The world is a cacophony of noise, and we learn to tune it out. My professional background is news reporting and law; so I was trained to be careful about factual accuracy, and reach conclusions by a process of fact-based reasoning. In my lines of work, getting the facts right mattered. But then, th[...]
Posts Tagged ‘news media’
April 8th, 2019 - 1:44 am § in News Media
CNN, MSNBC have become Fox Like, Bring Back the Evening News!
I think an old fashioned evening news show, reporting world and American news, would be a huge draw. As it is we get whatever the day story is, often planted by Trump, recooked to sell clicks for each host. Someone at CNN,and MSNBC, jist as ta Fox, gets together each night and sets out the […[...]
November 22nd, 2016 - 10:00 am § in Misc.
FACEBOOK on Massenverbodungswaffe
Charlie Smith Germans are almost as good at inventing words as we are, but theirs seem to have more panache. The word I learned today is “die Massenverbodungswaffe” (The “o” has an umlaut, but my keyboard doesn’t.). It will never catch on, but it translates as &#[...]
December 16th, 2014 - 11:37 pm § in The Ave Scene
CRAVE Blog .. recognizes PI.COM as major site for photojournalism
Seattle PI.com showcases its ‘pictures of the year’ Dec 14, 2014 at 13:10 Seattle PI.com, formerly the Seattle Post Intelligencer, was the first major metropolitan newspaper in the USA to go online-only. Since then, the website has gained a reputation for high-quality photojournalism, co[...]
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.[...]
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?[...]
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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April 1st, 2014 - 4:27 pm § in The Ave Scene
Goldy Makes an April 1st Appeal To The Seattle Times: &*(%$( Hire Me!
From HorsesAss: April Fools: Seattle Times Does Not Hire Goldy by Goldy, 04/01/2014, 11:22 AM I was thinking of doing an April Fools post in which I announced that I had been hired by the Seattle Times as a political blogger and columnist. But every time I sat down to write it, it never came [&helli[...]
FascisM:Union of State and Corporations to Rule The People
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