The Short List — Thurs., July 3
July 3rd, 2008 by Joe Bardi in Presidential Politics, The Morning PapersEnjoy your Fourth of July festivities everyone. I’m off next week, but PoHo will be back on Monday.
- Independence Day: Three Americans held hostage in Columbia have been freed.
- McCain shakes it up.
- Temper temper, John.
- Just when you think Fox News can sink no lower …
- Psilocybin research re-enters the mainstream.
- Dumb question of the week, from CNBC: “Which Is Better — Strong or Weak Dollar?”
- The Rays sweep the Sox! The Rays sweep the Sox!
- Salveggi crushes Hancock.
- Hot trial: the Christie Brinkley v. architect guy divorce proceedings.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Wow, they didn’t even try to hide their changes to Steinberg’s photo. It looks absolutely ridiculous even if you didn’t know what the man looked like. The changes to Reddicliffe’s photo are more subtle.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
You have to wonder what the fuck they’re smoking over in Fox News graphics department.
I blame the viewers for this type of thing. Let’s face it, Faux News viewers have to be the most uncritically thinking group of slack-jawed ignoramuses in the TV news universe. I’m sure the folks at Faux figured, “hell, if they’ll swallow ‘terrorist fist jab,’ what else can we get away with?”
Best part: You know who wouldn’t do something like this because it is beyond contempt for an ethical journalist?
The New York Times.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
oh please - get a sense of humor you 2. The Fox morning show is a joke, and so was this piece. Those 2 clown hosts are idiots, but the story was a lame jab back at a critical writer…
Now, I flipped over to CNN and watch a story on the Iowa floods where a couple were lamenting that some big bad person told them that they probably didn’t need flood insurance - so they didn’t buy it - and now it’s the government’s fault they lost their home.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Thanks for proving my point Czech.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Saw this on Jason Mims’ front page:
Before I qualified as a candidate on Juneteenth, the School Board
represented a “Closed Political System.” Only those politically connected
need apply for membership!
How dare anyone not politically connected even dream of bringing a
different brand of leadership to the School Board and how dare anyone
ask students “What good book have you just read and what good book
are you reading now?”
I wonder how many in the black community will actually fall for this kind of whining.
.. and on Dave Schmidt’s web site front page, I find this:
Future improvement, however, requires strong, active leadership by dedicated School Board members who are willing to view, review, and capably analyze academic and fiscal proposals. Solutions come by asking the right questions, insisting on staff and community input, and making decisions based on consensus, not by playing maverick with children’s futures.
so you can tell what his inclination is and who it’s aimed at.
Local races are always a lot more enjoyable once the clowns get out of the little car, aren’t they?
July 4th, 2008 at 2:52 am
Fox is the “news” equivalent of WWF/WWE “wrestling.” Whether or not it’s schtick doesn’t matter–lots of people take it seriously.
July 5th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Oh yeah. For objective,impartial and fact-based news I always turn to Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman. Dan Rather did a great job with those Texas Air Natl Guard memos too. And the incomparable Nancy Grace was outstanding in her coverage of the Duke lacrosse rape case.
July 6th, 2008 at 6:14 am
That’s a shame…one shouldn’t turn to commentators for news.
By the way…what happened to Rather?
July 7th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Fox is no more of a joke than CNBC or CNN - It’s all crap. And the NYT should be careful of throwing stones in glass houses.