News: Media

What Were They Thinking?

11 Sep 2007 at 10:42am <From the Current Events, Media and Morons Departments> When I wake up for work, which I hate doing, I at least try to get into a positive mood. The best part about alarm clocks is that you can pick, more or less, what... read on »

Questionable Marketing Techniques

2 Jul 2007 at 11:12am <From the Media Departments> The advertising and marketing specialists working diligently to create catch phrases, trademarks and logos that we'll remember forever sometimes get a little too into what they're doing and need to step back a bit. When... read on »

You Gotta Love Television Commercial Hype-men

7 Feb 2007 at 8:27pm <From the Media and Stupidity Departments> If you've ever seen a rap performance, either live or on television, you've most likely seen a "hype-man". Hype-men are those guys that repeat words that the main rapper just spit, in an effort to... read on »

Microsoft Ridiculed, Yet Again

24 Jan 2007 at 12:23pm <From the Current Events, Media and Web / Technology Departments> I read on CNN.com today that Microsoft has been, yet again, shunned by society (or, at least the web portion of society) for allegedly offering a technical blogger money to correct slanderous entries on Wikipedia.... read on »

News Anchors at Their Best

10 Nov 2006 at 10:36am <From the Humor (take a joke) and Media Departments> Every once in a while I come across a link to a short video clip featuring a newscaster of some variety making some catastrophic mistake live on television, in front of thousands of people. I... read on »

Cory Who?

12 Oct 2006 at 11:26am <From the Current Events, Cynicism / Rants, Media and Sports Departments> If you haven't yet heard about the atrocity that happened yesterday in New York, then you're either a deaf, dumb, blind, mute, or Cory Lidle's flight instructor. What? Did you cringe? Good - that was... read on »

Kids These Days

9 Oct 2006 at 2:39pm <From the Current Events, Cynicism / Rants and Media Departments> 9 Oct 2006 (Joplin, Missouri) 6 Oct 2006 (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 2 Oct 2006 (Paradise, Pennsylvania) 2 Oct 2006 (North Las Vegas, Nevada) 29 Sep 2006 (Cazenovia, Wisconsin) 27 Sep 2006 (Bailey, Colorado) 15 Sep... read on »