News Corpse is undergoing a bit of internal enhancement, i.e. a software upgrade. Posting has been curtailed during this operation, but should resume shortly. Thanks for your patience and here are a few news nuggets to get you by. New York Times Bows Out of White House Correspondents Dinner After last weekend’s correspondents’ dinner, The [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Apr 27
Fox News Picks Republican Debaters
Here’s an interesting turn of events. Fox News will be hosting the Republican Party’s presidential primary debate in South Carolina next month. The terms of the agreement call for a process of validation to determine which candidates will participate. The interesting part is that Fox gets to play a role in the decision. There is [...]
Apr 26
The Assault On Bill Moyers Has Begun.
The PBS debut of Bill Moyers Journal’s “Buying the War”, has provoked the media’s preeminent bully into a veritable frenzy. We can almost certainly expect Bill O’Reilly to air a post-broadcast rant on the dangers of the secular-progressive, far-left, presentation of committed left-wing loony, Moyers, because nothing is more terrifying to O’Reilly and his ilk [...]
Apr 26
Rupert Murdoch on George W. Bush
Michael Milken’s 10th Annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles hosted some of the media’s top executive honchos, including News Corp overlord Rupert Murdoch, who was in a talkative mood. Following are a few choice quotes. Stating the obvious, Murdoch accurately critiques our President’s prowess at incoherence: “I’m a supporter of President Bush, but [...]
Apr 25
VA Massacre: Video Games Did It
In their desperation to come up with a sensationalistic scenario with which to exploit the tragedy in Virginia, the media are wallowing in a “blame something (anything)” cesspool of speculation. This is just another example of how shallow the media’s analysis can be. This time the culprit is video games. The San Francisco Chronicle is [...]
Apr 24
Los Angeles Times Book Festers
On April 28-29, The Los Angeles Times will hold its 12th annual Festival of Books. The event is one of the largest book fairs in the country and features over 400 authors and almost 100 panels on subjects ranging from “Food Fight: When Did Eating Get Controversial?” to “Sands of Strife: The Middle East .” [...]
Apr 23
Presidential Debates Online: A Virtual Reality
The presidential primary debate calendar just got a virtual boost with the addition of the first online-only candidate forums. The events will be sponsored by the Huffington Post, Yahoo, and Slate, and will be held this fall. There will be debates for both the Democratic and Republican parties. To say that this was inevitable would [...]
Apr 22
White House Correspondents Celebrity Soiree
The White House Correspondents Association held their annual gala this evening and it was an affair to remember. Following on last year’s uneventful snoozefest with that Colbert guy, the WHCA scored a coup lassoing comedy legend Rich Little to headline the evening’s fare. In his introduction, George Bush somberly stated that, due to the tragedy [...]
Apr 21
Time Warner Seeks to Squash Small Publishers
The Postal Service recently announced that they will be raising rates for magazines and periodicals. That news by itself is not exactly earth shattering. But there’s more. The original proposal from the Postal Commission recommended a fairly routine increase of approximately 12% across the board. That would be consistent with historical rate structures that spread [...]
Apr 20
Chris Wallace: A Hen In The Fox House
Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, was interviewed by Stephen Battaglio of TV Guide. His performance reveals an ineffectual spokesperson struggling to embrace his network’s prejudices. Many of the questions dealt with the Democrats’ rejection of Fox News as a host for their presidential primary debates. If Wallace’s answers represent the Fox viewpoint, Democrats [...]
Apr 19
The Media’s Take on Alberto Gonzales
These are the headlines from Google News the evening after Alberto Gonzales testified before the U. S. Senate to explain the firing of U. S. Attorneys: GOP Senator Calls for Gonzales to Resign – Forbes, NY GOP Senator Calls for Gonzales to Resign – FOX News Gonzales losing GOP support – Dallas Morning News On [...]
Apr 19
Bomb Bomb Iran
Once again, the Conventional Media takes its cue from the New Media. This embarrassing bit of warmongering karoake from John McCain was ignored until it showed up on YouTube.
Apr 18
Mourner In Chief?
While America is struggling with the disbelief and sympathy provoked by the Virginia Tech massacre, some in the media are trying to salve the wounds in a most peculiar way. Brian Williams of NBC went on air yesterday peddling his view of President Bush as the empathetic vessel for the nation’s grief, saying that Bush… [...]
Apr 16
Daily Show/Colbert Viewers Most Informed – Fox, Not So Much
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has published a new study that measures the public’s knowledge of national and international news. The results are not likely to surprise anyone but Fox viewers, who come in at the bottom of the list (they probably don’t know that there is a list – [...]
Apr 16
Democrats And Fox: Still Misunderstood
David Bauder of the Associated Press attempts to unravel the knotted complexities of the Democratic Party’s objection to Fox News hosting their presidential primary debates. Note to David Bauder: It’s not complicated, and you’ve still missed point. Bauder begins his exercise by asserting that Democrats are engaged in this dispute in order to “target” Fox, [...]
Apr 12
Tom DeLay vs. Rosie O’Donnell
SUNDAY – SUNDAY – SUNDAY Competing for the title of International Fly-weight Champion, Tom “The Hammer” DeLay, America’s X-Terminator, will battle TV gab-queen and lesbian communist, Rosie “The Riveter” O’Donnell. You won’t want to miss this clash of the TITANS as The Hammer NAILS another nemesis to the Holy Cross of Isaac, Jacob and Abramoff. [...]
Apr 11
How To Handle Fox News
The Politico speculates that Fox News might retaliate against John Edwards for his principled stand against participating in debates sponsored by the network devoted to defeating Democrats. But it doesn’t require much imagination because Fox has already stooped to issuing veiled threats directed at independent minded politicians: “Any candidate for high office from either party [...]
Apr 11
New Tribune Boss Smacks Google
The new owner of the Tribune Company, Sam Zell, has previously stated that his interest in purchasing the media conglomerate was purely financial. He is wasting no time in throwing out challenges to those he perceives as stepping on his profit opportunities: “If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal [...]
Apr 09
Iraq: Exploding With Freedom
White house spokesman, Gordon Johndroe, has stumbled upon the same tranquil Baghdad that charmed John McCain. When asked his reaction to Muqtada al Sadr’s urging his followers to rise up against the U.S. forces in Iraq, he said this: “Iraq, four years on, is now a place where people can freely gather and express their [...]
