Archive for the 'the media' Category
“Rolling Over In Her Grave” Seems Like An Understatement For How Katharine Graham Is Metaphorically Reacting
Posted on December 10, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under The Washington Post, the media | Leave a Comment
Can the Kaplan Test Prep company please just put the Post out of its misery now? At the point where unpaid high school interns are apparently the only editors over there, it’s time to cut everyone’s losses and move on.
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It’s Funny Because You Supposedly Have One Of America’s Best Newspapers
Posted on August 4, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under The Washington Post, the media | Leave a Comment
Wait, is this satire? I can’t tell; maybe it’s real.
Whoever created this video did a great job. If you don’t get the joke, go read this not so humorous story from last week.
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Goodbye, AP
Posted on July 27, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Associated Press, the internets, the media | Leave a Comment
Someone should really ask the music industry how it works out for companies when they declare war on their own consumers. This strategy will guarantee the demise of the Associated Press as a relevant news-gathering organization.
(Via)
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Short Memories
Posted on June 24, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, the media | Leave a Comment
Remember President Obama’s first prime-time press conference after taking office? Remember how The Washington Post wasted its question on Alex Rodriguez and steroids, of all things?
Yeah, Dana Milbank should probably STFU now…
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And This Applies To Whom, Exactly?
Posted on June 23, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Barack Obama, health care, the media | Leave a Comment
Apparently, it’s a big deal that President Obama is walking back from his pledge that the health care reforms he signs into law will not force anyone to lose their existing coverage if they prefer that coverage to whatever might be created by the reforms. Now, I’m not going to say that the president should [...]
Heh, “Cartoonist-American”
Posted on June 22, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Art Spiegelman, Holocaust, comics, the media | Leave a Comment
I’m having trouble imagining a feature in the Sunday Post that would appeal to me more directly than this one: Art Spiegelman, pioneering comic artist and author of Maus, writes and draws a feature about the St. Louis refugee ship and ends up making a point about our modern immigration policies- not to mention the [...]
The Washington Post Fans The Flames
Posted on June 12, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Charles Krauthammer, Holocaust Museum shooting, The Washington Post, the media, wingnuts | Leave a Comment
On each of the last two days, the front page of The Washington Post has been dominated by the shooting at the Holocaust Museum. Articles on various aspects of the attack have appeared in almost every section of the paper, thanks to the local nature of the crime. In the opinion section of today’s paper, [...]
Plagiarism At The Times
Posted on May 18, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, the media | Leave a Comment
This is not the reason the newspapers are dying. However, it is a clear example of the reason why no one (outside of the newspaper industry) cares about the newspapers dying.
If I worked for the Times, I would demand Dowd’s immediate dismissal. Otherwise, I’m not sure how I could expect anyone to trust the integrity [...]
Our Broken Political Press
Posted on April 22, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under the media, torture | Leave a Comment
I am above all relieved to finally see the major news outlets treat the Bush administration’s torture policies as the story they always were. At the same time, the fact that we knew about the existence of these policies as long as five years ago, when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, and the media waited [...]
I Guess It Could Be A Poor Atempt At Self-Parody?
Posted on April 16, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under George Will, the media | Leave a Comment
Did George Will really use his entire op/ed column in one of the country’s most prestigious newspapers to rail against America’s love of blue jeans?
Yes. Yes, he did.
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Our Journalists Is Broken
Posted on March 25, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Chuck Todd, Economics, NBC, the media | Leave a Comment
I’m positively dumbfounded by Chuck Todd (of NBC)’s question at the president’s prime time press conference last night:
QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. Some have compared this financial crisis to a war. And in times of war, past presidents have called for some form of sacrifice.
Some of your programs, whether for Main Street or Wall Street, [...]
Shifting The Civil Rights Narrative
Posted on February 17, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under gay marriage, the media | Leave a Comment
Marc Ambinder has an interesting post on Mitt Romney’s history with marriage equality, but he flubs the conclusion:
Of all the potential 2012 candidates, Huntsman and Gov. Sarah Palin are closest to where the public is. Romney’s next.
Judging by the rest of the post, it’s probably safe to guess that this was a typo and Ambinder [...]
Deep Thought
Posted on February 10, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under The Washington Post, the media | 1 Comment
I don’t understand why the newspapers have lost the public’s respect.
Seriously, The Washington Post got to directly ask the president one question in prime time for the whole world to see at a time when that new president is comparing our economic situation to the Great Depression and asking for a spending package of nearly [...]
Obama Failed Presidency Watch
Posted on February 3, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Obama administration, Politico, the media | Leave a Comment
Barack Obama has now been president for two full weeks. So why has he not yet completely revamped FEMA and made it work again after George Bush staffed it with incompetents for eight years and rendered it useless? Two full weeks to fix the government, and yet twelve Kentuckians still died in an ice storm. [...]
How Is Richard Cohen The Worst Columnist In The Washington Post? Let Me Count The Ways
Posted on January 27, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Richard Cohen, the media, torture | 1 Comment
Today’s atrocity requires a full breakdown. This will get lengthy (ETA: As it turns out, I spent a good chunk of my day on it), so I’m going to stick it below the jump.
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That Didn’t Take Long
Posted on January 23, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under John McCain, The Washington Post, the media | Leave a Comment
Washington Post, front page, above the fold:
McCain the Maverick Is Back
No one could have seen that one coming.
Taking Time Away From My Busy Schedule Of Sitting Here Waiting For The Inauguration To Happen Already, Dammit, To Make Fun Of Stupid Columns
Posted on January 14, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Caroline Kennedy, Politico, Roland Burris, gender, race, the media | Leave a Comment
Steve Benen questions a silly Politico column in which Roger Simon argues that “the race card trumps the gender card in U.S. politics” because Roland Burris will successfully claim his Senate seat while Caroline Kennedy is still fighting for one of her own. Benen addresses the inherent stupidity, but he doesn’t insult Simon or the [...]
Fred Hiatt’s Team Pumps Out Another Winner
Posted on December 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Paul Krugman, The Washington Post, Virginia, economy, the media | Leave a Comment
Paul Krugman warns the states against cutting their budgets in the face of the collapsing economy, describing the potential of the state governors to become “50 Herbert Hoovers”.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post lauds Virginia Governor Tim Kaine for making “painful but necessary” cuts to the state’s budgets.
Based on past performance, is the Washington Post editiorial board [...]
Radio Is A Sound Salvation
Posted on December 7, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under George Will, the fairness doctrine, the media | Leave a Comment
When the newspaper industry wasn’t slowly dying, it would have been a problem for a nationally syndicated prestige columnist to simply make up convenient “facts” for the purposes of writing an intellectually dishonest attack on his or her ideological opponents.
Fortunately, now that the newspaper industry appears to be dying, no one particularly cares and guys [...]
Barack Obama Stops Cheating At Press Conferences
Posted on November 25, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Barack Obama, the media | Leave a Comment
It might be fish-in-a-barrel, but since I mocked the original article, I feel as though I’m obligated to mock the equally asinine follow-up.
When President-elect Barack Obama meets the press Wednesday morning for his third news conference in as many days, it’s anyone’s guess which reporters he’ll call on.
Literally.
OMG!!! Barack Obama is not planning his selection [...]
