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Charles Johnson, proprietor of Little Green Footballs, is someone who used to make some sense, particularly with regard to the dangers of Islam. Sadly he’s recently dropped the ball and is now running like a headless chicken toward the wrong end zone, all the while shouting, “I’ve left the right! I’ve left the right!” Johnson’s [...]
With Ted Kennedy and Dominick Dunne passing on this week you might think this article is about one of them but you’d be wrong. No, the real tragedy of the week is the end of Levar Burton’s Reading Rainbow, the PBS show the Roots and Star Trek star used to pass on his love of [...]
A federal jury convicted Jammie Thomas-Rasset of illegally downloading 24 songs and fined her an eye-popping $80,000 PER SONG in the re-trial of the first such copyright infringement case in the United States.
Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents.
I attended the Houston tea party on April 15th and came away with some nice pictures of the protesters signs/messages, some good audio clips that I’ve now posted, and a new respect for field journalism when it is practiced well.
Of course journalism isn’t always done right, as CNN’s Susan Roesgen showed us in no uncertain terms. So how did my venture into the field go?
Jane Hamsher’s busy keeping that lefty blogger no-one-wants-to-pay-us-for-our-hard-work theme going. News flash – if a customer can get your services for free then they’re going to do that. Unhappy? Try to charge them for your services. If your work is valued then they’ll meet your price. If not, well, you don’t have a sustainable business model, do you? That’s what the AP will find out if they keep going down the road they’re going.
Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Bucy, both associate professors in the Indiana University’s Department of Telecommunications say that Republicans were the beneficiaries of media bias during the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential elections: In their research, Democrats were more likely to be subjects of the “lip-flap” effect, while Republicans more often got the last [...]
More members of the Democratic Congress are revealing their desire to re-regulate the talk radio marketplace by breathing new life into the corpse of the Fairness Doctrine. The reason behind the plans is obvious and it has nothing to do with the public welfare. AM radio was essentially worthless until conservative political talk shows began [...]
Kathleen Parker hates Sarah Palin, that much we knew from her poison pen columns. Now the cat’s out of the bag as to why: it’s because Palin is a Christian. In Parker’s view, Palin’s religion – that of the most solid part of the Republican base – is responsible for the party’s failures at the [...]
The Washington Post reports that a new study has determined the obvious: teenagers who watch sexually explicit programs on television are more likely to become pregnant than those who don’t. “Watching this kind of sexual content on television is a powerful factor in increasing the likelihood of a teen pregnancy,” said lead researcher Anita Chandra. [...]
I stayed up to watch Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, wondering if John was right to fear that Palin would embarrass herself or the SNL team would do it for her. That didn’t happen. In fact, the show was a completely humorless bore save for a hilarious two-minute “Palin Rap” by Amy Poehler. SNL [...]