Tag Archives: Media

Last night, a small group of the editors of Blogcritics huddled around their respective monitors waiting for SiteMeter to tell them that the ten-millionth visitor to the site had arrived. Fleeting though it was, it was a pretty nifty moment in time. Blogcritics publisher Eric Olsen commemorated the occasion here. …

Truth-telling: a noble, dangerous, lonely existential business in a world where people will kill to repress the truth, or in retaliation for those who refuse to be repressed. Such is the brave, sad, infuriating story of Steven Vincent, 49, art critic-turned war correspondent, who was murdered in Basra, Iraq, on …

At four in the morning...nobody cares how you look...they want to know if you can act...

Our judicial system is a delicate balancing act between the rights of the defendant (with an eye toward protecting the innocent accused), the victim (justice), and society as a whole (sequestering and/or rehabilitating the dangerous, letting it be known that breaking the law is unacceptable). The media takes it upon …

...our plans for undermining and controlling the ways in which American’s think and behave...

Words usually have something to hide—you have to shake them until the top pops off and some revelation tumbles out..."

As a result of investigations by New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed Monday to pay $10 million and stop bribing radio stations to feature its artists. Spitzer called payola — illegal payoffs for airplay designed to manipulate record charts, generate consumer interest in records …

I know I don’t take Rush seriously so why can’t they do the same with Trudeau?

...his first appearance on screen my wife’s voice could be heard... “Holy F...!”

...to fathom the contempt George Orwell would have held for current standards of reportage.