While there are pro democracy riots in China, Fox News is strangely quiet. I guess everything else is more important than democracy in acountry where Murdoch sell stuff?[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Media’
September 23rd, 2014 - 6:12 pm § in The Ave Scene
The Stranger Needs a Writer!
After firing Goldy and having Dominic Holden quit, the Stranger needs a writer! “We’re looking for a widely curious, energetic news junkie who wants to report on the fastest growing large city in America™ for Seattle’s only newspaper™. Must have a black belt in time management [...]
September 22nd, 2014 - 12:14 am § in America, The Ave Scene
How is Jeff Bezos Doing As Publisher of The Washington Post?
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September 4th, 2014 - 9:47 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Hearst, Murdoch, Graham, McClure… Bezos
The tradition of rich folks buying newspapers or media to promote their ideas is a long one … as American Pie or Remember the Ma ine! Now Jeff Bezos is showing he actually owns the Washington Post and intends to use it to promote his ideology, what ever that is.[...]
People of Color: What is the antonym for POC?
CENSORING IGGE A ruckus has arisen because of an op-ed in the monthly West View News of the West Village in New York. The author, James Collier, used the N word to make the all to real point that “far right voters hate Obama …America’s increasing tolerance of far-right o[...]
June 25th, 2014 - 4:34 am § in Misc.
Ressurection of Michael Jackson 5 Years after His Death
Jackson, who died in 2009, performed his hit new song “Slave to the Rhythm” from the posthumous album “Xscape.” He even did the moonwalk. Wearing a gold jacket and red pants and sporting one of his trademark hairdos, the virtual Jacko received a real standing ovation.[...]
May 28th, 2014 - 9:28 am § in Politics
Free Speech Comes to Cuba?
Cuba’s First Independent Media Outlet A dissident Cuban blogger, Yoani Sánchez, has launched the country’s first independent media outlet in the last 50 years. <div> <a href=”http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=%2F4624%2FA[...]
May 20th, 2014 - 7:44 am § in America
This is NOT Antisemitism?
Rapper Macklemore says his costume worn during a May 16 show in Seattle was not meant to stereotype Jews. Us Magazine (http://usm.ag/1hYuNDP ) Actor Seth Rogen – who is Jewish – didn’t shy away from commenting on the questionable getup, tweeting, “@macklemore, first you trick people into th[...]
May 15th, 2014 - 4:01 am § in The Ave Scene
Death, slow death, of the Seattle Times
My wife and I cancelled our subscription to the Seattle Times a couple of years ago when we realized we were only buying it for the Wednesday food ads. What little reading was left outside of the QFC and Safeway pages was rehash of news we had already read online or in our subscriptions to [&helli[...]