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Re: Flashback: It's a Wonderful Life, FNC-Style | videos | johnny dollar's place

alindc — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:03:19 -0000

Wow, how wasted was Doocy when they made that? daaaaaaaaaaamn.

Re: MSNBC Issues a Challenge. We Accept! | slanders | johnny dollar's place

alindc — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:15:40 -0000

Get 'em J$. I don't think either network should be fundraising on the air.

Re: Thursday Links and Open Thread | links | johnny dollar's place

alindc — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:59:59 -0000

That wasn't my point. I'm aware that an edited clip made the rounds, but frankly I don't have the energy to go do research in support of an argument that I was never trying to make. My point was, it seems highly unlikely that management at NPR would make a decision without viewing the full clip. I expect they'll put out a statement and I'm curious to know what was the basis of the decision.

Re: Thursday Links and Open Thread | links | johnny dollar's place

alindc — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:36:40 -0000

When people criticize Fox News, they can be off base in their criticism because they don't watch the network at all, only edited clips appearing on the blogs. Do you ever listen to NPR? It isn't moronic leftists. And Wikipedia tells me public funding is an average of 16% of stations' revenue. That's it.

Re: Thursday Links and Open Thread | links | johnny dollar's place

alindc — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:33:48 -0000

I listen to NPR a lot and I don't believe they would do this based on a 45-second clip without hearing the full context. This isn't a panicked political appointee trying to avoid fallout for the administration; this is a news organization that's had a lot of experience dealing with these kinds of issues, they get criticized all the time. That said, I'm surprised they did this and I wish they hadn't; I like Juan Williams (though not that particular comment).

Re: Tyndall: Chilean Miner Story Energized Diane Sawyer - TVNewser

alindc — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:40:40 -0000

Good grief man, there's a thing called "Google" you could use to find out who he is. And nowhere does he state that Americans are stupid. Settle down and don't be so angry.

Re: Weekend Links and Open Thread | links | johnny dollar's place

alindc — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:59:05 -0000

It wasn't a lie. Fox didn't report on it when the news broke, which a news organization ought to do, I would think. They didn't cover it until after Politico called them for comment to ask why not. It's a legitimate news story.

Re: 'We Are Headed for a Tidal Wave in November' | videos | johnny dollar's place

alindc — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:48:31 -0000

"Democrat" Pat Caddell whose job it is to go on Fox and perpetually say negative things about Democrats? Because that's pretty much all he says. The truth is, the Dems are going to lose some seats in the fall and everyone in DC knows this, but they're not going to lose the House. It's pretty standard for the midterms.

Re: 'There's No Mention of Shirley Sherrod. No Playing of the Clip' - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

alindc — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:25:32 -0000

Bill O'Reilly pretaped his show that afternoon, and was demanding that Sherrod resign. Glenn Beck attacked Sherrod on his radio program that morning. (Yes it is not a Fox radio program, but what do you think he was going to say on his evening show, had he not gotten different information just before he went live on the air?) Furthermore, O'Reilly, Hannity, Van Susteren and Fox & Friends played the dishonestly edited Sherrod video and accepted, without question, the allegations that she was a racist. They didn't ask for her side of the story before attacking her and calling her a racist. That all aired on Fox, where opinion hosts are allowed to create their own facts, it seems.

This is silly on Fox's part. Do their opinion hosts care about getting the facts of a story straight before trying to destroy the reputation of an innocent person who did nothing wrong? No, they don't care - they're about parroting the conservative talking points of the day, facts be damned.

Instead of doing embarrassing CYA segments like this, maybe the news and journalism side of Fox should spend some energy trying to force the opinion side to do basic fact checking? Of course, requiring basic fact checking might mean Beck couldn't come up with enough material to do a show.

Re: The Full Unedited Shirley Sherrod Speech - National - The Atlantic

alindc — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:01:41 -0000

You're correct. The first time I heard about this was when watching Greta Van Susteren's show (awaiting an interview with Sec. Clinton), and they played some of the edited tape and told their audience that a USDA official resigned over comments.. and I don't recall the precise wording, whether they said 'racist comments' or 'racial' or 'alleged' or what.

But they certainly did not investigate whether or not the video was edited before putting it on the air or question the story as originally told by Breitbart in any way.

Re: Willie Geist Fills in for Matt Lauer on ‘Today’ - TVNewser

alindc — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:06:27 -0000

Good for him, they should have him on more often. He did a great job anchoring the winter Olympics as well.

Re: The Thing About Dave - National - The Atlantic

alindc — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:43:22 -0000

I think Weigel would fit in very well here at the Atlantic and hope they do hire him.

Re: The Thing About Dave - National - The Atlantic

alindc — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:59:18 -0000

The article linked in the previous post finally got me to log in and respond, though I've been reading your blog for quite a while..
I hadn't realized Goldberg was one of the reporters who published stories that backed up the Bush administration's case for invading Iraq. I wonder if his generation of reporters realizes the deep, profound, probably irreparable degree of distrust of mainstream media that many of Ezra Klein's generation have, precisely because of all those mainstream reporters and pundits who either got facts dead wrong, or told us lies, or didn't ask tough questions, about the invasion of Iraq. Some of them got such a big story so wrong and never took responsibility for it, or never asked the tough questions of administration officials to whom they had access - this is why the liberal blogosphere really took off when it did, as I recall.

So now one of Goldberg's sources at WaPo is complaining about his newspaper hiring bloggers who didn't have the proper training in journalism. From the bloggers' point of view, one might ask how so many journalists who had proper training in journalism got the Iraq story so wrong. Maybe Goldberg gets a lot of other stories right, I don't know. But Iraq - seems to me that's exactly the story that caused a younger generation of writers and bloggers to believe there had to be something deeply wrong with the way journalism was practiced.

Re: The Outnet $1 Sale Stories- Who Bought Something And Who Didn't

alindc — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:54:06 -0000

I get email via my iphone so I heard it buzz at some awful hour of the morning, I guess it was 6:45. took me a minute to figure out to click the sale link (the items I'd bookmarked weren't part of the sale either), but then decided ok, I"ll just go to a designer I like and buy something in my size. quickly picked a vanessa bruno sweatshirt top, checked out. that worked fine! I actually went back and purchased 2 other items (chloe jeans and vanessa bruno pants) separately after checking out on the first one, but got emails later saying those orders were cancelled due to 1 per customer policy. that's ok though, I figure a vanessa bruno top for $1, not a bad deal. it wasn't super expensive in the first place though, I think $115 on markdown.
i wouldn't worry too much. i mean, it's probably even odds you end up with a high end piece that doesn't fit or doesn't suit you, and it's a pain to get rid of that - the whole reason they were on the blowout sale in the first place was, nobody wanted them on 50%+ markdown.

Re: Tuesday Links and Open Thread | links | johnny dollar's place

alindc — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:32:03 -0000

that is wonderful news from Jennifer Griffin! thanks for posting it J$.

Re: Tuesday Links and Open Thread | links | johnny dollar's place

alindc — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:10:37 -0000

I read most things on RSS, I thought you'd taken a few days off and wondered what happened! New site looks great.

Re: Erin Burnett on Why She’s Not a Billionaire - TVNewser

alindc — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:55:16 -0000

That interview was so sexist. Really unprofessional on VF's part. It didn't tell me anything about Burnett at all, seemed like just an excuse for the writer to talk about her looks and ask bizarre questions.

Re: ‘Fox News Might Be the Meanest Sorority in the World’ - TVNewser

alindc — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:03:16 -0000

Actually, stuff like this is why FOX ought to be concerned a little bit that people of my generation and younger are going to be more or less permanently convinced that FOX is hopelessly biased and not worth watching. If it weren't for a few journalists/anchors there I do respect, I wouldn't watch at all. The core audience keeps getting older and a lot of younger people aren't appreciative of the kind of coverage typified by Megyn Kelly's snotty attitude toward supporters of health care reform. Cavuto's obviously thrilled at the prospect of killing health reform too and has not given it a fair hearing on his show. How is that news? I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I've watched Kelly's "news" show too and it is not "fair and balanced" news to constantly make snide comments like she did in this clip, and bring on conservative analysts to trash Democrats, with no alternative views presented.

Re: Disney Boss on ABC News Cuts: 'Extremely Proud of the Way They've Stepped Up and Faced Those Challenges' - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

alindc — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:47:51 -0000

300-400 people are losing their jobs, which means the rest of the staff will have to do more with less. Which means they'll be going through a very stressful time as everyone wonders who's getting let go. And they'll be expected to do work that goes beyond their current job to cover for people who aren't coming back, and they won't get paid any more for it, I bet. Man I hope the CEO and shareholders are proud indeed. It'd be nice if corporate-speak could be used to acknowledge what's happening to real people when they make these kinds of decisions.

Re: Ratigan vs. Beck on Climate Change - TVNewser

alindc — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:39:19 -0000

I agree, he is an actor and knows nothing about science. I don't know why he has no shame about misinforming his audience.

The US military considers climate change to be a big national security issue that we'll have to face in the very near future. Unfortunately a lot of people seem to think that it's an nothing but an issue over which to score political points, or trade insults.

Re: Major Garrett vs. the Blizzard - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

alindc — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:20:27 -0000

Do some of you not realize that it is illogical to conclude from one or two snowstorms on the East Coast that global warming is not happening? It is cold somewhere, therefore, Gore is wrong about global warming? Guys, science does not work that way! How do you function in daily life, trying to make convincing arguments with this kind of ignorance of basic logic?

Re: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/What-Is-The-Atlantic-50-983

alindc — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:28:44 -0000

Actually, this looks pretty useful.
Does anyone have the resources to fact-check them, though? Quite a few seem to think they are entitled to their own facts.

Re: Segregation & Friends

alindc — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:35:54 -0000

The more I think about this, the more it just pisses me off. Kilmeade was making fun of Scandinavians and saying it was *better* here in the US because people marry people of different ethnicities. He said it in a really dumb way using words like "pure" and "species," granted. But jumping from dude making a point with awkward language, to accusing him of espousing white Aryan eugenics.. Really?! And he must be "a guy who spouts off eugenic theories at parties and office meetings"? This is crazy. I feel like Bob Somerby here, wondering why my fellow liberals casually play fast and loose with the facts, or flat out invent them, just to write narratives that demonize other people and make us feel good.

There is plenty to write about Glenn Beck's fearmongering, conspiracy theories, and race-baiting, because it's going down a dangerous road. But you undermine the serious issue in favor of making an absurd charge against the wrong target, here.

Re: Segregation & Friends

alindc — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:19:27 -0000

But that's not what Kilmeade said. It didn't come out very well. What he said was about Scandinavians marrying other Scandinavians versus Irish/Italians/etc in New York being in one big melting pot. Those are all white people last I checked, except Irish and Italians probably got called "white ethnics" once upon a time (but this is Kilmeade's own background). Accusing the poor guy of lamenting the white race being weakened in America is just dishonest. It really is. Can't you focus on the dozens of rightwing talking points about actual policy that are aired on Fox & Friends every single day instead of trumping up phony charges of *segregationism* of all things? Come on.

Re: FNC Responds to Glenn Beck Calling Pres. Obama a “Racist” - TVNewser

alindc — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:54:16 -0000

right now Beck is telling his audience that Obama is anti-Israel. does Bill Shine have a comment?