Study Shows Younger Crowd Prefers Online News, While Elders Stick with TV
August 17, 2008
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NEW YORK - Fewer Americans are reading newspapers and are instead getting their news online, but television remains the leading source of news in the country, according to a survey released Sunday. Not surprisingly, younger people tend to get more of their news on the Internet, while older folks use traditional media such as television and newspapers, the Pew Research Center’s biannual survey on news consumption habits said.
Latest Cover of New Yorker Magazine Spotlights Journalistic “Amateur Hour” at its Finest
July 13, 2008
The New Yorker has apparently thrown any hint of class to the wayside, this conclusion was drawn from their decision to run a tasteless (this is putting it politely) cover illustration for this weeks publication. The cartoon portrays Michelle and Barack Obama perpetuating every single slanderous right wing stereotype. With the Oval office serving as the backdrop, a huge portrait of Osama Bin Laden as well as an American Flag in flames, adjacent to the fireplace rounds up the office decor. Obama appears in full Muslim garb, fist-bumping Michelle, who is depicted as the “afro’d out wife”, dressed in the military fatigues with a machine gun and ammo draped over her shoulder.
Come Again? What Did Jesse Jackson Say?
July 10, 2008
Yesterday we covered the poignant comments made by a certain Jesse Jackson in which he used some colorful language when discussing Barack Obama. All of this took place while he was mic’d up, however Jackson was under the impression they weren’t on TV or being recorded. SURPRISE!
However the fun really started when rival news stations began reporting the story, or attempted to report the story I should say. 236.com has captured the beautiful awkwardness of watching every cable news anchor struggle to explain the story without being able to say one specific word in a delightful little vignette which is attached below.
*Brand New Video* Jesse Jackson’s “Insightful” Comments Caught on Tape
July 9, 2008
Good old Jesse Jackson seems to have just handed Barack Obama his “Sistah Soulja” moment on a shiny sliver platter. The incident came during an interview with FOX’s Bill O’Reilly during an “off air” conversation that Jackson thought wasn’t being recorded in fact was. Needless to say O’Reilly plans on running with this to the hills and back, while Jackson is already apologizing left and right.
What Makes FOX News Tick: The Bad, the Worse & the Ugly
July 6, 2008
FOX News is a lot of things to a lot of people. Some will tell you that it is their favorite news network, and that it is all the others that are bias in their reporting, not FOX. Then there are those like myself who feel as though FOX is the poster child of what is wrong with our mainstream media. The frame, fix, and put their own polish on the news opposed simply reporting it - which in all reality is their job, if they want to claim to be a legitimate news agency. It’s this split in opinion that makes the latest New York Times article which dissects the inside operations of FOX News that much more interesting.
The Always Incompetent Ben Ferguson Gets Picked Apart by Cenk Uygun of ‘The Young Turks’
July 3, 2008
The person I detest the most in this world has re-emerged, only to be verbally dismantled by Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks. Cenk and the astronomically ignorant Ben Ferguson, appeared on CNN to debate General Wesley Clark’s comments in regards to John McCain’s war experience not automatically making him qualified to be Commander in Chief, comments which have drawn a sense of contrived outrage from everyone of the right wing blow hard AM talk radio has to offer.
Watch David Axelrod Take CNN’s John Robert’s to the Woodshed
July 2, 2008
If you have ever wanted to see a CNN anchor get made a fool of then this is the video for you. Barack Obama campaign manager David Axelrod manages to make CNN’s John Roberts look utterly incompetent during a segment regarding Obama’s plans for troop withdrawals from Iraq.
This is just another example of the mainstream media totally distorting Barack Obama’s message, or in this case, policy plan. It is quite apparent too, this can be seen in Axelrod’s reaction to the Robert’s distortion of what Obama has said and is currently saying on the topic of Iraq, and American withdrawal from the region.
“New Yorker” Article Reveals that the U.S. Military is Conducting Operations Inside Iran *Video*
June 29, 2008
The upcoming July edition of the New Yorker features an article penned by Seymour Hersh that chronicles the “not so secretive” clandestine military operations currently taking place in Iran at the hands of United States military forces - which in every possible scenario is at the minimum a foreshadowing of a looming military conflict between Iraq’s neighbor, and the United States. Apparently special operations forces have been conducting cross-border operations launched from southern Iraq, with Presidential authorization, since sometime last year.
The Definition of a Lie: McCain Takes Credit for the GI Bill He Adamantly Opposed
June 27, 2008
It’s not often that politicians in this day and age blatantly go out, especially on the campaign trail, and lie - just flat out claim, suggest, or take credit for something, such as a piece of legislature or new initiative, etc. that they simply had no hand in, let alone voted against. But every once in a while we get something really good, for example - Hillary Clinton’s tall tale of “landing under sniper fire” was a great - “no you didn’t” moment. Well earlier today John McCain managed to one up all the others in regards to publicly lying through his teeth, and luckily for us, CNN was there to catch it on camera.
Lanny Davis’ Awkward Introduction to Barack Obama
June 27, 2008
Throughout the Democratic primary both campaigns, Clinton’s and Obama’s, took turns firing shots at one another usually through surrogates or campaign “supporters.” One of Hillary Clinton’s more vicious weapons came in the form of longtime confidant, and Democratic insider, Lanny Davis. Davis never missed an opportunity to take a swipe at Obama, or the media for whom he claimed “were in the tank for Obama.”
