Local news stations screw up. A LOT. That’s why this year’s selection of the Best News Bloopers of 2015 (from funny YouTube channel NewsBeFunny) had to be split into two hilarious parts! If you missed it, here’s part one. After viewing that, don’t miss even more bloopy blunders including an “ass cloud” volcano, the famous […]
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The Best News Bloopers of 2015! (Part One… ‘Cuz There’s a LOT)
All hail the YouTube channel NewsBeFunny which has gathered up a poop ton of hilarious news team bloopers from 2015. Highlights include terrible jokes about “Uranus,” reporters getting attacked by giant bugs, weather flub-ups, the Edward Snowden “expert” who only talks about Edward Scissorhands, and of course, lots and lots of accidental “FUCKS!!” (There’s even […]
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Want to Remove Comments from the Oregonian? There’s an App for That!
Like reading OregonLive, but hate the comments? Well, now there’s a Chrome extension for that! Trey Witteried has devised a handy extension to block comments on the O’s online site, and here’s why: Comments on OregonLive are a drag. I don’t neeed to see the opinions of miserable and often bigoted people on every page […]
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Hello, Here’s Some Clickbait Bullshit from the New York Post About Portland
If you haven’t seen it already, there was this headline published today in the New York Post: Attached were pictures of the Keep Portland Weird sign, average looking people (identified in the caption as “hipsters”) sitting outside Stumptown, and a homeless person sleeping on an overpass. However, the article itself was provided by the Associated […]
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Today in “Maleness”: Fury Magazine!
As I’ve written before, I’m a casual collector of vintage men’s action or “sweat” magazines from the ’50s and ’60s. A little history: These pulpy rags were tailor-made for former WWII soldiers who found themselves transformed into bored, emasculated suburban drones, and were extremely popular at the time. In fact, they were so popular there […]
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Today in “BOOOO!”: Utah News Station Fakes the News
Look, I used to work for a local TV news station, so I know first-hand how upper management wants to boost ratings no matter what—but the level of sensationalistic fakery in this Utah Fox affiliate’s news story is a bit… too… much! Background: A dangerous crosswalk becomes the subject of an expose for the news […]
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AP Stylebook Loses the Respect of the World—OKAY??
First of all, who died and made AP Stylebook the grand arbiter of how to spell shit? THIS TWEET MADE ME FURIOUS!!! AP Style tip: OK, OK’d, OK’ing, OKs. Don’t use okay. OK?— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) October 20, 2015 Second of all, I’ve spelled “OKAY” as “OKAY” my entire life (because that’s the way you […]
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Surprise! Fox News Uses Fake “Terrorist Analyst”
Courtesy CNN Regular watchers of Fox News—which, okay probably isn’t you, but they do comment here on the Merc site whenever we talk about gun legislation—will recognize long-time “terrorist analyst” and former self-proclaimed CIA special ops agent Wayne Simmons who has been appearing on such Fox shows as Fox and Friends and Your World with […]
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Whoa, Conde Nast Bought Pitchfork!
Pitchfork can now write about the concept of selling out with real authority. Please raise your hand if you ever imagined that Pitchfork and The New Yorker would ever be published by the same conglomerate. While I’m waiting to see a single hand, I’ll mention that the NY Times reported a couple hours ago that […]
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Today in Embarrassing: NYT‘s TV Show Visits “Quirky” Portland
Courtesy Travel Channel 36 HOURS: “Portland… you are impossibly quirky!” As Shelby mentioned earlier, once again the New York Times writes up Portland—this time in their regular feature “36 Hours” in which the writer impossibly visits a poop ton of locales and suggests you should (impossibly) do the same. SERIOUSLY, there’s no freaking way you […]
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Heavy Breather Goes All Video on Us
The two hosts of The Best Show are in town this weekend, but on Sunday night, Portland’s own Scharpling and Wurster—or maybe our Tim and Eric?—are hosting a live version of their radio show. Heavy Breather is an “off balance” radio show hosted by musicians Charlie Salas Humara and Marius Libman, who, among other musical […]
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This News Anchor Knows A LOT About Sex Toys
In this clip from Nevada’s Channel 2 morning newscast, the female anchor shares the story of Amazon eclipsing Walmart as the largest retailer in the world. Want to know why? The male anchor explains that it’s all about SEX TOYS—and a hilariously awkward silence ensues. Enjoy your breakfast cereal! SEX TOYS!!