Archive for the 'journamilism' Category
Daily News Readers Call for Segregation, Daily News Editors Michael Schefer and Sandra Shea Only too Happy to Oblige
Some of the most shameful, and shamefully spelled, comments I’ve ever seen at the Daily News:
Ackerman needs to go. I am surprised anyone with kids in the schools would support Ackerman. Most of the bow tie wearing bros at the protest yesterday look like people who are profiting off of Ackerman. I doubt any of [...]
Anne-Marie Slaughter Wants to Intervene in Libya
Anne Marie Slaughter in the New York Times:
PRESIDENT Obama says the noose is tightening around Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. In fact, it is tightening around the Libyan rebels, as Colonel Qaddafi makes the most of the world’s dithering and steadily retakes rebel-held towns. The United States and Europe are temporizing on a no-flight zone while the [...]
Dead Baby Dolphins and Missing Sea Turtles: It’s a “Mystery”
Looks like the local newspapers in Misssissippi have that strange amnesia that comes when it comes to polluting corporations.
For example, why are so many baby dolphins washing up dead? Really, it’s SUCH a mystery:
he investigation into the many infant dolphin deaths along the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama will be multi-faceted in the months to [...]
Why I Drink
Yesterday while tuning into a few minutes of the view from nowhere (which really does have its own insidious point of view), I listened to the extremely-wealthy-born-into-money Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Cokie Roberts opining on those simply awful budget busting benefits (ahem) that public sector unions have. “Some of this is really outrageous,” [...]
Read More..>>When a Story Isn’t a Story
So, have you heard about the disorganized group of pro-wikileaks hackers called Anonymous, who earlier this week found out that they were the target of HBGary, an internet security firm with ties to Bank of America and the US government, proceeded to hack into the firm, take down their domain and dump 40,000 company emails [...]
Read More..>>Philly Daily News and Inquirer Digital Editions: EPIC FAILURES
If you haven’t dropped by Philly.com and signed up for the free test run of their digital edition, I highly encourage you to do so: it’s simply the most exquisite and complete FAIL I have seen in some time. You really have to experience it for yourself, and although words cannot do it justice, [...]
Read More..>>A Philly.com Editorial
This is what passes for an editorial in Philly, the city where more than 52% of adults read at or below the same level as a 10 year old:
Dining with Dom
Want to invite Dom to your dinner? E-mail him at askdomg@aol.com and put “Dinner Invitation” in the Subject field. Or drop him a line at [...]
No News is Good News
I have not watched or read the news in DAYS. I’ve also been ignoring the radio, except for traffic reports and weather. I haven’t gone anywhere NEAR the blogosphere, including avoiding Philly’s Drinking Liberally, where we disgruntled progressives go to wash down our disappointment with cold beer.
Gotta say, it’s been pretty fucking awesome. I [...]
Brendan Calling: Way Ahead of the Pack
Me, January 25, 2010:
I have a proposal to save the rotting hulk of the United States.
No, no, I don’t mean the country. I mean the S.S. United States, that glorious liner that’s decaying slowly on Pier 82 off Columbus Boulevard, where it’s been dry-docked for over a decade. It was the fastest ocean liner ever [...]
Philly Newspapers Shouldn’t Have Commenters
I’ve recently had a change of heart about how newspapers have adapted to the Internet: while in the past i’ve lauded the fact that the online edition of my local papers (as well as the New York Times, the Post, and others), I no longer believe either the Inquirer or the Daily News should have [...]
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