As part of a promotion for a new progressive talk station in Akron, Ohio, Clear Channel has embarked on an unconventional advertising campaign to woo the wild liberals from their sanctuary. At the Web site for Radio Free Ohio (since replaced by just a logo), they posted a manifesto that railed against corporate-controlled music playlists [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2005
May 25
Deadline News
ABC plans new ‘Nightline’ tribute to U.S. war dead As he did last year, “Nightline” host Ted Koppel will recite the names of more than 900 American servicemen and women killed in Iraq or Afghanistan during the past year as a photograph of each one is shown on the screen. FCC Panelist Wants Probe Of [...]
May 07
The American Idolization of America
What is it about life in America today that makes it so easy to feel overwhelmed by societal events yet so securely oblivious to all but the most innocuous? It’s like we are protectively shrink-wrapped in a miracle fabric that lets light in, but keeps heat out. In searching for a parable to explain the [...]
May 05
Howard Kurtz Cites Me In The Washington Post
I’m officially a whore pundit. In today’s Media Notes column by Howard Kurtz for the Washington Post, he tackled the now-notorius stand-up act by Laura Bush before the White House Correspondents Dinner. The column, titled Funny Girl made the quite sensible point that much of the Washington press corps are sluts (although he is less [...]
May 05
CNN’s Nancy Grace – Fast and Loose
CNN, in an attempt to win back the cable news crown from current leader Fox News, is continuing to lower its standards in order to be more competitive. Nancy Grace, the host of a self-titled legal show on CNN Headline News, “played fast and loose” with her ethical duties as a Fulton County, Ga., prosecutor [...]
May 03
Desperate Whitehousewives Starring Laura “Leno” Bush
The humor-challenged media is tripping all over itself to to praise the First Lady’s appearance before the White House Correspondents’ Association. Apparently their funny bone twitches uncontrollably at the sight of Laura being able to read from a sheet of prepared jokes. The talk in the television press has ranged from, “Get this woman her [...]
