Alaska's Corrupt Television Bastards

They're probably no more corrupt than your average Joe Sixpack. What they probably are is a gaggle of rather young teevee journalists who got only a quick steep in the tea of of journalism ethics. (Sardonic comments on oxymorons are duly noted.)

Moreover, they cling bitterly to  that notion that drama is good for the ratings, and ratings are everything, so what's a little fomenting among friends? In the newspaper business it would be called something like reaching for a headline. "Miller Pulls a Rand, Stomps Defenseless Girl at Far Right Rally."

Good news rooms recognize the reporter's  lust  to be above the fold, or lead the Six O'clock News. They hire dictatorial editors (the only kind worth having)  to stomp down hard on the over-reaching field man.

We don't really know the full context of that telephone conversation about KTVA  helping instigate some skulduggery at a Miller rally, and perhaps it was partially or mostly  joking banter.  

Nevertheless, I do not criticize Ms. Palin's characterization. Plain language tends to bring important questions into sharper focus, and the media have their  full,  fair share of corrupt bastards.*  All that remains is the need to get our political celebrities to apply the term to, for instance,  about seven out of ten bureaucrats and politicians, teevee preachers, lobbyists, and mortgage brokers. 


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*Along with some sterling exceptions.

Technology

If a guy is looking for one more excuse to hate his cable company, he finds in his internet connection which has been working -- at best -- five minutes each hour for three or four days.

On the other hand, the audio/video sewer pipe works fine, so he can see Halloween, Part 13 if he wants. And a thrilling documentary on ancient aliens inventing Roller Derby on the large asteroid which smashed into our planet, triggering the extinction of sentient life. 

It's Mediacom, in case you're interested.

Charlie Crist, the Florida guy who wants to be a Senator, told a CNBC chatterer this morning he wants to go to Washington to help folks with "Alzheimer's, heart disease, and diabetes."

So we presume he doesn't give a sweet rat's fart about our brothers and sisters with, tuberculosis, pellagra, beri-beri, scurvy, male pattern baldness, acne, or the heartbreak of psoriasis.

Sounds damned discriminatory if you ask me.

Bloomberg to Heller: Drop Dead

The New York masters are at it again. Heller and McDonald scare them witless, so they're working on a scheme to subvert the natural rights recognized and guaranteed by Second Amendment and those two decisions.

Late with the rent (which IS too damned high)? No guns for you, deadbeat. Same with unpaid parking tickets, maybe.

(Via The Unwanted Blog)