Yeah, sure: Glenn Beck announced plans Tuesday during his online television program to expand the news operation in his media company, The Blaze, and refocus it as a libertarian network, opening three foreign bureaus, debuting a nightly newsmagazine show, and relocating his New York staff to showy new offices. Glenn Beck is about as libertarian […]
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Also Glaring in the O‘s TriMet Exhaustion Story: Shenanigans with Public Records
The Oregonian ran a hard-knuckle story this weekend exposing TriMet scheduling practices that allow overtime-hungry bus operators to work as many as 22 hours in a single day—and also joining concerns about that policy to crash reports and complaints from riders about drivers falling asleep at stoplights. Everyone’s rightly stirred up about it. But it’s […]
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Hot Al-on-Al Action
Brian Stelter at the New York Times says Al Jazeera has bought Al Gore’s struggling TV news channel, Current TV: Current will provide the pan-Arab news giant with something it has sought for years: a pathway into American living rooms. Current is available in about 60 million of the 100 million homes in the United […]
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THIS SANTA IS A GODDAMNED FAKE!!!
Fox News continues their extremely important and oh-so-necessary coverage of the “War on Christmas™”—because, you know, everybody hates Christmas so much they want to fire Scud missiles at it—with this interview of “Santa Claus,” which I’m putting in quotes because he’s a goddamn FAKE!!! The real Santa would never, ever, EVER lower himself to either […]
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Flowchart of Media Response to Mass Shootings
To help us decipher the coverage in coming days.
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This Just In: Nose Ring Found in Breakfast Burrito
Atlanta has a lot of problems—but the worst problem of the day according to CBS Atlanta News is someone “finding a NOSE… RING… in her daughter’s breakfast burrito from McDonalds.” Here are my “Cheers and Jeers” for this story: CHEERS to anchor Jaquitta Williams who makes it almost seem like this should be a top […]
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Interview With Editorial Cartoonist Jack Ohman
If you don’t know the work of Jack Ohman, you should—he’s one of the best editorial cartoonists in the country. A Minnesota native, Ohman has worked as the Oregonian‘s editorial cartoonist for 29 years, producing thousands of cartoons and winning a pile of prestigious awards, including being a finalist for the Pulitzer this year. Now, […]
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News Anchors Proposing On-Air: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?
Contrary to popular belief, I have nothing against “love”—in fact, I make it all the time! Kaaaaaaaa-ZING-A-LING-A-LING! But seriously. In this video a news anchor lures his girlfriend onto his show under false pretenses and then proposes to her on-air. Think that sounds awkward? OMIGOD, you don’t know the half of it. At the mid-point […]
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Full Disclosure!
Because of this… I think I better come clean on a couple of things, before somebody else does it for me. 1) I purchased Senior Editor Erik Henriksen from a debtors prison in the jungles of Myanmar (and invested a lot of money to fix his physical deformities). However, I also made a deal to […]
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TV Anchors Report Fake Plane Crash; Get Justifiably Mad
Last Friday WGN anchors Larry Potash and Robin Baumgarten cut to live footage of what they thought was a small plane crash in the middle of downtown Chicago—which would be HUGE news, except that it was actually a staged crash for the TV show Chicago Fire. Whoops. From TV Guide: A Chicago Fire Department spokesman […]
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A Brief History of Time‘s Many Errors
Did you know that Time magazine nominated the Higgs boson for its Person of the Year? It’s true! So stupid! Michael Moyer at Scientific American explains that it gets dumber: Under ordinary circumstances, we would be all for the elevation of the Higgs to “Person of the Year” status, if only to further honor the […]
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KBOO is an Emerald Jewel in the Very Tiara of Cascadia
This wheatpasted ad on SE Belmont has managed to capture exactly what’s intolerable about KBOO.