TRAIN-WRECK TELEVISION: The Worst 80 Seconds of Chuck Hagel’s Hearing.
Almost as entertaining as watching Piers Morgan interview Ben Shapiro, except the stakes are much higher…
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New Media: Disney’s latest animated short Paperman moves animation forward. And has debuted online:
It’s also nominated for an Oscar. Deservedly so, I think…
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Beating the odds: Successful and Schizophrenic: ”THIRTY years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. My prognosis was “grave”: I would never live independently, hold a job, find a loving partner, get married…Then I made a decision. I would write the narrative of my life. Today I am a chaired professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.”
And he’s not a unique case either…
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Not enough hours in the day: Counting the Errors of Modern Journalism: “Despite all the rhetoric from Thomas Jefferson down to the latest self-important musings of journalists about journalism’s being the first, best hope for a healthy polity, your newspaper is lying to you. While assuring you that it provides precise information about public policy issues, in many cases it is only pushing speculation and rumor in the guise of fact. Most of the time you have no independent way to confirm its claims, so how can you tell when a newspaper is lying?”
Journalism is hard. Few get it right – and fewer yet bother to even try. Anyway, worth a read…
UPDATE: Related: Mag Pushes Fake Picture of Obama Skeet Shooting. Then deletes it.
The magazine at issue is TNR, which may be perceived as especially unreliable given that its owner and editor-in-chief is Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who can also put the words “Obama campaign operative” in his resume.
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Offensive and Wrong: Marc Thiessen: ObamaLeaks in the White House.
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NERD CIVIL WAR? J.J. Abrams Nearing Deal to Direct Next ‘Star Wars’.
A successful close to this deal would put control of the next Star Wars movie in the hands of the director of the two most recent Star Trek movies. Is that acceptable to either side?
UPDATE: Begun the Nerd Wars have…
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FAIL: Journal News Takes Down Controversial Map of Gun Owners.
The justification for the decision that accompanies the announcement makes no sense. Odds are that whatever rationale they relied on to publish the map in the first place (have they made it known at all? I’m not aware of it) doesn’t make any sense, either…
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Journalism is hard: PolitiFact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ Turns Out to Be True.
I have the feeling that wasn’t the only time their fact-checking was less than accurate…
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Preventing another David Gregory: Is there a “David Gregory Clause” in the New York Gun Law?
We definitely don’t need any more David Gregorys…
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Poor critical thinking at The New Yorker: Republicans Accuse Obama of Using Position as President to Lead Country.
This would be actually quite funny in a universe in which Obama heads every branch of government, but he doesn’t. He only leads one, single branch that is subject to multiple checks and balances…
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Poor critical thinking at CBS: Bob Schieffer Likens Obama ‘Taking on the Gun Lobby’ to Hunt for Bin Laden, ‘Defeating the Nazis’.
Or maybe he’s simply ignorant of history:
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Rise of the Surveillance Society: 112th Congress Finished Its Term By Taking Away More of Your Privacy, In The Worst Possible Way.
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Your tax dollars at work (for someone else): NYT Magazine: Washington’s Economic Boom, Financed by You.
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Assymetrical Cultural Warfare: Piers Morgan discovers Ben Shapiro isn’t Alex Jones.
Video at the link. Part of Ben Shapiro’s advantage is that he seems to know that a lot of TV ‘journalists’ are merely low-information voters with glamorous media jobs and publicists.
UPDATE: Schadenfraude galore: Nice rundown of related links at Instapundit.
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Interference: Elizabeth Warren Wikipedia page ethnically cleansed, again.
Well, because of Wikipedia’s very nature, it’s generally a bad idea to trust content from Wikipedia 100%. But it’s also a fact that their editors on occasion behave as mere web-aratchiks (to coin a term) for their own pet political views and causes. And they’re not the only ones in cyberspace doing this, either.
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Their words, not mine: Meet the Genius Behind the Trillion-Dollar Coin and the Plot to Breach the Debt Ceiling.
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Seen on Facebook:
Yup. And there are lots of low-information voters out there who are just becoming aware of the relevant facts, evidently…
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Nobody tell Organized Labor: Presumptive Treasury nominee Jack Lew’s union-busting past.
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Superduperstar Beyonce, who is a member of a mutual admiration society that includes her and the first lady and who is a spokeswoman for Michelle’s “Let Move” healthy kids campaign, has a $50 million deal to sell those very same kids Pepsi-Cola.
What’s next? Environmentalists lining their pockets with oil money? Oh, wait…
UPDATE: Related content from Ed Driscoll, who reminds us there is a thin-line between Doublethink and B.S.
Love the ‘Nighthawks’-inspired banner art at the top of his page, by the way…
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Study: It Pays to Be Happy: Happier people actually make more money.
Which is not the same thing as saying that money makes people happier (not that it isn’t true)…
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The time-travel thriller Looper starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is now available to rent on Amazon Instant video for as low as $3.99. We’ll probably watch it this weekend…
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Maybe Hagel has evolved, too. Has anybody asked him? LGBT Group Takes Issue with Hagel Nomination, Urges Obama to Abandon.
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Home Security: Does Your Alarm Have a Default Duress Code?
If so, make sure you change it…
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NO KATHY GRIFFIN REQUIRED: Live New Year’s Eve Broadcast Goes Horribly Wrong.
Video at the link. It will make you laugh, even if you work in TV production. It will make you shudder either way.
I don’t think I’ve ever worked on anything carried out as poorly as this – although I did story-produce one docu-soap that I never watched as a finish product. The source material was pretty bad, so I suppose the end product couldn’t have been very good, either.
Now, this New Year’s Eve show was done live – and live TV is always a challenge, but I’ve certainly never seen such a poor job of a live show. Of that I’m sure…
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You can’t outlaw crazy: Swiss Gunman Kills 3 People, Had Troubled History.
But the Swiss public is unlikely to change their positive attitude towards firearms:
In 2011, Swiss voters rejected a proposal to tighten gun laws…”I don’t think (the latest shooting) is going to cause a change in attitude here.”
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Good: Senate Intelligence Committee to Probe ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Filmmakers’ CIA Access.
I’d take this a lot more seriously if the Justice Department was also looking into the matter, but that won’t be happening under our current president…
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A step up, no doubt: Al Gore’s Current TV Nearing Sale to Al Jazeera.
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University of Chicago’s Indiana Jones mystery solved.
The whole matter was cleared up a few days after I first blogged about it, last month; but seems like I missed it in the middle of the pre-holiday rush…
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I don’t think deficit reduction means what you think it means: Obama Returns to Hawaii at an Added Cost of Over $3 Million: “In a move that is rich in irony, President Obama agreed Tuesday night to sign an emergency deficit reduction bill that does almost nothing to rein in spending and then jetted out to Hawaii to resume his vacation at an extra cost of more than $3 million to taxpayers.”
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We’ve been warned: National Intelligence Report Warns Of Potential Solar Flare Threat.
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