Category Archives: Death of Old Media

What do Americans do 1,721 hours per year?

Census Department Report It isn’t sleeping, it isn’t listening to radio, it isn’t thinking about sex, it isn’t working….. it’s the average amount of time Americans watch TV.   That’s a little less than 5 hours a day. You might be … Continue reading

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Nuclear war isn’t all bad

National Geographic reports that “A Small Nuclear war could Reverse Global Warming for years” Wasn’t their magazine more fun when it was just legal porn?

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Sheila Jackson-Lee and the “Flag on Mars”

The “right wing echosphere” has been bouncing this around the last few years – I came close to repeating it but decided to check out if it was actually true – the claim is that Ms Jackson-Lee asked someone at … Continue reading

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The Detroit Free You-Know-What

Back in the 1980s, the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News were engaged in a battle to death.   The Detroit News mocked their competitor in ads as the “Detroit Free You Know What”, letting people use their imagination what … Continue reading

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Today’s media racial profiling

You may have heard that a policeman was killed in Elkins, WV.   Police were serving a warrant based on his involvement in selling cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.   Police returned fire after Charles E Smith, aged … Continue reading

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San Diego’s angry cab

Cab crushes crowd So what would cause a cab in San Diego to run down a crowd of 25 people leaving a bar at closing time and beating up its driver? The first and only time I heard the story … Continue reading

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Canada and “misleading news”

Article about CRTC and News If you haven’t lived in/near Canada, the NDP is the extreme left party in Canada – left by European standards, not Wimpy North American standards. The CRTC is roughly similar to the FCC, but with … Continue reading

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Buying Time

Clear Channel generated $240 million in operating income last quarter. That’s about $960 million a year. Clear Channel owes about $20 billion in long term debt. That means they are throwing off less than a 5% return on what they … Continue reading

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“Fraternity” Shooting in Ohio

So you probably heard that 1 person was killed and 11 people injured at a Fraternity in Ohio? What did the news coverage leave out this time? Jamail E. Johnson is a 25 year old “student”, the one killed. The … Continue reading

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Huffington Post sells itself to AOL

April fools! Bwahaha Me Too!

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Buried in the Friday Night News

You may remember John Wheeler – the Cybersecurity expect and long time consultant to the government in a number of roles whose body showed up oddly in a Delaware landfill after he had been wandering around Newark Delaware appearing disoriented. The … Continue reading

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Today’s black-washing

You may have heard in passing that a man in California was arrested for making phone threats to former Congresswoman Diane Watson.   Diane Watson served in the U.S. House for 10 years as a Democrat.  She was idenified by at … Continue reading

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Attention: Birthers

Well, isn’t this curious :) WND update The newly sworn in Democratic Governor of Hawaii Neil Abercrombie started out his job wanting to get the “silly” birther issue behind him so it isn’t dogging him for the next four years.  It would … Continue reading

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TRN shows its hand

TRN will be debuting its big gamble next week.   TRN will be taking on Rush Limbaugh head to head with an “all news” show, similar to the one they currently produce from 6-9 AM called “American’s Morning News”.   TRN currently … Continue reading

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Can we stop now?

Would the media please stop the hour by hour medical reports on Gabby Giffords?   The chief federal judge of Arizona is dead, and few people probably even know his name. Thank you. (Why has the AP stopped the day by … Continue reading

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