Posted in Media, tagged Bill O'Reilly, Inside Edition on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, it’s an old clip, and it really shouldn’t be all that surprising, given the subject. Still… when this video of Bill O’Reilly with Inside Edition exploding over something he didn’t understand on the teleprompter surfaced today, it was hard to turn away. I guess that’s why it’s been viewed something like half a million [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, tagged Brit Hume, downscale, Fox News, Fred Barnes, lower class, middle class, Mort Kondracks, working class on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The only thing that could’ve made this more appropriate is if they had been sipping champagne during the segment…
Posted in Media, tagged bias, Bill Murray, Brian Williams, Edward R. Murrow, Elizabeth Edwards, Keith Olbermann, network news, Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan, Walter Cronkite on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Huffington Post picked up this entry from Brian Williams blog as a way to show conservative bias in the media (later, in a part unquoted, he praises Peggy Noonan’s column this week.) Anyway, I actually thought this was pretty funny, so I’m breaking my own rule about quoting items at length:
Posted in Baseball, Media, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Andrea Mitchell, Baby Boom, baby names, Big, Bill Safire, caller ID, cell phone, David Gregory, demography, Howard Kurtz, Jon Stewart, MSNBC, Orioles, pet peeve, post, Secret of my Success, Stephen Colbert, Tucker Carlson, White Sox, Working Girl on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a series of random thoughts from today… some things that I wish, and some things that annoy me:
1. Watching Howard Kurtz talk to Bill Safire on Reliable Sources is like watching someone trying to respectfully quiet his elderly grandfather when he starts talking about life during the depression. That said, as much [...]
Posted in Media, Uncategorized, tagged Bill Moyers, Jeremiah Wright, Joe Lieberman, PBS on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t watch a lot of PBS, but all morning, I’ve been watching that clip of Reverend Wright on Bill Moyers yesterday, and something started annoying me about Moyers. Something visceral. Could not figure out what it was — I mean, I like the guy. But here’s the thing: he kinda looks [...]
Posted in History, Media, Politics, tagged ABC, Andrea Mitchell, Barack Obama, Bernard Shaw, Charlie Gibson, FDR, George Bush, George Stephanopoulos, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman, Hillary Clinton, Lincoln-Douglas, Michael Dukakis, Richard Nixon on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last Wednesday’s Democratic debate on ABC, in which Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos asked questions about Reverend Wright, Bosnia snipers, “bitterness” comments, William Ayers, and flag lapel pins for the first 45 minutes, has sparked a chorus of criticism about journalistic responsibility and the battle between substance and sensationalism. Or, to paraphrase Obama, we [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, tagged Al Gore, Andrew Jackson, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Colbert, dignity, George Bush, Gerald Ford, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Laugh-in, Richard Nixon, Saturday Night Live, William Jennings Bryan, William McKinley on April 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
John Edwards was funny. Colbert just concluded his week in Philadelphia in advance of Tuesday’s primary with quite the gets — a cameo by Hillary to kick it off, a segment with Patrick Murphy, The (Ed)Word with Edwards and a wrap-up with Obama via satellite. They all did well — Clinton “proved” her capability [...]
Posted in Media, Uncategorized, tagged Field of Dreams, Forrest Gump, Jerry Maguire, The Graduate, Tom Cruise, When Harry Met Sally on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The heading is the title of the “mission statement” from Jerry Maguire — one of my favorite movies (and the one of my favorites that I most have to defend… damn you, Tom Cruise!) I’m a pretty big movie fan, but I’m also extremely picky about my choices. I rarely go to the movies, [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, tagged Barack Obama, pundits, Roger Simon, Steve Skvara, working class on March 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The analysis of the Obama speech today is, almost without exception, glowing. And for once, I don’t think this is a case of media hyperbole… in my mind, it deserves the praise it is given. Already, it seems like the “too cool for school” pundits are playing (in a direct quote from Roger [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, tagged Fox News, Heath Ledger, John Gibson, MSNBC, The Big Story on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Fox News has canceled John Gibson’s show (which may be the only time I’m on the same side as Fox News). Gibson was the worst of the worst… I remember watching him on MSNBC in the ’90s, when he did non-opinion news, and even then I had a visceral dislike of the man. [...]
