In an overwhelming 309-115, the House shot down the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine. To be more specific the FCC cannot spend any money in 2008 to reinstate it.
The Fairness Doctrine, which required broadcasters to offer competing viewpoints in a balanced manner when presenting controversial issues.
This whole affair seems to be more of an opportunity [...]
Archive for June, 2007
A House divided
Posted in Broadcasting, Media Policy on June 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I am tragically unhip
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Mash-Ups, Music on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have never heard anything by Girl Talk.
I’ve heard of Girl Talk, I’ve just never heard any of his music (perhaps making me not “tragically” unhip, but just minimally unhip). For those who, like me, are whatever variety of unhip in these matters, Girl Talk is a mash-up artist (real name Gregg Gillis). He [...]
best social networking site analogy:
Posted in Facebook on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At The 463:
But, now that I am on Facebook and have prettied up my profile page, I feel like I just got to a party that has the nervous energy of bunch of people waiting around trying to figure what’s going to happen next (as they wonder to themselves whether this place looks like [...]
are you a slut or an unfuckable goob?
Posted in Sex on June 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
CDC sex survey results released last week, but I just noticed today. As one commenter at Pandagon pointed out, “it seems that all (these surveys) do is make people either feel like sluts, or like unfuckable goobs.” The median number of lifetime (hetero)sexual partners was seven for men and four for women. As is always [...]
hilary’s vagina fails to be one ring to unite us all
Posted in Democrats, Feminism on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Shock and awe. Feminists aren’t all supportive of Hillary just because she’s a woman.
Um, duh.
Because maybe feminism really isn’t all about man-hating sister-solidarity. Maybe it really is about equal treatment of both genders, meaning you judge a person (or a politiian) based on who they are, rather than on their genitals. Imagine that! [...]
gonzo journalism on a boat full of fundies
Posted in Journalism, Republicans on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh wow — investigative journalism abounding this week. Only this time our writer takes on a much more formidable crowd then some PR execs — a gaggle of ultra-conservatives floating at sea!
Amidst the National Review cruise, Johann Hari encounters a crowd that believes the Iraq war was a resounding success and, above all else, [...]
the berenstein bears and too much networking
Posted in Branding, Internet, Kids These Days, Technology on June 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Looking for even more ways to avoid interaaction with the real world? Ning is a “meta-networking” site that allows users to create their own social networks for whatever they want to. On the front page of the site right now (I’m assuming it changes daily) are networks for something called the Brooklyn Art Project, the [...]
Wes Anderson, Jonathan Foer: anti-American LittleBlue Smurfboys of the new male infantilism.
Posted in Art, Kids These Days on June 26, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Following a link from Emily over at A Softer World, I came across this article on the Minneapolis/St. Paul local news site that describes the author’s disdain at what he calls the Little Blue Smurf boys of the art world.
Where a Scotch-sozzled Big Bruiser once ran onto the fire escape with a roar, rolling [...]
green weddings: the new recycling bins?
Posted in Advertising on June 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A friend of mine observed the other day that the conversation surrounding the whole “green” phenomenon is eerily reminiscent of the hype surrounding tech start-ups in the dot.com era. I can’t really make that comparison, because I was too young (and insolated by the rolling hills and illicit drugs of the Hocking River basin) [...]
PR firms “get punked”
Posted in PR on June 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons . . . who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires [...]
Trend Alert: Hotspotting
Posted in Media on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m like an ambulance chaser for new media trends. I start reading slower when I come to something new. I may even stop and stare. Often my mouth is ajar. Then like a hungry feral cat, I voraciously devour as much information as I possibly can. That’s great and dandy until it’s usually at this [...]
who’s up for a trip to NoVa before hopsicles are outlawed?
Posted in Food Politics on June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Apparently I’m all about news-of-the-weird today. Anyway …
BEER POPSICLES
For when you need to cool-off and get drunk and the same time and neither one nor the other can be put off a moment longer, obviously.
The popsicles – coming in flavors such as “Raspbeer-y” and sold by Alexandria-based Rustico Restaurant – caused some [...]
tag clouds …
Posted in Bloggers, Internet on June 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
… the mullet of the Internet?
i don’t know, insert joke about the French here
Posted in Technology on June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Random technological news of the day: France bans government officials from using blackberries (for fear that US is spying on them)
framing smackdown
Posted in Framing, Reproductive Rights on June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In the comments of a previous post, there’s been some discussion of framing and abortion-debate-terminology. Nothing earth-shattering or new here — Girl From the South says framing is just “a strategic form of name-calling,” I disagree. We all discuss the terms “pro-life” versus “anti-choice.” I dislike when people accuse me of engaging in unfair framing [...]
I hear in Alaska they’re raising the per-fetus rate to 10 cents
Posted in Reproductive Rights on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is perhaps the best single line I read yesterday:
That’s one thing I really don’t get- WHY would we liberals WANT people to have abortions? Do they think we get credit for each fetus, like when you sell back glass bottles at the grocery store?
— on the strange persevering rumor that reproductive health [...]
I was just offended by the acting …
Posted in Blogging Bandwagon, What the Fuck? on June 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
All morning/afternoon, people in my office were watching and talking about the new Hilary Clinton/Sopranos spoof ad (which was infinitely preferable to the office talk yesterday, which mostly consisted of, “Gonna be a hot one today, isn’t it?” and “My, is it hot out there!”) Being neither a Hilary Clinton nor a Sorprano’s fan myself [...]
taxing the overweight
Posted in Health Morality, Obesity, Tobacco on June 20, 2007 | 22 Comments »
I think we should start taxing people based on their weight. Weight tax, if you will. Healthy weight? Then you don’t have to get weight taxed. Overweight? Well, then you get taxed. And the taxes increase incrementally for every 5 pounds over healthy weight you are. Maybe if you don’t like it you’ll stop eating [...]
Da Band, Dandy Kane, what up next Diddy?
Posted in Pop Culture on June 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Occasionally I have to break out of techie raee to post on a new obsession. Monday June 18th marked the new seaso of Diddy’s Making the Band Four. I am beyond excited. Here’s to hoping they make them run laps again.
framing anti-choice concern
Posted in Reproductive Rights on June 18, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Yesterday, the Stacy Zallie foundation took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post. In honor of father’s day, the organization decided to trot out some anti-choice doublethink about how giving women reproductive options actually harms women. To be fair, the group doesn’t say whether or not it supports anti-choice legal policies. It is, ostensibly, [...]
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