Archive for the ‘Media Musing’ Category
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
IF YOU DON’T know John Updike, who passed away Tuesday, imagine Joe Biden for a minute to get a general idea of the writer. Like his fellow citizen of small-city eastern Pennsylvania, the late John Updike had a personable boyishness that lasted into old age and a fine and democratic ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
In an embarrassing moment this week, The New York Times had to fess up that it had been hoaxed by a letter writer pretending to be the mayor of Paris writing to the gray lady to complain about Caroline Kennedy. Since it just came out on DVD in a 20th-anniversary ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Let's presume that before he went, Studs Terkel had the satisfaction of knowing that a Chicagoan was very likely to be the next president. "The man on the street" interview is a kind of journalism that can get abused, and sometimes leads to the celebrity of a Joe the ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
(rinnnnnnnnnnnnng) Fraught robovoice: Proposition 44's opponents claim that Proposition 44 isn't even on the ballot. They claim Proposition 44 doesn't even exist. They say Proposition 44 is nothing more than the ravings of a gibbering transient on a bus bench. But here's the facts: Proposition 44 reduces earmarks on federally ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Proving that its eye is on the little, insignificant things, such as the waxy pieces of litter wrapping a piece of bubble gum, The Onion is never one to ignore the continuing saga of Bazooka Joe. True, the comic has gone downhill, but the stunning surprise episode revealed in this week's ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Again, Seinfeld comes through for those who need context and understanding of current events. A lot of the discussion around the financial meltdown concerns the massive risks that bankers and lenders took, and why they didn’t realize that those risks were getting out of hand. ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Contrary to the lesson some people took away from Oliver Stone's prescient 1987 Wall Street, greed is not good, and Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko was always the bad guy (although his speech actually does contain some useful finger pointing at corporate malfeasance). That should be clear now, amid the smoking ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Before I go into deep hibernation in my "Palin-News-Free" hyperbaric chamber, I can't help but acknowledging this sinking feeling that the upcoming election will be utterly devoid of any actual substantive discussion of issues and policies while we all delight in our varying ideas of how "hot" Sarah Palin is. ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Here's another take on the supposed "last" For Better or Worse Strip. Nothing like a really mean parody of a really sweet strip...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Week in and week out, the writers and cast of The Daily Show lay bare the stream of inanity that is modern cable news coverage. If you haven’t checked it out in a while, do. They’ve really hit their stride unraveling the ridiculous narratives being shat out by the 24-hour ...
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