Posted in Broadcasting, FCC, Family Values, Media, Television on September 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Looks like the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is convening to determine whether Janet Jackson’s covered nipple was indecent or a fleeting, accidental moment on live television for which CBS should not be fined.
If CBS wins, it will insulate television and radio broadcasters from sudden or accidental slips of the tongue or “wardrobe malfunctions” [...]
Posted in Art, Broadcasting, FCC, Family Values, Free Speech, Media, Nanny State, Pop Culture, Television on September 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The media watchdog group Parents Television Council has issued a report which states that sex and violence are on the rise during what is traditionally called the “Family Hour” on network television.
The group studied 180 hours of original programming on six broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, MyNetworkTV and the CW) during three two-week ratings [...]
Posted in Bush, Journalism, Media, War, memes, politics on September 3, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Greg Sargent has an excellent breakdown of the public relations campaign to make it look like the surge is working and how the media has enabled it. This sort of thing really is a life or death issue. The longer this type of crap goes on, the more we’re dying over there.
This is not a [...]
Posted in Broadcasting, Family Values, Journalism, Media, Republicans, Sex, Television, politics on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
CBS13 Sacremento in covering the Larry Craig gay sex scandal actually roleplays how to solicit gay sex in a public bathroom. Hilarious. God bless local news.
Posted in Journalism, Media on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There’s an interesting discussion over at Ezra Klein’s for anyone who’s ever been a reporter or been interested in reporting. The impetus was this post at Penquins on the Equator:
I was rather surprised to learn, for instance, that TNR’s fact-checkers don’t check quotes with subjects; they just check quotes against the writers’ notes, which strikes [...]
Posted in Bush, Media, War, politics on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Pretty much the short version of this post is “what he says.”
But let me add a couple thoughts which I have been chewing on for awhile.
1. This “Blame Maliki” movement is completely self-serving. I have absolutely no doubt the guy isn’t what we hoped he would be. But I think that says more about our [...]
Posted in BET, Education, Media, PR, Pop Culture, Television on August 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The BET is catching a lot of heat with its new, edgy, hip-hop heavy video campaign to promote literacy and black pride. I think it’s great and smart, to be honest.
And it’s a pretty bold move for a network that has had its fair share of criticism for perpetuating negative stereotypes. This video campaign takes [...]
Posted in Bloggers, FoxNews, Free Speech, Journalism, Media, Media Ownership, Media Policy, New Media on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes the questions raised in a legal battle bear only passing resemblance to the facts of a case. Neat abstract legal principles are extrapolated from messy realities and the court rules on the principles, often times emphasizing and embellishing certain facts over others in order to make a point.
So I don’t know exactly what’s going [...]
Posted in Conservative Craziness, FoxNews, Media on August 15, 2007 | No Comments »
editing Al Franken’s wikipedia entry. Hilarious.
Posted in Internet, Media, New Media, Pop Culture, Technology on August 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve decided that I’m taking a hiatus from libertarian posts. How often can I post that I’m against banning things and for individual rights? Don’t answer that. I’ll probably post something that irks me the wrong way soon.
So, anyway I like new techie things. Here’s a fun link to play with via my old friend [...]
Posted in Media, Misogyny on August 13, 2007 | No Comments »
I really wasn’t going to comment on Chris Matthews completely inappropriate banter with CNBC’s anchor Erin Burnett. But Digby put it in such great perspective I wanted to link to it and quote it.
Anyone who doesn’t understand the insidious nature of sexual harrassment should take a look at the video of that exchange. Here you had a [...]
Posted in Gender, Media on August 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
According to a recent NYT article, women age 21-30 working full-time and living in cities such as New York, Dallas, Boston, Minneapolis and Chicago are now making more money then their male counterparts.
The analysis was prepared by Andrew A. Beveridge, a demographer at Queens College … It shows that women of all educational levels [...]
Posted in Media, What the Fuck? on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So I know I said earlier that I was sure the Republicans-love-Simpsons-because-it-espouses-family-values bit would be the stupidest thing I read all day, but …
Along comes Cary Tennis, Salon advice columnist extraordinaire and perennial favorite of people who like to point out dumb things in the media …
In today’s column, someone wrote [...]
Posted in Journalism, Media, Pop Culture, Snarking on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Sloooow news day.
Oh, sure, there was that debate last night.
The Attorney General is testifying before the Senate amidst numerous constitutional controversies.
Six medical workers in Libya were finally freed after 8 years.
And there’s that war somewhere over there. And over there. And maybe, possibly, eventually over there.
But isn’t there something else we can talk about? Something, [...]
Posted in Journalism, Media, PR on July 23, 2007 | No Comments »
There’s a pretty hilarious video here at DailyKos with a parody of a JetBlue pre-flight video.
For those who don’t already know, JetBlue is the corporate sponsor for the YearlyKos convention this year, which prompted a Talking Points segment from Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly engineered a Michael Moore type ambush of the CEO of JetBlue, David [...]
Posted in Gender, Media on July 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
There was package on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Barack Obama. He was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. He was wearing a black blazer over black slacks. The slacks were tight around his mid-section, especially in the front. The bulge of his package registered [...]
Posted in Boomers, Faux-Trends, Gen-X, Generation Gaps, Media on July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I have a love/hate relationship with these slice-of-lifestyle pieces like “The New Victorians” by Lizzy Ratner. I’m the kind of person who, upon visiting new cities, immediately begins making up grand stories about where I’d go and who’d I know and what color my kitchen walls would be there (always green), so I love articles [...]
Posted in Media on July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I don’t know whether everyone has already seen this, because it’s a few days old and that’s ancient in Internet video years, but I just saw this and I think it’s great. Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC news anchor, refuses to read a Paris Hilton story as the program’s lead, then rips up and attemps to [...]
Posted in Framing, Media on July 3, 2007 | No Comments »
I suppose I should say something about Scooter Libby. Back in the fall, I wrote a research paper analyzing press coverage of the Valerie Plame affair. I was looking at the way coverage of the issue was framed; not surprisingly, I found that the most-used frames were “politics as usual” (oh, so some corruption [...]
Posted in Media on June 21, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
