Speaking of Asian-Australian journalism, I just watched The Year of Living Dangerously last night for the first time in ages, and it holds up. Young Gibson hawt, not Jesus-crazy. I'd still rather fuck Linda Hunt than Matt Drudge though, for purely moral reasons. Perhaps in the hot monsoon rain. No kneeling necessary.
Matt Drudge defines the phrase "bossy bottom" so hence this type of passive-aggressive/aggressive payback at someone who has only helped make him the big star-of-his-own-mind that he is. Completely predictable.
For those confused by the Bossy Bottom phrase: "Hello. Please f*ck me. Here's the instruction manual."
Shiite, I subscribed just YESTERDAY to NatGeo Adventure as a Christmas present for my nephew. Now I have to get online and find something else just as cheap.
@TheBusinessGuy: DMN is owned by the evil overload Belo Corporation, which has always seemed to filter its right-wing affiliations through the content of the paper. This is just another nail in its coffin of suck.
@Atilla the Bun: Well, as much as I dislike the right wing, they have the inalienable right to be stupid in their printed opinions, and of course even supposedly objective content will have a slant or a tinge--that's just the way the world works. But knocking down the church/state wall? Ugly!
@TheBusinessGuy: I was raised with the Morning News as the regional Big City paper, and it has ever blended sections into one monolith. The news other places might carry stories of how Ross Perot is embarrassed that his EDS could not account for a million in services paid for by the feds, but the Op-Ed of the Morning News was all about a Black mother accepting a fifty dollar welfare payment to which she was apparently not entitled. Also, you'd see no even-handed review of the Oil Depletion Allowance, and over in sports, a writer was railing against Carlos and Smith years after they'd lifted their hands in Mexico City. It was Faux Noise in print, and I wonder why Rupert never bothered to acquire it.
@TheBusinessGuy: The problem is that because of the easing of FCC restrictions that used to strictly limit the number of newspapers and broadcast stations that an entity could own, Belo now controls a large amount of news content, much of which purports to be objective and simply isn't. Belo has the right to do this, certainly, but I also have the right to say it makes for sucky "journalism." This latest bit of news is just more of the same.
@Atilla the Bun: Point taken, and I grieve to remember that those rules were eased by the Clinton administration, and the late Ted Kennedy, to his shame, further eased restrictions on ownership for the foreign-born Rupert.
@TheBusinessGuy: It is- and as a working (for the moment) journalist- this is the kind of thing that both nauseates and scares the shit out of me.
Aside from the "favors for favors" ickiness associated with a policy move of this sort, what really makes my skin crawl is the thought of having to work hand in hand with sales staff.
If the ones at my pub are any indication of the norm- these people are fucking retards with no scruples whose only concern is their commission. Not a good alliance for anyone who wishes to keep integrity in their newsroom.
@TheBusinessGuy: I'm going to ask my brother next time we talk about how the Ft Worth paper is today. I never had much experience with it way back when.
It is truly amazing how isolated we all were in the fifties out there on that lonesome prairie. I can remember hitching rides to Big D for Rolling Stone and Beat literature at the Doubleday bookshop on Elm or one of them. I had to go nearly a hundred miles as the road runs to find anything not hewing to the company line.
The brightest of us went away to school, and came back, and we marveled. I remember conversations with two buddies of that hierarchy, and neither one of them could tell what exactly it meant to be "conservative" or "liberal." It's like a concept of feathered flying critters to a mob of penguins.
@Spaghetti Cat: Okay, distinguish for us other voices from other rooms. Like ... esteemed medical research schools which take contributions from interested parties like the drug and tobacco industry. Doctors prescribing ever more "tests" utilizing facilities in which they hold investments. Or, for that matter, the general and universal refusal of any news business to cite the number one factor in the Repugnant party: deficient or demented mental capacity.
@Tremonius: Are you asking me to distinguish who among this example is behaving with integrity? Or how can one behave with integrity when one's resources are tied to another industry with specific interests of its own?
If yes- I see your point. It is difficult to keep integrity when the almighty dollar is what makes the world go 'round. How is this to be avoided? Good question.
As for the refusal of most media organizations to finger the Republican party as mentally deficient, etc- I'd hope it doesn't take a media personality, article or punditry of any kind to point out what is patently obvious anytime one of these "demented" individuals opens their mouth. I mean- most of these motherfuckers say it loud and plain themselves anytime they speak in public.
And in the interest of being truthful, the media would also be obligated to point out that a good number of Democrats are substantially challenged as well- see: concessions re: Stupak/Pitts amendment.
As is the case in most management structures, the unimaginative and ineffective rise to the top, and everyone else is left to make the best of it. And that's the unfortunate state of affairs these days from newsrooms trying to survive to the top of the American legislature.
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ETA: Yes, I appall myself, too.
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You cannot be serious. Yuck.
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For those confused by the Bossy Bottom phrase: "Hello. Please f*ck me. Here's the instruction manual."
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All I'm asking for my wedding are bagpipes.
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Gotta love that pic - all that's needed is some sinister laugh, ala Ren from Urusei Yatsura. Either that or that sinister laugh of hers...
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PS) We still get the main mag and the Kids, so don't blame me if other units are having problems.
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Are the powers at Belo out of their minds?
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Aside from the "favors for favors" ickiness associated with a policy move of this sort, what really makes my skin crawl is the thought of having to work hand in hand with sales staff.
If the ones at my pub are any indication of the norm- these people are fucking retards with no scruples whose only concern is their commission. Not a good alliance for anyone who wishes to keep integrity in their newsroom.
12/03/09
12/04/09
It is truly amazing how isolated we all were in the fifties out there on that lonesome prairie. I can remember hitching rides to Big D for Rolling Stone and Beat literature at the Doubleday bookshop on Elm or one of them. I had to go nearly a hundred miles as the road runs to find anything not hewing to the company line.
The brightest of us went away to school, and came back, and we marveled. I remember conversations with two buddies of that hierarchy, and neither one of them could tell what exactly it meant to be "conservative" or "liberal." It's like a concept of feathered flying critters to a mob of penguins.
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If yes- I see your point. It is difficult to keep integrity when the almighty dollar is what makes the world go 'round. How is this to be avoided? Good question.
As for the refusal of most media organizations to finger the Republican party as mentally deficient, etc- I'd hope it doesn't take a media personality, article or punditry of any kind to point out what is patently obvious anytime one of these "demented" individuals opens their mouth. I mean- most of these motherfuckers say it loud and plain themselves anytime they speak in public.
And in the interest of being truthful, the media would also be obligated to point out that a good number of Democrats are substantially challenged as well- see: concessions re: Stupak/Pitts amendment.
As is the case in most management structures, the unimaginative and ineffective rise to the top, and everyone else is left to make the best of it. And that's the unfortunate state of affairs these days from newsrooms trying to survive to the top of the American legislature.
12/03/09
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