From the blog “Seattlish:” Seattle protesters bracing for another round of unsympathetic local TV news headlines KIRO-TV is apparently confused about why “protesters are still angry” about Darren Wilson not being indicted in the shooting of Mike Brown! Instead of maybe look[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
December 4th, 2014 - 10:45 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Media Covers Protesters: What is the story?
November 24th, 2014 - 5:48 am § in Misc.
DISNEY: we stand behind Dr. Huxtable!
(TAN: Hollywood) Disney Studios has announced that they will continue production of their first effort at creating “Shakespeare for Kids.” A remake of the classic Henry the VIIIth, using an all Black cast. The movie, Henry VIIIth, has gathered some controversy because of recent claims [...]
November 20th, 2014 - 9:37 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS? What News?
ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX have all indicated they won’t break their planned programming to cover Obama’s 8 p.m. ET speech. CNN’s Brian Stelter first reported that ABC, NBC and CBS were opting out, and an official with FOX confirmed the same with The Hill.[...]
November 13th, 2014 - 6:11 pm § in Misc.
Yellow Journalism’s Finest Hour
Was this election yellow journalism’s finest hour? Mark Sumner at Daily Kos thinks it came close: “Thank you, media. You did your job. You lovingly cobbled together boogeymen straight out of central casting: masked brown men lopping off American heads, and a disease out of the Africa t[...]
November 7th, 2014 - 12:53 pm § in Misc.
FBI Admits Committing Identity Theft To Catch A Bomb Suspect
Last month, the Seattle Times reported the FBI created a fake Seattle Times web page to nab a 15-year-old kid who threatened to bomb a school, and expressed its outrage. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024888170_fbinewspaper1xml.html Yesterday, FBI director James Comey admitted in a letter t[...]
November 1st, 2014 - 9:11 pm § in Politics
How The ‘Liberal-Biased’ Media Reports Iowa’s Senate Race
This is how Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos) reports the Iowa Senate race between U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley (D) and gun-totin’ and hog-castrating state senator Joni Ernst (R): Reported about Democratic candidate: “Braley and his wife have had run-ins with a neighbor over the neighbor�[...]
October 30th, 2014 - 7:06 pm § in America
Newspaper Fires Editorial Writer For Racist Remarks In Private Blog
The Charleston Daily Mail, a 100-year-old newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia, fired a 30-year employee this week for posting racist comments in his personal blog. Don Surber, who was employed as an editorial columnist, wrote in his blog: “This summer I had an epiphany as I watched packs of[...]
October 28th, 2014 - 9:26 am § in Misc.
Are You Reading The Seattle Times, Or Is The FBI Reading Your Computer?
The goal was laudable enough: Catch a hacker emailing bomb threats to an Olympia-area high school. And the FBI did get their man, er, boy. (The perp was a 15-year-old.) That was in 2007, seven years ago, when a different sheriff was running the Department of Justice, the FBI’s parent organizat[...]
CHINA; Hong Kong Update
While the media loses interest![...]
October 10th, 2014 - 5:17 pm § in Misc.
FOX’s FEMBOTS
Where do they find all these blond ladies? Are they true blondes or fauxies?[...]