Pudding Time! Archives: media
I just finished Greg Bear's "Forge of God" and "Anvil of Stars." The first is an end-o'-the-world novel in the tradition of "Footfall" with a...
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The "journalists" at the Washington Times "cover" Massachusetts marriages : The Goodridges were greeted by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino when they applied for their license...
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Al and I had DirecTV installed about four months ago. 122 days ago, actually, because we've never connected the unit to a phone line, so...
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Again with the NBC Nightly News "terrorists on monkeybars" footage. Just saying....
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With the possible exception of news anchors referring to Al Qaeda like a thing that might have letterhead, a post office box, and a...
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So, I'm sitting here catching up on my e-mail, celebrating the fact that Ben has slept as close as you can get to "through...
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So, that "Cattlecar Galaxica" title in the previous entry is a reference to the MAD Magazine parody of the original "Battlestar Galactica" (July '79...
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More on this later, but DirecTV made its way into our home, finally. Had I held out a day or two more, I would have...
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Happy Veteran's Day, Private Lynch, from your friends at "Hustler." "Pornographer Larry Flynt claims he bought nude photos of Pfc. Jessica Lynch last month...
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CNN producer dumbs down "Rock the Vote" debate question....
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A few days ago a friend of mine mentioned the unfortunate legal condition of one of the Wachowski brothers, who won't be seeing any...
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Slate asks of Subway's Jared Could they really get rid of him? and goes on to wonder at the latest spate of "What Would Jared...
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. . . wondered what ever became of the original music in "WKRP in Cincinnati" reruns, that is . . . the answer is livin'...
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New feature here on PuddingTime!: Local news headlines from Portland Communique. The Communique hasn't been the busiest lately, but when it gets busy, it's good....
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"The Politics of the Buffyverse: Radical, Conservative, and Liberal Tendencies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel": "Of all the philosophical themes that run...
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Update: Having just finished the "Enterprise" season premier (entitled "The Xindi"), I have this to offer: It was much more darkly atmospheric than past...
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...or at least badly dinged one publisher, as General Media, Inc., the company that publishes "Penthouse," files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after blaming the...
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Looks like Huntingforbambi.com was a hoax: LAS VEGAS, Nev., July 26 (UPI) -- A hunting arena in which men stalked naked women and shot them...
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"The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation today to block a new rule supported by the Bush administration that would permit the nation's largest...
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Here's a scene from an upcoming episode of Star Trek prequel series "Enterprise": "The bazaar is filled with an assortment of weird and wonderful...
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Why bother with HuntingForBambi.com when you can set your sights on the tastiest game?...
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As far as I'm concerned, there's no epithet foul enough for the Fox "News" Network. I believe that everyone associated with their crimes against...
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Jim Henley breaks down the Comic Ages, including "the decline of the 'anti-mutant hysteria' trope into less an allegory for societal prejudice than an apocalyptic...
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My wife and I work in publishing, and our friend and her colleague Brice is a publishing director for Frommer's travel guides. He is...
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No, not the handful of media conglomerates that will soon set the political and cultural agenda for the nation--ME...well, and Mike, and all the...
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For those who may live in the Portland area and may not have picked up on the formation of the Portland Association of Independent...
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I'm not sure how this can be, but it appears that there's nothing you, I, or the U.S. Army can do to prevent FCC...
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TomPaine has a lot of links to items regarding the FCC and media concentration, too. (via Eric Alterman)...
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The FCC is likely to take actions soon that will have cultural and political ramifications sweeping enough that even William Safire is worried. If...
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I wish I would have known about Whedonesque.com or Slayage before today. Well . . . some stuff to read anyhow. And I have seasons...
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One thing I really love about life in the naughts is how quickly we're supposed to "move on" from this to that. Jayson Blair,...
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Doc collects follow-ups to the printwashing thing. My own question about how much for-pay archives contribute to the bottom line of newspapers seems pretty...
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Preparatory to tonight's series finale, Salon offers up a friendly Buffy retrospective and an interview with Joss Whedon. Sort of nice to see him...
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Ed Felten points out that it's getting harder and harder to feel too bad for, say, The New York Times when it doesn't allow...
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Being a fanboy of this and that myself, I'm more than willing to admit that there's nothing soppier than the self-congratulatory, world-despising rap of a...
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Ed Cone offers guidelines for journalists with weblogs, which is a good collection of common sense mixed with most of the tests that would...
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Doc popped up in the comments a few items down both defending his choice of approaches to posting updates, and raising an issue I expect...
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Jayson Blair left and right ....
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Editor and Publisher has some useful followup questions to the NYT's Jayson Blair mea culpa. Fav pull: "I told him [Blair] that he needed to...
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"A staff reporter for The New York Times committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months, an investigation by...
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Caught with his hand hovering over the cookie jar, Aaron Brown (or his bosses anyhow) decides not to do astroturfy phony news spots. I would...
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Cool! PublicRadioFan.com features links to public radio stations that netcast. (via Memepool)...
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The NYT offers a look at prominent newscasters doing advertorials for drug companies. And here's some due dilligence from one of the stations relaying the...
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posted by
mph, 05/05/03, 01:05 AM
Our hard-hitting local Fox news team is taking on a real tough one tonight, complete with night-vision cameras....
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Most. Pointless. Press. Release. Ever....
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PAIJ held its first public meeting this evening. It was good to meet some of the other organizers (first time face-to-face for most of...
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...if all the other embedded reporters were bringing back weapons of mass destruction, you'd do it too!? (Via me-fi)...
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(Update: Bix and Noah have posted their own announcements, and the local Indymedia site also has the announcement.) If you've been reading along the last...
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I'll admit that I did a doubletake when a story about a time-traveling insider trader showed up in Yahoo!. Then I noticed, along with...
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...because it might save IDG from reprinting April Fool's Day jokes as if they were true. (Hit the "MORE" link for the whole gag...
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Google says it's going to more clearly label press releases when they appear on its news service. Insert snarky comment about tech press "reporting"...
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The English Al Jazeera web site seems to be well and truly back online. Right in the wake of the network's decision to pull...
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Bix has more on his press conference woes, as do I: A mail toSarah Bott, in the mayor's press office, didn't yield a lot to...
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...which is old news to most, but there's another site folks are claiming is a mirror of the site, called aljazeerah.info. According to the...
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Bix has an update on his news conference run-in from last week. Good to read he's gotten a response, curious to see what comes...
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Editor and Publisher is also disturbed at what's not getting reported and why. You'd think a former troop would realize that the best place...
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BoingBoing guest blogger Andrew Zolli describes an advertising scheme where people bear logos on their foreheads for about $7 an hour. Someone be sure...
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The CJR's Who Owns What is a guide to which media companies own (or are owned by) what....
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So, here we are in the midst of the "reality television" wave. The network people say it isn't going away any time soon, though...
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Behind the Homefront is a new 'blog by The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press. It went into operation the same day as...
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Daniel Ellsberg comments on Iraq Coverage: "Do editors and publishers feel, individually, that they understand the reasons we are going to war, and the consequences?...
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Last week there was a minor scandal over a rash of letters-to-the-editor of many, many papers that all said George Bush is demonstrating genuine...
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Last week we sat through the first installment of a big, multi-part Meet My Folks. The show involves a single 20-something, his/her parents, and...
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...but in the midst of an proto-anti-television jihad, I've become hooked on The Charlie Rose Show....
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Sometimes "light and funny" makes the case better than a lot of squawking and heavy breathing. Here's Mickey Mouse explaining why he hates the...
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This might be the most hostile interpretation of the "copyleft world view" I've ever read: "The Commons enthusiasts believe that content publishers earn their...
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Andrew Leonard, Salon's resident open source cheerleader for a few of the boom years, is helping his pub stake out some post-boom turf with a...
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Noy Thrupkaew of The American Prospect is a little put off by Fox's new Joe Millionaire. The premise of the show is that 20...
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Reporters Without Borders has released its annual report: "In many countries, authorities used the global fight against terrorism as an excuse to arrest reporters,...
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Looks like tv show producers are learning people don't like it when you humiliate them in public: "Lawsuits against the unscripted entertainment shows known...
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purportal.com is a one-stop debunking source for anyone who's been plagued by the agitated forwardings of coworkers and other undesireables. A handy form searches Snopes.com,...
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The BBC notes that the Chinese have removed the age old "I only read it for the articles" defense for Internet access: Chinese internet...
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Sven sent along an article from the NYT on Google's uncanny sense of the zeitgeist. Evidently there's a cool ticker at Google HQ that...
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Jon Udell reports that Byte is in trouble and moving to subscriptions. The pain is that older content has been locked behind a "gee, sorry,...
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Late last week Salon more or less quietly dropped off the NASDAQ as the company faces massive losses. One of the analysts from the...
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kuro5hin offers a look at how to make money looking at porn. It's an interesting, somewhat detailed report of how the thumbnail gallery post...
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Leave it to WIRED to come across an interesting story about Saddam Hussein's public e-mail account being compromised and screw it up by starting off...
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I suspect the Trotts are all over the place because they produce Movable Type and have a lot of users. But in honor of...
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LaughingMeme notes that the BBC seems put off by Google's news service....
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