Media
25-Oct-07
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FOX Teams with Palestra for User-Generated News Content
FOX News has partnered with The Palestra, a site for college culture, to present content on the FOX News Channel. This allows college students from participating colleges and universities to submit broadcasts of news stories and cultural segments to FOX News, which will make final approvals, and stream it on FNC and Foxnews.com. This will display in the form of an archived channel under the FOX News network. The partnership between FOX and Palestra is a good way for aspiring students to gain exposure and experience, while working in an online environment. So, the deal works out for everybody.
I brought up a similar idea for progressives years ago, but of course no one listened. I’m not a white male younger than 50 who went to an Ivy League college and lives on a coast, so why would anyone think I have anything important to say? So the right wingers get the jump on us again. I get so tired of being beaten over and over and over again because there are so few people with any kind of vision on our side.
No, I Can’t Help It
So I’m here checking out the Young America’s Foundation, conservative group that helps college conservatives bring right-wing speakers to campus. They’ve got a little widget that helps you select speakers by name, topic, price. It’s sort of the VRWC accessible in 8 or 9 different dimensions at once. Anyway, I’m checking out prices people charge, topics they’ll yak about and how they describe themselves. So I come across Horowitz. He’s a “civil rights activist and author.”
This is another idea I had years ago. Campus Progress says they’re doing something like it, but I’ve seen no evidence of it. Today’s college kids tend to be liberal, but given the incentives on the other side we could lose them. Does anybody care? Is anybody listening?
Brownie, You’ve Got a Heck of a Job
Washington Wire was a little stunned to receive a press release today hawking disgraced former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown as “available for interviews” to discuss the wildfire crisis in Southern California… In a particularly nervy move, the release also draws parallels between the California fires and the 2005 hurricane that devastated New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast — and tagged then-FEMA Director Brown as incompetent and unqualified.
Fox News: Al Qaeda is causing the CA wildfires.
This morning on Fox News, hosts of the show Fox and Friends blamed the wildfires in California on a new culprit: al Qaeda. They pointed to a 2003 FBI memo, which raised the possibility that al Qaeda may try to set wildfires around the western United States. They also noted that men in a “hovering helicopter” saw “a guy starting one of these fires.”
Malkin’s Burning Lies
Today, Michelle “Just Make stuff up” Malkin explains how the left is to blame for the fires in California: “Environmentalists blame global warming for the problem, but guess who’s standing in the way of a solution? Litigious environmentalists.”
Well, Al Qaeda, environmentalists, same-same? And don’t forget the homos!
James Hartline: San Diego is on fire because of the homos (by Pam Spaulding at Pandagon)
Hartline, a fundamentalist, recloseted gay man with AIDS (he contracted HIV from years of unsafe sex in bathhouses) today sees himself as battling dark forces in San Diego’s “homosexual stronghold of Hillcrest,” says the fires are God’s wrath on the Homosexual Agenda.
O’Reilly: J.K. Rowling Is A ‘Provocateur’ For ‘The Gay Agenda’ Of ‘Indoctrination’
Last Friday, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling revealed that one of the central characters in the series, Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, was gay. Though Rowling says her books are a “prolonged argument for tolerance,” some conservatives attacked the revelation… On his Fox News show last night, Bill O’Reilly joined in the fray, asking if Dumbledore’s outing was part of the “gay agenda” of “indoctrination” of “children.” O’Reilly claimed that by dropping “the gay bomb,” Rowling is a “provocateur” who is “going to let all hell break loose”.
Click through to watch the video.
George Carlin On Countdown - True Comic Standing
Comedian George Carlin sat down with Keith Olbermann on Tuesday’s Countdown and confesses that he’s seen every show and calls it the best news show ever. Never at a loss for words, Carlin gives his take on politics, [including] the outrage from the right over the earth shattering Dumbledore controversy; “Carlin: ‘Don’t these professional Christians have something to do during the day? I mean, isn’t there - didn’t Jesus leave instructions on how to plan your day with something constructive?’”
As a matter of fact, Jesus left some great instructions, and you don’t have to be a believer to see the wisdom in them. These right-wing busybodies don’t come anywhere close to following Jesus’ instructions. Click through to watch the video.
The thesis of [Conscience of a Liberal] (by Paul Krugman)
What [movement conservatism] is about is economics: the core goal is, as Heritage says in its fundraising letters, to roll back the New Deal and the Great Society — or as Grover Norquist puts it, to get things back to the way they were “up until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over.” Race and other distractions aren’t the goal, they’re a tactic — they’re how an anti-populist movement wins elections.
The Art Of The Hissy Fit (by Digby)
The political cost to progressives and liberals for their inability to properly deal with [the hissy fit] tactic is greater than they realize. Just as Newt Gingrich was not truly offended by Bill Clinton’s behavior (which mirrored his own) neither were conservative congressmen and Rush Limbaugh truly upset by the Move On ad — and everyone knew it, which was the point. It is a potent demonstration of pure power to force others to insincerely condemn or apologize for something, particularly when the person who is forcing it is also insincerely outraged. For a political party that suffers from a reputation for weakness, it is extremely damaging to be so publicly cowed over and over again. It separates them from their most ardent supporters and makes them appear guilty and unprincipled to the public at large.
Would that Democratic politicians were as strong as the Frost family. See below.
Md. Mom Aids Bid For Health Coverage
A Maryland family caught in the partisan crossfire over a children’s health-care bill in Congress is now stepping back into the divisive debate, advocating this time for state legislation that would expand coverage for adults.
The way to fight the hissy prone is to do what this family has done—quietly and confidently continue to insist on the rightness of your position. That’s how honorable people act.
Pelosi to launch PR blitz to beat ’08 media frenzy
Nearly one year after recapturing control of Congress, House Democratic leaders will embark on a publicity blitz starting in November to combat a dismal 25 percent approval rating.
But we live in a PR universe. Nobody tries to do the right thing, they only spend time and money trying to CONVINCE people they’re doing the right thing. And they’ll certainly need a blitz if their strategy is what Emmanuel says it is. See below.
Don’t Make Trouble (by digby)
I just saw Rahm Emmanuel on Hardball saying that because some people in the industrial midwest have economic insecurity nobody in the country cares more about the war. Neither apparently, do they care about the fact that the Democrats look like a bunch of bumbling fools every single day as the Republicans punk them over and over again with savvy political tactics. Good to know. It reminds me of the very successful 2002 campaign in which it was decided that the “smart” thing to do was vote for the war so we could get back to the kitchen table issues that people really care about.
The Matt Drudge primary (by Toby Harnden)
Most of the commentary portrays Drudge as a sinister Right-wing loony whose courting by campaigns somehow subverts the political process. Well, the truth is simpler and less of a conspiracy than that - Drudge often spots the real story that the reporter has buried in the 17th paragraph. He’s entertaining, populist and cuts to the chase - which is probably why so many British papers (including the Telegraph and occasionally my own pieces) are linked to. It’s classic on-line democracy really.
Washington Post Aggressively Fact-Checks Pathological Exaggerator Rudy Giuliani (by Greg Sargent)
A couple weeks back I said some churlish stuff about The Washington Post’s new Fact-Checker section. The question was whether such an elemental function of journalism really needed to be ghettoized in one section when it should be part of the constant every-day flow of stories. Well, I’m happy to report that I was wrong. The Fact-Checker has a very aggressive fact check of Rudy Giuliani that’s definitely valuable and worth a read. In sum, Fact-Checker deftly skewers Rudy’s ongoing and deeply inane Hillary-bashing — and his recent assertion that he has little in common with her — by showing conclusively that he’s basically in sync with her on many key issues.
Milbank Seeks to Distort Budget Debate, Again (by Dean Baker)
Mr. Milbank thinks that going after [earmarks] is the height of political courage. I am no fan of earmarks, but if Mr. Milbank was serious about informing readers he would describe the appropriations in question in contexts that would make them meaningful to readers. So cutting the $500,000 earmark for the “Virtual Herbarium” in New York would reduce spending by 0.00002 percent. If the brave senator succeeds in his effort the savings will amount to 0.2 cents per person.
Media Matters for America Headlines
Regarding national anthem “controversy,” Hannity asks: “Is this another statement” by Obama?
Washingtonpost.com’s Kane, Sun-Times’ Sweet rehashed Clinton/Yankees myth
Malkin touts exposure of Clinton Asian-American donors who she says were “smellier than stinky tofu” [As Countdown pointed out, Malkin herself is an Asian-American.]
MSNBC’s Carlson “outraged” by discussion of Giuliani’s marriages — but not the Clintons’
Closing the Case Against Cross-Ownership (by Stop Big Media)
StopBigMedia.com Coalition members filed thousands of pages of research with the FCC this week, blasting the agency for its “inconsistent, incompetent and incoherent” attempts to skew official research in support of Chairman Kevin Martin’s dubious but foregone conclusions about media consolidation.
Blogs: The Next Takeover Target?
First came social networks. Then virtual worlds. Now blogs are dazzling the eyes of major media publishers as the next takeover targets. Blogs–especially the big-name brands such as TechCrunch, Gawker, GigaOm, Boing Boing, and the Huffington Post–appear to have attractive business models. This is good news for traditional media companies that are being marginalized online and off, and are hoping to catch up to–and cash in on–a rapidly evolving Web 2.0 world.
ProPublica has resumes from every major news organization
So far, 300 have come in. Half of the investigative reporters to be hired will be unseasoned 20-somethings while the rest will be veteran reporters, says ProPublica editor-in-chief Paul Steiger. He’s aiming to hire “two or three big names.” The former WSJ editor adds: “I’m prepared to spend $200,000 on the exact right person, but if the exact right person isn’t there, then I’ll get three people at $60,000.”
Principal confiscates papers with “Modest Proposal” parody
“If students knew enough about Irish-born satirist Jonathan Swift to parody him, it would be cause for celebration in most area high schools,” says a Journal-Constitution editorial. “Instead, it led to censorship at East Coweta High.” In an opinion piece titled “Another modest proposal,” Justin Jones suggested that the euthanasia of low-IQ students could alleviate the world’s woes. That issue was confiscated and the principal ordered that the paper run “positive and uplifting” stories.
I know how it feels, Justin. I posted a hilarious piece by an MTA reader saying that men should stay out of the abortion question until they can have babies. Very few people got it, and the ones who didn’t were vicious.
Coroner releases autopsy reports after Times-Picayune sues
The autopsy records … released Monday for nine people who died at New Orleans Memorial Medical Center in the days after Hurricane Katrina show only an empty space next to the line “Classification of Death.”
Tribune, Like NYT, Sees Improvement in National Ads
But McClatchy and Gannett Don’t Benefit
Inc. Opens Networking Site for Small-Biz Owners
IncBizNet.com Sponsored by AmEx, Comcast
Air America inks 11 new affiliates
Sure, it’s been an uphill climb for Air America. It still is. Helping to build a new talk radio format practically from scratch is not a task for the timid. But rumors of the network’s demise are currently unfounded. In fact, they issued a press release today announcing eleven new affiliates, in areas such as Washington, DC, Tampa, Tuscon, the Pennsylvania Poconos and even the capital of Alaska.
Dolans Lose Bid to Privatize Cablevision
BETHPAGE, N.Y. (AP) - Shareholders of Cablevision Systems Corp. rejected on Wednesday a $10.6 billion bid by the company’s controlling shareholders, the Dolan family, to take the New York-area cable TV provider private.
Microsoft deal values Facebook at $15B
SAN FRANCISCO - It’s hard to determine what’s more surprising about Microsoft Corp.’s investment in Facebook Inc. — the appraisal that valued a 3 1/2-year-old Internet hangout at $15 billion or the rare snub of online search leader Google Inc.
DoSomething Widgets Match Users with Projects
DoSomething.org, and online network for helping kids get projects started for social change by providing resources and funding, has created a couple of widget options for web promotion of these projects. There’s a “Volunteer Now” widget, which lets site visitors enter their zip codes and find projects in their area. The other widget is “What’s Your Something” which helps site visitors find widgets based on interest.
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