You wouldn't call the interview they did with him a revenge piece? I sort of thought the question about how unfair it was that he got to cut his interviews to make people sound however he wanted was spectacularly hypocritical coming from a print journalist.
Maybe I'm too sensitive. Where's that cold nose stuff?
John Koblin also finds out that the Daily Show cut out interviews with David Carr, Sewell Chan, and others, probably because they did not stare quizzically at a proffered paper with a deer-in-the-headlights look for a suitably awkward period of time.
Yeah, that is the one thing about the Daily Show - sometimes it makes me uncomfortable, knowing that people are edited to look their worst - Keller and Berke have no excuse, but to make that poor PR woman out to be an idiot - I'm not sure how I would have done, with a camera in my face and knowing full well what TDS' agenda was, when trying to make the place which is my livelihood look OK.
@FormerEnglishMajor: Notice they have a little bit of camera trickery you can catch on occasion when you see the subject talking with the back of the TDS interviewer's head in the foreground, sometimes nodding, when they jump back to the opposite shot you can tell there was some sort of time lapse in the timeline of events... I suspect they do what the Apprentice (or any countless other reality shows do) where Trump will say some stupid phrase that's supposed to leave the person he's speaking to utterly speechless, so they'll show Trump berating someone, and then the next shot is the person just sitting there staring blankly for, say, 5 full seconds as if they were just schooled and cannot speak further -- when in actuality, it's just B-roll of said person likely staring at someone or something throughout the course of the shoot.
@Unsolicited Advice: Jim Cramer is a TV personality, who was recorded on-air saying how he could game the system to make money, and then - as a TV guest - decided to go on TDS, thinking he could defend CNBC. CNBC is on in my office ALL DAY, every day, so I know exactly what kind of dorporate ace-kissing and economic-bosstering Cramer was loudly trying to defend.
The NY Times woman is a working stiff who - to the best of my knowledge - has never been recorded saying how she could "game" the system to make it work for her, or who works for a newspaper in some way partially responsible for an economic debacle. She was scared and nervous. No comparison.
The Times was pretty honest and all the guys interviewed were good sports about it. Embarassed? If you say so. I am pretty sure at this point, they know EXACTLY what the Daily Show is all about... making fun of everyone. They even laughed at the black and white and red all over joke! Give me a break, Gawker. No controversy here. If anything the Times should be congratulated.
@hypocriteoath: But didn't you think the NY Times blog interview with Jason Jones after the segment aired was a little aggressive-passive-aggressive? "Don't you worry that you and your wife will be savaged in the pages of my gigantically powerful employer, Mr. Jones?"
Oh, yes. The media here is so blatantly biased in favor of the Palestinians. They have such a powerful lobby in Washington, and so many friends who own major news outlets.
Mort has zero credibility on this issue--and the Huffpo commenters rightfully tore him to shreds.
It's funny but I've reached a point in my political existence where listening to either an Israeli or a Palestinian is equally distasteful. When I meet either one, my brain immediately starts whistling the theme song from I Love Lucy.
So congratulations, I and P. You've achieved real equality. Everyone in north america hates both of you, and is simply too polite to tell you to your face.
Whoa motherfucker. Let's just examine the month of January (during the fighting in Gaza):
Israel
Total killed: 13
Soldiers killed: 10
Civilians killed: 3
Total wounded: 518
Soldiers wounded: 336
Civilians wounded: 182
Palestinians
Total killed: between 1,166 and 1,417
Militants and policemen killed: between 491 and 709
Civilians killed: between 926 and 295
Total wounded: 5,303
Look at the numbers of civilians killed. Even if the Israeli count is correct, they still killed 10 times more civilians than the Palestinians did. If the Palestinian count is correct, Palestinian civilian deaths were 30 times greater than Israeli civilian deaths.
"Outrages like these do not make it into the Western media, which exhibit the familiar phenomenon of monitoring only the conflicts that are the flavor of the month."
If only Mort had some medium to tell this to the world, other than through his shitty little blog on HuffPo.
@saythatscool: LOL. No kidding - no wonder the medium is dying, even its owners don't use it. You can be sure Charles Foster Kane would not have blogged or twittered!
@formerly it takes a lot to laugh: If only someone would put him on tv. He could tell us all about what's really happening in Israel. But those fucking media barons prevent him from doing anything.
He's still way ahead on this prediction. I'm not saying he's a good analyst or anything, or that you should ever listen to him, but market performance supports his statement so far.
And then there will be tomorrow's downtick. It's a bear-market rally. Holding one day's performance as a proof of an analyst's talents is as myopic an analysis as anything Howlin' Jim Cramer has ever done. You have to do way, way better than this to sound like a credible critic; this post detracts from Gawker's recent CNBC crusade more than it contributes.
What Twitter didn't mention is tweading, er, "reading", but what some wags are now calling "screening", since we now read most of our news on screens. There's a website here explaining what "screening" is all about and people like Markoff and Fallows have heard about it. Hmmmmmmm. The urbandictionary.com editors have put it up too. Here: Screening has defined there as: "To read text on a computer screen,
cellphonescreen, Kindle screen or PDA screen or BlackBerry screen;
replaces the term "reading" which now only refers to reading print
text on paper."Example: "I hate reading print newspapers now. I do all my screening online."
06/17/09
Maybe I'm too sensitive. Where's that cold nose stuff?
06/17/09
06/17/09
Yeah, that is the one thing about the Daily Show - sometimes it makes me uncomfortable, knowing that people are edited to look their worst - Keller and Berke have no excuse, but to make that poor PR woman out to be an idiot - I'm not sure how I would have done, with a camera in my face and knowing full well what TDS' agenda was, when trying to make the place which is my livelihood look OK.
06/17/09
Oddly, I haven't heard similar sentiment for Jim Cramer. Couldn't you make the exact same point about his debacle?
06/17/09
06/17/09
The NY Times woman is a working stiff who - to the best of my knowledge - has never been recorded saying how she could "game" the system to make it work for her, or who works for a newspaper in some way partially responsible for an economic debacle. She was scared and nervous. No comparison.
06/17/09
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04/15/09
Mort has zero credibility on this issue--and the Huffpo commenters rightfully tore him to shreds.
04/15/09
So congratulations, I and P. You've achieved real equality. Everyone in north america hates both of you, and is simply too polite to tell you to your face.
04/15/09
My interest here, Peeps, is your choice of theme songs.
04/15/09
Israel
Total killed: 13
Soldiers killed: 10
Civilians killed: 3
Total wounded: 518
Soldiers wounded: 336
Civilians wounded: 182
Palestinians
Total killed: between 1,166 and 1,417
Militants and policemen killed: between 491 and 709
Civilians killed: between 926 and 295
Total wounded: 5,303
Look at the numbers of civilians killed. Even if the Israeli count is correct, they still killed 10 times more civilians than the Palestinians did. If the Palestinian count is correct, Palestinian civilian deaths were 30 times greater than Israeli civilian deaths.
04/15/09
04/15/09
04/15/09
If only Mort had some medium to tell this to the world, other than through his shitty little blog on HuffPo.
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03/10/09
You may have stared too long into the abyss, John. Or is this the pot-kettle-black cliche? I'm not sure which cliché works best.
03/10/09
03/10/09
And then there will be tomorrow's downtick. It's a bear-market rally. Holding one day's performance as a proof of an analyst's talents is as myopic an analysis as anything Howlin' Jim Cramer has ever done. You have to do way, way better than this to sound like a credible critic; this post detracts from Gawker's recent CNBC crusade more than it contributes.
03/10/09
03/10/09
Huh huh. Get it?
02/20/09
02/19/09
cellphonescreen, Kindle screen or PDA screen or BlackBerry screen;
replaces the term "reading" which now only refers to reading print
text on paper."Example: "I hate reading print newspapers now. I do all my screening online."
02/20/09
02/19/09
Cliff R
Beacon: Cliff just bought a Bushmaster rifle, would you like to buy him some bullets?
Status Update: Lindsay got shot in the head.
Jason wrote on Lindsay's Wall: LOL, i can haz brainz bak? pwn!
02/19/09