Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Ryan Plan Redux
Brian Beutler at TPM wonders if the GOP plans to follow Paul Ryan down the kill-Medicare rabbit hole again in an election year and concludes that yes, they do: Why on earth would Republicans put the whole party back on the line? Particularly after a year of serial brinkmanship and overreach that has dragged their [...]
February 7, 2012
· 
Betty Cracker · 
34 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Democratic Stupidity, Media, Politics, Republican Stupidity
Useful Images
Angry DougJ is definitely onto something with this “useful idiots” idea: One of the great victories of conservatism was framing every debate as the real, Tebow-fearing Murkins versus the dirty hippies who spit on soldiers. Is there anyway the left could try to do the same with banskters and bankster fanboys? A few months ago, [...]
January 26, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 109 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, General Stupidity, Media, Politics, Republican Stupidity
Kristol Lite
All English-language software should be equipped with a mechanism that prevents these particular words from being presented in this sequence: Users who stubbornly attempt to evade the safeguard should have their hard drive erased. Jesus. I get that the Republicans are in despair over their sucky presidential slate, as well they should be. But this [...]
January 24, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 38 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Media, Open Thread, Politics, Republican Stupidity
Yes We Can-Can
Charles Krauthammer is mad enough to stomp bunnies, a man consumed with the type of bitterness that can only come from being thwarted by putative allies when a cherished goal is in sight. Things were going so well. With an assist from elderly social conservatives in patriot drag,* the GOP had successfully rebranded the economic [...]
January 21, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 154 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Daydream Believers, Election 2010, Election 2012, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People, Kochsuckers, Media, Politics, Schadenfreude, Sociopaths, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility, The teabagger's apprentice, Vouchercare
El pueblo unido raramente vincera dinero
I will give this idea a more generous read than Will Wilkinson did and assume that Brian Leiter just wants to know why Kennedy-era marginal tax rates should be a nuclear bomb radioactive idea. A seventy five percent top rate on the top point one percent of earners would drastically reduce pressure to enact policies [...]
January 16, 2012
· Tim F. · 59 Comments
Posted in: Media
*needs more bug fixing
Unless their ombudsperson has gone off the reservation, the Times might take a step towards shedding that reputation as a court stenographer. It sounds like a great idea. The balance bug has always been a tempting exploit for folks like the Bush team, the modern Republican party, climate deniers etc*. If you lie once in [...]
January 12, 2012
· Tim F. · 63 Comments
Posted in: Media
Net Neutrality
Louis CK: “O.K., so NBC is this huge company and they have all these studios and these satellites to beam stuff out,” he said, “but on the Web, both NBC.com and LouisCK.com have the same amount of bandwidth. We are equals and there are things you can do with that.” [...] If you want to understand why we need [...]
December 20, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 20 Comments
Posted in: Media, Science and Technology
Louie Turns a Profit
Louis CK started selling his latest show on a website four days ago for $5. As of yesterday, he’s made $200K on the deal. He financed production costs via ticket sales, and the download is a DRM-free high definition video that you can watch on your computer or burn to a DVD without restrictions. The website [...]
December 14, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 50 Comments
Posted in: Humor, Media
Indoctrinating kids
Eric Bolling, a male FOX news reader best known for playing himself in the film Idiocracy, has an odd habit of yelling at muppets. You have to give Bolling some credit – with all the times a scrappy band of misfits saves the rec center with a spunky musical number, nobody ever gives much thought [...]
December 7, 2011
· Tim F. · 39 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Media
New Rules
Voice of San Diego, an online non-profit news source, has an interesting set of reporter guidelines, included in a post by Jay Rosen. Here are a few: * We’re not someone’s goddamn transcription service.Focus on big problems [...] It’s easy as a journalist to take a stand against a six-figure salary. It’s easy to take [...]
September 26, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 41 Comments
Posted in: Media
reality (still) can’t be deduced
Here’s a post from the excellent blog Naked Capitalism that, in the process of making an argument about the history of money and barter, speaks to an issue that’s close to my heart. For context, the post’s author David Graeber is disputing an assertion made by some 19th century Austrian economists about how currency developed. [...]
September 13, 2011
· Freddie deBoer · 90 Comments
Posted in: Media
Why we are all doomed
For some masochistic reason that I need to take up with my therapist I like listening to news while I work. Even on good days this can expose me to dangerous levels of conventional wisdom, and this is not a good day. Who can forget the awful ‘so where is your plan to destroy the [...]
July 15, 2011
· Tim F. · 90 Comments
Posted in: Media
Murdoch outlets continue to deny anthropogenic climate change
The Guardian. News Corp’s deputy chairman and chief operating officer, Chase Carey, said it had become clear that the Sky takeover “is too difficult to progress in this climate”. I hate when the climate just changes like that. Hot air emissions by NewsCorp clearly had nothing to do with it.
July 13, 2011
· Tim F. · 41 Comments
Posted in: Media
Peace Out
NewsCorp just dropped its bid to buy out the British cable network BSkyB (via radio). Meanwhile the parties in Parliament are fighting to stake out who hates papa Murdoch more. Anybody think that NewsCorp will stand up to serious scrutiny on either side of the Atlantic? Anyone?
July 13, 2011
· Tim F. · 21 Comments
Posted in: Media
An enjoyable and rewarding use of your time
Have a minute? Your Congressperson or Senator could use a gentle reminder that Rupert Murdoch’s business empire probably did not just tap phones in England. Did they tap the phones of 9/11 victims? Did they expose leading Americans to blackmail the way they did Gordon Brown and the British royal family? Somebody with subpoena power [...]
July 11, 2011
· Tim F. · 59 Comments
Posted in: Media, Time for a Blogger Ethics Panel
