Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Newsflash

The NY Times tries to derail McCain with the following news item: Eight years ago McCain didn’t have an affair with a female lobbyist.

Okaaaay.

I don’t know if the Times can get any more irrelevant after this one. But bless them for trying. If they keep this up, they’ll definitely achieve their apparent goal of no more readers. 

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Spin

A must see documentary from the 90s about how the press shapes “reality” the way they cover political races. If you haven’t seen it before, it will really open your eyes to how phony the whole thing is. 

Monday, January 21, 2008

Cloverfield Monster

Scary!!

Monday, December 24, 2007

Happy Holidays

Enjoy your Holiday. Drive Safely. And stay away from the egg nog. That stuff is nasty.

Friday, October 26, 2007

New Background

I’ve been playing with some new photoshop brushes I found here and created a new web background. 

Monday, August 27, 2007

Stupidity DuJour

Harder to fathom is why audiences return. Fans who tolerate the repetitiveness and ideological bankruptcy of the “Rush Hour” franchise, for example, may be testaments to the power of hope and a need for familiarity at a time when the Iraq war continues unabated, pensions and polar ice disappear, and Al Qaeda videos enjoy wider distribution than Sundance winners.

NY Times Film Critic Jeannette Catsoulis on why this years summer sequels propelled the film business to a record year.

It seems they will go to any length to bash the war or promote the global warming agenda. 

Friday, August 17, 2007

The Press Lies

Check out this roundup of reporters caught lying and you’ll understand why I take most stuff in the press with a grain of salt. It’s no wonder people rate journalists even lower than politicians and one notch above child molesters. 

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Read of the Day

Confessions of a BBC Liberal. An ex-BBC journalist explains the group think mindset that has infected the BBC. It’s pretty much par for the course in American media as well. A good primer on how this kind of ideology and rank ignorance spreads.

Group think is always a problem in society because humans have this amazing facility for mass delusion. People will buy into a big lie and cling to it fiercely because they’ve put so much hope that their side is the right side. And ivory tower elites are the worst when it comes to this kind of thinking. Media people tend to think they are more connected to reality, but the truth is, many of them rely in filtered sources of info like everyone else and base their conclusions on what they see. Combined with the culture of their workplace, you get this mendacious mass of mediocrity called “journalism”. The good reporters are the ones who go outside the easy answers and bother to personally get their hands dirty with the facts. Whether they like what they find out or not. Those reporters are few and far between in this age.

Many journalist leap to a conclusion or have it handed down by their editor, before they start typing the first sentence of their story. And then, all media outlets have “style guides” which tell the writers what terms are appropriate and what line they are supposed to take. This further limits the validity of the sources because it uses political correctness to get around the hard points.

This is a very complicated and compromised age we live in. The beauty of it is the blogs have provided a means to fact check and analyze the news like never before. The walls are coming down around these media institutions and I say its a good thing. But they will constantly try to corrupt things. Watch. 

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Do Not Trust the Press

When a teenager in Finland exposes another Reuters lie. And the New Republic , tries to dance around the mendacity of the Baghdad diarist, you can be sure that the press is not to be trusted. Especially the left leaning, anti-war press who loves to tell us on a daily basis how we are being lied to by the administration. It doesn’t make their case very strong when they are constantly lying as well.

I get a kick reading some of these left wing blogs which are so full of self righteousness about evil Republicans and their endless falsehoods, while they suck up the bogus stories of the very same sources I mentioned above.

Whether you are on the right or the left, never take anything in print at face value. Everyone has an agenda.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Made It

I got here a day late, but I am finally in Portland. Once I get my bearings I will start blogging again. Probably on Sunday sometime.