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Showing posts with label The media (sigh). Show all posts
Showing posts with label The media (sigh). Show all posts
Feb 13, 2015

We do the news

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From my friend John, via email: From comments at The Bleat: "When I was (briefly) at The AP in N'Awlins, the New York desk came...
Dec 24, 2014

Another Shot in the Dark (or) Fleet Street Explains All

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One event.  Two headlines and two ledes: --- Tense scenes in Missouri after police shoot another black teen  BY ERIC M. JOHNSON (R...
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Jan 3, 2012

Caucus morn on my electric teevee

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They're all here. The cameras are on. I am siamesed to my new flat screen, listening to Them tell Me what I am like. I am beginning to...
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Dec 17, 2011

Yep, Romney

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That didn't take long. Romney is The One.  Smart, experienced, moderate, and all that. The Register (correctly, I think)  dismisses Gi...
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Nov 16, 2011

The Wednesday morning authoritarian

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I'm breaking libertarian principles here by saying you did  wrong this morning if you watched MSNBC instead of CNBC. You must mount your...
Nov 4, 2011

Ingratitude

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You and I and all our neighbors have, at huge expense, dispatched our president to "The South of France"  for purposes of advising...
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Jun 24, 2011

No, it's probably not a conspiracy of silence

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I think the  AP report  on its own hot poll just reflects a headline mindset that that only the most fashionable candidates rate a mention. ...
Jun 22, 2011

It's nice to be nice, but sometimes it's nicer to have a gun

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The lady at the Kum and Go counter in Humboldt tried to be pleasant to the robber that night. He wanted smokes and cash. She handed them ove...
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Oct 22, 2010

The Obama on Mythbusters

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The subject has been well-covered except for an historical note. Mind you, I am not chastising  His Obamaness for his little joke; I am mere...
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Jul 15, 2010

The Funny Papers

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Hey, wanna read the funnies with me and Roberta X?  The Indianapolis Star may or may not  have been a  "great" newspaper, but a ...
Jun 14, 2010

President Ronald Wilson Dontmatter

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"Kennedy docs show death threats as late as 1985" That is the AP headline this morning over a story on newly released document...
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Jun 8, 2010

Top Shot

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I just deleted a long and not very complimentary review. The shooting segments are fine, and, for the rest, it is simply television doing wh...
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May 28, 2010

Dynamic cultural illiteracy

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Because I watch little electrical teevee I'm in debt  to my friend Alan of  one of the New England commissariats for word that Lt. John ...
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May 20, 2010

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Montana needs an English-only law. A newspaper there reports: "Members of the Missoula County Search and Rescue Team had their hands ...
Apr 19, 2010

Dunkirk II

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The Admiralty steams to the rescue , 70 years after Dunkirk I. Hail Britannia. --- The dust is supposed to damage jet engines, and I have s...
Apr 11, 2010

The Daily Iowan (or Brahm's Gullaby)

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The DI (in my opinion a one-time grace to university journalism) decided it needed to whack us gun c reeps up ' longside the haid ....
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Apr 3, 2010

Terror in the Heartland

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I have no explanation for it other than that we are being infiltrated by semi-sentient vertebrates deemed too kooky for San Francisco. You...
Mar 30, 2010

Quote of the Day

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Tamara, after noting teevee news sneering at the intellectual rusticity of Tea Partiers : "The absolutely inchoate rage engendered in ...
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Mar 28, 2010

Controversially speaking

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My newspaper, companion of my childhood, once upon a time an outlet for my words, always a source of bemusement, reports this morning: ...
Mar 4, 2010

Bulletin: Faulty Political Pitch Identified!

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MSNBC is leading the leftist hounds baying after a new GOP fund raising document which, gasp, portrays the Democrats as the "enemy...