"Socializing on the internet is to socializing, what Reality TV is to reality." Aaron Sorkin. (Or one of his writers.) Either way, I agree.
See the whole thing here.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Slightly More Subtle...
Ok, so this entry from the Seattle Times website already has a mark against it at the outset for being a regurgitated AP news story. Seriously, guys: you're the last remaining old-school print newspaper in this town. Write your own goddamn articles.
But since you posted it in your Food & Wine section with only a small by-line to establish that it isn't your reporting, I'm indicting both you and the AP equally for this piece of faux-objective garbage. This article is full of subtle language that undermines one side while falsely bolstering the other. For example look at this:
(from the article) Two new commercials try to alleviate shopper confusion, showing people who say they now understand that "whether it's corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can't tell the difference. Sugar is sugar."
But since you posted it in your Food & Wine section with only a small by-line to establish that it isn't your reporting, I'm indicting both you and the AP equally for this piece of faux-objective garbage. This article is full of subtle language that undermines one side while falsely bolstering the other. For example look at this:
(from the article) Two new commercials try to alleviate shopper confusion, showing people who say they now understand that "whether it's corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can't tell the difference. Sugar is sugar."
Monday, September 13, 2010
Cosmo? Cosmo is news?
So here's some balderdash: I went to Seattleweekly.com (first link) then I hit the News Tab (second link) and saw as the top choice for "News" was a link to this (three links total). Remember from the last run-on sentence how I was clicking on the "News" tab? How the fuck does pointing out how shitty Cosmopolitan's sex advice is make news?
A: It doesn't. That is not news. Nobody recently discovered that Cosmopolitan Magazine, despite years of accurate accounting, suddenly started offering bad sex advice. No scientist did a study on the effectiveness or accuracy of Cosmo's sex tips. They couldn't have done because Cosmo isn't news and scientists don't often pay attention to Cosmo. Some dumb cluck just wanted to get paid for writing, "Skid-marked or period-stained panties." I'd also like to point out that, "Skid-marked or period-stained panties," is not a sentence. Now I'm not the grammar police all that often but, come on. At least start a proper list before doing lists.
Like: Seattle Weekly has a (so-called) news article about Cosmopolitan Magazine's most recent list of sex advice. In it they list a few, more practical, things to not do when attending to a new lover, including leaving soiled drawrers, hair ties, unlocked cellphones or your STD medication.
If you are stupid enough to leave your Zovirax at a some guy's apartment that you just humped at for the first time, you should stop boning people outside of your family. Assuming you ever started. Idiot.
Remember to take your medication.
A: It doesn't. That is not news. Nobody recently discovered that Cosmopolitan Magazine, despite years of accurate accounting, suddenly started offering bad sex advice. No scientist did a study on the effectiveness or accuracy of Cosmo's sex tips. They couldn't have done because Cosmo isn't news and scientists don't often pay attention to Cosmo. Some dumb cluck just wanted to get paid for writing, "Skid-marked or period-stained panties." I'd also like to point out that, "Skid-marked or period-stained panties," is not a sentence. Now I'm not the grammar police all that often but, come on. At least start a proper list before doing lists.
Like: Seattle Weekly has a (so-called) news article about Cosmopolitan Magazine's most recent list of sex advice. In it they list a few, more practical, things to not do when attending to a new lover, including leaving soiled drawrers, hair ties, unlocked cellphones or your STD medication.
If you are stupid enough to leave your Zovirax at a some guy's apartment that you just humped at for the first time, you should stop boning people outside of your family. Assuming you ever started. Idiot.
Remember to take your medication.
This is what i'm talking about.
I was reading rawstory.com, via reddit, and there's this story about FoxNews running an OpEd about Obama's speech on the 8th of September. They, rawstory.com, go on a brewhaha about FoxNews editing the video of the speech to take negative phrases out of context and blame Obama for saying things he essentially didn't.
Of course, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had caught this right away and put there comedic take on the situation. http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/352232/thu-september-09-2010-meghan-mccain 5:50-6:40 is the meat and potatoes of this shenanigan.
I mean, sure it's an opinion show and the content is not news report or journalism and it doesn't outwardly claim to be. But it's on Fox-FUCKING-News! Few people know that when they turn on FoxNews they're more likely to get an opinion show than a news report.
Stewart's show goes on a little later (7:50-8:13) with a hit on CNN confusing Tweets with news. Thanks TDSWJS.
And then there's this:
Of course, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had caught this right away and put there comedic take on the situation. http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/352232/thu-september-09-2010-meghan-mccain 5:50-6:40 is the meat and potatoes of this shenanigan.
I mean, sure it's an opinion show and the content is not news report or journalism and it doesn't outwardly claim to be. But it's on Fox-FUCKING-News! Few people know that when they turn on FoxNews they're more likely to get an opinion show than a news report.
Stewart's show goes on a little later (7:50-8:13) with a hit on CNN confusing Tweets with news. Thanks TDSWJS.
And then there's this:
Monday, September 6, 2010
Here's the first one.
Already I know I'm going to hate doing this blog. Normally I stop reading blathering bullshit as soon as I get too pissed off to continue. But no more. Now I will sit through achingly long broadcasts of hate mongers and lazy pundits just projectile vomiting gobbledygook to keep the camera on their pancake lathered faces. I will read, all the way to the end, the rambling contrite works of opinion passed off as news reporting or observation. I know giving name to one's enemy makes them stronger but I just gotta point out the flaws in the Emperor's tailor.
For example: http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-09-01/music/in-defense-of-courtney/. Go ahead, read it. Then come back to this. I'll list the flaws in this diatribe in order of appearance.
1. "It's not her, Seattle, it's you." No it isn't. At no point in this rant does the author provide any evidence that Seattle and its citizens have ever unfairly criticized Courtney Love. In fact, she does point out that all of the things Ms. Love has been criticized for are either reasonable or unimportant to her, the author. Except for one parenthetical aside...
For example: http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-09-01/music/in-defense-of-courtney/. Go ahead, read it. Then come back to this. I'll list the flaws in this diatribe in order of appearance.
1. "It's not her, Seattle, it's you." No it isn't. At no point in this rant does the author provide any evidence that Seattle and its citizens have ever unfairly criticized Courtney Love. In fact, she does point out that all of the things Ms. Love has been criticized for are either reasonable or unimportant to her, the author. Except for one parenthetical aside...
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