The national media acts like the fourth branch of government.
Category Archives: Rants
Staged.
!(alignright)http://www.sensoryoutput.com/wp-images/postings/stage.jpg! Imagine, for a moment, that you are a news producer for one of the top news stations. Your job is to create meaningful clips of news-worthy events for broadcast, and in order to ensure you are on top of current events, you keep tabs … Read More →
Spamtastic!
They never stop! What do these automatons hope to accomplish? Better PageRank? Certainly not increased traffic, as their fake comments are a bunch a crap. Its an annoying nuisance to say the least, and I look forward to WordPress v1.3′s new anti-spam capabilities. I currently … Read More →
Excellent Media Insight
I meant to post sooner on this excellent article by the “Columbia Journalism Review”:http://www.cjr.org/, “Blinded by Science”:http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/6/mooney-science.asp. In it, author Chris Mooney discusses examples and the various problems the media faces in attempting to achieve a “balanced” story. Right off the bat, he discusses Los … Read More →
Wacko!
If I have to endure one more dumb article on “CNN”:http://www.cnn.com, “MSNBC”:http://www.msnbc.com, or the likes about “ludicrous crap like this”:http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/flu.poll/index.html, I think I might just go nuts. Lose it, go crazy, be one fry short of a Happy Meal™, wacko! OK, it’s not that bad, … Read More →
Parental Frustration
Overbearing mothers, one in particular (mine), create unnecessary waves. My mother sets herself to complete tasks that I deem wholly illogical and pointless, yet even with the insistence from every ounce of my soul, she continues. My pleading seems ephemeral, as nothing enters her ears … Read More →
Not to plan
Do you ever believe that you have thought something out and that it should go exactly according to plan? Never kid yourself because that will never be the case. I feel so naïve sometimes for my foolishness with regard to such “planning,” as anything involving … Read More →
O, human beings
Human beings weld a great deal of power: we have the capacity to exist as self-aware, intelligent, logical creatures. That state, however, sits at the end of a very long contiuum on which a person can *choose* a spot. “That really is what it is … Read More →
Martha Stewart goes to jail
In a stunning string of bad luck, “Martha Stewart has been sentenced to five months in jail”:http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/16/news/newsmakers/martha_sentencing/index.htm?cnn=yes. There are so many reasons why this is wrong, I do not even know where to begin: * Martha Stewart was never found guilt of insider trading because … Read More →
Ineffable
People amaze me.