WAS THE MEDIA TOO HARD ON PALIN? (2)
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Ezra Klein (58)
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Judging from my extremely scientific while-I'm-on-the-treadmill sampling method, the cable news networks are working extremely hard to report out a story of crucial importance: "Has the media been too hard on Sarah Palin?" Watching them try to examine this story is sadly hilarious, like watching a puppy unhappily considering whether it has, in fact, been a bad dog. But beneath the dark comedy is the incoherence. The media cannot "report" this story out. They are ...
Mainstream TV fights back against invaders (2)
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Dafydd Thomas, Ant and Dec, Merlin, and Tess Durbeyfield will be on the front line in the battle for viewers this autumn, as figures today reveal the scale of the decline in audiences on mainstream television channels. Official Barb (Broadcasters Audience Research Board) figures compiled for the Guardian show that although the precipitous decline of recent years has slowed, viewers - particularly younger ones - are continuing to switch off in peak time. "Event" shows ...
O'Reilly insists Sarah Palin supervised her daughter's sexual escapades (4)
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As we've discussed already, Bill O'Reilly is pissed that people are calling him a hypocrite for bashing Jamie Lynn Spear's parents for having their teen daughter knocked up, but refuses to do the same to Sarah Palin. The latest to point out that hypocrisy was the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Cynthia Tucker. As a result, O'Reilly sent a camera crew to ambush her at her home: As Tucker stopped outside her house to pick up her mail, ...
Real Time With Bill Maher: 09/05/08 (2)
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Bill Maher is my hero! Last nights show simply reminded me of that fact. While one could argue that his acerbic tongue alienates the religious right and those voters who might be persuadable, I’ve come to the conclusion that it may be the only way to fight a war with ideological fanatics. Honestly, in the course of an hour, Maher’s program did more to refute the nonsense spewed by the GOP and their Christian allies ...
Google: a 10 year timeline (1)
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My own personal elephant (1)
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And another thing... (2)
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MY LAST post seems to have antagonised at least a couple of Labour-supporting readers because they object to my indulging Iain Dale’s blog memes. They also seem to have a problem with the content of my blogroll, specifically that it includes Iain’s and other blogs which are antipathetic to Labour. I knew this would raise its head at some point - my own elephant in the sitting room, as it were. One of the reasons ...
The spirit of '73 (1)
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Material Interest on Men.style.com (4)
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On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is digging into its archives to re-create L.A. Flasha street-style-based exhibit from 35 years ago. As you can see above, the prescient original included a few fashion don'ts among its 400 images from that feathered-hair era. (Cobra Snake, eat your heart out.) At this weekend's party, those original images will be projected outdoors while photographers document the guests for an online galleryto be projected, presumably, at ...
Venue Envy (1)
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Chicago Classical Music - An online community for classical music enthusiasts (2)
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Since we last shared this space, the Chicago Sinfonietta presented its debut performance at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion. Having attended a number of Grant Park Music Festival concerts in the past, I was familiar with the venue. But I have to confess, seeing our orchestra on stage at this magnificent venue was a blast! We had over 10,000 people in attendance despite the threat of rain all day. A few thoughts. The sound system at ...
MTV API Now in Public Beta: Music Videos Anyone? (12)
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Music video content provider MTV recently announced that its Content API is out of private beta and available to the general public. Available as part of a new MTV Networks Developers Tools web site, the RESTful API gives access to content from MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo. The API supports a variety of open standards including OpenSearch and MediaRSS (see our new MTV API profile for more details). The API gives access to every music ...
Us Losing Thousands Of Subscribers Over Palin Cover [Politics] (1)
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Maybe it should have been obvious that the celebrity weeklies were going to politicize as soon as Hillary Clinton and her supporters showed strong resistance, during the primary season, to acquiescing to Barack Obama, thus highlighting the importance of women voters in 2008. But the heightened political importance of the magazines, whose readers are overwhelmingly female, wasn't in anyone's face until this week, when Us Weekly made waves with its controversial "Babies, Lies & Scandal" ...
Fournier (gasp!) has a double standard (1)
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Media Matters: Last week, in an apparent effort to paint Sen. Hillary Clinton as self-absorbed, the AP's Ron Fournier counted the number of times she used "some variation of the pronoun 'I'" in her convention speech. Fournier came up with 17. Media Matters checked his work, and found 21 such uses. But Fournier's point was undermined by the fact that at least 13 of those uses of the pronoun were about Clinton's support for Obama, ...
The Nerve (1)
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CBC Radio is soon going to be airing a new documentary miniseries called The Nerve by the same people who brought you the wonderful series The Wire: the Impact of Electricity on Music. The six part series explores the power music can have over us. It debuts this Saturday on CBC Radio so be sure to check it out. It seems like there is no (legitimate) way to hear this stuff off the radio so ...
Infowar and Measuring Authenticity (2)
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...My heart's in Accra (21)
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I had an opportunity to share my observations about “citizen propaganda” in the Russia/Georgia conflict with someone far more knowledgeable than myself - Gregory Shvedov, the editor in chief of Caucasian Knot, a leading alternative news publication focused on the Caucuses, joined the fellows at the Berkman Center for a brief discussion yesterday. Shvedov has been following the conflict closely, both through the reports of journalists associated with Caucasian Knot who are on the ground ...
Why Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy: true (1)
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Via Repubblica Il periodico inglese The Economist ha vinto una causa contro il presidente del Consiglio Silvio Berlusconi. Il premier aveva citato il settimanale britannico per diffamazione a mezzo stampa, per via di una famosa copertina che, prima delle elezioni del 2001, titolava “Why Silvio Berlusconi is unfit to lead Italy” (perché Silvio Berlusconi è inadeguato a guidare l’Italia). … “Siamo lieti di annunciare - si legge nella nota - che una corte milanese ha ...
In July, McCain Promised His VP Would Appear On Larry King (41)
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Earlier today, ThinkProgress noted that since becoming Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin has rarely taken questions from the press. The McCain campaign is increasingly shielding her from formal interviews with the media, saying that it will “do what we think is in our best interest.” Today, the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder notes: A senior McCain campaign official advises that, despite the gaggle of requests and pressure from the media, Gov. Sarah Palin ...
Cable news covered more of RNC’s peak hour than DNC’s. (7)
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Media Matters reports: During their September 2 and September 3 coverage of the Republican National Convention, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News each dedicated more on-air time — significantly more in most cases — to speeches and other official Republican convention programming during the most-watched portions of their coverage than each channel dedicated to official convention programming during the same times on comparable nights of the Democratic National Convention one week earlier. Digg It!
"A city is not a city without an Olive Garden" (1)
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Gawker: journalismism (5)
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Ha. The illustrious Columbia Journalism Review, stuck in the no-fucking-news months with the rest of us, tracked down John Quinlan, the Sioux City Journal reporter who wrote the most Onion-like real news story of all time, which will forever stand as our single favorite work of journalism. ("Olive Garden arrives" in Sioux City. That guy!). And he's very even-keeled about his newfound internet fame. "I wanted to have a little fun with the story," he ...
The Web 2.D’0h! Roundup (2)
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Another look at the menace, mediocrity and occasional magnificence around the world of social media. Architects of the Doomed User Experience Navigation Arts–a Washington, D.C.-area design firm best known for its work for defense contractors, trade associations and government agencies–has helped relaunch of the Charlotte Observer’s website. A leader in usability and enterprise websites, Navigations Arts has produced. . . . . .a site nearly indistinguishable from its peers that have stuck stubbornly with the ...
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Nick said:
Interesting look... the question of course is how to design a newspaper site so it does create more revenues... or is that possible? (The counter argument isn't that revenues need to increase with a better site, but that costs need to decline...)
بدون شرح (14)
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حاجی واشنگتن (25)
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نمی خوام درباره این لینک ویدویی توضیح اضافه بدم. خودتون ببینید. هر برداشتی هم که کردین به خودتون مربوطه، گردن من نندازین لطفا! فقط این رو می گم که این آگهی از تلویزیون الفرات که به دار و دسته عبدالعزیز حکیم وابسته است، پخش شده. زیر نویس انگلیسی اون هم مربوط به یک شرکت اسرائیلی است. اما برای اونهایی که لینک رو نمی تونن باز کنن دو کلام اضافه تر می نویسم. محتوای آگهی: آگهی ...
Merge Multiple Video Files With VirtualDub (4)
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My mother and I have a tradition. Every year, she sends me a DVD recording of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo which is shown on BBC television every August. I have quite a few years worth of Tattoo recordings now - mostly Scottish bagpipe music so when I get a bit homesick, I turn it on, crank up the volume and start dancing round the room! The other day I decided to merge some of the ...
