19 month ago
jimray : CNN.com "smudges" out photo used on their cover - If you look closely at the left hand, you can see that they smudged out the cartoon flip-off.
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24 month ago
jimray : A New Look for FOXNews.com - Yeah, they got rid of the jingoism, but, god in heaven, it still looks awful
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27 month ago
jimray : Lost Remote: Stunner: Dan Abrams named GM of MSNBC - You know how they handed X-Men III over to Brett Ratner for the sole purpose of driving the series into the ground? I'm just saying.
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29 month ago
jimray : The Olbermann-O'Reilly feud - "As if set on an elementary-school playground, the Olbermann-O'Reilly feud sets the sassy class wit against the bruising class bully."
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30 month ago
jimray : 'Olbermann' banned from O'Reilly's show - "So now I'm expecting that soon I'll be getting a visit from the Bill O'Reilly police, armed with loofahs."
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31 month ago
jimray : Chicago Tribune ME's e-mail to Tucker Carlson - Tucker, like most Republicans in the media, doesn't have the sense to realize that he's part of the problem that he's railing against. If Tucker had balls, he would've printed those cartoons on a t-shirt and told his corporate overlords to go fuck themsel
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jimray : Olbermann kicks the crap outta O'Reilly - Awesome. Straight up fucking awesome.
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32 month ago
jimray : Connected Coast to Coast died last month! - Holy shit, I didn't even notice - thank the gods for this one. Now Republican fembot Monica Crowley can slink back into radio obscurity and Ron Reagan can go on railing against stem cells.
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32 month ago
jimray : Hendrick Hertzberg demystifies the war on Christmas - This is quite excellent and rightfully puts in their place all of the overhyped Christmas warriors selling not much more than anti-semitism and misplaced discontent. "Christmas is the big retail season. What Fox [News] retails is resentment."
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33 month ago
jimray : NBC Takes Control of MSNBC - Finally, the rumors come true. Hopefully this means that all the crappy content on cable will go away and we can get back to the business of good news.
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33 month ago
jimray : ‘Crossfire’ host Robert Novak leaving CNN for FOX - Fox is pretty well ghettoized now as something that can be ignored and avoided entirely
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33 month ago
jimray : A Message from Bill: Media Operations that Traffic in Defamation - Woohoo! We're on Bill O'Reilly's shitlist!
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33 month ago
jimray : The five least watchable new personalities - "Rita Cosby AKA, Lord Vader"
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36 month ago
jimray : Browsing the Site, Not Watching the Show - New York Times - "Why is MSNBC.com doing so well if its parent perennially trails other TV news channels?" The answer is simple: all cable news sucks and there's simply not enough room for three 24-hour news channels amongst such a small, simple-minded audience.
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38 month ago
Andy Baio : Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson rematch on August 8 - this should be good [via]
jimray : Tucker's craptacular show gets moved to a new time slot, opposite "The Daily Show" - If the debut of "The Situation with Tucker Carlson" wasn't actually the beginning of the end, this most certainly is.
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39 month ago
Andy Baio : CNN begins podcasting - why do I feel like there are more people creating podcasts than listening to them? [via] [via]
jimray : CNN's podcasts
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jimray : Where the white women at? - Absolutely brilliant satire
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39 month ago
jimray : Slashdot on CNN's free video - This is really, really hilarious. I particularly love how this is a "response to FOX News" -- which completely ignores the fact that FOX News is an also-ran on the web. News for nerds who don't know shit about the news biz.
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39 month ago
jimray : So Much For Dignity: CNN Drops World News For Lost Kid Crap - "Nice work, CNN! You?re really putting the 'news' back in 'this is not news.'"
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39 month ago
jimray : Slate on the Tucker Carlson's new show - "Tucker Carlson comes off as your ultimate nightmare of the college roommate you might be assigned on the first day of freshman year: a smug yuppie smartass with a drawerful of perfectly folded pastel polo shirts."
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39 month ago
jimray : Letter to MSNBC regarding Tucker Carlson's new show - Media Matters on what's wrong with "The Situation" and cable news shows in general
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