Entries Tagged as 'Media'

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

FOX News goes full retard (again)

Yesterday, on a FOX News morning program, Glenn Beck finally went full retard and called Barack Obama “a racist”.
Oh, yeah. He came right out and said it, too:

Naturally, this provoked outrage among … all the folks Glenn Beck provokes outrage among every day. And a bunch of other people, too. So FOX pretty much had [...]

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Slow News Day

I have been an editor for long enough now that I appreciate a slow news day.
Everyone’s relaxed. Nobody really cares too much if the placement of stories doesn’t quite work. Because none of the stories are breaking, you’ve got them all well before deadline. And in yesterday’s case, the only story worth having wasn’t ending [...]

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

White Power and the American Army

I usually try not to write posts that do little more than point you to better things that other people have written. But despite my preambles, this is essentially one of those posts.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report exploring Right-wing extremism in America. Specifically, the report mentioned disgruntled [...]

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Onion Stories Brought to Life

By my own city nonetheless. This is just so … Toronto of us.
Hey, look. It’s a family having fun. Good times. Summer days. A city that, while probably suffering from a Smog warning, still has plenty of summertime activities to enjoy.
What problems could the City of Toronto have with a photograph that displays exactly that [...]

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Sanity at FOX News

I certainly had to see it to believe it, and I can only imagine that the same is true for many of you.
Apparently, Shepard Smith has been getting saner and saner by the day.
A while ago, he lost it on a co-anchor and a guest who were talking their way around the use of torture [...]

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Sarah Palin told me so

Sarah Palin used to be entertaining.
I mean, she was the perfectly-cast Hollywood sideshow foil that made last year’s election so incredibly riveting. She was so good at being the election’s comic relief that watching Tina Fey imitate her was almost disappointing. It was impossible to play a Folksy Right Wing Nutjob character and get more [...]