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September 14, 2005
NYTimes.com To Launch Premium Service Next Monday
Watch Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, David Brooks, Tom Friedman and others disappear from the web, along with most of the NY Times’ web-buzz from blog links
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August 22, 2005
Sean Penn in Iran, Day One
Penn finally files an article, about two months past normal “journalistic” deadlines.
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July 14, 2005
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July 06, 2005
The New York Times grossly alters a writer’s editorial opinion
“The writer, an Army reserve officer, did not say, ‘Imagine my surprise the other day when I received orders to report to Fort Campbell, Ky., next Sunday,’ nor did he characterize his recent call-up to active duty as the precursor to a ‘surprise tour of Iraq.’ That language was added by an editor”
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July 04, 2005
Boycott MTV/VH-1 for the Live8 Telecast Debacle
“We the US audience are beyond disgusted with MTV/VH-1’s shameless self-promotion and profiteering off this historic event, and we want our 8 hours back”
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June 04, 2005
“Steal from me and I’ll call you out”
“The dictionary is a big book. Get your own damn words. Leave mine alone.”
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May 11, 2005
Video of hilarious Jon Stewart bit on blogs and Da Hype
“By reading the blogs on TV, the 24-hour cable channels have combined the visual pizzazz of a text file with the deep insight of a 90-second cable segment.”
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May 03, 2005
Prosecutorial Misconduct by Nancy Grace?
“a case in which a certain Fulton County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor was found by the court to have ‘played fast and loose with her ethical duties’ under the Constitution.” Sounds like
perfect qualifications for her
current gig.
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January 18, 2005
Shame on the New York Times
Jeff Jarvis takes the Times to task for not only getting the story of Iraqi bloggers wrong, but endangering them with their loose lipped speculation
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December 23, 2004
The IX Olympic Gripes to the FCC; All nine of them
“It’s puzzling that we had 203 million viewers who watched over 17 days and more than 1,200 hours, and got no such complaints last summer during the Games”
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December 07, 2004
99.8% of FCC Complaints filed in 2003 came from one group
The Parents Television Council promised “a massive, coordinated and determined campaign,” and now they nearly control the process
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November 16, 2004
H.O.P.E. in America (“Horrified Observers of Pedestrian Entertainment”)
They’re exchanging Ashlee Simpson CD’s to help “the good people of America who have been duped into buying” her crap
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August 09, 2004
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July 31, 2004
Matt Drudge, photo plagiarist
This sounds like the act of a 13 year old. Incredibly lame
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July 28, 2004
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July 23, 2004
“My Beef With Big Media” by Ted Turner
Say what you want, but Ted’s an independent success story, and has some smart things to say about the media world
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July 20, 2004
“Fox News’ use of the slogan ‘Fair and Balanced’ constitutes deceptive advertising”
That’s just giggle-icious, especially in light of their failed suit against Al Franken over the phrase
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June 22, 2004
Christopher Hitchens slices up Michael Moore like a spiral cut honey-baked ham
“To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability”
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May 22, 2004
Michael Moore and Me
I swear, P.T. Barnum would be proud of him
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May 13, 2004
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May 07, 2004
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May 06, 2004
“Michael Moore admits Disney ‘ban’ was a stunt
“Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it”
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May 05, 2004
“Shock pundits degrade the public discourse.”
“a troubling lesson to those who hope to participate in productive public policy debate”
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May 03, 2004
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For sale, really cheap: Micah Ian Wright’s Credibility (background
here and
here)
We’ll throw in his ‘Reputation’ and make it a matched broken set
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April 21, 2004
Major Media Companies: Who Owns What
All your big media conglomerates, with their assets hanging out.
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April 14, 2004
A Comic Conspiracy?
Is Calvin back, 20 years older?
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April 12, 2004
3 different journalists, three different kidnappings, one amazingly similar story
“The same modus operandi. The kidnapping. The initial hostility. The dramatic change of heart. A glimpse into the resistance. A sudden release. The tearful goodbye. The parting soundbite.”
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March 15, 2004
PDF: The New York Times, hoisted with their own petard
Laywer sends reply with a scathing on-point quotations ... taken from the NYT editorial pages!
