A Few Things We Couldn't Help Noticing
The Today Show's Ann Curry is at it Again. A couple years ago we noted that the Today Show's Ann Curry was improbably rallying people to be warriors for truth. Now, she's supposedly "pissed off" about how hard it is to get her network or the American public to care about serious foreign news. We have a suggestion, Ann: if you want to be known as a serious news person, work in a real news environment, not the televised equivalent of a perfume counter.
These Animal Activists Have Officially Lost Their Minds. The world economy is nearing a melt-down, if global warming doesn't literally beat it to the punch. But the boneheads at PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, are all bent out of shape about how Obama killed a mosquito rather than trapping it and releasing it to the wilds. We suggest you get a life, folks.
And Speaking of the Huffington Post...Washington D.C.'s alternative weekly, City Paper, recently produced a pretty good spoof of the online pub.
We Couldn't Make This Up if We Tried. The New York Daily News looks at what the stars of a memorable movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, have been up to since. It turns out that Ferris' arch-nemesis, the creepy principal, is now a registered sex offender.
Web-Friendly TV. Wired Magazine takes a look at how the new Jimmy Fallon show is among TV's most web-friendly programs.
Finally, We rather liked the name of this new blog, Peace Through Fiction (the companion website is here). It doesn't hurt that we know this Cleveland-based writer, Nicole Hunter, a little. Good luck with it, and with your MFA studies, Nicole.
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"The televised equivalent of a perfume counter" - I love it! For some reason (I guess you've solved that ) I can't stand the Today show.
I'm probably being too harsh about this. While it happens not to be our cup of tea, there's a place for these kinds of shows, and I imagine some of our readers think it's just fine. I just wish these folks wouldn't always try to have it both ways. They want to serve up mostly soft & squishy stuff, but also want respect as serious journalists. My sexist metaphor of perfume notwithstanding, that goes for Matt Lauer along with all the rest.
I don't envy those morning show people, having to be all chipper and hyperactive every morning of the work week. And those segues... car bomb in Iraq to a bald Britney Spears punching cars and photographers then over to the hottest shoe styles for the summer... sheeez!
They sure are chipper, Miles.
The PETA item got me, too. Do they realize how much they weaken their serious arguments with nonsense like this?
My thoughts precisely, Mike. Protesting against swatted flies seems more like something from The Onion than anything in real life. Does that mean they're going to try to throw paint on Obama, like when they go after the women wearing fur?
Or maybe just spray him with "Off."
Nice. But the interesting thing in all this, to me at least, is how lucky this guy seems to be. This little incident will now be combined with his improbable half-court hoops swish (I'm forgetting the details of when & where that was, so by all means, folks, enlighten me) into the growing legend of Obama. After all, how many times have you tried to swat a fly and missed? I think I may be about 1 out of every 400 attempts myself. And here this guy gets it on his first attempt. Pretty remarkable.
Dear John, thanks for your good words and posting the links to Peace Through Fiction. I'm delighted to discover/rediscover your blog. Happy Independence Day weekend ~ Cheers, Nicole
Good luck, Nicole. Thanks for stopping by.
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