The Roundup: The Middle of Summer is Here
Blogging, College Basketball, ESPN, Golf, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL, NHL, Soccer, Video July 2nd. 2009, 8:00am
Jessica Simpson, still hot … if everyone watches FOX News, how’d McCain get smoked so badly? … America’s fattest state is Mississippi … at what point does California collectively drop to its knees and grovel to Obama for a bailout? … really sad: Pet python kills family’s 2-year-old … if only homeowners could skirt taxes like the businesses do … more on the 13-year-old survivor of that plane crash … from the bad idea folder …
The media needs to quit lapping up twitter. Some clown created a fake Ron Artest account (at this point, you feel bad for those losers), claiming he was leaving Houston. “That’s what happens with the so-called new media,” said Ron’s agent. (Houston Chronicle)
Hate Romo all you want; the guy can wield a mean golf club. (ESPN)
Indiana’s Danny Granger, who fought with a raccoon, talks to a blog. (Hoop Doctors)
The best names in the AFC. (Second String Fullback)
Jay Bilas talks to a blog. (Hoops Vine)
A look at how ESPN plans to flood the proverbial World Cup zone. (SI)
DeJuan Blair is all for you calling him the steal of the draft. (SRI)
The second best recruiting class belongs to … Villanova? (Rise and Fire)
ESPN’s John Hollinger makes a typo and the sentence sounds funny. (Brahsome)
In Chicago: Marian Hossa. Out of Chicago: Martin Havlat, Nikolai Khabibulin. (Trib)
Cristiano Ronaldo will mess your car up if you try to videotape him. (Daily Mail)
Not even sure what to make of this Bleacher Report-Ramses Barden-Social Networking mess. Lifts gun, places near temple... (Sports Fan Vent)
Yes, Fernando Vina qualifies as a fraud. (Jeff Pearlman)
Hey, it’s NFL rookies doing wacky things!
Stayed up way too late last night to watch Basketball Diaries for the 12th time. This song’s from the scene where Leo and his buddy hang out with Winky and Blinky.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 8:02 am
Mississippi is a city now?
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:02 am
Mississippi is usually the city ranked last in education as well
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:09 am
dont they have a way of verifying the account to make sure its the real person?
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:11 am
I just drove by a truck with a bumper sticker “Palin 2012″. I think it was serious too.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
Some of them are really funny, though. Darth Vader’s is my personal favorite.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:15 am
but it accomplishes nothing and you have to feel like a loser pretending to be somebody. it just seems like a massive waste of time … energy could easily be channeled elsewhere.
yeah, let me take time out of my losery life to set up a fake twitter account! it’ll be funny! the first shaq one was funny, now they’re all so very sad
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 am
Do real twi++er accounts accomplish anything? Arent they all just for shits and giggles?
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
You sound an awfullllly lot like athletes and ESPN people making fun of bloggers for living in their mother’s basement right now.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:21 am
I watch FOX news more than the others, even though I disagree with it a lot more, because I don’t feel like I get news from any of them and FOX is the most entertaining.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:21 am
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:23 am
you’re comparing people who run blogs to people who run fake twitter accounts? hoping i misunderstood your comment …
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:23 am
Not to mention he’s playing right into a certain someone’s hand and giving him fresh material to work with.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:24 am
I’m going to have to listen to Danny Granger’s thing, but having fought a raccoon to the death, that fight is no joke. It’s hard to get the fear smell off of you after that.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:25 am
That SI article on ESPN’s World Cup coverage has me so freaking excited. I know there are a ton of soccer-haters on this site, but the WC is an amazing sporting event. If anyone gets a chance to go I would highly reccomend it. It is like a party that lasts 2 months.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:25 am
No I’m comparing the rational of ‘these losers have nothing better to do?’ which is often the mantra heard from people who bash blogs.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 am
Jessica’s attractive, but doesn’t she know the rule about horizontal stripes?
That ToppsTV girl on the video has it working.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:26 am
Calling Mississippi a city is probably more in that person’s wheelhouse.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:27 am
Bill Maher
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:30 am
Last week’s episode was a great display of Maher celeb groveling. He told Oliver Stone, “You look at your list of films and there’s not a bad one on there.”
Obviously Maher’s never seen Alexander.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:30 am
Yeah that picture is not at all flattering and that dress is hideous, but that isn’t too recent is it?
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:31 am
It’s not that everyone watches Fox news, it is that everyone who is a conservative watches Fox news. If every liberal watched MSNBC it would have similar ratings. Conservatives feel that Fox is the only place to get news, whereas Liberals feel there are several destinations.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:31 am
mole – apples and oranges.
blogs are insightful and witty and can drive news if they so desire.
pretending to be somebody else is an admission that your life is too sad to do something original. if this darth vadar guy is so funny, do standup or write a screenplay or create a humor website … anything to get ahead or set yourself up for the future.
look at the guy who started latfh – he found pictures, was witty about it, attracted a following, and got a book deal. idk … just seems so much more productive than pretending to be ron artest
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:32 am
I honestly think ‘Nixon’ is the worst movie I have ever seen.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:32 am
photo’s from yesterday, mole
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:33 am
I love Bill Maher’s show, but I fucking hate it when celebs are on his show for the most part; they contribute nothing 90% of the time. The same goes for The Daily Show. If celebs are on, I pretty much zone out.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 am
I didnt dig Any Given Sunday .. probably in the minority
Not that anybody cares, but what is going on @ Real Madrid is INSANE.
Karim Benzema has agreed to join Real Madrid from Lyon for an initial fee of £30million that could rise to £35m.
Kaka/Ronaldo now Benzema with possibly David Silva to follow. steinbrenner thinks these guys are overspending.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 am
Yeah, but not when he’s making second-round money for the next four years.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 am
Man. Maybe she’s knocked up or she just retains more liquid than a Cherokee hair tampon, because she looks to be having some weight swings.
Still though, hot. Still though, dating a choke artist.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:35 am
Nah, like most folks who are obsessed with Twitter, they don’t have time to read or analyze anything else. I wonder how many of these folks have ADD too? Twitter seems to be made for them.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 am
I think the shorter list is of good Oliver Stone movies. He hasn’t made anything good since Natural Born Killers, which 3/4 of America completely missed the point of.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 am
My hope is that people will create so many fake pages that Twitter shuts down. The Iranian situations proves that Twitter can work, the dumb shit that celebs/athletes/politicians do on it makes me want to hurl. Who the fuck cares what Shaq has to say in 150 characters or less? Why the media even reports shit that they say via Twitter is a question that needs to be asked of those who choose to do so. If I wanted to read stupid fucking text messages I would read a 13-year-old girls phone.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 am
So the Blackhawks decided they want their Cup drought to last 12 more years?
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:37 am
late addition: Playboy model joins MMA
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:37 am
Definitely. His recent one on ones with celebs (Ron Howard, Cameron Diaz, Stone, B.B. Thornton) have all been giant stroke sessions. The panels are so much better and engender actual discourse and disagreement, not just an opportunity for some actor or director to promote their latest project.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:38 am
Love it. Soccernet and FSC were running rampant with the ‘Benzema close to United move!’ stories the night before that broke, and now United are left looking like idiots. And now Ribery says the only other club he will play for is Real. Which is not shocking as he has repeatedly said he will not play in England because of the weather, and even if he did it sure as shit wouldn’t be Northern England.
They’re going to be left replacing Ronaldo with Valenica (what a joke) and Tevez with Huntelaar, or if they’re lucky Aguero, but why anyone would want to sign on to play third fiddle like Tevez did is beyond me.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:38 am
He was great in Murder She Wrote
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 am
I loved Religilous but don’t think I’ve seen his show since the first year of Bush’s first term. He has a noodle neck and I just can’t watch him sit there and flop his head while listening to celebrities.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 am
people watch fox news for the babes…just like my dad
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am
Ah political Fridays. When Mike NYC’s aloof Wall Streeted commentary on here is akin to that of the most informed McCain supporters, what would you expect with the rest of them who voted for McCain either because they were racist or because they thought actually that Darth Cheney made us all “safer” in all these years? Those “tax and spend” liberals you know, but when it is a matter of “national security” well then it is okay to just through all fiscal caution to the wind and spend out of more debt on top of existing debt you know.
Otherwise in brief:
1) Obama is just a great showman where Bush was just a bad actor and puppet putting forth Cheney’s Law.
Google “Bill Maher” for his latest piece on Obama and “Cheney’s Law PBS” for the excellent documentary whilst the Neoc0n fa$ci$t$ were still in office in 2008.
2) For Fox News, if you insist on watching, just put on the mute button to watch the revolving blondes and increased cleavage and go to this fine website for a proper interpretation: http://www.newshounds.org
Alright that should answer most questions and concerns …for now.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am
“Mississippi’s still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama:”
Mwahahahahahahahahaaha.
*gathers composure*
Or it proves that you’re 15, on summer vacation, and you and your friends haven nothing better to do.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 am
really? I thought Man City was his destination?
Aguero in the Prem would be interesting. i love to watch south americans adapt to the prem.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:43 am
What if the impression is insightful and witty and very funny, which impressions can sometimes do. I get what you’re trying to say, but, if I had to guess, someone who starts a fake twitter to parody someone is trying to do a written SNL impression rather than pretend to be someone.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 am
Eh poor sentence construction on my part, I meant ‘and replacing Tevez with…etc’
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 am
Conservative female talking heads > Liberal female talking heads.
Whoever owns Twitter should be looking to sell it right now while people still talk about it. In 6 months it will join MySpace on the new fad dustbin.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:45 am
I watch Fox news because sometimes I just need a good laugh. Hannity and Billo are so over the top that it is funny.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:45 am
when i read that aloud, that almost sounded like you believed that. we just had someone here say that they watch it even though he agrees with very little of their editorials.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:46 am
Why not just watch porn while listening to Limbaugh?
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 am
Or why not just watch on-demand free internet porn now and screw the likes of puppets and parrots like Limbaugh altogether?
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:51 am
I’m not averse to putting the television on Fox News for a few minutes. It’s especially informative to read the scrawl across the bottom, to see how specific things are being spun. And that’s not a dig on Fox, as all the channels spin everything they can.
The last time I tuned in to Fox to see something specific, and sat there waiting, was during the presidential election. I wanted to see Juan Williams reaction. He cried.
They’ve got the hot white chicks, though – news actresses, as they are sometimes called.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 am
What if the impression is insightful and witty and very funny, which impressions can sometimes do. I get what you’re trying to say, but, if I had to guess, someone who starts a fake twitter to parody someone is trying to do a written SNL impression rather than pretend to be someone.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 am
The panels are great, especially when it is mixed when Rep’s and Dem’s, Conservatives and Liberals. The best discussions happen on that show because people can say what they want to say, as opposed to watering it down on network or cable news shows. I also think it’s great that Maher is taking Obama on. I know there were few (read: none) people at Fox News who railed against Bush so soon after he was elected.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 am
I had to go to a nearby neighbor’s house a few days ago (for something super stupid) and they had Glen Beck on their television. I felt like Dave Foley in the chicken lady sketch. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 am
si international earners list – drivers get paid
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/specials/fortunate50/2009/index.20.html?eref=T1
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 am
I bet less than 15% of Fox News’ ratings come from people who watch it for comedy/anger. The rest believe what they say.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am
Hossa’s pretty adept at chasing that Cup. He’s about to go 0-3.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 am
Gods, this is another fine line of bullshit from you. The concocted “panels” especially on the programs in the evenings seldom represent the actual point of view of most folks but rather of selected political hacks and shills or hyperbolic views. As the agenda on Fox is to promote the Neocon RNC’s agenda primarily first and Murdoch’s tabloid sensationalism second, it’s about such politics and mere entertainment value over substance.
If you take what is portrayed on Fox as substantive you are just not getting enough information elsewhere, preferably online instead of the TV or your lowly AJC and the like, enough.
Check out http://www.newshounds.org, TBL, Seeking Alpha, Reuters, My Yahoo!, politico.com, counterpunch.org, realclearpolitics, et cetera for a whole lot less non-partisan spin a la the US cable news networks.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 am
I can’t believe this story about fat people in Mississippi and Alabama isn’t getting more traction.
Connecticut is the third least obese state in the union. At least our women won’t be sweating Crisco at age 50 (I’m looking at you, Jessica Simpson).
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:59 am
The only guy I know from Connecticut wears a girdle which he calls a back brace, goes to class in a tank top while wearing dog tags which are fake, and constantly says ‘imagine how good I would look if I lost twenty pounds.’
So by extension, worst state ever.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 am
I was referring to the panels on Bill Maher’s show, not any cable network.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 am
@thedude: And people are always raving about how hot the women in the south are.. I guess down there it’s 50/50 she’s either a porker or a model?
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 am
people are fat – that’s not news.
celebrities are fat – that’s news.
My grandparents live in Mississippi, and I had to take my wife there once. We went to an outlet mall there, and there was a store called the Petite Sophisticate. Two reasons for Mississippians not to go in.
/fried okra is really good, though.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:03 am
regardless of why they are watching, they are are still watching. A lot of people watch O’Reilly, a lot. a lot more than those that watch Hannity. mostly because he isn’t a zealot like him. Is he right of center? sure he is. but he isn’t afraid to bring heavy hitters from the left on his show. He’s even spoken out against the oil companies when no one else on Fox would. You see the hate mail that he gets on his show. You think those are conservatives?
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:03 am
Sweet tea = diabetes at 40.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 am
so is that a picture of Mississippi atop the roundup?
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 am
Deadspin said he will go 0-12 in chicago.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 am
Dirtyheavy +1
Exactly the only things to watch it for as opposed to taking it seriously as of substantive value great summary Dirt. You can watch it to see what propaganda they are trying to push right now from the right-wing like
“Let’s Bomb Iran!”
“Let’s Be Scared Again And Lock Ourselves Down And Let The Government ‘Direct Us’ For The Sake Of National Security!”
“Well We Have To Reduce The Deficit, But This Is Also A Matter Of ‘National Security’ You See So …”
“Hey, Let’s Have Another Surge!”
“The Longer You Stare At My Cleavage And Fall For My Ninnie Bitch Tease, The More What I Say Will Sink In Subconsciously You Fools!”
“Mission Accomplished”
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 am
+1 Mole
Great example of an East Coast douchebag
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:10 am
You know there is truth to this Mole, and I am not sure if you were joking or serious?
With it in my family, the doctor told me to dodge sugar years ago, and after three years I averted getting it too high. But damn do I miss that sweet tea from down South!
Interestingly in Hawai’i, they put pineapple juice in it too and call it “Plantation Tea,” as in a pineapple plantation. The term certainly would not go over very well with most mainlanders quick to blow the politically incorrect horns I would think.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:12 am
Dead serious. I worked in a steakhouse in NC while I was in college and we honestly went through around fifty gallons of sweet tea a night, minimum. And for ever kettle brewed there was an entire pitcher of sugar in it. That shit is disgusting, I used to drink it but can’t touch it after that experience. I just drink unsweetened tea now.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:12 am
I’m really perplexed as to why they haven;t sold it or sold some share of it yet. Anyone know whats up with that?
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:15 am
Got you Gods …Maher’s only weakness in my view is that all too often he has someone on there more for celebrity than for any substantive thing they have to say. I find him poor at choosing his panels, as he seems to have too often one person who dominates the discussion too much.
Also I don’t like that his show appears to be in New York, where you have a baked in East Coast biased and often partisan crowd instead of a more represenative audience of a true national show. These are always the loud types you hear in the background whenever the most left wing or right wing person on his “panel” shares views in their applause and in their dissent respectively.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:17 am
And this is surprising, why? Jay Wright is the best recruiter —and possibly the best coach— in the country. I am going to be surprised if he doesn’t win a title within the next 3 years.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Bill Self.
hope you like surprises.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 am
His show airs from Los Angeles, but yeah it’s a totally partisan crowd.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 am
It’s in L.A.
I bet a vast majority of that email comes from people who watch his show via clips online and then email him. Honestly, what percentage of Fox News’ ratings do you think come from non coservative/Republicans? Do you think it is more than 15-20%?
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 am
god bless roger ailes.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 am
no, but that 15% is 345k-460k viewers. that is half of CNNs viewers.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:26 am
jay – Wright lured a massive haul in 02 (Foye, Fraser, Ray, Sumpter) and didnt get to a Final 4. very smooth recruiter
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
True but I think I remember them giving Carolina their best run for their money in 2005. Really thought they would win that game.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:29 am
Explain why you think that way. They are stacked. KU wins one, but not all 3.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:31 am
At best I would say that percentage is 15% any more when it was definitely higher from independent minds like me in the early 2000s when the network actually was more balanced…by about 2002 they sold out to the Darth Cheney “Shadow Government” agenda as a great mouthpiece to scare the masses via their omnipresent “Fox News Alerts” every time Bush took a massive dump to empty himself full of shit all the time, and by 2003 when O’Reilly was humiliated by Phil Donahue (Google it) for who he really was as not a real independent but a Republican hack masking as a managed dissenter. It was the first argument I saw O’Reilly lose, and from that point forward his true colours showed including his perverted side as was quickly hushed up.
On that note of his “independence” I seldom heard O’Reilly put down Bush for anything of the most substantive merit instead of managed peripheral criticism for sake of trying to fool folks that he is “independent” and “balanced.” O’Reilly had plenty of critical things to say about Kerry and Obama though, and much of that was with great merit, but he sure treated Bush with managed dissent at best and kid gloves at worst for sake of his careerist interests and political leanings.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 am
mostly because I think a player or two will leave early. Too hard to predict college basketball success out of season these days. players you think that will stay for a more than a year surprise you because they want to cash in quickly and not take a chance of getting injured.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 am
Oh and as far as the bird sound site is concerned …. I love it. I follow people like Stephen Fry, my sports teams, and pornstars. If you think some pro athletes use horrendous lolspeak shit, imagine how dumb most pornstars are when talking about getting fucked, it’s awesome.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:35 am
That story about the python is terrible, although I’m surprised that it doesn’t happen more often
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:35 am
Great for ratings …but I am not interested until they do it naked a la Naked News. Furthermore most of them are just too ninny for me, and why do they all have the same concocted (Washingtonian) media accent as they chew those words like cud?
On that note, as the folks speak on C-Span is how most speak in DC as the phonies they are. If you ever thought it might be interesting to live in Metro DC, think again, as it is like living on the set of C-Span almost 24/7 around these phony douchebags. How can our media really be “free” when everyone sounds the same and is even using the same buzzwords?
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:36 am
I watch Fox news because sometimes I just need a good laugh. Hannity and Billo are so over the top that it is funny.
yeah, they should watch how Olbermann keeps it so real and straight-forward, especially when he reads people’s emails and makes up voices.
I wish somebody would read his emails
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:39 am
That’s my point. Fox News wins, and will do so for a long time, the ratings game because they are the only preceived game in town for conservatives/Republicans. It is not that their insight is so much better, it is that 25-30% of the counry feels that Fox is the onl place for “real” news…as hilarious as that sounds.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
I can’t stand Fox for the obvious reasons. They employ Glenn Beck, willingly. They sponsor tea parties.
I can’t stand CNN because they’re bullshit populists. Anderson Cooper has the gall to question whether the White House should cut back on fuel consumption when he makes eight times as much as the president does. CNN doesn’t fucking care about people, they’re just the leading panderers and know that people are hurting and will listen if they act like they’re stirring the pot too.
And MSNBC is only good for carrying the late coverage of Westminster.
So I just get my news from wire services.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:42 am
The reason I’m considering an indefinite switch to Fox News is because it is the only cable network that hasn’t surrendered its entire news lineup to Michael Jackson coverage.
/this has gotten even more obnoxious than ESPN’s Brett Favre coverage
//do you realize how hard that is?
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:42 am
Agreed, and I watch CNN if I need a nice nap.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:42 am
Olbermann was great at railing against Bush when the rest of the media were too scared to fuck with Cheney for the actual President he was as most of us new.
Then when he sold out to the Obama agenda, and his man won and now we have all talk and agenda but little action, what’s the point of Olbermann?
Billo is still kicking Olbermann’s ass massively along with his whole shitty MSNBC news network with no one else with charisma on it, but heck given that you know by now what either are going to say about most things, what is the point?
Like me you can tune in to all of these guys after a break of 3 months or so and it still sounds like you have not missed one edition. I’ll just get my news online instead and not pay that part of the cable bill thank you very much.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:42 am
gotgi-Paolo just did an excellent job of proving how non-conservatives watch Fox, and not just for a quick second.
Paolo- i don’t think you are saying things that people don’t already know. nobody believes that Fox is not spinning the news.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 am
I watched him in the run-up to the election, but he became way too much of a mouth piece for the left. Now I don’t watch much news at all, but I read a ton of it online. Also, citing anything Page 6 does as evidence of anything is a stretch. They hate Olbermann and will do anything they cant to trash him.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 am
Not to change the subject, but does anybody here actually remember seeing the first Arguello/Pryor fight? I always thought I did, but what I must have seen was fight #2.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:47 am
Also, citing anything Page 6 does as evidence of anything is a stretch. They hate Olbermann and will do anything they cant to trash him.
gods, no different than Daily Kos for him and the left
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:47 am
+3 Mole
TBL Godfather have him sign that oath to the mission in blood so that he can be a made man.
I wish more of my fellow Americans were like you in that regard already, but thankfully more are than ever now.
When you hear news like this week that at least Gannett, publisher of the shitty USA Today for years already now, is laying off 1400 mostly arrogant folks from its posh Metro DC HQ, that is excellent news for more folks who are just sick of hearing spun vomited news instead of getting more of the raw information for interpretation themselves.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:48 am
Following pornstars on the bird site (I like that) is one of my favorite hobbies of all time. Eva Angelina and Courtney Cummz make my day go by faster.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:51 am
One dude, or 10 dudes for that matter, on a blog is not the greatest representation of what the entire country says. As I said before, if the entire left-leaning population in this country felt that the media was biased to the right, and there was one channel that was totally in the bag for the left, that channels ratings would be just like Fox’s. Of course, if that ever happens, you can guarantee Murdoch will be the owner of said left-leanig channel. That guy could care less what the ideology is, he just wants the chedder. I’m not knocking him at all when I say that, I am pointing out his thinking, which has served him very well.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:52 am
That’s what Michael said
/ to an eight-year old boy
/ at Neverland Ranch
/ while lying in his bed
/ and molesting him
/ allegedly
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:56 am
the problems with the cable news outlets are not much different from why people don’t like ESPN. with ESPN, the sports content has taken a back seat to the brand. I think it was NDub who said it best yesterday, 10 seconds of video, a few catch phrases, and no disection of what happened.
all the talking heads on the cable networks have become caricatures of themselves, Glenn Beck being a person who has fully embraced that whole schtick, and a guy like Olbermann who takes himself too seriously to see that he’s the liberal version of bill oreilly.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
Exactly right…but that doesn’t mean that you should cite Page 6. That shit is a joke.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:00 am
all I am saying is that people watch it. left, right, center, whatever. why? because it is more informative. with a right-wing spin? absolutely. this either strengthens those opinions of people that consider themselves conservatives, or causes people to disagree that are not. fox gives a lot more information than the other channels. that is all.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 am
and the worst part of the whole thing is that people actually believe the garbage these channels put out there in saying they are the most unbiased, best political team, and/or the best source for all your news.
get a brain and make your own decision, people. but that’s too much to ask these days as even people who want a laugh will tune in to these channels instead of not watching them all together.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:08 am
+1 Gods +1.5 Wilhelm
Definitely Gods on Murdoch …he even back Hillary Clinton because he knew damn well she would be great for his media empire …Murdoch’s early success as an Australian operating largely in Australia and the UK was in tabloids, and to this day with the regular sensationalism (Fox News Alert!) and muckraking on Fox (some poor pretty little girl was a victim of a heinous crime, some young blonde has gone missing, some hot teacher had some great sex with some horny 16-year old student, those “mysterious” floods near the Mississippi River, etc), he never lost his knack for it.
Most people seem to go for the tabloid bait just as they did for the carney tricks of PT Barnum, and I don’t think I am one of a few any more who do not but rather an increasing number who are tuning out.
Also note that television media and not just CBS for years have been skewing more and more older.
Rather than like hot chicks staying the same age as we get older a la “Dazed and Confused,” with traditional media most of us are just aging normally or becoming parents as more of them are becoming grandparents.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
I totally disagree with this. It is no different in information content than any other news channel.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 am
enjoy the michael jackson coverage.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:19 am
I don’t whether it’s comical, surreal, or pathetic right now (probably all three) to watch them fight over the Michael Jackson “exclusives”
I mean, I can totally envision a CNN or ABC News Suit running down the hallway screaming with unabashed joy, “WE GOT THE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TITO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 am
You know, it was great for once to have a substantive discussion here on such matters without having some right-wing or left-wing talking points parrot weigh in again …let’s not hold our breaths, but for once thanks dudes.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
You are right that the coverage is way overboard, but I bet CNN’s ratings took an upswing due to it. I also think, outside of the King of Pop dying, the coverage is the same. One network looks at it from the right, one he left, and CNN tries so hard to not take a stance that they come off bland.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
Let us never forget that making as much money as humanly possible is more important in the American media than actually having an informed public
/I don’t hate much about capitalism
//But this is 1 through 10
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:29 am
Good call Jay. The media is out to make money, simple as that. I don’t know if I can blame them, but it does get in the way of the truth a lot of the time.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 am
Exactly and in 3rd place and lagging more. CNN’s real problem is that it still skews to old. Anderson Pooper, Larry “Human Frog” King, Wolf “Lupo” Blitzer and any others from before five years ago don’t cut it any more and are just old hat. Lou Dobbs sure is old and not too charimsatic because he does not pander himself to hyperbole and hysterics though of course like all uses the tease liberally before the break, but at least he has a strong following of fans who are not going away.
I like Don Lemon, and I wish CNN would figure out to hire more like him as new talent, but based in New York and in Washington now they won’t, so back we go to online consumption.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:02 am
Portland is going to rue the day they passed on him for another Euro project. They even went into the offseason saying they needed a strong backup PF. I’m not sure what the Blaze obssession with Euro’s is.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:07 am
Vanity Fair reported a while back that the average viewer age for FOX News was 62… which is amazing. Over the next 10 years they’re going to drop in the ratings pretty significantly, or so you’d think.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:21 am
That doesn’t surprise me. When you watch the commercials, you usually see the same retirement golf community in Florida and the guy from Law & Order trying to sell you gold.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
Jay – Jack McCoy sells TD Waterhouse, not gold.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 am
mizerle, Captain Kragen from SVU (and the original lieutenant on L&O) sells the gold
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Fox News like CBS will lure this niche with many either constipated or incontinent retirees, and demographics show we will be an aging nation for quite awhile.
Murdoch is wise to rotate the blondes not only for sake of not allowing anyone who works for him to become a brand unto himself or herself and play harder through agents in contract renegotiations, of which all the other network execs are taking note as they limit the air time of most folks in today’s media.
How do I know Fox will thrive?
How many of the “60 Minutes” devoted audience do you know who were not watching that show at least 20 years ago? Some remember when it came on first at least 35 years ago and might not be able to hear as well in their old age any more, but you are really toying with geriatric fire if you suggest that any one of them will miss an episode!
And gasp, we will deal with them as they age for decades more as “unimaginable” as it is that most of these folks still have never been on the internet and never will be.
(and shutup if you are real techie, as you won’t get that part for sure because you think everyone should be as technical as you; I don’t give a rat’s ass about your new GPS either)