Oh goodness. Bono was hired as the newest Op-Ed contributor to The New York Times starting in 2009, despite the fact that Irish gent will be paid zero for his services. Which, technically, is all they are worth, since Bono will inevitably use the columns to preach the same old, same old stuff he usually does: Africa, poverty, blah blah blah.
We all love Anderson Cooper. (It would be UnAmerican not to!)
And no one wants to make America's silver fox out to be some sort of hypocrite or anything — he's certainly a good, down to earth journalist, but can we just pause and call bullshit for a second?
Remember earlier when we were all, "Hahaha! Colin Powell dances funny!" and left it at that, because all we were talking about was a stupid picture of an old guy dancing? Here's the ever-wearying Fox News' take on that very same, seemingly meaningless photo:
Colin Powell showed off his hip-hop moves at an 'Africa Rising' celebration in London Tuesday, fueling speculation that the former secretary of state is about to endorse Barack Obama for president.
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MCCAIN CAMPAIGN CENSORING REPORTERS The Straight Talk Express has apparently been derailed: "Reporters weren't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park in Clearwater to talk to Palin's audience, the St. Petersburg Times reported. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head to where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out, confront him or her and say, 'Can I help you?' and turn the person around, Times staff writer Eileen Schulte wrote on the paper's Web site. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written, Schulte reported."
You knew this was coming! Sarah Palin took to the gentle, fair and balanced Fox News this morning to discuss her absolutely pathetic Katie Couric interview, which the Alaskan governor said was "annoying."
Palin continued, saying Couric's questions were unfair and that she would have preferred to discuss all the stupid fucking lies she's been trained to believe are the truth, because she's the goddamn Manchurian candidate.
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You guys know Lara LoganC: She was that CBS correspondent/former swimsuit model who went to Iraq and inspired a brawl between a CNN reporter and a US defense contractor when they both fell in love with her. She's an inspiration to the children, really.
But now Lara is under fire for taking some souvenirs home from Iraq with her…and not just the baby that the contractor Joe Burkett knocked her up with:
As journalists charge Gov. Rick Perry and the federal government with restricting access to the areas damaged the most by Hurricane Ike, reports have come in that Galveston might not be ready for habitation for months and shelters in Houston are having trouble feeding everyone in a timely fashion (one shelter fielded 10,000 requests for food and water just yesterday). But as hectic and tragic as things are in the Texas Coast, there is a severe humanitarian crisis in Haiti and Cuba, both of which Ike tore through before it made its way to the U.S.
Ouch. Another major mistake took place in front of a global audience yesterday evening, but this one isn't as funny as accidentally calling John McCain "that depthless prick currently in the Oval Office." (Accidentally!)
The Bloomberg financial newswire updated and then unintentionally published its pre-written obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs has battled pancreatic cancer for years now, but he's not dead yet. (In fact, as we speak he's probably inventing some new gadget people will rush out to buy only to have it immediately shatter in their hands.) Bloomberg soon realized its mistake, took down the obit and issued a retraction.
Investors were shitting themselves, of course; not because they were worried about Jobs, mind you, but because they were concerned by what his death meant for their glorious, glorious gobs of money. We hope Jobs realizes this, gets legitimately pissed and screws over all those bastards royally before leaving this increasingly dusty planet.
SURPRISE: MAINSTREAM MEDIA UNDERHANDED! "'Hillary Rodham Clinton is still seething about losing the nomination.' 'Michelle Obama doesn’t like her country and is an angry black woman.' 'Bill Clinton continues to dis Barack Obama privately.' While hardly definitive, that’s some of the undercurrents swirling in much of the news coverage — particularly television news, some say — at the Democratic National Convention. 'I’m just amazed at the negative coverage, all the negative innuendo of things that do not exist,' former Clinton adviser Terry McAuliffe told Daily Variety. 'It’s all press invention.' … A veteran network producer said she has been 'mesmerized by the negative coverage. It’s unbelievable.'"
Quite a weird weekend for Democratic golden boy Barack Obama.
First, it was revealed that this ghastly thing at right is the new New Yorker cover. If you can't believe your eyes, let us assure you that that is indeed an armed, camouflaged Michelle Obama fist-bumping her Muslim-garbed husband in front of a portrait of Osama bin Laden and a burning American flag. Yes, of course: satire! But it's like: come on.
Then, venerable McLaughlin Group namesake John McLaughlin posed this question to his roundtable:
Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo — a black on the outside, a white on the inside — that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?
Wellllllllllllll. Reminder: This wasn't Fox News, but one of America's most famous political programs. This was a group of revered pundits sitting around debating whether or not Obama is an "Oreo."
And everyone's so confused when black Americans don't vote.
PRINT PUBLICATIONS DIE LIKE THIS "For newspapers, the news has swiftly gone from bad to worse. This year is taking shape as their worst on record, with a double-digit drop in advertising revenue, raising serious questions about the survival of some papers and the solvency of their parent companies. … Executives at the Hearst Corporation say that one of their biggest papers, The San Francisco Chronicle, is losing $1 million a week. Over all, ad revenue fell almost 8 percent last year. This year, it is running about 12 percent below that dismal performance, and company reports issued last week suggested a 14 percent to 15 percent decline in May."
Caroline Tell, a Women's Wear Daily editor who recently interviewed Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, reports that she was asked by the Olsen's publicist to not refer to them as "twins" or "sisters" in her article. The reason being that the sisters are hoping to establish themselves as separate business entities (never mind the fact that they co-own a company called Dualstar and rarely attend events solo).
Tell says Ashley is the more business savvy of the Olsens and that, when asked how she felt about fame, Mary Kate responded, "I don’t know how to answer that question."
For this week, at least. No decisions about a permanent replacement have been made. NBC News President Steve Capus says they're making decisions week-by-week.
Words used in this article to describe the haircut at right: headturning, standout, this decade's "Rachel," challenging, radical, classic, rebel, fresh, confident, nice, punky, cutting-edge
Words needed to describe the haircut at right: short, white
UH OH! "The Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s copyright."
According to testimony obtained by the Associated Press, Entertainment Tonight, modern America's version of the stocks, knowingly aired a false report on Friday that claimed Angelina Jolie had given birth to twins. Anonymous sources with insider knowledge of the incident say that ET knew well before it broadcast the information that it had come from someone impersonating Jolie's assistant, but the decision was made to air it anyway. ET – of course – says the AP's information is bogus.
We don't care know who to believe, but kudos to the mystery performance artist(s?) making a mockery out of all the people getting excited over babies they'll never, ever see in real life.
Gina Gershon is lying in the same bed as Bill Clinton. But not in the way you think!
In fact, if you were thinking that way, then you’ll understand the whole reason Gershon is complaining about Todd Purdum’s Vanity Fair article in the same way Clinton was: Because she claims the insinuations made about her – that she enjoyed the romantic company of the ex-president – aren’t true.
It's no big news that Keith Olbermann hates Bill O'Reilly, and vice versa, but the Washington Post today reports that the feud between the newsmen has gone from funny to scary, sparking some very real insidious scheming at O'Reilly's employer, Fox News.
If you've foolishly been watching Fox News in recent weeks, perhaps you've noticed that O'Reilly et al have been ramping up their attacks on General Electric, parent company of Olbermann's network, MSNBC. Veiled as outrage over GE's business dealings with Iran (and thus terrorists), Fox's finger wagging was culminated by O'Reilly declaring that if he had a kid killed in Iraq, he'd "blame the likes of [GE CEO] Jeffrey Immelt." Typical Fox fearmongering, right? Wrong, according to the Post, which claims that Fox's negative portrayals of GE are just the network's way of attempting to get MSNBC to rein in Olbermann's nightly attacks on O'Reilly. If MSNBC agrees to reprimand Olbermann, says the article, Fox will make its negative coverage of GE go away. Neat, huh?
Despite it all, The O'Reilly Factor is still the most-watched cable news show on television.
Click through for one of Olbermann's many blistering attacks on "Bill-O."
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