Like the worst immature behavioral excesses of a teenage girl constantly looking to catch her own reflection in any passing mirror and a clueless dog who persistently chases after its own tail, we saw the American Mainstream Media in all their collective unsophisticated glory this afternoon, as an unusually large earthquake with its epicenter in Louisa County, about 40 miles NW of Richmond, Virginia's capital, hit around 1:51 p.m.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
MSM's 'Mirror, mirror on the wall' news approach: Earthquake in VA? Send resources to Times Square to interview pretty tourists -but nobody in VA!
Like the worst immature behavioral excesses of a teenage girl constantly looking to catch her own reflection in any passing mirror and a clueless dog who persistently chases after its own tail, we saw the American Mainstream Media in all their collective unsophisticated glory this afternoon, as an unusually large earthquake with its epicenter in Louisa County, about 40 miles NW of Richmond, Virginia's capital, hit around 1:51 p.m.
To watch Sen. Marco Rubio's speech LIVE tonight from The Reagan Foundation/Library at 9 pm Eastern...
Friday, May 13, 2011
Opinionated Dennis Miller on The O'Reilly Factor speaking on the death of Osama bin Laden; interviews with NCIS' Mark Harmon
http://youtu.be/svm1k8_WEMw
Earlier today on his nationally-syndicated morning radio program, Dennis spoke to actor Mark Harmon of CBS-TV's mega-hit NCIS about the ups and downs of his career in Hollywood.
You can hear the entire interview at: http://www.dennismillerradio.com/
Below, interview with Mark Harmon from this week with CBS-TV's Chris Wragge of CBS' The Morning Show.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7365723n&tag=related;photovideo
Friday, April 8, 2011
House Budget Comm. Chair Paul Ryan on 'Path to Prosperity'; the drivers of debt and the overdue reforms needed in FY 2012 budget -charts aplenty!
U.S. House Budget Committee video: The Path to Prosperity: America's two futures, visualized, presented by Budget Comm. Chair Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
http://youtu.be/Xwv5EbxXSmE
Rasmussen Reports
Paul Ryan's Growth Budget
A Commentary By Lawrence Kudlow April 7, 2011
Of all the discussion about Paul Ryan's big-bang budget plan, the element I like best was caught in this Wall Street Journal op-ed title: "The GOP Path to Prosperity." In other words, it's a growth budget. It has plenty of spending cuts, but it also has significant pro-growth tax reform.Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_lawrence_kudlow/paul_ryan_s_growth_budget
U.S. House Budget Committee video: Budget Comm. Chair Paul Ryan on Fox News Channel's Mike Huckabee Show details drivers of debt; Calls for honest leadership and real reform
http://youtu.be/SiZj1Uncl9Y
U.S. House Budget Committee video: Behind the Scenes: Budget Listening Session with Budget Comm. Chair Paul Ryan.
http://youtu.be/otlOCQyE8oY
Related article at: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/03/17/gop.budget.plan/index.html
See also:
http://budget.house.gov/
http://www.youtube.com/user/HouseBudgetCommittee
http://prosperityproject.org/
Saturday, March 26, 2011
John Stossel -Evidence of fraud in awarding of millions by U.S.D.A. after legit lawsuit by African-American farmers: Non-farmers are also getting $$$!
John Stossel of Fox Business Network -Clip from his Fox News Channel SPECIAL Friday night, March 25, 2011, on "Freeloaders."
Here, Stossel investigates increasing evidence of rampant fraud in the awarding of millions of dollars by the U.S.D.A. after their settlement of a well-publicized lawsuit against them by African-American farmers who WERE discriminated against, by ineligible non-farmers also receiving checks. According the the most accurate information, 18,000 Black farmers were actually eligible, but 97,000 sought the $50,000 payment. Surprise, the principal lawyers involved seem to just be shrugging their shoulders about the fraud against U.S. taxpayers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6xQLS33z1c
Related article at: http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2011/03/25/the-real-shirley-sherrod-scandal-tonight-on-fox-news-at-10pm-et/
The SPECIAL on "Freeloaders" that aired Friday will be repeated on Fox News Channel on Saturday night/Sunday morning at Midnight and on Sunday night at 9 p.m.
Homepage for Stossel program:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/stossel/index.html
John Stossel's Take blog: http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/
Stossel's columns at TownHall.com: http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/
http://www.youtube.com/user/breitbart
Friday, March 11, 2011
Sun-Sentinel & Miami Herald snooze for hours as websites have ZERO on earthquake & tsunami in Japan as other sites move quickly; NHK's LIVE coverage
Screen-shot of CNN coverage of Japanese earthquake and tsunami at 2:25 a.m. Eastern
Early this morning I was watching the 12:30 a.m. repeat airing on The BigTenNetwork of IU's loss to Penn State in the Big Ten basketball tourney in Indy at Conseco Fieldhouse, their ninth loss in a row.
Screen-shot of BigTenNetwork at Big Ten basketball tourney
During a second-half commercial break, l flipped over to Fox News Channel and it was then that I first saw the story that is developing as South Florida's news media snoozes -THE largest earthquake in the recorded history of Japan, and the seventh largest ever recorded in the world.
A tsunami warning is now in place for the entire Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada, with six-foot waves expected to hit Hawaii around 9 a.m. Eastern and smaller waves hitting California, Oregon and Washington state at 11 a.m. Eastern.
Evacuation orders for all beach hotels in Hawaii are already in place, with nobody permitted to remain after 8 a.m. Eastern.
Screen-shot of Fox News Channel at 2:15 a.m. Eastern
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel finally posted something about the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northeast Japan at about 3:45 a.m., two hours AFTER other major newspapers started posting information to their websites, usually screen-shots from NHK-TV in Japan.
Watch NHK-TV's LIVE streaming coverage in English at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42025198#42025198
After flipping around to check certain key news websites to see who was asleep and who was awake on this amazing story, the Miami Herald was in its customary state -sound asleep.
At 4 a.m. Eastern there was still NADA on the Herald's website.
Screen-shot of Miami Herald at 2:30 a.m. Eastern
http://www.miamiherald.com/
Screen-shot of The Drudge Report at 2:30 a.m. Eastern
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Screen-shot of The New York Times at 2:18 a.m. Eastern
http://www.nytimes.com/
Screen-shot of The Los Angeles Times at 2:30 a.m. Eastern
http://www.latimes.com/
Screen-shot of Svenska Dagbladet at 2:45 a.m.
http://www.svd.se/
MSNBC even got into the picture for a change on this story, unlike their invisible news coverage early-on last year during the Polish Prime Minister's airplane crash in Russia and the Moscow subway bombing, where they stuck to their curious 'crime-block' programming, featuring repeats of their 'Predator' series or profiles of U.S. prisons, which is still a weird programming choice no matter how many years they run that overnight and on weekends, instead of actual news programming.
They were, however, 'punked' at 4:04 a.m. by someone claiming to be at Narita Airport, outside Tokyo, who ended his personal account with the new maxim of 2011: "Winning!"
That's the lasting power of Charlie Sheen.
Screen-shot of MSNBC's coverage
The unseen male MSNBC anchor seemed a bit stunned but didn't let on that anything unusual had just happened.
Sometime around 4:30 a.m., the Miami Herald finally awoke and posted something. Better late than never I suppose, huh?
Watch NHK's LIVE streaming coverage in English at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42025198#42025198
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1:15 p.m. Friday Update:
If you're looking for some LIVE coverage from Hawaii, try Hawaii News Now at
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904&nav=menu55_1_1
Remember, Hawaii is five hours behind Eastern, the same amount we are behind
GMT, to give you some perspective.
Hawaii gets roughly 4,000 Japanese visitors a day and the latest news that Narita Airport is going to remain closed due to physical damage from the disaster is NOT good news. According to what I heard on Hawaii News Now around Noon Eastern-time, three airports in Japan hope to resume flights soon to Hawaii, including Nagoya.
Honolulu Star-Advertiser newspaper website;
http://www.staradvertiser.com/
Monday, March 7, 2011
Coincidence that three anti-Glenn Beck stories appear in one week? His show draws 300,000 more total viewers than ALL cable news competitors COMBINED
Of course, since so few American TV/print reporters, editors or producers actually read and speak passable Arabic, or are the least bit knowledgeable about the Mid-East, they can't very well write about Libya intelligently, now can they.
Which is why beyond the actual news value of what happened to and with him last week, there were so many stories and columns in the American press about Charlie Sheen, because you don't have to know anything to write or talk about him...
Everybody's an expert.
Before you read the following three stories/columns, here's something to keep in mind, since facts actually matter.
The Glenn Beck Show on Fox News Channel is drawing 300,000 more total viewers than ALL cable news competitors in the time period COMBINED.
Just saying...
If I was the news director at a local TV station in a major market in the United States and my eyeball numbers were more than the total of ALL the other local TV stations COMBINED, plus, I was also leading in the 25-54 demo to boot, and my adversaries were saying that I was in a slump, I'd take that kind of losing streak and laugh all the way to the bank.
And so would my family!
CNN would take that kind of losing streak right now at 5 p.m. Eastern in a heartbeat.
And so would MSNBC and CNBC.
But they can only dream of a such an upside-down news world now, since at 5 p.m., they're merely ants at the picnic, not the guest of honor.
They're barely noticeable unless one of them crawls on your arm or leg -and completely harmless and useless- so you just flick them away with your finger and they go buh-bye. Just saying...
Apropos of these stories, coming soon, I may soon have a blog post here on some real actor/celebrities who actually HAVE lost their hold on film audiences at the box-office, but you rarely if ever see the sort of joyful negative stories on them in the American press like the stories below on because... well, they really, really don't like Glenn Beck -or his audience.
Just ask them, they'll tell you.
Hmm-m... note to self: Their film grosses fizzling and reviews not-so-positive, have Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Anniston, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt lost their juice?
More after the links.
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TheWrap
Media | Books
His Ratings Fizzling, Has Glenn Beck Lost His Mojo?
March1, 2011 @ 6:59 pm
http://www.thewrap.com/media/
The New Republic
Politics
The Decline of Glenn Beck What caused it?
James Downie, Reporter-Researcher
March 3, 2011, 10:59 pm
http://www.tnr.com/article/
New York Times
The Media Equation
The Fading Power of Beck’s Alarms
By David Carr
March 6, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/business/media/07carr.html
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None of these pieces have mentioned the most obvious and most likely reason for the lower numbers.
Beck's TV show, which I watch everyday, usually, the 2 a.m. repeat, has been pre-empted more often than usual due to what was going on in Egypt, often for pointless -often nine-hour old- coverage of Tahrir Square in Cairo when NOTHING was happening.
Reminder: Just because you point a TV news camera at something doesn't mean it's news.
Because of those pre-emptions on the repeat show at 2 a.m., before RED EYE, I actually saw some Fox News weekend panel program I'd never seen before, which itself was a few days old and was clearly intended to run-out-the clock until 3 a.m. came around.
Additionally, there have been many more repeats since January than at about any time since Beck joined Fox News Channel.
Seems like I even recall him being sick and having surgery, though I can't recall the exact details.
Sometimes, there's no conspiracy, it's just that there's either no program to see, or the one that airs is one you've already seen twice before -I don't need to see it a third time.
I love pizza, but sometimes when I was out with friends in the D.C. area, after a movie or ballgame or whatever, sometimes when asked what I was in the mood for, I'd choose Vietnamese, unless I knew that we were near a great pizza place. If it isn't what you want the way you like it, TV, like pizza, isn't the same.
Similarly, with all the news about Tunesia, Egypt and Libya on Beck's show, why would loyal viewers who really don't care about foreign policy compared to domestic or economic issues watch something they really don't have any interest in, something that isn't their cup of tea?
I love well-played basketball, esp. top-tier college basketball, not surprisingly, considering I only went to college at a school like IU where basketball is much more than tradition but a culture.
Still, I haven't watched the NBA All-Star Game since about 1990, and haven't watched more than 20 minutes of the NBA this entire season.
It's not interesting to me since nothing matters until May.
Or, maybe those fans see a repeat or a pre-emption and finally get around to watching one of those prime-time shows they've been continually taping for weeks and STILL NOT started watching yet, so they think, today is the day I start watching 'em, otherwise I'm deleting them all.
Just saying... sometimes, lower ratings are not so mysterious.
And when you STILL have MANY more viewers than all your time-slot competitors combined, it's really absurd to talk about a SLUMP.
When the Yankees of the 1920's amd '30's actually lost a game or two in the World Series instead of sweeping their opponent in four games, were they in a slump, too?
Thursday, February 3, 2011
P.T. Barnum's never-uttered maxim re Suckers is thus proven again: FNC's Rise of Freedom: Nickel and Dimed by 9/11 Coin?
I'm a very empathetic person by nature -as Adrian Monk was so famous for saying, "It's a blessing, and a curse"- but generally speaking, I try to make a habit of NOT ever feeling sorry for:
a.) very religious people, b.) very selfless people, and c.) very stupid people, since more often than is safe for everyone else, they all seem overly eager at times to throw-out common sense and logic for some dubious personal reason.
You know, the sort with more money than sense and who specialize in melodrama and insinuating themselves into chaotic situations so that their problem becomes the responsibility of others -yours- to solve or resolve, esp, Uncle Sam.
And when those people also have SO MANY multiple remote controls for what they watch or listen to... run for the hills!
Jeff Beal - "Monk Theme" (Extended Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdampjgQ8tA
http://www.jeffbeal.com/
http://www.usanetwork.com/series/monk/
www.national911memorial.org
Friday, January 21, 2011
Intimidation tactics of union-backed anti-Walmart goon squads in D.C. are ticking time bombs. "Boom goes the dynamite!"
Fox News Channel January 20, 2011
Megyn Kelly interviews Fortune magazine's Nina Easton about orchestrated union efforts to intimidate people in their own homes because of labor's opposition to a Walmart in to D.C. I actually saw this broadcast LIVE today, and knew I had to post it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBzBER4YcjU
Speaking of liberal hypocrisy in-action - 'Hoisted on their own petard Dept.'- in conclusion, Chicago...
Before the first Wal-Mart store in Chicago was finally approved, some of the most vehemently anti-Walmart voices on the Chicago City Council used their city-issued office debit/credit cards to make purchases at suburban Big Box stores, even while they decried... oh, you know... the pernicious effect that having them located within the oh-so august Chicago city limits, blah, blah.
But when these same Chicago council members could save some money -and on city taxes- especially for office supplies and party favors, get out of their way!
Here they come with their taxpayer-funded cards!
LOL!
If you never heard about that issue, much of that information emerged in Chicagoland news outlets from clever public records requests.
Well-timed, surgically-applied public records requests do a lot of amazing things when you know what to ask for and know what your rights are -and are keen to let others know that you're asking for, since it aligns with what others have done.
In the next few weeks and months, more than ever, I'll be doing a lot of PRR at Hallandale Beach City Hall, the Broward County School Board HQ, and the Broward County Commission, where in the case of the latter, I'll be zeroing-in on certain matters involving Stacy Ritter, Kristin Jacobs and the invisible presence that is-or-was Ilene Lieberman.
Three uninspiring, unappealing female elected officials in Broward County whom it's fair to say I loathe, and not just a little bit, for their actions, attitude, words and behavior.
Yes, more fun times are definitely ahead!
Chicago's First Wal-Mart! (Whoop-di-do.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkR55-dpYFk
June 29, 2010 video of Mayor Richard M. Daley on Walmart in Chicago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_I1IAYdado
Chicago City Council Approves New Walmart in Pullman Park: MyFoxCHICAGO.com
June 30, 2010
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/walmart-gun-ban-city-council-meeting-chicago-aldermen-vote-20100630
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Walmart Eyes North Side Store Location in Lakeview: MyFoxCHICAGO.com
December 9, 2010
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/walmart-wal-mart-north-side-lakeview-stores-chicago-20101209
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New York Daily News
Walmart's been a boon to Chicago: An alderwoman says she's seen it with her own eyes
By Emma Mitts
January 9th 2011, 4:00 AM
Read more at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/01/09/2011-01-09_walmarts_been_a_boon_to_chicago.html
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The funniest discovery of the new year: "Jeff from Tallahassee" on Red Eye; reminds me of the Steve & Garry, Don & Mike comic genius I miss
Because reality is always the funniest thing.
The funniest discovery of the new year: "Jeff from Tallahassee" on Fox News Channel's Red Eye, broadcast weekdays at 3 a.m.
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html
See the video at:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4497479/red-eye-answers-viewer-mail/
No matter how many different video clips of "Jeff" that I see on must-watch Red Eye, he cracks me up every time with his deadpan delivery of not-so-pithy comments.
This guy is a gold mine of comedy satisfaction.
Even when you know what he's going to say.
For me, listening to his droll comments recalls the very best times from the kind of 'Old School' radio I prefer, and of my listening everyday for hours to Steve Dahl & Garry Meier in Chicago on WLS-AM and then WLUP-AM, then FM, while living in Evanston and Wilmette in the mid-'80's, often crying from laughter at work or on the walk from the El station to my home and then once in the house.
I knew their bits and routine better than I knew my neighbors.
1983 Entertainment Tonight video of Steve & Garry, with Mary Hart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73-7DE_SlmQ
Their insightful observations and repartee with guests, esp. Joe Walsh of The Eagles, plus the best collection of "bumpers" ever assembled, as comedian/actor Richard Lewis was always quick to mention whenever he was a guest of theirs, ensured hours of amusement for their loyal listeners throughout Chicagoland, NW Indiana and southern Wisconsin.
Their hysterical satirical stories about guys-on-the-make flying dates to Palwaukee Airport-in Wheeling- were classic, and always sure to ensure comic paralysis.
Listen to those broadcasts at: http://wn.com/steve_dahl,_airport
There were SO MANY times I'd end up staying at an El stop rather than get in the train car, even when it was absurdly cold, because I just had to hear the very end of the segment or bit they were doing before they went to a commercial break.
If I had a dollar for every time that happened...
I actually preferred listening to Steve & Garry out in the bleachers at Wrigley Field when I went to Cubs games during the week than I did listening to the game broadcast on WGN-AM. I could always tell that many other fans in the bleachers were doing the same thing, because when I took out my earphones, I could hear so many people laughing at the same exact time.
I once was walking down N. Michigan Avenue near their studio and heard them say something incorrect about a subject I knew quite a bit about, so I took the elevator at the Sears Tower up to their office intent on writing a short note with the correct info and passing it on to one of their producers. Or so I thought...
In all the time it had taken me to finally catch an elevator to get upstairs, the duo had gone in to a commercial break and once I walked thru the door, who do I spy but Steve in the lobby wearing one of his Hawaiian shirts.
Naturally, he asked me what I was doing there.
I explained the whys and wheres, he listened intently to me and eventually agreed I was right, so he said he'd mention the correction on-air later, shook my hand and went back towards the studio.
I was so casual about the whole thing it wasn't until I was at the Main El stop at the Chicago-Evanston city line, where I had to change over to another train that took me up to the Linden Avenue stop in Wilmette where I lived, just a block from Lake Michigan, that it all sunk in.
If only I'd had a digital cameras back then!
Audio: 1/9 - Steve Dahl &Garry Meier -
December 1987 - WLUP AM 1000 Chicago, Illinois
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P5MH29RquQ
December 5, 2008
Steve Dahl out at CBS' WJMK-FM
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/12/steve-dahl-out.html
Years later, while living for 14 years in the Washington, D.C. area, I'd be as devout a listener to the Don & Mike -Don Geronimo & Mike O'Meara- on WJFK-FM, even while I'd also try like crazy in the wintertime to get Steve & Garry on my AM radio after they switched stations, because of the seasonal "skip" that allowed me to start getting distant AM stations around 5 p.m.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_and_Mike_Show
In the future I hope to have a separate post or two about the Don & Mike Show, but this honest 2005 Washington Post article I think gives you some insight into what made them so ridiculously popular and the number-one show in the very competitive Washington, D.C. market, as well as some other cities around the country where they were syndicated.
Don Geronimo's Grief-Stricken Solo
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 2, 2005http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080200036.html
With both duos, I made dozens of audio-cassette recordings of them on my Sony cassette recorder, a sort of "Best of" mix tape if you will.
I'd take 3-4 of them with me to listen to while away on business trips or flights down here at the holidays, so if I got bored, I'd have something to amuse me or to fall asleep at night in hotels. Something familiar!
As a person who had the radio on in my office all day while living and working in the Chicago and Washington area, it's hardly surprising that having listened to such very talented guys for so many years, it's my opinion that nobody even half as talented as them currently works in the South Florida radio market, otherwise I'd have mentioned it here.
http://www.donandmikewebsite.com/
June 11, 2009
Steve Dahl to launch daily podcasts in partnership with CBS Radio
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/07/steve-dahl-to-launch-daily-podcasts-in-partnership-with-cbs-radio.html
Steve Dahl Show podcasts: http://www.dahl.com/podcasts/weekly
http://www.facebook.com/stevedahlshow
http://dahl.com/blog
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOriginalShockJock
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Some recent Red Eye videos worth perusing:
CNN's over-the-top coverage of the Coffee party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3oks9xOkE(*Includes THE sexiest woman on American TV, Courtney Friel.)
Canadian Radio Bans 1985 Dire Straits Songhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
Rock station fights back
http://www.youtube.com/user/
Gutfeld: Brokaw's Bar Hopping Fears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
See also:
http://www.dailygut.com/
http://activitypit.ning.com/
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Phil Rosenthal's Tower Ticker blog at The Chicago Tribune, covering the "Media business in Chicago and beyond."
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Amazing N.Y. Post exclusive: "Sanit bigs boozed amid snow chaos." Go-slow a union tactic or just a few malcontents?
Red Eye: New Yorkers rip Bloomberg over Snow Removal,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlUR2u63atQ
Red Eye airs on Fox News Channel Monday-Friday at 3 a.m. and is hysterical.
A Slow NYC Snow Cleanup - New York Post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdZA7u545Q
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New York Post
Sanit bigs boozed amid snow chaos: witnesses
By Reuven Blau and Brad Hamilton
Last Updated: 9:19 AM, January 2, 2011
Posted: 2:10 AM, January 2, 2011
EXCLUSIVE
Instead of plowing, they got plowed. A group of on-duty Sanitation supervisors is under investigation for allegedly buying booze and chilling in their cozy department car for hours Monday night after the blizzard stranded a bus and three snowplows blocks away.
The city Department of Investigation is probing the incident after witnesses said four snow blowers blew off their duties to get blitzed, buying two six-packs of beer from a Brooklyn bodega. The workers then walked five blocks to their car, which was in 20 inches of snow in the middle of 18th at McDonald avenues near the F train entrance, passing the stuck bus and idle plows on 18th Avenue between Third and Fourth streets.
Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/slushed_sloshed_fX907nPJIEevDILBvlYAtK
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Did Unions Intentionally Delay Snow Cleanup in NYC?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9skEQJzGHUo
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RedEye Recap YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RedEyeRecap
Fox News Channel's YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel
New York Post YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NYPost
Saturday, November 13, 2010
From high atop Mount Koppel, Ted Koppel opines in the WaPo on the dearth of -yes- serious news. Just like last year. And the year before that...
From high atop Mount Koppel, Ted Koppel opines in the WaPo on the dearth of -yes- serious news. Just like last year. And the year before that... And at that forum in Aspen...
Just some quick but obvious questions that come to mind that Ted Koppel has never publicly asked in the past, and so never has had to answer from the privileged vantage point of his former insider position.Why ABC News never got a cable TV component.
Disney's fault? If not, whose?
Why CBS News also didn't. Viacom's fault?
If not, whose?
If either or both had happened and they did the opposite of what Koppel decries below in tomorrow's Washington Post, what all readers here, presumably, would want in the abstract, would enough people watch it to be profitable, or more than a niche?
Or would it just more money down a black hole?
Just wondering...
The Washington Post
Ted Koppel: Olbermann, O'Reilly and the death of real news By Ted Koppel
Sunday, November 14, 2010;
To witness Keith Olbermann - the most opinionated among MSNBC's left-leaning, Fox-baiting, money-generating hosts -suspended even briefly last week for making financial contributions to Democratic political candidates seemed like a whimsical, arcane holdover from a long-gone era of television journalism, when the networks considered the collection and dissemination of substantive and unbiased news to be a public trust.
Read the rest of the Op-Ed at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111202857.html
Reader comments at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111202857.html
Ted Koppel on the Information Overload
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv99WA0xyNk
Ted Koppel accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at
the 28th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZtIphNl0Gs
Monday, October 25, 2010
The Chicken and the Egg Conundrum 2.0: Ugly Politicians & Ugly Meter iPhone Apps
The Chicken and the Egg Conundrum 2.0: Ugly Politicians & Ugly Meter iPhone Apps
Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld -Fox News Channelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui01ZaXRVzE
Now one of my favorite TV shows, Red Eye airs on the Fox New Channel at 3 a.m. Mon. -Fri.
Meanwhile, in FL-22, which includes part of Hallandale Beach...
BrowardPalmBeach NewTimes
Halloween Contest Shows Ugly Side of Politics
By Bob Norman,
Wed., Oct. 20 2010 @ 8:35AM
Talk about scary politics.
Republicans are throwing a Halloween party in Pembroke Pines next Friday night.
As part of the festivities, they will be holding a U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz look-alike contest that the invitation says "could scare the devil himself." The winner gets $100.
Read the rest of the post at:
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/10/halloween_contest.php
Meanwhile, this summer, the beautiful and beguiling Courtney Friel of Fox News Channel frequently appeared on Red Eye to gamely read aloud Glenn Beck's novel, The Overton Window.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaqkMr-FuyY
See also:
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/broward_politics/
www.dailygut.com
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/RedEyeRecap
http://jedediahbila.com/