Media Bitchfest

A Funny Little Thought For The Weekend

The intensely incredible econ-blog Cafe Hayek sent this letter to the Wall Street Journal.
16 November 2006
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
Dear Editor:
Re “Pelosi and Pork” (Nov. 16):
Reflecting on the recent election, I conclude that people can be divided into three groups. Members of the first group (consisting of left-liberals and […]

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Evolution At Work

First, there was mainstream media. Then came the internet and a guy named Matt Drudge who decided to publish a story that two major weekly news magazines killed. The story blew up, people were riveted, lives were made and careers were forever tainted. Amongst the choas stood print media, angered with this annoying little man […]

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MBF World News Weekly 11.17.06

In an uncertain world of turmoil and strife, whom can we turn to for a summery of happenings from this, our global village? The answer is Shaun Barnes, his column begins now…

I am not normally a believer in the “liberal media”, just the “bad media” and thus a whole-hearted supporter of this site’s avowed corpse […]

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Eternal Warfare In An Eternal Night

My Cousin Jon likes the internet. His blog is here. Here is something I am stealing from that very blog. It is indeed the awesomest…
I was reading the main page of cnn.com and clicked some stupid link about some stupid thing, when I did a double take back to the AWESOMEST (!!!) EVER article headline […]

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A Public Bounty Offered

In a very interesting move, the BBC has announced that they will pay for user-generated content. This of course, turns the entire world into media obsessed Kraven The Hunters with UK colonial overlords wafting stacks of cash for the taking. Or something like that…
Now, the upside to this may seem clear, but allow me to […]

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Rob <3s Technology: My $1,000 Thursday

Rob Howard was created by Man.
He Evolved.
He Rebelled.
He Looks and Feels Human.
He is even programmed to think he is Human.
There are many copies.
And he has a Plan.
Rob

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It’s All Fun And Games…

…until a former Kaufman County district attorney commits suicide after being targeted by a televised child molester sting.
Residents of the Murphy, TX (a Dallas suburb) are all in a tussle about Dateline’s To Catch A Predator series coming to town. For those who didn’t catch the latest installment of the greatest comedy on television last […]

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Cable Companies vs. The NFL (Metaphorically)

Pick your favorite from today’s Wall Street Journal story:
As America’s traditional day of turkey and football approaches, the National Football League and some of the country’s biggest cable companies are playing a high-stakes game of chicken.
“This wouldn’t be the cable companies shooting themselves in the foot,” said Marc Ganis, a sports-marketing consultant. “It would be […]

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Old Windbags More Interesting In Windows Media Player

There is a cycle to most revolutions. They organize, gain support, storm the establishment and take over. That’s the good part, what people like to talk about, but it is only half of the cycle. Because it is after all that the revolutionaries fight amongst themselves until becoming complacent and adopting many of the traits […]

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Adventures In Exclamation Point Usage

From the Sunday Times story about the unending sectarian violence in Iraq…
During a recent joint American-Iraqi raid in a Shiite neighborhood of Abu Sayda, near Baquba, Iraqi troops stood around when they were supposed to be charging into homes. American soldiers, frustrated that the mission to apprehend men involved in sectarian violence was lagging, screamed […]

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