Tag: Media
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-March 29 Edition
LEAD STORY-NEW YORK TIMES: Governor, Legislature Agree to Tax the Wealthy to Close Budget Gap This should be must-reading for Gov. Markell and the General Assembly: The new plan, which would expire after three years, would represent the largest state income tax increase in recent history, significantly larger than the surcharges imposed from 2003 to […]
The Flatlining of Dead Tree News
Newspapers falling like dominoes seems to be one of the themes of the year, not unlike the 2 or so banks per week handed over the the FDIC. It never seems quite real until one thing just crystallizes it all. And this is it. Just go see what squeezing every last dollar out of a […]
Apocalypse Nigh
One of my daily reads is George Parker’s AdScam/The Horror! If a blogger could be considered no holds barred, it would be Parker. Even though I am not involved in advertising, Parker’s rants are occasionally humorous, always laced with profanity and often instructive. Take for instance yesterday’s post, Kudos to Bob Garfield. Parker writes: Yes, […]
Senator Proposes Bill to Enable Newspapers to Be Run as ‘Not-For Profits’
An intriguing proposal from U. S. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland. This would not in any way help the giant media conglomorates, but it appears that this might help local newspapers survive and, maybe eventually, thrive. Cardin introduced a bill that would allow newspapers to choose tax-exempt status. They would no longer be able to […]
Good News/Bad News?: Tweety Re-ups w/MSNBC for 4 Years
Arlen Specter can presumably breathe easier. Chris ‘Tweetybird’ Matthews has signed an extension w/MSNBC that will keep him there until after the 2012 elections. Matthews denies that he was raising the specter (too easy, ‘bulo knows) of a possible race as a bargaining ploy: Mr. Matthews said that he had been serious about the Senate […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-March 22 Edition
LEAD STORY: Philadelphia Inquirer: HOW THE FEDS GOT FUMO. Somebody’s got to say it. There is not a newspaper in the country doing better investigative work than the Philadelphia Inquirer. Today’s ‘howtheydunit’ is a definitive analysis of how the best the Federal government has working for them can take down even the most powerful lowlife. […]
Inconvenient GITMO Truths
Yes, ‘bulo knows, everybody is bored with Iraq/Afghanistan/GITMO. Just like everybody is bored with the criminal behavior of the Bush Administration (Although said boredom doesn’t extend to the slugs in the press who are outraged that Robert Gibbs didn’t treat Dick Cheney with respect. Perhaps, if their outrage had included revealing the multitude of criminal […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-March 15 Edition
LEAD STORY: EPA TO SHUT DOWN SHAM BUSH PROGRAM ON VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE -Philadelphia Inquirer Proof that investigative journalism can still work. The Inky uncovered just what a sham (and environmental threat) the so-called ‘Performance Track’ program was: WASHINGTON – The Obama administration intends to close an EPA program heavily promoted by the Bush administration that […]
Deep FAIL Thought
It is funny to hear people admit that “financial” journalists have failed. As if “financial” journalists are some downs syndrome afflicted distant relative of real journalism.
Right-Wing ‘Dirty Bomber’ Killed in Maine-Media Ignores
If you were reading the mainstream media, you would have missed this. A Nazi-sympathizer and white supremacist, distraught over the election of Barack Obama, purchased ‘depleted uranium’ over the ‘net (!?). According to the dispatch from ‘Raw Story’, trust-fund millionaire James Cummings had the resources to construct a ‘dirty bomb’ and had been in contact […]
The Future of Journalism?
(Click image for larger version) Discuss. What IS it with this Twitter business anyway?
AOL News Hates Atheists
From that oh-so-illustrious news source, AOL News, comes an article about how “some” African-American Christians are upset at Obama’s inaugural speech reaching out to “non-believers” as well as Hindus, Muslims, etc: By mentioning, for the first time in an inaugural address, the 16.1 percent of Americans who check “no”’ when asked about religion, Obama turned […]
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