I just got done reading Mediaite’s rundown of the Mike Hendricks saga, and the material to which it links. I have to say, with the amount of virtual ink that has been spilled over this, everyone seems to have missed the most glaring issue. Mike Hendricks is a columnist for the Kansas City Star who [...]
August 30, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: job search, journalism, journalists, Kansas City Star, Mike Hendricks, newspaper slow death, newspapers, Ogden Publications, poor taste, PR, PR jobs, reverse bad pitch, The Bad Pitch . Author: Tommy Christopher . Comments: Leave a Comment
The treatment of Senator Ted Kennedy’s death has received almost as much coverage as the death itself. Immediately, there were accusations of politicization from the right. Around the web, there has been the requisite cataloging of trollish actions and reactions, and the attendant pushback. We’ve certainly done our part, watchdogging the coverage and the reactions, [...]
August 30, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Senator Ted Kennedy, Slidepoll, Slideshow, ted kennedy, Ted Kennedy Dead, Ted Kennedy Dies . Author: Tommy Christopher . Comments: Leave a Comment
The echo from my Tweetdeck’s delivery of the sad news had barely died down when conservatives started in: Now that Ted Kennedy had died, liberals had better not “play politics” with his death in order to get health care reform passed. While I might share a sliver of agreement with the sentiment, we differ wildly [...]
August 29, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Senator Ted Kennedy, Slidepoll, Slideshow, ted kennedy, Ted Kennedy Dead, Ted Kennedy Dies . Author: Tommy Christopher . Comments: 1 Comment
So, I’m reading this article about X-TREME POGO, and a few things strike me immediately. Like, why is the Wall Street Journal covering Extreme Pogo? Also, there’s something called Extreme Pogo? But the most stunning part of the story is this bit, about the current World Champion of Extreme Pogo, the best of the best [...]
August 28, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: extreme pogo, fred Grzybowski, Grzybowski, pogo stick, Pogopalooza, Xtreme pogo . Author: Tommy Christopher . Comments: Leave a Comment
Wikipedia’s new guidelines for its encyclopediaesque entries are a wikiwikiwin as far as I’m concerned. Certainly, there are the balkers, the naysayers, the scoffers of wikipedia as a source of reference … but, the site is a DAMN good start as a research tool. While quoting wikipedia – loosely or verbatim – in an article, [...]
August 26, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: wikipedia . Author: billiegirltoo . Comments: Leave a Comment
Let me say, first, that Bill O’Reilly is an enemy of women, an enemy of children, and an all-around content-thieving scumbag. I believe in redemption, but that piece of shit has a loooong way to go. But, Keith, WE are supposed to be better than that. By “we,” I mean all thinking, feeling human beings. [...]
August 26, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: bill o'reilly, child abuse, Countdown, keith olbermann . Author: Tommy Christopher . Comments: 1 Comment
The news of Ted Kennedy’s sad passing last night has been greeted with the expected wave of coverage, and coverage about the coverage. I’m going to ignore the trolls who emerge at times like this, and focus on 3 particular reactions from prominent conservatives online. First, there’s Ed Morrissey, who offers a clear-eyed summation of [...]
August 26, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: conservative reaction, ted kennedy, ted kennedy RIP . Author: Tommy Christopher . Comments: 1 Comment
My Mediaite colleague, Colby Hall, chronicles the current round of navel-gazing by Bill O’Reilly, Jon Stewart, Howard Kurtz, and Mediaite over at Mediaite. He fails, however, to point out how this story is actually all about me. The current kerfufflet has to do with O’Reilly’s accusation that Jon Stewart (whose network erroneously but jokingly accused [...]
August 25, 2009
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: bill o'reilly, Billo, helen thomas, Howard Kurtz, jon stewart, Mediaite, protesters . Author: Tommy Christopher . Comments: 3 Comments
