Right-wingers are always quick to tell you that the reason the newspaper business is in trouble is because newspapers are too lib’rul.
If media conglomerates were more conservative, they’d be more successful - just like Clear Channel Communications, which syndicates Rush, Hannity, and Glenn Beck. With that powerhouse lineup - how could anything go wrong?

It is […]

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So as you might know, former Pennsyvlania Sen. Rick Santorum writes a column twice a month for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Guess what he gets paid per column. Just guess.
Wrong:
Former U. S. Sen. Rick Santorum is collecting $1,750 a shot for the columns that appear every other week in the Inquirer, according to documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy […]

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A British take on American cable news, with extensive focus on (3:02) “the fair and balanced newsmen of dystopian future sci-fi satirical shouting [??] sledgehammer channel Fox News…
“Fox generally leans more to the right than a man who’s just had his right leg blown off.”
They understand us pretty well over there…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_amyJCLmMY8

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I see Newslanc’s new design is up and running - looks really good.
Been thinking a lot about the news business lately, for obvious reasons. One thing driven home over the weekend, as we had those three big shootings in 36 hours - Binghamton, Pittsburgh, and then that Washington father who killed his kids. When something […]

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Interesting. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, conservative billionaire - seems to be the only outlet that isn’t reporting that the Pittsburgh shooter feared the Obama administration was going to try to take his guns.
I wonder why that is.

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Following that shooting up in Binghamton, NY, and I was curious to see how the local newspaper handled it on its Web site - pretty well, it seems. Clear the decks; that’s the only story on your main page. You know you’re going to be inundated with clicks, and you respond to it. Also, uploading […]

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Obama takes it directly to the people.
“In the new world of online media, formal press conferences are just one element or program to get the message out — to those, usually older, who watch such things on TV. The online version he is doing is an alternative way to get out the same message, in […]

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Among other things that have their knickers in a twist, the right these days is all worked  up about Obama’s use of the teleprompter.
An empty suit! It’s the emerging meme amongst those who preferred it when Bush put food on his family. You might even say - there’s a market for this meme. And as we’ve noted […]

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Tucker Carlson worries that Jon Stewart, a “partisan hack,” is becoming less of a laff riot:
Look, Jon Stewart is a political player. He’s a partisan. He is speaking on behalf of the Democratic Party. And in so doing, becoming, I think — I mean, he’s smart, he’s talented, but he’s becoming so self-serious and sanctimonious, […]

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Just finished watching the entirety of the Stewart-Cramer interview, and it’s some of the most riveting television I’ve ever seen.
I mean - Cramer looks like he’s about to cry. And give the guy enormous credit for actually going on Stewart’s show, for sitting through that. Because every time you think Stewart is going to let […]

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I’m still unclear on the concept of Twitter. Dude, just update your Facebook page…
Nonetheless, the Sunday News is now Twittering, and will be providing updates on breaking stories - as with the bodies found in the Susquehanna, this evening.

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Except, you know, he did.

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Above-the-headline link - liberal radio yakker gets front-row Obama seat! Link to Michael Calderone at the Politico:
What if Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh were up front at Bush’s press conferences in the East Room?
Hm, am I the only one to remember this guy?

What a short institutional memory we have.

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My winger correspondents are always happy to pass along the latest grim media news, the implication being that if outfits like the New York Times weren’t so evil lib’rul, they wouldn’t be losing so much money!
It is with great pleasure, then (not really), that we pass along news this morning showing that explicitly conservative media […]

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ABC News does Teh Stoopid. Did you know the president gets job perks, like an airplane! I think they call it “Air Force One” or something.
With Drudge bannering becuase Bush flew himself around the country, by flapping his arms.

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Interesting to see how the wingers are reacting to the first couple of days of the new administration here. As always, I judge the hardcore right-wing zeitgeist by my e-mail in-box, which this morning laments Obama’s snubbing of the media, and gloats over the fact that Gov. Patterson, in New York, has appointed a fairly […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgiSCUOw394

Olbermann dispatches Palin’s latest nonsense here with all the respect it deserves, which is to say, zero.
But I’m not quite grasping something here - though maybe helpful conservatives can point it out.
How is it that Katie Couric asks a few questions, Palin fumbles and stumbles, and the result is Couric’s fault?
Again, here’s Palin - Queen of […]

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The last Christmas for VHS:
Pop culture is finally hitting the eject button on the VHS tape, the once-ubiquitous home-video format that will finish this month as a creaky ghost of Christmas past.
After three decades of steady if unspectacular service, the spinning wheels of the home-entertainment stalwart are slowing to a halt at retail outlets. On […]

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I actually agree with Gov. Rendell here:

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell today criticized Barack Obama for not being more upfront about the Illinois corruption scandal.
Now, he said, the story will continue to dominate the media’s attention.
“They have never been in an executive position before,” Rendell said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “The rule of thumb is […]

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Veddy interesting. Obviously changes the prime-time landscape to have Leno doing his thing at 10 p.m. each weeknight; and it suggests a major change in the way the big networks approach programming:
Though Mr. Leno will command an enormous salary, probably more than $30 million a year, the cost of his show will be a fraction […]

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