Archive for August, 2005
Um Yeah…
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005“Running a newspaper is something like building a three-legged stool,” Stoeffler explained. “We need to understand and satisfy a broad audience. Through a combination of market research and regular contact, we come to know what readers want.”
And quoting the new management of the Arizona Star is something like punching a cat until it barks.
Coming Soon! The Shittiest Lede of the Day
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Yes! Now you too can return fire at the writers who push punishing ledes on the American readership every day. See something that looks like trash? Email it to JustinRobertYoung@gmail.com. The Media Bitchfest staff will review submissions and pick one lede per weekday and notify the writer of the honor.
For instance, this would have been […]
Adults these days…
Sunday, August 28th, 2005Sounds like there’s trouble afoot — these rowdy youngsters who’ve entered the workplace in the last few years are stirring shit up, whether they’re wearing beer shirts, to wit, or astonishing superiors with their command of random acronyms.
So the Poynter journalism think-tank published a guide to managing Generation Y for people who for some reason […]
No no no, pretty white WOMEN
Friday, August 26th, 2005Grow some tits Hansel. You have to be more than just “so hot right now” to garner a refusal from Bob Costas to cover you.
Being forced to put the Penn down
Friday, August 26th, 2005It seems like forever ago we became privy to Sean Penn’s delightful trips through Iran and now that it has come a close we are forced to move on and apply the life lessons we have learned, including:
- America is awful, but not as bad as Iran, maybe
- When trying to blend into a foreign […]
Was it all just ice cream?
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Mikey wants to go from Fahrenheit 9/11 Orca fat to Roger and Me awkward tubby.
Read all about it chubby chasers.
Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Penn is at it again! Today he out-America bashes a Kohmenini (using inner monologue), gets hoodwinked into a photo op and consistently refers to the people who facilitated both meetings as agents from the dark side of the Force.
He also notes that this whole thing would have been way easier if […]
Backpeddle also means moving your feet the opposite direction on a bicycle
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Just when Pat Robertson was starting to really sizzle, he goes and tells the faithful viewers of the 700 Club that he was “misinterpreted.” Robertson noted that although he DID call for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to be taken out by American special forces, there are several definitions for the term, including a good old […]
Reefer Madness
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005Turns out that my prediction of the media flipping out over the Randy Moss “once in a blue moon” “revelation” now seems a bit “overblown.” In the aftermath, the ever fresh Scoop Jackson drops in his two cents.
Next week Scoop, please figure out Sean Penn?
Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s material for the next five years:
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005I don’t know what we did to deserve it, but Sean Penn has transcribed his June trip to Iran into what I predict will be the most publicized, self-important, name-dropping train wreck in the recorded history of newsprint. This is day two of five for the San Francisco Chronicle but if you are hesitant to […]
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Critical Acclaim:
— Tom Scocca, New York Observer
— J. Michael Robertson, Media Studies Department, University of San Francisco
— Shelly Smith, Comedienne of The Brothel
— Will Leitch, Deadspin.com
— mute_everything, MBF Commenter
