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Showing posts with label The media (sigh). Show all posts
Showing posts with label The media (sigh). Show all posts
Aug 26, 2017

Newspapers from Pig Food

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The main trouble with the goddam mass media these days is that cruddy ink they use, made out of soybeans. When you use a page of sooty tofu ...
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Feb 15, 2016

Drip, Drip, Drip

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A friend once asked me if I could win an election for a regional candidate who wasn't well-known or particularly popular. I said, "...
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Jul 6, 2015

The Art of the Lede

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While not totally reflective of the story, this AP lede is the best I've seen in several days of media Odes on the Grecian Burn. FRAN...
Dec 24, 2014

Proving that low-cap magazines are also dangerous

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I tend to doubt the chief said this, but who knows? Anyway, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch alerts its readers to the next big thing in guns-th...
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Sep 23, 2014

Thanks a lot, Charlo, and fork you, too

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Eventually I got around to reading the Reason take on Charlo Greene's  "F--- it. I quit"  skit and even scanned a few dozen r...
May 13, 2014

A post to die by

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You might as well read it; it's as good a way as any to while away your last moments on tortured Earth, a planet which is, like you, per...
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Apr 28, 2014

April comes like an idiot, babbling ...

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It has been a tough month on the racial front. Bundy allows as how Jews are this and that. The inarticulate old guy who owns a basketball te...
Apr 20, 2014

Resurrection Day, 2014

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Religious feast days can be difficult for non-celebrants, particularly apostates living among the faithful. Even hard-logic skeptics, howeve...
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Apr 7, 2014

Augusta

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CBS teevee reminds me this morning that  a golf tournament happens later this week. This excites me because it could easily produce news of ...
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Mar 21, 2014

Thirty Seconds More than Tokyo

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Headline: AP Stylebook Takes a Dive; Facebook Furor Ensues The Stylebook, one of America's traditional bulwarks against flabby couch-p...
Feb 26, 2014

Singing to the dog

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A man with a shelf of books and a curious mind is never bored. Except maybe sometimes, rarely, he might be something like bored. I blame i...
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Feb 13, 2014

Eeeek. A bullet!

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I understand principals' need to change into Depends at the very thought of  anything more weapon-like than a blunt Crayola.  If "s...
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Feb 12, 2014

The media grinds it out

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We need to make allowances for English commentary on firearms.  After all, they are well into the third generation of their official eeeekag...
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Feb 8, 2014

If Vanita Nair proposes to me,

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I'm afraid I shall have to decline. Too bad. She's a beautiful woman and makes a good buck. Furthermore, if I should by chance fee...
Feb 5, 2014

...And, By The Way and FWIW, The NRA Gives Him an "F"

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I woke up a few minutes ago with that acute depression that overcomes a journalist when he suddenly realizes he missed the lede. Glance back...
Jan 30, 2014

Don't bury the lede

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Okay. I won't: Yahoo News needs a wire editor who isn't smoking crack on duty. -0- Home base for YN is here, and it has bee...
Jan 15, 2014

Wet your kangaroo down, Sport.

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Mad dogs and Englishmen founded Australia and  taught it everything it knows. So the Melbourne Aussies  (probably with great enthusiasm from...
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Jan 13, 2014

Flash. President to Sue Weight Watchers

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The get-skinny company is out with an arresting teevee commercial. An aww-too-cute little girl skips about, chanting that when she grows up ...
Dec 30, 2013

Just in case you missed it

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To ABC's credit, it wasn't this morning's lede story, but it was sufficiently vital to be the pre-commercial Big Teaser at  xx:4...
Dec 12, 2013

Duelling news

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I keep trying to save my friend's soul. He +tries+ to be a good anti-statist, but always get hung up on guns, and I think in his heart o...
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