The National Enquirer broke the story of John Edwards affair with Rielle Hunter. Because of their reporting Edwards is being investigated for misusing campaign funds and may be indicted within the next couple of months. The Pulitzer Award committee has agreed to consider this bit of journalism for two of the most prestigious awards it [...]
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The South Florida Raging Grannies weigh in on the recent CBS advocacy ad kerfuffle. What does CBS stand for? Watch the video to find out. Or, check out the Women’s Media Center to learn more. Here’s more about the raging grannies from Wikipedia. Another spot-on column from Matt Taibbi. He touches on one of the reasons I’m actually sympathetic to the Tea Party protesters. “You teabaggers are in the process of being marginalized by your own ostensible party leaders in exactly the same way the anti-war crowd was abandoned by the Democratic party elders in the earlier part of [...] In the education post both Carol and I start with this Gallup poll that shows a very high satisfaction rate (77%) with how schools are educating children. Parents generally think their child is getting a good education. But those other kids? The poll shows that only 46% are satisfied with education in the country. What accounts [...] Fatty fat fat Filippa Hamilton was fired by Ralph Lauren because she could no longer fit into his clothes. Filippa is so fat that his art department tried to “correct” her look with photoshop, resulting in this now notorious image - Filippa was fired in April and says - “They fired me because they said I was [...] The White House is correct in pointing out that FOX News acts as the communications arm of the GOP. But the idea that CNN is somehow doing “news” or “reporting” or “journalism” is laughable, as Stewart points out in the following segment. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Time magazine weighs in on mug shot mania. “Mug Shots, a prominent fixture on the site’s home page since it debuted earlier this year, posts every arrest photo from the four Tampa Bay-area counties, complete with the dazed scowls, bad hair and, for folks like Laurie, the humiliation of appearing alongside alleged murderers and car thieves.” Running [...] Dan Gillmor has some tips for improving news orgs. “A core mission of our work would be to help people in the community become informed users of media, not passive consumers — to understand why and how they can do this. We would work with schools and other institutions that recognize the necessity of critical thinking.” Really? Why is our public discourse so shallow, frivolous, and inconsequential? This jackass bullshit will take up another few news cycles. After being bandied about for the last 8 months I bet most people still don’t know what “public option” means. Oh, I think I just answered my question. (Corporate power has no interest in [...] It just makes sense. To hate war is crazy. To hate health care insurance reform is just a bedrock American value. “This simply proves again that when right-wing (and mostly white) conservatives get angry, it’s big news. When liberals get angry, it’s just annoying.” OK, I need to find this video. Moyers is one of my all-time favorite liberals, one of my all-time favorite Texans, and one of my all-time favorite journalists. I went looking for his appearance on Real Time the day after it aired, but all the videos had been yanked. After reading this snippet in Politico, [...] Dare I copy and paste the whole article? It IS pretty awesome. In a short post Glenn Greenwald backhands our chattering pundit class, and reveals the lie of American meritocracy. Until he listed all the names together I hadn’t realized how many television pundits got their break by being the children of someone famous. All of [...] (h/t Eric Deggans at the Feed) This was posted three days ago, but I’m just reading it this morning. Wayne Garcia is leaving Creative Loafing for a visiting professor appointment at the University of Florida. Needless to say Garcia is irreplaceable. He is absolutely one of the best political writers in the southeast, and his regular column at [...] Michael Steele appeared on NPR and the liberal blogs are crowing about how he got so tripped up by the interviewer Steve Inskeep. Except that isn’t the case. Inskeep’s interview is an embarrassment, and a perfect example of what happens when ideology interferes with professionalism. Rather than asking about specifics, or mentioning facts or evidence, Inskeep [...] Spot-on analysis by Eric Boehlert at Media Matters. “Writing at The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder defended journalists who scorned liberal Bush critics years ago when they made that exact same claim about the nation’s terror warning system. Journalists were right to dismiss the allegation, wrote Ambinder, ‘because these folks based their assumption on gut hatred for President [...] Ben Eason is out, and Atalaya Capital Management is in. The Tampa Bay Business Journal has more. “Now, someone with a name other than Eason will own Creative Loafing for the first time in 37 years following Atalaya Capital Management’s winning $5 million bid at a bankruptcy auction in Tampa Tuesday. Eason will clear out his [...] I don’t even know where to begin with this laughably wrong op-ed by Tim Rutten calling for top-tier newspapers to support Robert Murdoch’s plan for a pay-for-news model among the elite national newspapers (NYT, Washington Post, LA Times, among others; Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal already walls off its premium news). Not only does he endorse [...] Not that it wasn’t transparently obvious, but our journomalists and punditocracy were willfully obtuse to every sort of Bush-era shenanigan. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge writes in his new book that “he was pressured into raising the alert level before the 2004 election.” Mark Ambinder responds - “Journalists, including myself, were very skeptical when anti-Bush liberals [...] AT&T, Verizon and Comcast are saying no to government stimulus money. Why? The Washington Post reports that one reason is to avoid the net neutrality rules attached. “Their reasons are varied. All three say they are flush with cash, enough to upgrade and expand their broadband networks on their own. Some say taking money could [...] “Journalism didn’t work out, we’ll try this instead. Are we viral yet? Please say we’re viral.” Trenchant as hell. OK, I really hate to come down on the side of crazy here (and the recent “discovery” of an Obama birth certificate from the Republic of Kenya, (despite the fact that the Republic of Kenya did not exist on the date given on the birth certificate) amply demonstrates the level of crazy we’re talking about), [...] Not surprisingly, our liberal media is overwhelmingly conservative. A review of the op-eds of three major papers reveals that 77 percent are from self-avowed conservatives, while only 5 percent are from liberals. “But a Daily Beast review of the archives of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post tells a [...] I’ve never been much of a fan of Keith Olberman. His overwrought histrionics are embarrassing, and he’s as far from being another Edward R. Murrow as I am from being another George Clooney. He’s not quite as bad as his pretend arch-nemesis Bill O’Reilly, but he’s obviously a tool. Just because I think he would often [...] If the writers at Politico ever lose their day jobs they can probably get work in a pretzel factory. They are exceptionally skilled at twisting, turning, and inverting. In this case it’s the truth, but I bet it would work just as well on pretzel dough. In his article Partisan fracas at state lawmakers summit, Michael [...] UPDATE – I was wrong and Camille Paglia was right. See my update here. “But simple questions about the certificate were never resolved to my satisfaction. Thanks to their own blathering, fanatical overkill, of course, the right-wing challenges to the birth certificate never gained traction. But Obama could have ended the entire matter months ago by [...] (JBisMe is an occasional guest contributor to Re/Creating Tampa. Here she recounts her recent visit to see the American Idol stars in concert.) On account of my fascination with Adam Lambert, I did something very uncharacteristic for me: I attended the American Idol concert last night at the St. Pete Times Forum. My good friends JG and [...] Fox REPORTS that the nation of Iraq is now named Egypt. You DECIDE if the people working for FOX are drooling imbeciles. (via Media Matters) St. Petersblog 2.0 offers some tips to the St. Petersburg Times’ Tampabay.com on how to improve their social media chops. I think he hit the major points exactly. Sports, classifieds, and comments. He’s also concerned with the relationship between journalists and bloggers, which concerns me less. The comments, however, are one of my pet peeves. [...] I’m no fan of Alaska’s governor, but the media response to her resignation has been abominable and goes a long way to vindicating her assertion that the shrill, biased, and agenda-driven media contributed to her stepping down from office. We all know that pundits are going to attempt to spin her resignation. Those on the right [...] Pastor Drake unabashedly says he’s praying for Obama’s death. He and Osama bin Laden both want the president of the United States to die. Bill O’Reilly is attacking the father of David After the Dentist. One of these is insignificant and the other appalling. O’Reilly and I disagree on which is which. |
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