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Bruins fans, rejoice. You have all of Canada on the run.
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Keith Olbermann: Like Rolling Stone
Your weekend assignment, splendid readers, is to compare and contrast – in clear idiomatic English – the Keith Olbermann profile in the Sunday New York Times Magazine and the Keith Olbermann interview in the, er, current edition of Rolling Stone.
Both (and much other pre-pub) come right before the debut of Olbermann’s new incarnation of Countdown on Current TV, a.k.a. Al Gore’s house channel.
Starter kit:
David Carr’s Time profile depicts Olbermann as an insecure, bitter, spotlight-seeking, vengeful media diva.
See: Olbermann’s tweet about Carr’s piece.
Well at least there’s another caricature amid the cliches. NYT Sunday Mag piece: http://j.mp/lyjbtxhttp://twitpic.com/5bxuh8
Said NYT caricature:
Not to mention the article itself.
Mark Binelli’s Rolling Stone interview, on the other hand, depicts Olbermann as a reasonable, focused, aggrieved newsman.
Representative sample:
Were you ever censored by MSNBC?
No. What were they going to do about it? It was live. I will say this. Nobody ever said, “If you say this, you’re going to be fired.”It’s not about “NBC is evil.” It’s about that media structure—CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings. The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive id and they do whatever they want. In a corporate setting, there’s nothing to stop Rupert Murdoch or Disney from doing whatever the hell they want with the news. They could turn it into propaganda for the Chinese government or the socialist party of America, and who’s going to stop them?
Well, Keith, obviously.
Right about now, Stanley McChrystal should be suing Rolling Stone for unfair business practices.
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Wait – DON’T Ask Dr. Ads
One from the Wayback Machine:
Ladies and gentlemen, start your magnifying glasses.
Originally posted at Sneak ADtack (more here)
WeinerWorld: New York Tabloids Edition (VIII)
Final edition, we hope:
(If only that were true.)
Got a favorite? Write and tell us!
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New York Times Concedes: Boston Is Titletown
Given the Boston Bruins’ Stanley Cup beatdown of the Vancouver Cannots, even the Big Paper in the Big Town is forced to state the obvious:
[T]his city has ridden an unprecedented wave of success over the past decade: the Bruins’ victory in the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday night made Boston the first city to win championships in all four major sports within a 10-year span.
With the Patriots’ Super Bowl victories in 2002, 2004 and 2005; the Red Sox’ World Series titles in 2004 and 2007; the Celtics’ N.B.A. title in 2008; and now the Bruins’ triumph, Boston has gone from Loserville to Titletown, just like that.
And just like New York hasn’t. As a Made Yankee Fan in Boston, I tip my cap to Made Boston Fans in Boston.
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WeinerWorld: New York Tabloids Edition (VII)
Mostly quiet on the dead-tree front, with only today’s Post roasting the Weiner:
But now that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Twitter) is about to resign, the websites are all, well, atwitter.
For obvious reasons, the Post has honors:
New York Daily News:
Newsday:
[too boring to waste pixels on]
AM New York:
[ditto]
Metro New York:
[double ditto]
C’mon, you Gotham web editors – get crackin’! Gawker is kicking your ass:
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Dead Blogging Game 7 Of The Stanley Cup Finals
Finally! The Boston Bruins did exactly what the hardworking staff said they should: turn Rogers Arena into TD Garden. It probably didn’t hurt that Nathan Horton poured some melted Garden ice on Vancouver’s rink before the game started.
Regardless, some ice chips from one of the best games the Boston Bruins have ever played:
• The Bruins submitted as close to a perfect game as you’ll ever see, didn’t they?
• Patrice Bergeron’s big-time performance couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
• Favorite quote (from NBC commentator Keith Jones): “We haven’t seen a rat like Brad Marchand since Ken Linesman, and Linesman wasn’t nearly as talented.”
• Anyone else think Dennis Seidenberg was a total hoss throughout the playoffs?
• Is there a more standup guy in the NHL than Tim Thomas? (Plus, love Thomas’s description of his style of goaltending as “battlefly“.)
• Henrik and Daniel Sedin wish they were as tough as Thelma & Louise. (Thanks, Mike Milbury.)
• Classy gesture: The Vancouver crowd cheering local boy Milan Lucic.
• Classic gesture: The Vancouver crowd booing Johnny Boychuk.
• Are You Kidding: WHDH “sports director” Joe Amorosino started virtually every postgame interview with “Are you kiddin’ me?” We stopped counting at 12.
• The Boston Bruins won the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.
• Are You Kiddin’ Me?
Squawkers Give Radio Waves To Stealth Advertisers
Conservative talk-radio hosts, according to Politico, are peppering their commentary with paid plugs from think tanks looking for donors.
If you’re a regular listener of Glenn Beck’s radio show and you wanted to contribute to a political group that would advance the populist conservative ideals he touts on his show, you’d have plenty of reason to think that FreedomWorks was your best investment.
But if you’re a fan of Mark Levin’s radio show, you’d have just as much cause to believe that Americans for Prosperity, a FreedomWorks rival, was the most effective conservative advocacy group. And, if Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity are who you listen to, you’d be hearing a steady stream of entreaties to support the important work of the Heritage Foundation.
That’s not coincidence. In search of donations and influence, the three prominent conservative groups are paying hefty sponsorship fees to the popular talk show hosts. Those fees buy them a variety of promotional tie-ins, as well as regular on-air plugs – praising or sometimes defending the groups, while urging listeners to donate – often woven seamlessly into programming in ways that do not seem like paid advertising.
Or sometimes that does, as in this clip from Beck’s radio show (plug starts around 6:45):
But that’s the exception that proves the rule.
So, you’re thinking, talk radio has more plugs than Joe Biden’s head. So what?
So this: when you hear radio hosts flacking this teeth-whitening service or that lawn & garden center, those are clearly promotional messages the host is paid to deliver.
But start tossing around the policy positions of a think tank, and the lines get a lot blurrier.
The hardworking staff has long believed that right-wing radio was selling listeners a bill of goods. We just didn’t realize how far it went.
Originally posted in Sneak ADtack
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