This week I took a close look at XRAY.FM, the new progressive community radio station that celebrates its terrestrial broadcast launch tomorrow—the beta test of the online stream is already available (and will be the easiest way to access their programming for most of the city), which is an interesting and pretty plugged-in mix of […]
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President Obama Doesn’t Get Between Two Ferns with the Washington Post
It’s not just conservatives who have a problem with President Obama’s appearance on Between Two Ferns. Traditional media is feeling shut out, too. Chris Cillizza writes at the Washington Post: Obama’s “Between Two Ferns” appearance comes on the heels of a sitdown with former NBA great Charles Barkley, an interview that ran during the All-Star […]
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Can You Hear the XRAY.FM Test Signal?
New radio station XRAY.FM is officially debuting on Saturday with a launch party at Mississippi Studios featuring Ural Thomas and the Pain and Old Light, and if you’ve been paying attention to the gradual roll-out (like listening online to the test stream) you probably know that the terrestrial broadcast isn’t going to be able to […]
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Newsweek Is Going Back Into Print
Apparently, there are some people who now consider ink-on-paper to be a “luxury product.” Also, print is a good prop: Steven Cohn, editor in chief of Media Industry Newsletter, said Newsweek’s decision to print the magazine made good business sense. “The print magazine is kind of a prop to give the web better exposure,” Mr. […]
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Massive NPR Fail This Morning
Americablog: National Public Radio’s Michel Martin did a segment on Uganda’s growing crackdown on its gay population, and decided to interview Holocaust-revisionist hate-group leader Scott Lively, who is truly one of the most horrific religious right extremists in America. How did NPR’s Michel Martin describe Lively to her audience? Simply as “Evangelical leader Scott Lively.” […]
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And This is Exactly What You Get When You Judge Miley Cyrus
Creatively bereft TV news types love stirring up non-controveries and wagging their moralistic fingers at anything in sight to try and get the attention of viewers—and in this very funny news blooper, an on-site reporter tries to finger-wag and shit-talk Miley Cyrus, aaaaand… gets a mouth full of snot for her trouble. “Trickling in,” indeed.
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Canadians Even Gloat Better than Us
While it may be a bitter pill that Canada has taken away what should’ve been OUR gold medal in men and women’s hockey—it’s kind of hard to hate a country whose gloating is so adorable. Take it away, Canadian sports broadcasters celebrating after their women’s team takes the gold! (We should let them win more […]
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NBC’s Olympic “Cry Porn” Scheme Backfires
One thing I really, really, REALLY can’t stand about NBC’s coverage of the Olympics are the excessively over-produced athlete bio segments. Here’s what I said about ’em in this week’s I Love Television: But this whole Winter Olympics thing—with the hours and hours of figure skating, and cross-country skiing, and maudlin, overlong biographies of athletes […]
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Q&A with Jeremy Petersen, Formerly of OPB
It was announced this week that longtime Oregon Public Broadcasting contributor Jeremy Petersen was laid off from his job at OPB, where he was host of In House and one of the developers of OPBmusic. (Local Cut, WW‘s music blog, posted the news earlier this week.) In House was OPB’s flagship local music program, but […]
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Quentin Tarantino Sues Gawker: Who’s the Bigger Asshole?
Last week, the script for Quentin Tarantino’s next film, The Hateful Eight, was leaked. This led Tarantino to announce that he was canceling the project, publishing the script in book form, and moving on to his next film. Also last week, Gawker published links to the leaked Hateful Eight film script. Now Tarantino has taken […]
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Fashion’s Latest Scandal: The Black Woman Chair
As if everyone doesn’t already have Russia on watch, yesterday’s MLK day saw Russian fashion publication Buro 24/7 posting this photo of Dasha Zhukova, editor in chief of another Russian magazine, Garage: Buro 24/7 After a Twitter-led explosion of outrage, the publication altered the photo to crop out most of the chair, which in case […]
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Novick: “Going Richard Sherman on the Oregonian“
Add trash-talk to Commissioner Steve Novick’s famed repertoire of rhetorical talents. Novick, never shy with a jab or a quip, is seizing on some recent sporting news to fire back at an Oregonian editorial board that’s made hay in recent weeks by aiming some public cheap shots at the Portland City Council. Novick, a member […]