Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Cosmo Kramer, Call Your Office
I am not sure it's accurate to say Sinclair blinked . . . but I believe it is accurate to say that their explanation of the nature of their anti-Kerry special is hilarious.
Quote of the Day: From the crawl on CNN Headline News this afternoon: "Public split on whether Bush is a divider." You'd be tempted to think it was a wry bit of commentary, but this is Headline News were talking about, which looks for all the world like it's programmed by the bottom 10 percent of an Ivy League journalism class. More than likely it was the work of some junior flunky who's damn proud of his ability to say nothing in 10 words or less.
Another Blog Better Than Mine: Researching the Sinclair follies today, I came across a new blog by Frederick Clarkson, whose name I quite nearly invoked yesterday when talking about Christian Reconstructionism. If you spend any time studying CR, or poking around in the more bizarre precincts of the Far Right, you'll come across his work. Clarkson tells me his blog is going to evolve into a full-blown professional website over time, which will serve as an archive of his work. Good thing, too, as I've admired his work for years. Fred, welcome to the blogosphere.
I am not sure it's accurate to say Sinclair blinked . . . but I believe it is accurate to say that their explanation of the nature of their anti-Kerry special is hilarious.
"A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media" . . . . The news special will focus in part on the use of documentaries and other media to influence voting, which emerged during the 2004 political campaigns, as well as on the content of certain of these documentaries. The program will also examine the role of the media in filtering the information contained in these documentaries, allegations of media bias by media organizations that ignore or filter legitimate news and the attempts by candidates and other organizations to influence media coverage.A documentary about documentaries? Well, Kramer wrote a coffee-table book about coffee tables, so I suppose anything's possible. The press release Sinclair put out this afternoon about the program is fairly funny, too, with a couple of paragraphs of classic wingnut ranting from CEO David Smith about vile personal attacks and trampling on the First Amendment. Takes one to know one, Dave.
Quote of the Day: From the crawl on CNN Headline News this afternoon: "Public split on whether Bush is a divider." You'd be tempted to think it was a wry bit of commentary, but this is Headline News were talking about, which looks for all the world like it's programmed by the bottom 10 percent of an Ivy League journalism class. More than likely it was the work of some junior flunky who's damn proud of his ability to say nothing in 10 words or less.
Another Blog Better Than Mine: Researching the Sinclair follies today, I came across a new blog by Frederick Clarkson, whose name I quite nearly invoked yesterday when talking about Christian Reconstructionism. If you spend any time studying CR, or poking around in the more bizarre precincts of the Far Right, you'll come across his work. Clarkson tells me his blog is going to evolve into a full-blown professional website over time, which will serve as an archive of his work. Good thing, too, as I've admired his work for years. Fred, welcome to the blogosphere.
