tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52836162009-03-23T10:27:03.147-07:00Revelations, ruminations and rants from a media junkie strung out on bad corporate media crack.Dr Zaiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11991902125162113655noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283616.post-53058389586699695442009-03-10T13:53:00.000-07:002009-03-10T14:28:27.325-07:00

Well, he was never actually ahead. Jim Cramer made the rounds to discuss the drubbing he and his network took at the hands of Jon Stewart, first on Morning Joe on MSNBC, and then on the Today Show. You knew it wouldn't be long until Stewart fired back..msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center;

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I am so sick of rich people and wall streeters telling me how things need to be. We tried it your way, now please go and have a hot steaming cup of STFU. This video of Jon Stewart commenting on CNBC is priceless. All because Rick Santelli bailed out on his appearance."If I had listened to CNBC, I'd have a million dollars now - provided I had started with a hundred million dollars" is my new

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The Coen brothers, creators of such films as O Brother, Where Art Thou, Fargo, and No Country for Old Men have done a quick commercial for the Reality Campaign. This is the organization that has been debunking the myth of "clean coal".

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Ever since Bobby Jindal gave that universally panned response to the president's address (see it here if you actually want to see it) he's been compared to 30 Rock's Kenneth the Page character played by Jack McBrayer. McBrayer appeared on a test taping (video blog) of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to rebut. Jimmy Fallon starts next week.

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Michael Phelps was not the only one to "take a hit". Silicon Valley Insider reports that Kellogg's reputation slumped after dropping Michael Phelps' endorsement contract. Gold medalist Phelps was dumped after photos emerged of him smoking pot from a bong. It started as a joke with late night comedians and talk show hosts pointing out the irony that Kellogg's products are a huge favorite among pot

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This one cracked me up. It's a news report on a new Apple laptop which forgoes the keyboard in favor of a huge wheel. You enter letters one at a time using the wheel to scroll through letters until you get to the right one. We have an iPod, a nano, and an AppleTV, so this wheel interface is very familiar to me. The thouhgt of making that the main data input device made gave me a headache with the

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Tonight they cover the high cost of Mexican Immigration.Immigration: The Human Cost

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Someone in the blogosphere doctored the Apple "1984" ad to make an anti - Hillary politcal ad. The ad mentions Obama at the end, but his campaign denies involvement. Remove the Obama reference and for me the video perfectly exemplifies media coverage of campaign '08. The mainstream media have already decided the race should be between Clinton and Obama, and other voices like Edwards and

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A lot of folks asked me to post this. Ted Stevens (R, Alaska) explains the internet - to a techno beat.

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After six years of neglect, George visits Latin America with the message: "I care". It's not playing well. The Daily Show has the best take.

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On the surface, it's another merging of two industry behemoths on the way toward a monopoly, but Kevin Maney writing for USA Today has a different take. AT&T, the entity seeking the merger, is hamstrung by debt and overhead which keeps it from "using it's income efficiently". Unfortunately, they are trying to overcome this by acquiring Bell South, itself pounded on all fronts by wireless,

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The second week in March is National Procrastination Week, but there is some confusion in the media as to what that actually means. It's either a reminder to get things going, or a celebration of putting things off. Naturally, personal organization sites like OnlineOrganizing.com believes the former and offers some organizing tips. However, as this website has of late been the poster child for

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Remember while you were watching the State of the Union Address (or better yet, the highlights on The Daily Show) the president came up with this bizarre statement:Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or

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It took a trip overseas where only high quality, non-American news media was available to remind me what this blog was all about. I haven't posted for a while. You see, this blog was originally meant to document items from the media business, under-reported and censored news, and media omissions and distortions. The last one was what burned me out. I started with a story or two on some lie the

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I thought I'd go ahead and post this from the BBC. In a statement released by the White House, Bush said:Iran is ruled by men who suppress liberty at home and spread terror across the world.I passed out briefly from the intense irony and am now waiting for my HMO to say it's okay to see a doctor.

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This blog is barely read, so imagine my utter surprise when I got a comment on a throwaway post titled Hello Portland. In it, I used the phrase "republican propaganda radio". You know what I meant, the standard radio talking heads all spewing the exact same talking points every single work day, with repeats on the weekends. Here's where you can find the big ones in the Portland metro area (AM

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Remember Philip Cooney, the chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and former lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute? As reported in the New York Times, he was the guy who, with no scientific training whatsoever, removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration

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He'd threatened to do it, and now it's official. Thursday, the Bush administration removed bans on road construction and other forest protections for some 60 million acres of national forest, and moved them into states hands asking states to re-submit justification. Roads in forests and other remote wilderness opens the door for things logging, recreation and other commercial uses. In the case

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Willamette Week named Portland Teacher's Credit Union their Rogue of the Week. I like being a credit union member. Members all own a stake in the credit union, and that's reflected in better dividends and member input to the running of the credit union. Brandon Hartley's article pointed to some surprising behavior from the board of the PTCU. It started with Scarlett and Shamus Lynsky who

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I just got back from a few days in Houston and I must say after being in a heavily red state, being back in a blue one, even a slightly blue one, is quite refreshing. It's great to be back in Little Beiruit. While I was out, I didn't have access to the internet, so I was stuck with cable television and Republican party propaganda radio. I flipped on the TV this morning and there was Katie

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Look to the feds whenever you're in trouble. With a deficit of $200 million, Oregon legislators take the Bush administration's lead and start approving millions in tax breaks for profitable corporations and wealthy individuals. The Oregon AFL-CIO maintains a legislative update site that keeps track of the latest bills.According to the site:Last week, House members approved two new tax giveaways

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Bloggers watch you asses! Go over to Nick Lewis: The Blog and read this fascinating account, CNN Guerrillas in the Midst: A Viral Marketing Campaign Exposed. Nick posted an article critical of CNN programming. Later an odd comment was posted that agreed with his position while at the same time plugging CNN programming. Closer inspection revealed an attempt at "keyword stuffing". Stuffing a

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What the hell is this? Believe it or not, this diagram to the left is the the NEW food pyramid brought to you by our very own USDA. Reaction is mixed, but it seems to be mostly a combination of confusion, sarcasm, and outright derision. Remember the old pyramid with its recommendations for what foods to eat in what relative quantities? This new one is a lot more vague and less specific, as

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Okay, that hiatus was shorter than I thought. Thanks to activist_kaza over at kazablog (check out his site) for pointing out that giving up television for 40 days definitely softened me up. It made me forget how ridiculous local news is (anybody remember Portland news stations and their all day continuing coverage of Ice Storm 2005?). After announcing a hiatus, I went looking through my old

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It all started as a post talking about the content of my local FOX newscast. On one night on KPTV, FOX12 Oregon (Portland), there was a story about a guy who fought off some intruders, a heartbreaking story about some children taken into protective custody after being exposed to chemicals from their parents making meth in their tiny mobile home (parents and two other children missing), MethWatch

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