Tag Archives: media

Jan
07
2009

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, Scion is Creepy

there seems to be one company - or rather one marque of the no-longer profitable Toyota Motor Corp - that is still “cool:” Scion. Personally, I find their cars pretty ugly and they’re not fun to drive (I’ve rented the xB a few times through Zipcar). Perhaps their only redeeming quality in my eyes is that ?uestlove drives one. But their owners’ fanaticism brings to mind Marx’s famous quip about Ideology “They do not know it, but they are doing it.”

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Nov
19
2008

John King Kong

Watch out for John King and his magic wall. He might use it to launch some missiles at you. Or replace the midwest with someplace more useful.

In all seriousness, CNN is totally ridiculous.

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Nov
03
2008

the new poll tax

It’s rare to see the mainstream media’s pundits really demystify the hidden political motives behind “neutral,” technical, state decisions. Six-hour long voting queues in south Florida, which evoke images of a developing nation’s democracy, are not failures of preparation. They are class- and race-conscious attempts at disenfranchisement. Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s new post-Matthews counterpart to Kieth [...]

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Nov
02
2008

you can keep the vote off the internet, but you can’t keep the internet out of the vote

After the last two presidential election fiascos, it’s hard to imagine what types of voter intimidation are too brazen and what barriers to access are too large for someone to attempt this time around. The electronic voting situation is rightly frightening. The problems with vote-switching are so rampant that Oprah made headlines discussing her electoral [...]

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Oct
28
2008

today in media

Roger Ailes must have gotten to Megyn Kelly.
Ok, I can understand why any anchor would defend her station. But it’s still disheartening to see Kelly’s O’Reilly impression.

Meanwhile, the anchor story over at CNN is about Campbell Brown, who is going up against O’Reilly and Olbermann in prime time with “Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull” [...]

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Oct
25
2008

endorsement season

After mailing my absentee ballot, some reflection has left me totally confused as to how someone might still be undecided. With such stark differences between the candidates, it’s hard for me to imagine a state of mind that would result in being an undecided voter. Luckily, it doesn’t seem like we need to wait to [...]

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Oct
02
2008

couric and cafferty

Sarah Palin’s “discussion” with Katie Couric should be shocking for anyone with a brain. The content of the interview itself is of little critical interest - there’s no need for any commentary beyond what’s offered in this week’s New Yorker cover.
What I do find interesting is the way the interview has been handled. CBS News [...]

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Sep
23
2008

who is this woman and why is she working on fox?

When Papa Bear Bill O’Reilly goes insane on air, he’s usually safely entombed in a hermetically sealed pod of conservative ideology. This time, Megyn Kelly was there to kick his ass.

I don’t know how Roger Ailes messed up and hired this real reporter, but i’m sure her days at the network are numbered if she [...]

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Sep
16
2008

a newsgasm

I never thought that i would get more pleasure from the content of a Fox News segment than from the anchors themselves. The distribution of praise and criticism on this page so far is pretty strange (FOX 1, NYT -1).

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Sep
13
2008

Putting it in perspective

After thinking about coverage of the Palin interview yesterday, i went to ABC.com this morning to find the second part of the interview (this event was too good to be squashed into one night of television). Instead of finding a link to a video of our potential VP, i was treated to a large (and [...]

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