Archive for the ‘Media issues’ Category
Goodbye from Keith Olbermann
I rate broadcaster Keith Olbermann highly, especially his eloquence and his passion and his willingness to face, call out and go after hypocrisy. From the New York Times 12:05 a.m. | Keith Olbermann, the highest-rated host on MSNBC, announced abruptly on the air Friday night that he was leaving his show, “Countdown,” immediately. The host, […]
Anonymous comment vs IMPERSONATION
Regular readers of thePaepae.com (and my occasional posts at the PropertyTalk forum) will, I hope, have absorbed my views regarding participation in internet discussions, viz: I believe in speaking in my own name. From my observation, in many cases it seems the anonymity of some commenters on the web seems to encourage them to make […]
Oh boy. USD $8.5million for a domain name …
Facebook paid USD $8.5 million to acquire the Internet address ‘fb.com’ — from American Farm Bureau Federation — for internal use by its employees. — Reuters
Nice to know ‘The Sun’ respects copyright
It’s good to know The Sun newspaper respects copyright. Phew. Oh, it’s News Corp — Rupert ‘so,-basically-you’re-stealing-from-me’ Murdoch. Fair enough.
Whistle-blowing at a news conference (note the smear)
LONDON, Jan 17: A former Swiss private banker handed over data on hundreds of offshore bank account holders to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a news conference on Monday. Rudolf Elmer once headed the office of Julius Baer in the Cayman Islands until he was fired by the bank in 2002. He is scheduled to […]
Oh boy, another Facebook ‘enhancement’ …
OK, so first we’re offered this ‘upgrade’, then, what? we’re forced to do it? ‘You’ll be upgraded‘?? Errr, what if I don’t actually LIKE the new graphic-heavy profile? Ahem, Facebook: Isn’t the customer always right? A small issue, yes, I agree. Never mind. (Oh yeah, and maybe I’m NOT the customer…)
Not a bad mission statement
Broadcaster Keith Olbermann recently gave an insight into his motivations and goals for a controversial segment of his show… “This ordinarily is where you would see our ‘Worst Persons in the World‘ segment,” Olbermann said Monday late into the broadcast. “For more than two months, I’ve struggled with its value. We suspended it for a […]
There’s consequences to that action …
As I see it, Gabrielle Giffords (‘whom the authorities called the target of the attack‘) is a victim of the partisan climate of hate engendered by political differences and the hateful abuse by some Republican ‘leaders’ of their opponents (‘The Left’) as enemies — like, in war! Some use that rhetoric and emotional energy for electoral […]
Not exactly a whodunnit
‘Dispersing lies’ — that’s what I’ve been accused of doing, by ‘expert in lying‘, spruiker Dean Letfus. His detail-free allegation (by broadcast email and on his blog) comes with bonus faulty logic and an extra smear topping: that I am allegedly doing this (‘dispersing lies’) as ‘a competitor’ — which is kind of an understated […]
When listing achievements, always use the third person …
One of my heroes was Peter McWilliams who taught me so much about life in general, and publishing in particular (along with my pal Roger Steele, on both counts). In 1991, Peter McWilliams published a terrifically practical and instructive book on publishing — Self-Publishing, Self-Taught … which he sold for US$95 — and that price point […]
Getting your brand into your customers eyes?
One of the books I read which changed the way I looked at the world was Vance Packard’s late 1950s The Hidden Persuaders — an account of how psychology entered the advertising industry. I recommend it. Funnily enough Bob Dylan recounted one of his NYC hosts telling him in the 1960s that the ‘high priests’ […]
Does ANYONE doubt that this guy’s rights have been infringed?
From the BBC today: Julian Assange has told reporters that the US investigation into his Wikileaks organisation was “aggressive” and “illegal”. He went on to say that over 85% of his organisation’s economic resources are spent fighting “technical, legal and political attacks”. Mr Assange was speaking to reporters outside the Suffolk mansion of supporter Vaughan […]
The Ridiculist – catchy title, nice approach
In a case of ‘sometimes if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry’, from The Spruiker’s Lament … Peter Aranyi makes fun of spruikers and travelling salesmen as if they were actually ridiculous… At the time I hadn’t seen Anderson Cooper’s The Ridiculist (“a new hypocrisy-exposing segment on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360“) … but I like it. […]
Bailing for Julian (Assange)
December 14th, 2010 2:58 AM WITNESS STATEMENT OF MICHAEL MOORE WITNESS STATEMENT (CJ Act 1967, s.9 MC Act 1980, ss.5A(3)(a) and 5B; Criminal Procedure Rules 2010, Rule 27) ____________________________________________________________ STATEMENT OF MICHAEL MOORE Aged: Over 18 Occupation: FILM MAKER AND AUTHOR ____________________________________________________________ This statement (consisting of 2 pages each signed by me) is true to […]
