this.