The News Is Not, According To Ted Koppel

postedPosted in Boob Tube, Politically Incorrect on November 15th, 2010 by glennm

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Yup, I agree with Ted. This is not news so much as advertiser-supported political dogma.

We live now in a cable news universe that celebrates the opinions of Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly — individuals who hold up the twin pillars of political partisanship and who are encouraged to do so by their parent organizations because their brand of analysis and commentary is highly profitable.

Ted Koppel: Olbermann, O’Reilly And the Death of Real News | washingtonpost.com

Apparently, Keith Olberman says he will respond tonight. Should be interesting.

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Scary Indeed

postedPosted in Media Matters, Photography, Social Media, Travel on January 15th, 2009 by glennm

Just the thought of being in the icy waters of the Hudson River in the winter is enough to make one’s skin crawl. US Airways Jet Crashes Into Hudson River off New York City [ABC News]. But looking at photos and video of today’s aircraft floating in the river is scary, very scary indeed.

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What A Day

postedPosted in Boob Tube, Media Matters, Wonder Wonder on December 19th, 2003 by glennm

I was watching World News Tonight on ABC last evening, and could not help but notice the tremendous diversity and importance of the stories in the news these days. The intelligence consequences of Saddam Hussein’s capture for infiltrating the Iraqi resistance (and vice-versa), two rulings by US courts declaring unconstitutional the detention of US citizens, and foreign captives at Guantanamo, as “enemy combatants” without due process, the conviction of Lee Malvo (the teenage Washington sniper) for terrorism-murder and rejection of his insanity defense, the indictment of Michael Jackson for child sexual molestation, and a new strategy of “disengagement” from the Palestinians by Israel in response to the collapse of the Bush “Road Map” to peace.

Those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. December 18, 2003 may not be a day to live in infamy, but with some more like this the world is going to continue to be a very exciting — and dangerous — place

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Gore TV Redux

postedPosted in Boob Tube, Media Matters, Politically Incorrect, Rants on October 1st, 2003 by glennm

As reported here three months ago, former Democratic presidential candidate — and totally superficial, unprincipled political bore — Al Gore is indeed committed to starting his own cable TV network. Former VP In Talks To Buy Cable News Channel.

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Gore says he wants to counter the pundits on Fox and other conservative networks, but all he’ll end up doing is further tarnishing the fading star of liberalism in America. Where is Ariana Huffington when we really need her? Let’s have some more profiles in spinelesness with which she’s lambsted the quivering cowards who make up today’s Democrats. Al, we hardly need thee!!

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English.Aljazeera.net Back Up

postedPosted in Cyberspace, Media Matters, Politically Incorrect, Tech Bytes, War In Iraq on April 4th, 2003 by glennm

After a week of battling hackers, a distributed denial of service attack and the cancellation of its hosting contract by Akami, the Arab satellite news network Al-Jazeera has finally gotten its english-language Web site back up.

This is really offensive. Not their coverage, which may or may not be accurate, but rather that hackers — surely Americans — would use their technology skills to prevent other Americans from getting news and information with other viewpoints from around the globe. We live in a pluralistic world, and whether you agree with the Iraq War or not, all Americans should decry any attempt to restrict the ability of our citizens to have free access to news and information on the Internet from any media source worldwide. Yet in spite of being mostly knocked offline, the Al Jazeera Web site of was among the most sought-after last week. So there is some intelligence in the universe after all!

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