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Who Has a Letter in The New York Times?
Posted in Media, Whatever, tagged Letter to the Editor, The New York Times on November 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Psychology of the Juan Williams Controversy
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, tagged Fox News, Islam, Juan Williams, NPR, Psychology on October 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last week NPR news analyst Juan Williams was fired for remarks he made on Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor” regarding Muslims. Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality. I mean look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement [...]
Tawain’s Entertaining CGI News Business
Posted in Media, tagged CGI, News, Taiwan, Videos on September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Taiwanese news organizations have become scarily good at depicting American news events rendered in stunning CGI for easy comprehension. The most recent video depicts Christine O’Donnell’s Delaware Republican senatorial primary victory by showing Sarah Palin shooting a semi-automatic on top of a moving train, Christine O’Donnell stopping a masturbating boy (depicted literally choking a chicken) and [...]
The L.A. Times’ Terrible New Standard of Relevancy
Posted in Law, Media, tagged Los Angeles Times, Proposition 8, Vaughn Walker on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this summer, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state, violated the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection without furthering any state interest. By most accounts, his ruling was legally well-founded and thought out. “[N]obody can fairly accuse Judge Walker of putting together an insubstantial or [...]
This Is It — the Majors
Posted in Media, Whatever, tagged Gawker, Making It, Newsweek on August 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It can be difficult to know when you, as a journalist, have finally made it. Maybe it’s when your first A1 article appears; maybe it’s when you make a Pulitzer shortlist; maybe it’s when you are called into the ombudsman’s office and don’t get yelled at. But today, I really know that I made it, [...]
NLM at the Beck Rally
Posted in Media, Politics, Religion, tagged Glenn Beck, New Left Media on August 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
New Left Media has another entertaining video from Glenn Beck’s Saturday Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C. Think of the attendees what you will, but there is one striking part of the video regarding Beck. Last year, Beck referred to Barack Obama—our country’s first African-American President–as a “racist… who has a deep-seated hatred for white [...]
