Media Bitchfest

New Year’s Notice

Alright gang, it’s been a good year here at Media Bitchfest. In fact, it wasn’t even really a year. We only started in August and then kind of dicked around a while before kicking it up a notch and we are sorry for that. Well, now don’t give us that look. You know “what look.”
To […]

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And what’s even worse?

He isn’t really asain.
• Cloned dog claim investigated [Reuters]

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Little Flame

“My daddy’s famous, my mommy’s a secret spy,” declared the 5-year-old of his parents

…and then the child of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner returned to her time portal and was never heard from again.
But seriously folks, the Plame fam apparently had their little vacay ruined when their brat blew the lid off Mom and Pop’s […]

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12:30 to 12:32: Read this blog post

God, old people are just so fucking adorable aren’t they?
For those three of you who have been here since the beginning, you might remember that MBF co-founder Justin Young was featured in an extremely lazy USA Today article about how “Generation Y” is ruining the modern workforce with it’s text messaging and t-shirts.
Today, in the […]

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The Internets

THESE DAYS, WOMEN AND MEN go online in almost equal proportions, but what they do on the Web is another matter entirely. Men are more likely than women to check weather and news, download music, and get financial information; women are more likely to look for health and medical information, use e-mail, and–clichéd though it […]

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Initial Autopsy: 12.28.05

Yeah, we thought it was a slow news day too.
• Peer, if you will, into the mind of Daniel Kurtzman
• The New York Times has asked us to stop making fun of this “year and a half” thing. We will have an answer for them in roughly 18 months.
• Former Israeli spies find ‘Memoirs of […]

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Bitchfest Commentary: 25 Dumbest Quotes

In what will hopefully be a reoccurring bit here at Media Bitchfest, we will attempt to go inside the head of a writer and bring you the inner monologue that couldn’t make the page. So here you are, from About.com, some of the choice cuts of Daniel Kurtzman’s “25 Dumbest Quotes of 2005:”
24) “If I […]

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Most Misleading Headline of the Day

Vitamin D, for Death Defying
First, shouldn’t it be Vitamin DD?
Second, “cut the risk of some cancers”? When I hear the words ‘death defying’ I will settle for no less than a story explaining how to fell a rabid bear using only an ice pick and the wits god gave you. Cock tease.
• Stupid Story […]

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Settling Up

Just in case anyone is still waiting with baited breath to see how visionary comic Mitch Hedberg specifically shook his mortal coil, SPIN is publishing the official autopsy in a new issue they are seeking to drum up publicity for by sending a press release to USA Today.
If you had 5 bucks each on coke […]

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Gigantic Monkeys Call King Kong “Unrealistic”

Sure there is a story in these Israeli Moosad agents lighting into Munich for inaccuracies but there is just something about how this article is framed that really bugs us. Our main beef? It only lightly treads on the fact that it is a FICTIONAL MOVIE.
It stars the new James Bond and the Hulk […]

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