Archive for the 'Superman' Category

Shittiest Nut Graf Of The Year

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

This nut graf sticks out like when Hal Jorden activates his Green Lantern power ring:
Less than a year ago, the Tribune Company told The Los Angeles Times to cut millions of dollars from the paper’s budget and get rid of hundreds of jobs. The top editor and the publisher complied.
But when Tribune came calling last […]

Variation On A Theme

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

The SFGate.com’s Mark Morford has a column this morning lamenting the ephemeral nature of the newspaper and the goofy question, “Are newspapers dying?” The column is very well written and pretty funny, but it got me thinking about he cult of “the blogosphere” and it’s staked hatred for the dreaded Mainstream Media (or MSM as […]

This is a Tribute…

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

But seriously folks, there’s a new bin Laden video out and this time he’s paying tribute to his posthumous Employee of the Month, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. This is kind of a big deal but, WORLD EXCLUSIVE **** MUST CREDIT MEDIA BITCHFEST **** Here it is.
Oh and to keep up on yesterday’s promises, Superman is an […]

Three Stars of the Newscycle: 6.6.06

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

The incomparable Matthew Finley forwarded this to my attention today. A story about how the gay-ness of the new Superman film may or may not help or hurt the expected blockbuster. This comes after gay mag The Advocate ran a cover story about issue and Gawker’s L.A. blog The Defamer began throwing around terms like […]