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The ONLY good reason to keep newspapers around.
I work for the newspaper industry. Each and every day I go to work and the news is pretty much the same. The only thing I read anymore is the comics; although some of them do not belong on the comics page (Doonesbury, Mary Worth, Brenda Starr) these never make anyone laugh. I know this industry is going under and I am in search of a different ...
Posted to Moneybox by Stone Silent on April 7, 2009
CNBC Financial Advice Is Worth Every Penny Paid for It
The righteous indignation spilling out against CNBC just strikes me as odd. Blaming these guys for the current dip in the economy would be like blaming CNN for the invasion of Iraq. It is a cable channel listed deep in your on screen guide or channel list. It exists because it can, because NBC/Universal can afford to spawn dozens of special ...
Posted to Television by Ted Striker on March 16, 2009
Re: Pathetic.
Yes, it's so wrong to deprecate your Sunday morning entertainment with a critical examination of the hero of the hour, a loss felt by 3.8 million viewers bonding over the depth of character and integrity that epitomize both television and politics in our age. Morons have no place in civil discoure. Go away, morons. Some of us are in mourning. ...
Posted to Press Box by bluespapa on June 21, 2008
Re: Saint Tim
I absolutely respect his family's private mourning, and his colleagues' and professional acquaintances' public tribute, but the quote from Rutten from the L.A. Times points to how insular and, as Rutten says, ''incestuous . . . the Washington-based nexus of politics and journalism has become.'' The cover was pulled back a bit when Russert ...
Posted to Press Box by bluespapa on June 17, 2008
Fark
Back in the 1985 Neil Postman warned of the dawn of this age of non-news in his book Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age of Show Business. It's still worth a read for its analysis of the impact of fark on America's ways of thinking.
Posted to Press Box by Doc R on June 5, 2008
Slate Running to the Defense of Murdoch's Rep
Rupert Murdoch is a major, worldwide corporatized Media Baron who is wealthy beyond comprehension of most Americans and certainly most people worldwide. Rupert Murdoch owns a media empire that just keeps expanding, and which now includes the Wall Street Journal, and apparently now, New York City's Newsday. I would like to see a complete list of ...
Posted to Press Box by MichaelBernard1 on April 24, 2008
Who "made" Fox News & Carl Cameron? News Flash: Not Rupert!
Never has big money been so stupid in the History of the World. I first noticed ''the Rupert Effect'' when I saw a greatly admired film, highly critical of modern Nation State governance in an abstract, predictive, and prescient way, titled, ''Brazil'' directed by British filmmaking genius, Terry Gilliam. The first time I saw the film, I enjoyed ...
Posted to Press Box by MichaelBernard1 on January 31, 2008
'The Wire
You say: ''It was Simon's good fortune—and the good fortune of his Baltimore Sun readers, I should add—that his career at the newspaper, 1983 through 1995, coincided with some of the most profitable years in the history of newspapering.'' . . . Then you say: ''The size and character of cities change. Retail and advertising patterns ...
Posted to Press Box by gsetser on January 23, 2008
The Best Political Team on Television
I don't watch much news on television, but I often watch ''Late Edition'' on Sunday, featuring Wolf Blitzer and the best.... I think he sometimes cites some award or other, but I thought it was for that particular show on CNN, not all of CNN. It is rather grating to hear his chant over and over. True, Blitzer is an upbeat fellow, no matter how ...
Posted to Press Box by gmath309 on January 10, 2008
CNN Promo Blather
Not only is CNN staffed by incompetent, banal, blithering lipflaps, they seem to be holding a competition to create the most ridiculous, insipid promo slogans ever conceived: CNN - Essential for business ''You may THINK you know the middle east, but do you REALLY?'' ''The untold stories'' ''Be the first to know'' Each of the foregoing ...
Posted to Press Box by cousinavi on January 10, 2008

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