All Posts Tagged With: "Media"
Big Shock: Fox News Lies
Has Faux News finally gone too far for the media to ignore? (Yeah, I know, wishful thinking.) Fox took out ads in the Washington Post, New York Times andWall Street Journal accusing the media (including WaPo, NYT, CNN and others) of not covering the Fox-organized and Fox-promoted 9/12 protest in Washington. Rick [...]
19Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued
Allan Loudell Assesses the State of Local Radio
In today’s NJ, Allan Loudell has a published piece assessing the current state of and the opportunities for local radio.
16Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
More Like This Please!
At least one reporter isn’t complicit in mainstreaming the crazy:
4Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 5 comments | Continued
Newsweek Debunks Some of the Biggest Lies About Health Insurance Reform
Very good — too bad there has not been more of this and certainly too bad that this info has not been in nonstop rotation on cable.
2Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
Damon Weaver Interviews President Obama
This is an impressive interview — Damon Weaver is a 6th grader from a school in Florida whose claim to fame before now was his delightful interview with then Senator Biden — finally gets to interview the President. I thought many of his questions were smarter and more interesting than many I’ve heard at a WH Press Conference.
14Aug2009 | cassandra_m | 8 comments | Continued
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-BILL ‘This Is A Stupid Country’ MAHER Edition
The Beast Who Despairs of His Country’s Future is inspired this week by a classic rant from Bill Maher in the Huffington Post.
Based on the mouthbreathers who have migrated here seemingly (could CRI or those phony industry health reform people have sent them?) to intentionally dumb down the quality of the discourse, El Somnambulo agrees with [...]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Aug. 2 Edition
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: Secret Life of Sperm–Do Eggs Have a Built-In ‘Loser’ Code?
While definitive ejaculations on this story might be premature (and might cause the ink to run), this scientific theory causes ‘bulo’s, uh, brain to shift into overdrive:
Thousands of infertile couples could be spared the pain, anguish and expense of fruitless IVF treatments, [...]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-Non You-Know-Who Edition
Since others are covering a certain landmark in the History of Narcissism today, the only narcissism running rampant here will be that of El Somnambulo, the Ne Plus Ultra (remember, kids, the universally-beloved ‘bulo is both multi-lingual and a master of cunning linguistics) of Masked Bloggers. As such, there is no lead story today, b/c [...]
26Jul2009 | El Somnambulo | 3 comments | Continued
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-July 19 Edition
Were El Somnambulo El Presidente of the Internet Mundo, he would demand that reader responses be thoughtful and on point. (Of course, by that standard, the Beast Who Slumbers would have to ban himself, but he digresses.) His point is that certain stories deserve much more than boilerplate talking points, and today’s lead story is [...]
19Jul2009 | El Somnambulo | 13 comments | Continued
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers: Constitution-Shredding Edition
“We interrupt this Very Special Larry King Roundtable to bring you this Breaking News. Sources are reporting that former Vice-President Dick Cheney personally instructed the CIA to withhold any and all information from Congress regarding highly-secret programs pertaining to illegally gathering information about, and from, American citizens.”
“We now return you to “Michael Jackson-Is He in Heaven or in Hell?”, featuring Larry’s special guests, Brooke Shields, Rep. Peter King, and Bubbles the Chimp.”
12Jul2009 | El Somnambulo | 18 comments | Continued
Dan Froomkin Hired By Huffington Post
The Washington Post’s self-inflicted loss is the Huffington Post’s gain. Glenn Greenwald at Salon is reporting that Dan Froomkin has been hired by the Huffington Post.
Seeing as how his sources include Dan Froomkin and Arianna Huffington, Glenn has nailed the story. As always, his take is at least as interesting as the facts:
In yet another [...]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers: Post-Fireworks Edition
Lead Story-The (UK) Independent: The Harrowing Tale of A Forced Marriage
Thankfully, the Independent isn’t just reporting on the story and its aftermath, but employed its reporters and resources to play a key role in exposing this story and helping to gain the freedom of the victim.
In an exclusive interview with the IoS, Dr Abedin told [...]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-June 28, 2009
LEAD STORY-Asia Times: Anatomy of a Pentagon Coverup
As was predicted here several weeks ago, US media lost whatever little interest they had had about recent U. S. air strikes killing innocent civilians in Afghanistan.
So, when the Pentagon released its ’study’ a week ago Friday, it disappeared into a media black hole. Which is just as [...]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-Fathers Day Edition
And by fathers, the Beast Who Slumbers emphatically does not mean L. Ron Hubbard, the ‘Father’ of Scientology. Today’s lead story is a chilling glimpse inside the full-fledged cult of Scientology as told by some of the cult’s former leaders themselves. And it’s only the first of a three-parter. Major ‘bulo Tip of the Sombrero [...]
21Jun2009 | El Somnambulo | 3 comments | Continued
America’s Best Blogger Fired by Washington Post
The right-wing meme about the Lib’rul Media? Uh, not so much.
The Washington Post, whose editorial page has been moving further and further to the right, has fired Dan Froomkin, the best bleeping blogger in America, whose White House Watch was must-reading during the Bush years and even more so during the early months of the [...]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-June 14 Edition
Lead Story: Al Jazeera: Post-Election Rioting in Tehran
Recommended not just for the lead story, but also for the linked stories. Though it’s not what ‘bulo wants to believe, it appears at least possible that Ahmadinejad won fair and square:
Commenting on the dispute, Mehran Kamrava, director of the centre for international and regional studies at Georgetown [...]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-June 7, 2009
Lead Story-The (UK) Independent: How the Freedom of Information Act and Investigative Journalism Brought Down the British Government
And, yes, this is precisely how El Somnambulo hopes that Delaware journalists will use their new access once HB 1 becomes law:
Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, in his first interview since the staggering scale of the abuse of [...]
Cris Barrish’s Story on Lonnie George is Must-Reading
Anyone who truly wants to understand the Delaware Way simply must read Cris Barrish’s superb piece on Orlando J. George, Jr. from Sunday’s News-Journal.
Lonnie George is an exceedingly brilliant and accomplished person. That is not the issue. However, like Orson Welles, he is a man of gargantuan appetites, and he has demonstrated his need (and capacity) [...]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-May 31, 2009
‘Bulo apologizes to his fan(s) for the relative lateness of this post. He was at the Arden Gild Hall last night, and comfortably blended in with those granola grannies while watching Marcia Ball and scorching opener, The Skyla Burrell Band, tear the roof off the place. So, he’s posting this and returning to Dreamland.
LEAD STORY: Mat-Su [...]
Read All About It In The Sunday Papers-May 24 Edition
LEAD STORY: Boston Globe: Bangor Volunteers Demonstrate the Ideal Way to Honor Memorial Day
Thank you to all of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you to all of those who have served our country. Thank you to those who are serving our country today. Thank you to your families who sacrifice every day on [...]
‘Moderate’ Mike Castle Votes to Investigate Nancy Pelosi
After eight years of idly sitting by while Dubya, Cheney and the Rethugs shredded the Constitution, Mike “I Like Puppies and Kids” Castle has returned to his days as a crusader by voting for an investigation into what the CIA may or may not have said to Nancy Pelosi. The Greenville gentleman hasn’t been this [...]
21May2009 | El Somnambulo | 16 comments | Continued
Secret Government in Session-Day 2
The News-Journal is all over Joint Finance Committee secrecy this year:
DOVER — The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee spent Tuesday locked in closed-door session and adjourned for the day without taking any formal action.
…The 12-member JFC, made up of House and Senate members, goes into closed-door “orientation” and then opens the doors to announce the decisions [...]
Attention, You’se Rat Bastids at Comcast…
Uh, has anyone checked out their Comcast channels today? If you have digital cable on all your sets, you will not be affected.
However, if you don’t have the digital cable or, in the case of Casa di Somnambulo, you have the big screen in the living room with the digital cable, and the other TV’s, [...]
Secret Government in Session in Dover
Nancy Cook and the Joint Finance Committee began its budget markup yesterday, free, for hopefully the last time, from the disinfectant of sunshine.
Virtually all of it took place behind closed doors, according to the News-Journal’s J. L. Miller.
Allegedly an ‘Orientation’ session, as if 12 veteran legislators with decades of JFC experience required any orientation whatsoever, [...]
Liberal Blogger Gets Big-Time Gig
Congrats to Ezra Klein, whose ‘Tapped’ blog over at The American Prospect has been ‘bulo must-reading for some time now.
He will now write for the Washington Post.
The Beast Who Slumbers wants to share these inspirational words from Klein’s farewell post. Because it demonstrates the potential and power of the blogosphere:
But we’ve also learned to pay attention [...]
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